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WeChat Pay's Facial Recognition Security Evaded by Scammers Using Victims’ Social Media Content

Occurred
Jul 1, 2020
Published
Oct 19, 2020
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

In China, fraudsters bypassed facial-recognition security for online financial transactions on WeChat Pay by crafting identity-verification GIFs of victims from their selfies on WeChat Moments, a social media platform.

Developers

  • WeChat

Deployers

  • WeChat Pay

Harmed parties

  • WeChat Pay users

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Rationale: Facial recognition bypass via social media scraping constitutes surveillance and privacy violation with financial harm.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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