Purportedly AI-Generated Calls Impersonating Banks Reportedly Helped Steal €380,000 from Customers in the Netherlands

Summary

Scammers allegedly used AI-generated bank-warning recordings to draw people in the Netherlands into calls with impersonators posing as bank staff. Victims were reportedly persuaded to install an app that relayed their bank cards' contactless data to accomplices at cash machines or payment terminals. Police reportedly documented about 170 victims and €380,000 in losses during three weeks of server monitoring.

Developers

• Synthetic media technology developers
• Synthetic audio generation technology developers

Deployers

• Voice phishers
• Synthetic media creators
• Scammers
• Deepfake creators
• Cybercriminals in the Netherlands
• Cybercriminals
• Bank helpdesk fraud ring in the Netherlands

Harmed parties

• Privacy
• General public of the Netherlands
• General public
• Epistemic integrity
• Banks
• Bank customers in the Netherlands
• Bank customers

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