The artists have reached new levels of fraud.
The tl:der is - before AI tools, the artists could lie to the corporate types and steal money from them. The newest artificial intelligence tools have made their "job" much easier.
Recently, a group of 3 middle-aged men (Yaakov Soel, Sharon Hazan, Guy Shetrit) living separately in Europe and the Middle East were arrested for stealing a total of 129 million dollars using voice clones created by artificial intelligence and deep fake video calls to impersonate corporate CEOs and lawyers.
From 2024 to 2026, they conducted staged video calls, convincing employees that the company's CEO supposedly needed an urgent and secret transfer of funds to make a secret business purchase.
They transferred the stolen funds through accounts held by shell companies in 9 countries, and then converted the funds into cryptocurrencies.
The three men are now awaiting extradition to New York, where they will face federal charges of fraud, money laundering and identity theft.