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New Delhi: A 70-year-old man living in Ghaziabad was allegedly extorted of Rs 74,000 last month by scammers who blackmailed him over a WhatsApp call, using a morphed video of a retired police officer saying he had molested a girl and would be prosecuted for it unless he agreed to settle the case...
Speaking to ThePrint, Monika said her father had received a video call from a person who introduced himself as a senior superintendent of police (SSP) from Delhis Dwarka district and alleged that her father had molested a girl...
Speaking to ThePrint, assistant commissioner of police in Ghaziabads Kavi Nagar, Abhishek Srivastava, said the video had been sent for forensic analysis and call detail records of all numbers used by the accused in the case were being examined...
Sachidanand, additional deputy commissioner of police, crime and cyber department, Ghaziabad, told ThePrint the police had written to Meta to get more information about the caller and that a team had been formed to get to the bottom of the case.. Another senior police officer from Ghaziabad said the case appeared to be of a morphed video..
According to the officer, it was too early to call it a case of deepfake where AI is used to create convincing image, audio and video hoaxes because an overall analysis was yet to be done.. But, he admitted, it was the first-of-its kind case in Ghaziabad where a person posing as another person of influence had extorted money from a citizen...
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