The president is asking for your bank details. He isn’t, of course. But the AI wearing his face is The victim had received a WhatsApp message purporting to be from the secretary to the cabinet, inviting him to a private meeting. The synthetic Wong closed the meeting by thanking the victim for attending. Then a fake lawyer took the call and S$4.9 million (US$3.8 million) vanished into an account that no longer exists. Southeast Asia’s scam industry has found a powerful new weapon, and it isn’t malware, cunning or even greed – it’s borrowed faces. Criminals are increasingly cloning the region’s most trusted leaders using generative AI, wrapping fraud in the unimpeachable authority of a president’s voice or a prime minister’s visage and cashing in on the thing no security system can patch: human trust.
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