ROMANCE scammers are now resorting to using face-swapping technology to video call with their targets, reported Sin Chew Daily.
A former scammer, who wished to be known only as Ah Quan, said love scam syndicates would use the software to swap the scammer’s face with a hot model to convince victims that they were chatting with a stunning looking person.
An undercover reporter from the daily had engaged with a scammer, who appeared as a handsome man on video calls.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department later confirmed that the footage was fake.
Ah Quan, who was tasked with impersonating women to con lonely men in Europe when he worked for the syndicate, said they sometimes employed actual models to “show face” during the video calls.
Due to the cost incurred, this method would only be used for targets whom they considered had a high chance to lure in big bucks, he added.
> A Taiwanese mother was left red-faced after her son pointed at a signboard advertising a sex toy and said she had one at home, reported China Press.
The mother-and-child was at a night market at that time.
“I wanted to find a hole and hide myself in there,” the mother wrote on Facebook, as she recalled the perhaps, most embarrassing moment in her life.
She said she was touring the night market with her husband and son when they passed by a shop selling sex toys.
Suddenly, her son pointed at the signage showing a pink spherical paraphernalia and shouted: “Mummy, this one looks exactly like the one you have.”
She reminded other parents to be careful and keep their sex toys out of sight of their children.
● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
