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DI director's voice used in fraud attempt against employee
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An employee at the Danish Confederation of Industry's office in South Korea received a call from someone who sounded like Lars Sandahl Sørensen.
Lars Sandahl Sørensen tells about the fraud attempt in a post on social media. Archive photo (Photo: © Mathias Svold, Berlingske/Ritzau Scanpix) 52 min. ago
Unknown fraudsters have used artificial intelligence to copy the voice of DI director Lars Sandahl Sørensen.
They then called the Danish Confederation of Industry's office in South Korea, posed as the chief executive officer, and thereby attempted to get an employee to transfer money from the Danish Confederation of Industry.
This is stated by Lars Sandahl Sørensen himself in a post on Facebook.
- Fortunately, the employee in question responded critically to the inquiry, even though the conversation felt real, he writes.
The fraud attempt was thwarted, among other things through internal control mechanisms.
- But I must also admit that it sends a chill down my spine that someone has used my person and my voice in that way in an advanced criminal attempt against my own colleagues.
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'It can hit any Danish company'
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In a statement to Ritzau, Lars Sandahl Sørensen elaborates that he has heard the voice himself, and that it was very convincing.
At the same time, the fraudsters had created fake accounts in his name, which were part of the fraud attempt, in which the unknown fraudsters asked for a payment to be initiated in connection with an allegedly confidential matter.
It is a single case, which the Danish Confederation of Industry has reported to the police according to Ritzau.
After the failed fraud attempt, the director urges people to remember their critical sense and remain vigilant.
- It can hit any Danish company or authority, and unfortunately we have already seen countless examples of it. We simply need to become better at handling it, and we can do so with the right measures, he writes on Facebook.
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