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Shanghai Putuo police have busted a fraud case. According to a report by Shangguan News, Jiang, starting in 2019, borrowed money from classmates and friends under the pretexts of technology investment, buying a home for marriage, and company cash flow, and fabricated excuses such as his father having cancer and passing away, defrauding a total of more than 1.7 million yuan, all of which he poured into the stock market and lost entirely. To increase credibility, Jiang also used AI to generate a video of his father bedridden and posted it on WeChat Moments, while his father has always been alive and well. Jiang has been criminally detained in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud.
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Oct 27
Shanghai Observer
Shanghai man uses AI to generate video of father bedridden to borrow money, defrauds friend of 1.7 million yuan and invests it in stock market
Shanghai Putuo police have cracked a fraud case: since 2019, Jiang had been borrowing money from classmates and friends under the pretexts of technology investment, buying a house for marriage, and company cash flow, and fabricated excuses such as his father having cancer and passing away, defrauding a total of more than 1.7 million yuan, all of which he invested in the stock market and lost entirely. To increase credibility, he also used AI to generate a video of his father bedridden and posted it on WeChat Moments, while his father has always been alive and well. Jiang has been criminally detained in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud.
Oct 26
Shanghai Observer
Man uses AI to generate video of his seriously ill father to defraud friends of over 1.7 million yuan; all the money was lost in the stock market
Shanghai Putuo police have solved a fraud case. Since 2019, Jiang has borrowed more than 1.7 million yuan from classmates and friends under pretexts such as "technology investment," "company cash flow," and "father died of cancer," and used AI to generate a short video of his father seriously ill in bed, which he posted on WeChat Moments to increase credibility. Almost all of the borrowed money was invested in the stock market and lost entirely. Jiang has been criminally detained in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud.