Scammers create ‘Deepfake’ of Binance executive, meet his contacts

New Delhi: World’s largest crypto exchange Binance’s chief communications officer Patrick Hillmann has revealed that online scammers made a Deepfake profile of him and tricked crypto community members into online meetings with him.
Deepfakes are video forgeries that make people appear to be saying things they never did.
Over the past month, Hillmann received several online messages thanking him for taking the time to meet with project teams regarding potential opportunities to list their assets on Binance.com.
“This was odd because I don’t have any oversight of or insight into Binance listings, nor had I met with any of these people before,” he said in a blogpost.
It turned out that a sophisticated hacking team used previous news interviews and TV appearances over the years to create a Deepfake of him.
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