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Arup finance employee deepfake (May 2025)
In 2023 fraudsters tricked a finance employee at British engineering firm Arup into transferring $25 million into their accounts. The scammers used a deepfake video call featuring AI-generated avatars of the…
- Incident date
- May 2025
- Target
- Arup finance employee
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
In 2023 fraudsters tricked a finance employee at British engineering firm Arup into transferring $25 million into their accounts. The scammers used a deepfake video call featuring AI-generated avatars of the company's CFO and other executives, making the interaction appear real.