Last year, the number of reported fraud crimes increased by 21.9 percent compared to the year before, according to statistics from crime-preventing counsel.
At the same time, the first four months of 2024 have been lined with warnings from companies as well as authorities whose names are being used by fraudsters. It has then involved so-called “spoofing”, where in e.g. text messages or e-mails one pretends to be from, for example, the Swedish Tax Agency or Tele2, in the hope of being able to trick sensitive information from the recipients.
Have you received this email from Tele2? Then you should watch out
Photo: Emilie Holtet/TT
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Deepfakes are used by fraudsters
But spoofing is not the only form of fraud that is becoming more common. Through technological development, and then in particular artificial intelligence (AI), fraudsters can now create so-called “deepfakes”, which, among others, the economist Frida Bratt warned of recently.
– It is an image or moving material where you have taken a person’s head and put it on another person’s body. What we have seen is that it is above all famous people who have been affected and who are used for the purpose of getting people to invest in a scam, she has said in TV4’s “News morning”.
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Frida Bratt is a savings economist at Nordnet Bank. Photo: Lars Pehrson/SvD/TT
One person whose face has been used in deepfakes lately is the Crown Princess Victoria. Earlier in April reported Källkritikbyrån about video clips, which appear to represent the crown princess, which are being spread on Facebook.
In the fake clips, viewers are asked to invest money in what is a scam.
“Dear Swedish citizens, it is with great pleasure that I share the happy news about the official launch of the investment platform Immediate edge, which was developed together with the Swedish Parliament. Now every Swedish citizen can earn more than 50,000 kroner per month from their own home by buying 20 shares worth 2,700 kroner,” the crown princess seems to say in one of the clips.
Crown Princess Victoria’s face is used in fake videos. Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT
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Hovet: “We are in contact with Meta”
When News24 asks the court if they have any knowledge of the fake video clips of Crown Princess Victoria, the press department responds as follows:
“We are in contact with Meta regarding the ads and will report them as soon as we become aware of them. We are also asking the public who come forward to report the false ads.”
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