2023 Latest Extortion and Fraud Methods

Sending sympathy to the victim and thanks for sharing. Scammers exploit your curiosity about a certain project to trick you into downloading something or sending them a photo of your face or a facial recognition image, which allows them to synchronously access your contact list and other personal data. They then use this information to create AI-generated explicit videos with your face, threaten to send them to your friends unless you pay, and in more extreme cases, remotely monitor your bank transfers and pressure you to use not only your Alipay and WeChat Pay but also online loan platforms. Stay away from foreign websites; if you become a target, the social embarrassment may be tolerable, but the financial loss can be severe.

About being extorted and scammed out of over 10,000 yuan