Civilian police in the city of Barueri, in Greater São Paulo, conducted a search and seizure of the scammer’s home, where they found a doll and photographs used to strike and deceive facial recognition systems. Call False face fraud uses photos of real people and high-resolution IDs to spoof banking apps to get loans.

According to the Barueri Civil Police, The Coup da Cara Falsa resulted in losses of at least R$1 million.. The identity of the suspect, who was arrested at the home where the photographs and the doll were found, has not been released, but an investigation is underway.

According to a report published by UOL, the suspect took photographs of the victims and printed them out life-size. They were then placed as a mannequin head to fool banking applications. Still Police did not say whether the identity documents were legitimate copies or were also fake..

False face fraud

Every year scammers invent new ways to carry out scams, as happened recently when scammers used AI to clone the voice of a teenager. According to police chief Andreas Schiffman, who is in charge of the investigation, 17 card machines, a safe with bank cards, a cell phone, 9mm cartridges, as well as a large number of life-size photographs of faces were seized during the operation.

In an interview with the TV program Band Brasil Urgente, the delegate stated that through the use of a false face scam, the perpetrator was able to defraud banking applications and apply for loans, funding and credit cards. During the interview, the delegate also noted that the cost of the coup should have exceeded 1 million reais. “Given that we have accounts for 10,000 reais, here 20,000 reais, we can say [que foi obtido] over 1 million reais easily.” As we can see, we can never doubt the ingenuity of criminals when it comes to finding new ways to deceive people. Therefore, it is always a good idea to be especially careful with cards, documents, and passwords.

The submarine used to view the wreckage of the Titanic has disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Coast Guard in action following the disappearance of the OceanGate Titan submarine while visiting the wreck of the Titanic.

Source: UOL

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