WeChat Spy: How Deepfake Calls Are Stealing Lives
When your “best friend” on WeChat isn’t who you think If you’re an American living in China, or an international student about to land at a Chinese campus, this one’s for you: imagine you get a WeChat video call from your closest buddy. You see their face, hear their voice, everything looks normal — and they ask, dead serious, to help transfer money for an “emergency.” You do it. Later you find out the whole video call was a deepfake, a real-time AI trick: face, expressions, and voice all synthesized on the fly. That’s not sci-fi anymore — it’s a scam that hit people already, and it moves fast. ...