Voice-Mimicking Software Reportedly Used In Major Theft

From the “If Mission Impossible* Were Being Remade Today” files
<https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/115560260/artificial-intelligence-first-voicemimicking-software-reportedly-used-in-a-major-theft>:

    Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a UK company
    executive's speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds
    of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company's insurer
    said, in a remarkable case that some researchers are calling one of
    the world's first publicly reported artificial intelligence heists.

How was the scam exposed?

    After the thieves made a second request, the director grew
    suspicious and called his boss directly. Then the thieves called
    back, unravelling the ruse: The fake "'Johannes' was demanding to
    speak to me whilst I was still on the phone to the real Johannes!"
    the director wrote in an email the insurer shared with The
    Washington Post.

*That’s the original classic TV series, not the movies, of course.
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