# Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN

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## What Jamie wrote

Started with a phishing campaign but then a multi-party video conference where every other member of the call was a deepfake and they successfully convinced this person to send $25 million. Wow.

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