Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.

I bet the CFO was in habit of joining Zoom company calls with the cat filter turned on. Therefore everyone was pretty much OK with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOofzZOyl8

CFO: “I will need you to transfer $25M to…”

Employee: “Sorry Sir, I don’t think I can do that, you don’t look like yourself today”

CFO: “What? What do you mean?”

Employee: “…your whiskers are shorter than usual”

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