SINGAPORE, May 17 -- Singapore police have obtained footage of a fabricated Zoom video conference used in a scam impersonating senior government officials, including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.

The police released a video on Facebook yesterday, and an alert on how it detected signs of deepfake technology in the bogus Singapore government Zoom call, highlighting one case in which the victim lost at least S$4.9 million (RM17.15 million) to scammers pitching funding assistance related to the Strait of Hormuz crisis.

The police said victims were first contacted via WhatsApp by scammers posing as a Cabinet secretary, then invited to join a Zoom call featuring deepfake versions of Singapore officials and foreign representatives.

A separate...