Dissected: How scammers built a fake Zoom call from real videos of PM Wong and other Singapore leaders

SINGAPORE: In April 2022, then-Finance Minister Lawrence Wong dialled into a widely reported government press conference via video link from the United States, to announce details of the easing of Singapore’s COVID-19 pandemic safety measures. Four years later, scammers would use footage from that call to convince an unsuspecting individual that Mr Wong, now Singapore’s Prime Minister, was among a group of Singaporean and global leaders seeking financial help to stabilise trade flows through the conflict-ridden Strait of Hormuz. The victim had found himself in a fake Zoom conference that was spliced together using footage not just of Mr Wong,…