Deepfake video-meeting fraud

Every other person in a video meeting is synthetic, generated in real time, and they push you to approve a transfer. It already happened in 2024, when an employee wired about $25M after such a call.

What it looks like

Holo-meeting · CFO + 3 colleagues, live

"We need the transfer approved in this meeting — the deal closes in ten minutes. You can see we're all here."

How it usually ends

Every person in the meeting was synthetic, generated in real time.

Red flags

Participants' devices not enrolled
Real-time synthesis markers
Approval outside the payment workflow

What to do

Verify payment requests through a separate, known channel — even after a video call.
Keep approvals inside your normal payment workflow.
Treat “you can see we’re all here” as no evidence at all.

This is a scenario from the 2036 world of Painted Sky: a plausible extension of fraud patterns that already exist, not a forecast.

Could you spot it in the moment?

In Painted Sky you’re born at random somewhere on Earth and live a whole life — and this scam is one of the fakes that can find you. Make the call yourself, then replay the same life with a lens that shows what was fake.

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