Thai PM Says She Was Target of Foreign Leader Phone Scam

泰国总理称她是外国领导人电话诈骗的目标（机译）

作者：伊洛瓦底江        来源：伊洛瓦底江

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra / AFP

泰国总理Paetongtarn Shinawatra /法新社

BANGKOK—Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra almost fell victim to a phone scam using AI to impersonate a foreign leader’s voice, she said Wednesday.

曼谷——泰国总理Paetongtarn Shinawatra周三表示，她差点成为一个利用人工智能模仿外国领导人声音的电话骗局的受害者。

The prime minister, the youngest daughter of telecoms billionaire and ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, said she received a message in a voice sounding identical to a well-known leader, without identifying the person.

英拉是电信亿万富翁、前总理他信?西那瓦（Thaksin Shinawatra）的小女儿。她说，她收到了一个声音，听起来与一位知名领导人的声音一模一样，但没有透露此人的身份。

“In the clip, he said he was looking forward to seeing me and working together,” she said.

她说：“在视频中，他说他很期待见到我并一起工作。”

She missed a call from the same number during the night, before a second voice message the next day aroused her suspicions.

她在晚上错过了同一个号码的电话，第二天收到的第二条语音信息引起了她的怀疑。

“The voice said Thailand is the only ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] country which has not yet made a donation—when I heard that, I thought ‘this is not right,’” she said.

她说：“那个声音说，泰国是东南亚国家联盟中唯一一个还没有捐款的国家。当我听到这个声音时，我认为‘这是不对的’。”

A text message asking for money to be sent to a bank account outside Thailand soon followed, confirming her doubts.

随后，一条短信要求将钱汇到泰国境外的一个银行账户，证实了她的怀疑。

“I knew it for sure when I saw that,” she said.

“当我看到它的时候，我就确定了，”她说。

Paetongtarn did not say when she received the messages.

Paetongtarn没有说她是什么时候收到这些信息的。

So-called “call center scams” are common in Thailand, in which fraudsters impersonate police, government officials or bank staff—often using automated “robocalls’ to make the first contact.

所谓的“呼叫中心骗局”在泰国很常见，骗子冒充警察、政府官员或银行工作人员，经常使用自动的“自动电话”进行第一次联系。

Paetongtarn, 38, last week declared more than US$400 million in assets to Thailand’s anti-corruption commission.

38岁的Paetongtarn上周向泰国反腐败委员会申报了超过4亿美元的资产。

Her father Thaksin, who once owned Manchester City football club, has a net worth of $2.1 billion, according to Forbes, making him the 10th-richest person in Thailand.

据《福布斯》报道，她的父亲他信曾拥有曼城足球俱乐部，净资产为21亿美元，在泰国富豪榜上排名第十。

作者：法新社        来源：伊洛瓦底江