” ROGUE STATES” Engaging WITH CRIMINAL GANGS?
Specialists told CNA that the perpetrators possible chose to use natural email due to a shortage of tracking and a higher probability of victims really reading.
“ Just about everything can be traced and tracked online or when our mobile phones are used, ” said Associate Professor Hannah Yee-Fen Lim from Nanyang Technological University.
“Snail message makes it harder to track, especially if they wear gloves and left no fingerprints, and publish it in a city box using pretty normal-looking envelopes which street CCTVs cannot capture or separate. ”
The law and computer science expert added that most people who do n’t look at the photos carefully would not easily identify the deepfakes.
This is especially thus with “the rate at which people seem to be blissfully forward messages on social media”, she added.
Mr Benjamin Ang, who heads the Centre of Excellence for National Security at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies think-tank, pointed out that natural characters is avoid spam filters in internet networks.
Patients are also more likely to take letters significantly and opened them, compared to messages which they may cancel without even reading, he said.
While it remains unclear who’s behind the story, the demand for money seems to suggest that they are criminals motivated by earnings, said Mr Ang, who is also brain of Digital Impact Research at the university.
He added that “there are even known cases where rogue state collaborate with digital criminal gangs ” in such deceits.
The Jurong MP Dr Tan, one of the patients and also a member of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Home Affairs and Law, wrote on Facebook post on Saturday that he did not want to conjecture the personality of the “ringleaders” or whether they were based in Singapore or elsewhere.
” I’d instead not surmise on why this is happening now, at a very important day in Singapore’s past,” he said. ” But let me say this: We are never worried. And we will never let anyone scare us or hinder us from doing our duty. “