"Mom, save me"...It was a video of the kidnapping of my daughter on a trip to Jeju Island, "Deep Fake."

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Recently, a voice phishing crime has occurred in which a Chinese criminal organization has produced a fake video that combines the faces of children with artificial intelligence (AI) deepfake technology and demanded money from parents.

The police warned that such incidents could happen in Korea soon.

At the end of last month, the Jeju Western Police Station received a request from Chinese police to find a Chinese woman in her 20s who was traveling to Korea.

At that time, Chinese police received a report from A's parents that their daughter was suspected of being kidnapped.

The police dispatched about 10 detectives around 10 a.m. that day and visited A, who was traveling around 9 p.m. that day.

According to the investigation, the organization that threatened the parents for kidnapping A was a group of Chinese voice phishing. They produced a kidnapping video using AI and deepfake technology with A's photo and voice and delivered it to A's parents.

In the video, A cried and shouted for his life, "Mama" and "Papa," with his body and arms tied in a rope.

A police official said, "It is an elaborate video that uses artificial intelligence technology to create a child as if he were in an emergency situation and be deceived."

"I immediately asked an expert to read whether the video was fake or not, and I received a reply that there was a high possibility of deepfake," he said. "It is not an incident in Korea, but it is an example that shows that deepfake technology can be sufficiently used for violent crimes."

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team