Brazilian police have arrested a man accused of taping photos of victims’ faces onto dummies to trick mobile banking facial recognition technology and then take out loans.
Cops arrested the suspect in the municipality of Barueri, confiscating a pile of large photos of victims who were targeted, as well as ammunition for a gun, 17 card machines and a safe to store cards, according to local reports.
The suspect is alleged to have attached a large cutout of victims’ photos to a dummy before using the face id option to access mobile banking accounts and then applying for loans.