“His luck allegedly ran out when the face-changing software suffered a momentary processing delay. The disguise dropped for ‘barely a second,’ exposing his real face to the verification camera, police said.”
Thirty-eight attempts to impersonate 30 different people, with real-time face swapping and custom lighting rigs built to fake the holograms on ID documents. It worked repeatedly. What caught him was a frame drop. These certificates sign contracts and authorize transactions with public bodies across the EU, and the check standing between a fraudster and all of it was a video call. Remote identity verification does not survive contact with cheap deepfakes.