Scammers stole $1.27m from a Hong Kong man after tricking him with AIThe scheme impersonated his father using AI deepfake techExperts say using a secret codeword can thwart the fraudstersA Hong Kong man was recently conned out of HK$10 million ($1.27 million) by scammers who used artificial intelligence (AI) on WhatsApp to impersonate his father and request the payments, highlighting the dangers of trusting increasingly realistic AI tools. Yet experts say there’s a simple trick that can save you from suffering a similar fate.According to the Hong Kong police’s Cyberdefender platform (via the South China Morning Post), the fraudsters sent…