India, Oct. 19 -- Four executives of a Bangalore-based digital marketing firm were arrested recently by the city cyber police for allegedly cheating investors by posting deep fake videos of various share-market experts.

The police said they received a complaint on September 29 from a well known Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) research analyst, who also appears on TV channels. He told the police that a team of cyber frauds sitting in foreign countries had used his name and posted several deepfake videos of him on social media to dupe innocent people.

"In these videos people were asked to invest in various shares," he told the police, adding that the link below the video directed them to a WhatsApp group where they were told...