KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 -- Former finance minister Lim Guan Eng has alerted the public to a fake video circulating online that uses artificial intelligence to mimic his voice and image in what appears to be an investment scam.

According to Free Malaysia Today, Lim said the manipulated video falsely shows him endorsing an investment scheme and appears to be based on an old interview recorded in English more than a decade ago.

"I want to be absolutely clear, I have never asked anyone to invest in anything. I'm not in business; I'm in politics," he said during an event in Air Putih, Penang today.

"They took an old clip, altered it to look new, and changed the language."

Lim pointed out that the fake version is in Mandarin, while the origina...