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Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron fell victim to a hoax involving a fake video call and text messages from someone impersonating Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, according to reports.
In a move to prevent any potential misuse or manipulation of the footage from the hoax, the Foreign Office issued a statement detailing the incident. The statement explained that “some text messages were exchanged, followed by a brief video call between the Foreign Secretary and an individual falsely claiming to be Petro Poroshenko.”
A spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said that the call took place in recent days and was “brief” but did not elaborate on the party behind the impersonation or how they had Cameron’s contact details, the news service reported.
“Whilst regretting his mistake, the Foreign Secretary thinks it important to call out this behaviour and increase efforts to counter the use of misinformation,” the foreign office said.
The statement gave no details of what was discussed during the exchanges, other than to say that the caller asked Cameron for others’ contact details.
The foreign office said Cameron was making the hoax public “in case the video of the Foreign Secretary is manipulated and subsequently used, and to ensure that others are aware of this risk.”
Impact Shorts
View AllCameron is not the first British foreign minister to be caught out by a hoax. In 2018 then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson discussed international relations and rude poetry with a hoax caller who pretended to be the Armenian prime minister. In 2022, Britain blamed Russia for hoax calls to two ministers and an attempted call to a third.
With inputs from agencies.
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