Purportedly AI-Assisted Impersonation of Martin Henderson in Romance Scam Leads to Reported NZ$375,000 Fraud
Date: 2025-02-01
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Large Language Model Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammer Impersonating Martin Henderson
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #938: Purportedly AI-Assisted Impersonation of Martin Henderson in Romance Scam Leads to Reported NZ$375,000 Fraud. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Large Language Model Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammer Impersonating Martin Henderson. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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