Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk
Date: 2025-07-07
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammer Impersonating Elon Musk
Attack vector: rce
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1142: Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammer Impersonating Elon Musk. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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