Purportedly AI-Generated Deepfake Investment Ads Defrauded 5,000 Swedish Investors of 500 Million SEK
Date: 2025-10-24
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Pump And Dump Scammers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Gabriel Mellqvist, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Gunter Marder
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1256: Purportedly AI-Generated Deepfake Investment Ads Defrauded 5,000 Swedish Investors of 500 Million SEK. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Pump And Dump Scammers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Gabriel Mellqvist, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Gunter Marder. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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