Ottawa Couple Reportedly Loses CA$177,023 After Purported Deepfake Elon Musk Investment Scam
Date: 2023-10-01
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammer Impersonating Elon Musk
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1276: Ottawa Couple Reportedly Loses CA$177,023 After Purported Deepfake Elon Musk Investment Scam. 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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