L.A. Woman Reportedly Defrauded of $81,000 and $350,000 Condo Proceeds in Romance Scam Using Purported Deepfake Videos of Actor Steve Burton
Date: 2024-10-01
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Steve Burton
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1194: L.A. Woman Reportedly Defrauded of $81,000 and $350,000 Condo Proceeds in Romance Scam Using Purported Deepfake Videos of Actor Steve Burton. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Steve Burton. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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