Purported Deepfake Video and Fake News Articles Allegedly Used to Impersonate Guernsey's Chief Minister in Investment Scam
Date: 2025-08-01
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Generative Ai Developers, Image Generation Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Lindsay De Sausmarez
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1288: Purported Deepfake Video and Fake News Articles Allegedly Used to Impersonate Guernsey's Chief Minister in Investment Scam. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Generative Ai Developers, Image Generation Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Lindsay De Sausmarez. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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