Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam
Date: 2026-05-31
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1508: Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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