Ahmedabad Aadhaar Fraud Racket Reportedly Used Purportedly AI-Generated Deepfakes to Change Businessman's Linked Mobile Number
Date: 2026-04-28
Affected: Ashish Rajendrabhai Waland, Deep Maheshbhai Gupta, Deepfake Technology Developers, Kanubhai Bahadursinh Parmar, Mohammad Kaif Iqbalbhai Patel, Scammers, Unique Identification Authority Of India
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1472: Ahmedabad Aadhaar Fraud Racket Reportedly Used Purportedly AI-Generated Deepfakes to Change Businessman's Linked Mobile Number. Alleged deployer/developer: Ashish Rajendrabhai Waland, Deep Maheshbhai Gupta, Deepfake Technology Developers, Kanubhai Bahadursinh Parmar, Mohammad Kaif Iqbalbhai Patel, Scammers, Unique Identification Authority Of India. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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