Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt
Date: 2025-05-01
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1502: Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


Mitigations:

Architectural layers (MAESTRO):