Guelph, Ontario, Woman Reportedly Lost $14,000 in Purported Deepfake MrBeast Cryptocurrency Scam
Date: 2026-05-05
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Mrbeast
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1485: Guelph, Ontario, Woman Reportedly Lost $14,000 in Purported Deepfake MrBeast Cryptocurrency Scam. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Mrbeast. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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