Canadian Fraud Ring Allegedly Used AI Voice Cloning in Multi-Year $21 Million Grandparent Scam Targeting Elderly Americans Across 46 States
Date: 2025-03-05
Affected: Canadian Fraud Ring Impersonating Grandchildren, Canadian Fraud Ring Involved In Grandparent Scams, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #973: Canadian Fraud Ring Allegedly Used AI Voice Cloning in Multi-Year $21 Million Grandparent Scam Targeting Elderly Americans Across 46 States. Alleged deployer/developer: Canadian Fraud Ring Impersonating Grandchildren, Canadian Fraud Ring Involved In Grandparent Scams, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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