Reported Use of Deepfake Video Impersonating Owen Wilson in Romance Scam with Fake Job Payments
Date: 2025-05-16
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Owen Wilson
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1126: Reported Use of Deepfake Video Impersonating Owen Wilson in Romance Scam with Fake Job Payments. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Owen Wilson. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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