Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam
Date: 2020-01-01
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Cryptocurrency Scammers
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1509: Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Cryptocurrency Scammers. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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