Chicago Veteran Loses $10,000 in Deepfake Elon Musk Crypto Scam
A veteran lost $10,000 to a cryptocurrency scam that employed AI voice cloning and fake profiles impersonating Elon Musk. The fraud involved multiple deepfake audio files and deceptive text messages.
- first report
- 7 Jul 2025
- last update
- 7 Jul 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-07-07Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon MuskAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1142
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Classification
- AI role
- AI-enabled attack
- categories
- Deepfake fraud
- severity
- 4 · Confirmed real-world loss
- targets
- Individuals
- owasp llm top 10
- no entry for these categories
- dates
- happened 7 Jul 2025 · first reported 7 Jul 2025
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- record
- confidence 0.90 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z
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# Chicago Veteran Loses $10,000 in Deepfake Elon Musk Crypto Scam https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/chicago-veteran-loses-10-000-in-deepfake-elon-musk-crypto-sc · AIR-2025-0138 · closed 2025-07-21 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-07-07 - AI role: AI-enabled attack ## Summary A veteran lost $10,000 to a cryptocurrency scam that employed AI voice cloning and fake profiles impersonating Elon Musk. The fraud involved multiple deepfake audio files and deceptive text messages. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-07-07: Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1142) ## Sources - 2025-07-07 AI Incident Database: Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1142 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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