Deepfake Videos Impersonate Brunei Police in Investment Scam
TikTok, Facebook, Instagram
Scammers deployed AI-generated deepfake videos impersonating police officers across social media to promote a fraudulent investment scheme. Authorities issued public warnings regarding the financial scam.
- first report
- 14 Jul 2025
- last update
- 14 Jul 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-07-14Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Impersonate Brunei Police in 'Real Money Magic' Scam on Social MediaAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1147
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Classification
- AI role
- AI-enabled attack
- categories
- Deepfake fraud
- severity
- 3 · Confirmed exploitation
- targets
- Individuals
- owasp llm top 10
- no entry for these categories
- dates
- happened 14 Jul 2025 · first reported 14 Jul 2025
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- record
- confidence 0.85 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z
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# Deepfake Videos Impersonate Brunei Police in Investment Scam https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/deepfake-videos-impersonate-brunei-police-in-investment-scam · AIR-2025-0018 · closed 2025-07-28 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-07-14 - AI role: AI-enabled attack - Products: TikTok, Facebook, Instagram ## Summary Scammers deployed AI-generated deepfake videos impersonating police officers across social media to promote a fraudulent investment scheme. Authorities issued public warnings regarding the financial scam. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-07-14: Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Impersonate Brunei Police in 'Real Money Magic' Scam on Social Media (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1147) ## Sources - 2025-07-14 AI Incident Database: Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Impersonate Brunei Police in 'Real Money Magic' Scam on Social Media https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1147 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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