Florida Couple Loses Money in Deepfake Elon Musk Scam
Scammers impersonated Elon Musk using synthetic video and social engineering to run a fraudulent giveaway. Victims transferred forty-five thousand dollars before realizing the scheme was fake.
- first report
- 15 Dec 2025
- last update
- 15 Dec 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-12-15Florida Couple Reportedly Loses $45,000 in Alleged AI-Generated Elon Musk Impersonation ScamAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1306
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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 15 Dec 2025 · first reported 15 Dec 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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# Florida Couple Loses Money in Deepfake Elon Musk Scam https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/florida-couple-loses-money-in-deepfake-elon-musk-scam · AIR-2025-0105 · closed 2025-12-29 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-12-15 - AI role: AI-enabled attack ## Summary Scammers impersonated Elon Musk using synthetic video and social engineering to run a fraudulent giveaway. Victims transferred forty-five thousand dollars before realizing the scheme was fake. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-12-15: Florida Couple Reportedly Loses $45,000 in Alleged AI-Generated Elon Musk Impersonation Scam (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1306) ## Sources - 2025-12-15 AI Incident Database: Florida Couple Reportedly Loses $45,000 in Alleged AI-Generated Elon Musk Impersonation Scam https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1306 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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