Investor Loses Bitcoin in AI-Enabled Deepfake Romance Scam
An investor lost his retirement funds in a pig-butchering scam involving AI-generated portraits and real-time deepfake video calls. The perpetrator posed as a romantic partner and trusted crypto trader to execute the theft.
- first report
- 31 Dec 2025
- last update
- 31 Dec 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-12-31Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Romance Scam Allegedly Used to Steal One Bitcoin From Recently Divorced InvestorAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1327
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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 31 Dec 2025 · first reported 31 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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# Investor Loses Bitcoin in AI-Enabled Deepfake Romance Scam https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/investor-loses-bitcoin-in-ai-enabled-deepfake-romance-scam · AIR-2025-0097 · closed 2026-01-14 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-12-31 - AI role: AI-enabled attack ## Summary An investor lost his retirement funds in a pig-butchering scam involving AI-generated portraits and real-time deepfake video calls. The perpetrator posed as a romantic partner and trusted crypto trader to execute the theft. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-12-31: Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Romance Scam Allegedly Used to Steal One Bitcoin From Recently Divorced Investor (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1327) ## Sources - 2025-12-31 AI Incident Database: Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Romance Scam Allegedly Used to Steal One Bitcoin From Recently Divorced Investor https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1327 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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