Mother Targeted in Phone Scam Using AI Voice Cloning
A Kentucky mother received a phone call where scammers used AI-generated voice cloning to impersonate her daughter in an attempted scam. The mother confirmed her daughter was safe and reported the incident.
- first report
- 29 Apr 2025
- last update
- 29 Apr 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-04-29Mother in Louisville, Kentucky Describes Phone Scam Involving Purported AI-Generated Voice of Her DaughterAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1045
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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 29 Apr 2025 · first reported 29 Apr 2025
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- record
- confidence 0.95 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z
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# Mother Targeted in Phone Scam Using AI Voice Cloning https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/mother-targeted-in-phone-scam-using-ai-voice-cloning · AIR-2025-0132 · closed 2025-05-13 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-04-29 - AI role: AI-enabled attack ## Summary A Kentucky mother received a phone call where scammers used AI-generated voice cloning to impersonate her daughter in an attempted scam. The mother confirmed her daughter was safe and reported the incident. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-04-29: Mother in Louisville, Kentucky Describes Phone Scam Involving Purported AI-Generated Voice of Her Daughter (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1045) ## Sources - 2025-04-29 AI Incident Database: Mother in Louisville, Kentucky Describes Phone Scam Involving Purported AI-Generated Voice of Her Daughter https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1045 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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