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closedclosed 13 May 2025Breaches & attacks3 Confirmed exploitationAI

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

  1. 29 Apr 2025Mother in Louisville, Kentucky Describes Phone Scam Involving Purported AI-Generated Voice of Her Daughter

Sources · 1

Research and catalogues

  1. 2025-04-29

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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 Database
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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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