Multi-Celebrity Deepfake Persona Scam Targets UK Resident
Fraudsters repeatedly used deepfake videos and images of various celebrities over five months to run a romance and prize scam. The victim suffered financial loss through gift card extractions.
- first report
- 28 Jun 2025
- last update
- 28 Jun 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-06-28Reportedly Sustained Multi-Celebrity Deepfake Persona Scam Targeting Vulnerable Southampton ResidentAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1122
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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 28 Jun 2025 · first reported 28 Jun 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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# Multi-Celebrity Deepfake Persona Scam Targets UK Resident https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/multi-celebrity-deepfake-persona-scam-targets-uk-resident · AIR-2025-0115 · closed 2025-07-12 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-06-28 - AI role: AI-enabled attack ## Summary Fraudsters repeatedly used deepfake videos and images of various celebrities over five months to run a romance and prize scam. The victim suffered financial loss through gift card extractions. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-06-28: Reportedly Sustained Multi-Celebrity Deepfake Persona Scam Targeting Vulnerable Southampton Resident (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1122) ## Sources - 2025-06-28 AI Incident Database: Reportedly Sustained Multi-Celebrity Deepfake Persona Scam Targeting Vulnerable Southampton Resident https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1122 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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