Scammers Impersonate Italian Defense Minister with AI Voice Clone to Steal Funds
Fraudsters cloned Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto's voice to solicit ransom payments from business executives, stealing nearly one million euros from one victim. Law enforcement subsequently intervened and froze the transferred funds.
- first report
- 4 Feb 2025
- last update
- 4 Feb 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-02-04Fraudsters Allegedly Use AI-Generated Voice of Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to Scam Business LeadersAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/927
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Classification
- AI role
- AI-enabled attack
- categories
- Deepfake fraudAI phishing / social engineering
- severity
- 4 · Confirmed real-world loss
- targets
- Individuals
- owasp llm top 10
- no entry for these categories
- dates
- happened 4 Feb 2025 · first reported 4 Feb 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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# Scammers Impersonate Italian Defense Minister with AI Voice Clone to Steal Funds https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/scammers-impersonate-italian-defense-minister-with-ai-voice · AIR-2025-0183 · closed 2025-02-18 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-02-04 - AI role: AI-enabled attack ## Summary Fraudsters cloned Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto's voice to solicit ransom payments from business executives, stealing nearly one million euros from one victim. Law enforcement subsequently intervened and froze the transferred funds. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-02-04: Fraudsters Allegedly Use AI-Generated Voice of Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to Scam Business Leaders (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/927) ## Sources - 2025-02-04 AI Incident Database: Fraudsters Allegedly Use AI-Generated Voice of Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to Scam Business Leaders https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/927 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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