Deepfake Reportedly Used in Attempted Real Estate Fraud in Hallandale Beach, Florida
September 19, 2024
A scammer reportedly used deepfake technology to impersonate the owner of a vacant Hallandale Beach, Florida lot during a Zoom call. The scam matched forged IDs to public property records and nearly succeeded in defrauding the buyer of $52,000. The image used in the deepfake was reportedly that of a missing woman named Margrit Pritchard.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-scammers
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- udi-levi, margrit-pritchard, lauren-albrecht, josh-mor, florida-title-and-trust
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/858
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