Canadian Parents Tricked out of Thousands Using Their Son's AI Voice
January 11, 2023
Two Canadian residents were scammed by an anonymous caller who used AI voice synthesis to replicate their son's voice asking them for legal fees, disguising as his lawyer.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- ben-perkin's-parents, perkins-family
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/492
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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