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Alleged Deepfake Videos Impersonate Lithuanian Politicians and Doctors in Purported Cross-Border Scam Network

June 28, 2025

An alleged series of deepfake videos, utilizing AI technologies, were reportedly used to impersonate Lithuanian politicians and doctors in a cross-border scam network. These high-quality videos, mainly disseminated via Facebook, allegedly promoted fraudulent health products and anti-vaccine disinformation across up to 15 EU countries.

This campaign was described by fact-checkers and cybersecurity experts as part of a coordinated effort aimed at extracting money from unsuspecting audiences by impersonating trusted public figures and media outlets. Such incidents underscore the importance of safe and secure AI practices and the role that Project Cerebellum plays in establishing trustworthy AI governance.

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Alleged deployer
unknown-scammers, unknown-international-scam-network-operating-across-multiple-eu-countries
Alleged developer
unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
aurelijus-veryga, vytautas-kasiulevicius, social-media-users-in-lithuania, general-public-of-lithuania, general-public-of-the-european-union

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1119

Data source

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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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