Purported Deepfake of Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis Reportedly Used in Facebook Investment Scam
November 14, 2025
Authorities expressed concern as this follows similar deepfake-driven scams in Greece involving impersonation of public figures for financial gain. Such incidents underscore the need for safe and secure AI practices.
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- MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.564, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
- GOVERN 2.2 — similarity 0.562, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
- MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.557, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-scammers, unknown-scammers-impersonating-kyriakos-pierrakakis
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- kyriakos-pierrakakis, government-of-greece, ministry-of-economy-and-finance-of-greece, general-public, general-public-of-greece, greek-investors, investors, epistemic-integrity
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1271
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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