Purportedly AI-Cloned Voice of Daughter Used in Elaborate Bond Scam Targeting Retired Couple in Hillsborough County, Florida

July 9, 2025

A distressing incident occurred in Hillsborough County, Florida, where an alleged AI-enabled scam resulted in a woman losing $15,000. The scammers reportedly used an AI-generated voice clone of the victim's daughter to impersonate her and demand bond money during a phone call.

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Alleged deployer
unknown-scammer-impersonating-the-daughter-of-sharon-brightwell, unknown-scammers
Alleged developer
unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
sharon-brightwell, unnamed-daughter-of-sharon-brightwell

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1217

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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