Purportedly AI-Cloned Voice of Daughter Used in Elaborate Bond Scam Targeting Retired Couple in Hillsborough County, Florida
July 9, 2025
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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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