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Purported Deepfake of Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis Reportedly Used in Facebook Investment Scam
- Occurred
- Nov 14, 2025
- Published
- Nov 15, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis and the Ministry of Economy and Finance reportedly filed a lawsuit against unidentified operators of a Facebook page that allegedly used AI to generate a deepfake video falsely depicting the minister endorsing fraudulent "high-yield" investment schemes. Authorities noted this follows similar deepfake-driven scams in Greece involving impersonation of public figures for illicit financial gain.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers impersonating Kyriakos Pierrakakis
- Scammers
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
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deepfake video used in investment scam led to lawsuit against operators.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8