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Old Mutual Reportedly Warns of Purported Deepfake Videos Impersonating Chairman Trevor Manuel in Investment Scams
- Occurred
- Oct 3, 2025
- Published
- Oct 6, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Old Mutual of South Africa reportedly warned of purported deepfake videos impersonating its chairman, former finance minister Trevor Manuel, promoting fake investment schemes on social media. The purported AI-generated videos used his likeness and cloned voice to solicit funds, prompting a public statement from Manuel denying involvement.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown scammers impersonating Trevor Manuel
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Trevor Manuel
- Old Mutual
- Investors
- General public of South Africa
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- South Africa
- Deepfake
- Financial fraud
- Impersonation scam
- Investment scam
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated deepfake videos impersonating a public figure to facilitate investment scams constitute a significant financial harm and deception incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8