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Purportedly AI-Cloned Voice of Daughter Used in Elaborate Bond Scam Targeting Retired Couple in Hillsborough County, Florida
- Occurred
- Jul 9, 2025
- Published
- Jul 15, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Hillsborough County, Florida, woman was reportedly defrauded of $15,000 in an alleged AI-enabled scam. The perpetrators are reportedly said to have used an AI-generated voice clone of the woman's daughter to impersonate her during a phone call and demand bond money.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown scammer impersonating the daughter of Sharon Brightwell
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Sharon Brightwell
- Unnamed daughter of Sharon Brightwell
Tags
- Deepfake
- Deepfake Audio
- Scam
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI voice cloning used in fraud causing significant financial loss.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8