DeepfakeHigh
Purported Deepfake of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Promotes Alleged Fraudulent Government Investment Scheme
- Occurred
- Jun 18, 2025
- Published
- Jun 19, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A reported deepfake depicts Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake endorsing a government investment plan. It reportedly uses manipulated footage from a May 3rd Satana TV program, dubbed or voice-cloned into English, and including a news article imitating the Daily Mirror to lure people to sign up for the scheme. Sri Lanka CERT, journalists, and the Presidential Media Division reportedly confirmed the video and associated links were AI-generated and part of a phishing and scam operation.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown scammers impersonating Anura Kumara Dissanayake
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Government of Sri Lanka
- General public of Sri Lanka
- Epistemic integrity
- Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake
Tags
- deepfake
- impersonation
- fraud
- investment scheme
- Sri Lanka
- phishing
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated video used to deceive public into fraudulent investment scheme, confirmed by authorities as deepfake scam.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8