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Alleged Deepfake Identity Scam Uses Miami Beach Realtor's Likeness to Defraud Victim in the United Kingdom in Purported Romance Scam
- Occurred
- Apr 21, 2025
- Published
- Apr 22, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A scammer reportedly used deepfake video technology to impersonate Miami Beach realtor Andres Asion, creating fake videos with his face and a voice clone to catfish a woman in the UK. The victim communicated for about a year before traveling to Miami, where Asion discovered the fraud. The videos appeared convincing even to friends and family.
Developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
Deployers
- Synthetic media creators
- Scammers impersonating Andres Asion
- Scammers
- Impersonation scammers
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Women
- Victims of romance scams
- Victims of impersonation scams
- Epistemic integrity
- Andres Asion
Tags
- deepfake
- impersonation
- scam
- fraud
- Florida
- United Kingdom
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deepfake technology used for fraud and impersonation causing financial and emotional harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8