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Alleged Deepfake Videos Impersonate Lithuanian Politicians and Doctors in Purported Cross-Border Scam Network
- Occurred
- Jun 28, 2025
- Published
- Jun 29, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An alleged series of high-quality AI-generated deepfake videos reportedly mimicked Lithuanian TV segments, politicians, and doctors to promote fraudulent health products and anti-vaccine disinformation. Distributed mainly via Facebook, the videos reportedly reached audiences in up to 15 EU countries. Fact-checkers and cybersecurity experts reportedly described the campaign as part of a coordinated scam network designed to extract money by impersonating trusted public figures and media outlets.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown international scam network operating across multiple EU countries
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Aurelijus Veryga
- Vytautas Kasiulevičius
- Social media users in Lithuania
- General public of Lithuania
- General public of the European Union
Tags
- deepfake
- impersonation
- scam
- Lithuania
- European Union
- cross-border scam
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: High-quality deepfake videos impersonating public figures for fraud across multiple EU countries constitute a significant harm incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8