DeepfakeHigh
Reported AI-Generated Video Call Impersonation of Cryptocurrency Analyst Leads to Alleged Malware Installation and Account Theft
- Occurred
- Jun 19, 2025
- Published
- Jun 20, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Cryptocurrency analyst Mai Fujimoto reported losing access to her X, Telegram, and MetaMask accounts through a video call with a purported deepfake impersonating a trusted contact. According to Fujimoto, the attacker, who appeared on Zoom as her acquaintance, instructed her to install software under the guise of resolving an audio issue. Fujimoto believes this enabled malware installation. In response, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao warned such attacks render video call verification unreliable.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown scammer impersonating acquaintance of Mai Fujimoto
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Unnamed acquaintance of Mai Fujimoto
- Mai Fujimoto
- General public
Tags
- deepfake
- impersonation
- fraud
- scam
- social engineering
- malware delivery
- account compromise
- credential theft
- video call attack
- cryptocurrency
- phishing
- vishing
- identity spoofing
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deepfake video impersonation led to malware installation and account theft, causing significant financial harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8