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Mother in Louisville, Kentucky Describes Phone Scam Involving Purported AI-Generated Voice of Her Daughter
- Occurred
- Apr 29, 2025
- Published
- May 1, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Louisville, Kentucky mother Kim Alvey reportedly received a phone call in which an unknown individual purportedly used AI-generated voice cloning to impersonate her 10-year-old daughter, claiming she had been in an accident. The call escalated with a male voice threatening to kidnap the child. Alvey confirmed her daughter was safe at school and identified the call as a scam.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Mother and daughter in Louisville
- General public of Louisville, Kentucky
Tags
- voice cloning
- impersonation
- vishing
- parental manipulation
- fraud
- child safety
- emotional harm
- law enforcement warning
- criminal activity
- FBI alert
- synthetic media
- crisis impersonation
- extortion
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI voice cloning used in a scam caused emotional distress but no physical harm or financial loss occurred.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8