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AI-Generated Voice Purporting to Be Daughter Allegedly Used to Coerce $2,000 from Colorado Mother
- Occurred
- Feb 10, 2025
- Published
- Apr 5, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In February 2025, a Colorado woman was scammed by a voice-cloning fraud in which criminals used what sounded like her daughter’s voice to stage a fake kidnapping. Under duress and believing her daughter was in danger, she wired $2,000 to Mexico. The scammers exploited generative AI to simulate the daughter’s voice and manipulated the victim psychologically. Law enforcement could not trace the perpetrators or recover the funds.
Developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown scammers operating in Mexico
- Unknown scammers impersonating daughter of Linda Roan
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Linda Roan
- Daughter of Linda Roan
- General public
Tags
- Financial fraud
- Voice cloning scam
- Kidnapping hoax
- Impersonation
- Fraud
- Social engineering
- Mexico
- Colorado
- Telephony
- Cross-border fraud
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Voice cloning used for fraud constitutes synthetic media deception causing financial harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8