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Scammers Allegedly Manipulate 2023 Speech of Singapore Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong to Spread Deepfake Investment Fraud
- Occurred
- Jun 2, 2024
- Published
- Jun 2, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A new deepfake video falsely showed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong endorsing an investment product with guaranteed returns. Scammers synchronized fake audio with real footage from his 2023 National Day speech, making it appear as though he had made the endorsement. Lee called this “extremely worrying” and warned that deepfake scams are becoming more sophisticated. He urged the public to report such scams through the government’s ScamShield Bot.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers impersonating Lee Hsien Loong
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Lee Hsien Loong
- General public of Singapore
Tags
- Financial fraud
- Investment scam
- Deepfake scam
- Impersonation
- Singapore
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deepfake video used for investment fraud targeting public, causing financial harm and requiring government intervention.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8