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Deepfake Videos Allegedly Use AI-Generated Voice Clone of Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to Promote Scams
- Occurred
- Mar 7, 2025
- Published
- Mar 7, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong issued a warning about AI-generated deepfake videos and voice clones falsely portraying him promoting cryptocurrency scams, money-making schemes, and PR services. The manipulated content, seen on social media, reportedly uses public footage and AI voice cloning to deceive victims. Wong urged the public to avoid engaging, report scams via ScamShield, and stay vigilant.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers impersonating Lawrence Wong
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Lawrence Wong
- General public of Singapore
Tags
- Financial fraud
- Cryptocurrency fraud
- Impersonation
- Singapore
- Scam
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated voice cloning and deepfake videos used to promote scams, causing public concern and official warnings.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8