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Scammers Allegedly Using Deepfake Technology to Impersonate Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan
- Occurred
- Mar 4, 2025
- Published
- Mar 5, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Scammers are reportedly using deepfake technology to impersonate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, according to the Personal Data Protection Agency. The video is reported to have circulated from a Russian-language account called Noticias Mundiales ("World News").
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers impersonating Nikol Pashinyan
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Nikol Pashinyan
- General public of Armenia
Tags
- Deepfake
- Fraud
- Scam
- Impersonation scam
- Armenia
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves deepfake technology impersonating a political leader, causing potential misinformation but no confirmed mass harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8