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AI Voice Scam Allegedly Defrauds Game and Coffee Store in Havre, Montana
- Occurred
- Feb 4, 2025
- Published
- Feb 4, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Montana business, Sugar and Dice, was reportedly targeted by an AI voice scam that cloned the store owner's voice to deceive an employee over the phone. The scammer allegedly spoofed both the owner's and the employee's phone numbers, making the call appear legitimate. Believing he was following his employer’s instructions, the employee unknowingly compromised financial details. The store suffered monetary losses but plans to recover.
Developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Sugar and Dice
- Kevin Zorn
- Sugar and Dice employee
Tags
- AI voice scam
- Deepfake voice fraud
- Business fraud
- Caller ID spoofing
- Small business scam
- Financial fraud
- Social engineering attack
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI voice cloning used to deceive employee and cause financial loss, fitting deepfake category with medium severity due to limited harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8