DeepfakeHigh
Canadian Parents Tricked out of Thousands Using Their Son's AI Voice
- Occurred
- Jan 11, 2023
- Published
- Mar 6, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Two Canadian residents were scammed by an anonymous caller who used AI voice synthesis to replicate their son's voice asking them for legal fees, disguising as his lawyer.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- Ben Perkin's parents
- Perkins family
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI voice cloning used in a financial scam causing significant monetary loss to victims.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8