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Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt
- Occurred
- May 1, 2025
- Published
- Apr 14, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Scammers reportedly targeted Veriff colleague Andrea Rozenberg through WhatsApp with an urgent request and a video call that appeared to show Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas. Kotkas and Veriff later described the call as a real-time deepfake or live video clone. Rozenberg reportedly noticed the missing Estonian accent and verified through Slack that the request was fraudulent. No financial loss was reported.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Victims of deepfake abuse
- Veriff
- Kaarel Kotkas
- Epistemic integrity
- Andrea Rozenberg
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Real-time deepfake video used in fraud attempt, but no financial loss reported.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8