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Purported Deepfake Video Reportedly Impersonated Former Mongolian Deputy Prime Minister Amarsaikhan Sainbuyan in Investment Scam
- Occurred
- Sep 5, 2025
- Published
- Sep 10, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Facebook post reportedly used a deepfake-altered clip of then-Mongolian Deputy Prime Minister Amarsaikhan Sainbuyan to promote investment in the "Power of Siberia-2" pipeline and direct viewers to a registration website. The video allegedly modified a 2024 MONGOL TV interview with altered lip movement and added Russian audio, while the linked site sought personal information.
Developers
- Deepfake creators
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
Deployers
- Today Information (Facebook account)
- Scammers in Mongolia
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Social media users in Mongolia
- Social media users
- Mongolian investors
- Investors
- Financial scam victims
- Facebook users in Mongolia
- Facebook users
- Epistemic integrity
- Amarsaikhan Sainbuyan
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Deepfake video used to impersonate official in investment scam causing financial harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8