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Indore Resident Reportedly Lost ₹1.83 Lakh (~$2,000) After AI-Generated Voice Impersonated Relative
- Occurred
- Nov 27, 2025
- Published
- Nov 27, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An Indore resident reportedly transferred ₹1.83 lakh (about $2,000) after callers used a purportedly AI-generated voice resembling his brother-in-law in Sydney and claimed he faced imprisonment over an expired visa. The victim reportedly discovered the fraud after contacting his relative, and police said the recipient accounts were frozen during the investigation.
Developers
- Voice cloning technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Voice cloning impersonation scammers
- Scammers in India
- Scammers
- Cybercriminals in India
- Cybercriminals
Harmed parties
- Victims of voice cloning impersonation scams
- Targets of scammers in India
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI voice cloning used for fraud causing significant financial loss.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8