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Georgia Retired Couple Reportedly Lost Nearly $800,000 in Cryptocurrency Scam Using Purported AI-Generated 'Ghost Site'
- Occurred
- Jun 12, 2025
- Published
- Jul 19, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A retired Gwinnett County, Georgia, couple reported losing nearly $800,000 after a stranger contacted Jerry Dunaway on WhatsApp and encouraged cryptocurrency trading. Police reportedly told the couple that scammers used an AI-generated "ghost site" to manipulate the account information he saw. The specific AI tool and developer were not identified. The loss was discovered when a larger withdrawal failed.
Developers
- Generative AI developers
Deployers
- Scammers
- Cryptocurrency scammers
- Investment scam operators
- Cybercriminals
Harmed parties
- Jerry Dunaway
- Mindy Dunaway
- Financial scam victims
- Cryptocurrency scam victims
- Elderly individuals
- Elderly investors
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Financial loss from AI-generated scam site, but lacks specific privacy violation details.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8