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Purportedly AI-Generated TikTok Ad Impersonating Digital Payments Company OPay Reportedly Led to ₦150,000 (~US$108.86) Loss for Small-Business Operator in Ilorin, Nigeria
- Occurred
- Jul 24, 2026
- Published
- Jul 24, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Mohammed Yusuf, a small-business operator in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, reportedly lost about ₦150,000 (~US$108.86) after responding to a purportedly AI-generated TikTok ad impersonating digital payments company OPay. The ad allegedly promised a free payment terminal and cash grant. A caller reportedly posing as OPay staff requested a one-time password; unauthorized betting-voucher transactions reportedly depleted nearly all the operator's business capital.
Developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers
- Scammers impersonating OPay
- Impersonation scammers
- TikTok scammers
- Synthetic media creators
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Mohammed Yusuf
- Small business owners
- Targets of scammers in Nigeria
- Epistemic integrity
- Social media users
- TikTok users
- OPay
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated scam ads exploiting platform systems to defraud users, causing financial harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8