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Scammers Allegedly Used an AI-Cloned Lawyer's Voice to Defraud Italian Private Bank Fideuram
- Occurred
- Feb 23, 2026
- Published
- Sep 25, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Scammers allegedly used an AI-cloned lawyer's voice to validate a WhatsApp request impersonating the CEO of Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo. Fideuram, its private-banking subsidiary, reportedly transferred about €95 million overseas after its chairman accepted the instructions. Part of the money was recovered, but tens of millions reportedly remained missing. Milan prosecutors opened a fraud investigation.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
- Voice cloning technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers targeting Fideuram
- Voice cloning impersonation scammers
- Scammers
- Impersonation scammers
- Synthetic media creators
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Fideuram
- Banks
- Financial scam victims
- Victims of voice cloning impersonation scams
- Victims of impersonation scams
- Intesa Sanpaolo
- Paolo Molesini
- Paolo Nastasi
- Lawyers
- Epistemic integrity
- Privacy
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: AI used in fraud causing major financial loss, fits LLM misuse category with high severity due to €95M theft.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8