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Incident 1131: Alleged Deepfake Identity Scam Uses Miami Beach Realtor's Likeness to Defraud Victim in the United Kingdom in Purported Romance Scam

Description: A scammer reportedly used deepfake video technology to impersonate Miami Beach realtor Andres Asion, creating fake videos with his face and a voice clone to catfish a woman in the UK. The victim communicated for about a year before traveling to Miami, where Asion discovered the fraud. The videos appeared convincing even to friends and family.

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Alleged: Unknown deepfake technology developer and Unknown voice cloning technology developer developed an AI system deployed by Unknown scammers , Unknown fraudsters and Unknown scammers impersonating Andres Asion, which harmed Unnamed woman in the United Kingdom and Andres Asion.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake technology developer and Unknown voice cloning technology developer

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Incident ID
1131
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-04-21
Editors
Daniel Atherton

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Deepfake videos of Miami Beach man used to catfish woman in UK
Deepfake videos of Miami Beach man used to catfish woman in UK

Deepfake videos of Miami Beach man used to catfish woman in UK

local10.com

Deepfake videos of a Miami Beach man were used to scam a woman in the UK.

Deepfake videos of a Miami Beach man were used to scam a woman in the UK.

local10.com

Deepfake videos of Miami Beach man used to catfish woman in UK
local10.com · 2025

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A woman is heartbroken after thinking she had been communicating with the love of her life, only to find out it was all a lie.

Videos showing the face of Miami Beach realtor Andres Asion were sent to the woman, but they …

Deepfake videos of a Miami Beach man were used to scam a woman in the UK.
local10.com · 2025
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A woman in the United Kingdom was devastated after discovering that the supposed love of her life wasn't who he claimed to be.

The videos she thought she'd received from a man in Miami Beach were actually fakes generate…

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