Incident 200: Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic Voice of a UK-Based Firm's CEO's Boss

Description: Fraudsters allegedly used AI voice technology to impersonate the boss of a UK-based firm's CEO, demanding a transfer of €220,000 over the phone.

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by scammers, which harmed unnamed UK-based energy firm's CEO.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
200
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2019-03-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

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Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.