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.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: 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
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
wsj.com · 2019
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Scams using artificial intelligence are a new challenge for companies
Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive’s voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cy…
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.