Incident 236: AI-Generated Faces Used by Scammers to Pose as a Law Firm in Boston

Description: GAN faces were allegedly used by scammers alongside a parked domain and a fake website to impersonate a Boston law firm.

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by scammers, which harmed email users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
236
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-04-13
Editors
Khoa Lam

Incident Reports

Scammers used AI-generated faces to pose as a Boston law firm
thenextweb.com · 2022

Nicole Palmer is a lawyer who graduated from Columbia University. Her profile states that she “specializes in the application and protection of industrial design” and has “been building her career successfully for 30 years.”

The only proble…

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.