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Ian Borg

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 12901 Report
Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

2025-10-27

Purportedly AI-generated deepfake videos and fabricated news pages impersonating Maltese ministers, journalists, financial experts, and major media outlets reportedly promoted the fraudulent "NethertoxAGENT" investment platform. The scam used synthetic interviews, cloned branding, and falsified testimonials to mislead social media users, reportedly inducing financial losses and prompting law enforcement concern in Malta.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Unknown scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Unknown scam network based in Malta

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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NethertoxAGENT scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Unknown voice synthesis technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Unknown generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Entity

TVM

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Times of Malta

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Silvio Schembri

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Rosianne Cutajar

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Roberta Metsola

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Robert Abela

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Newsbook

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Michael C. Bonello

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Matthew Bonanno

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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MaltaToday

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Malta Independent

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Malta Financial Services Authority

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Lombard Bank Malta

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Kenneth Farrugia

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Journalists in Malta

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Entity

Journalists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Entity

Journalistic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Investors in Malta

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Investors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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General public of Malta

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Francis J. Vassallo

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Clyde Caruana

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Unknown voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Unknown generative AI systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1290
    1 Report

    Alleged Fabricated News Sites and Deepfakes Impersonated Maltese Ministers, Financial Experts, and Media to Promote NethertoxAGENT Fraud

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