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Raphael Ablordeppey

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 15791 Report
Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

2026-05-01

Ghanaian media reported that an alleged online scam used AI-generated deepfake videos to impersonate President John Dramani Mahama and solicit money and personal information from members of the public. Police said the operation was linked to suspects in Ghana's Volta Region and involved fake social media accounts and digitally manipulated presidential imagery.

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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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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Scammers in Ghana

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Scammers in West Africa

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Scammers impersonating John Mahama

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Bishop Esiri

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Wisdom James

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Ali Lucky

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Edwin Edos

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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John Kofi Darlington

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Danu Peter

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Anipah Jonathan

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Dzamesi Bright Kofi

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Thomas Ayoyo

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Louis Segbawu

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Synthetic video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Synthetic audio generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Targets of scammers in Ghana

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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John Mahama

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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General public of Ghana

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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public figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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People targeted by financial scams

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Synthetic video generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Synthetic audio generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1579
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Reportedly Impersonated Ghanaian President Mahama to Solicit Money and Personal Data

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