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Unknown advertisers

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 14082 Report
Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

2025-08-12

A Utah woman, Lisa Swearingen, reported paying more than $400 for weight loss supplements after seeing online ads featuring a purported Oprah Winfrey deepfake endorsement. When the product arrived, she said its primary ingredient was turmeric rather than the advertised formula.

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Incident 14131 Report
Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

2026-03-05

New Zealand Inland Revenue warned that scammers used a purported AI-generated likeness of Commissioner Peter Mersi with alleged false Inland Revenue branding, as well as misleading social media ads, to promote an allegedly fake webinar on crypto tax changes. The campaign allegedly sought to trick people into disclosing personal information.

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Related Entities
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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Prozenith

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

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Unknown scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

Unknown voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

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Entity

Lisa Swearingen

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

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Entity

Oprah Winfrey

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

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Entity

People seeking medical advice

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

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Entity

People seeking weight loss supplements

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

Unknown voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

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Entity

Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1408
    2 Reports

    Purported Oprah Deepfake Reportedly Induced Utah Woman to Buy Misrepresented Weight Loss Supplements

  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

Unknown image generator developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Unknown generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

Social media users in New Zealand

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

Peter Mersi

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

New Zealand taxpayers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

New Zealand Inland Revenue

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

General public of New Zealand

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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Entity

Unknown image generator technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1413
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

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