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Unnamed resident from Markham, Ontario

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 13252 Report
Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

2025-12-21

Two Canadian investors in Ontario and Prince Edward Island reportedly lost a combined $2.3 million after being deceived by purportedly AI-generated deepfake videos impersonating Elon Musk and the television program Dragon's Den. The reported videos and fabricated online dashboards allegedly persuaded the victims to transfer funds into a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scheme that displayed fake profits and blocked withdrawals.

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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 impersonating Elon Musk

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Unknown scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Unknown voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Unnamed resident from Prince Edward Island

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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General public of Canada

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Elon Musk

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Dragon's Den

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Canadian investors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Unknown voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1325
    2 Reports

    Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

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