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Unnamed victim in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 17121 Report
Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

2026-09-07

A person in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, reportedly lost £250,000 in an investment scam that began with an apparently AI-generated video of an unnamed, well-known financial personality. Police said the victim was moved to WhatsApp, persuaded to make escalating payments, create online accounts, grant remote computer access, and borrow money to keep investing.

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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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Synthetic media creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Impersonation scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Deepfake creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Cybercriminals

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Synthetic video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Victims of deepfake-enabled fraud

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Public figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Impersonated public figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Financial scam victims

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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WhatsApp

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Synthetic video generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Messaging apps

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1712
    1 Report

    Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

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