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Veriff

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Incident 15021 Report
Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

2025-05-01

Scammers reportedly targeted Veriff colleague Andrea Rozenberg through WhatsApp with an urgent request and a video call that appeared to show Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas. Kotkas and Veriff later described the call as a real-time deepfake or live video clone. Rozenberg reportedly noticed the missing Estonian accent and verified through Slack that the request was fraudulent. No financial loss was reported.

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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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Victims of deepfake abuse

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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Kaarel Kotkas

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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Andrea Rozenberg

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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WhatsApp

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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Video call technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1502
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt

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