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Vishing infrastructure

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 10773 Report
FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

2025-05-15

According to a May 15, 2025 public alert from the FBI and IC3, malicious actors have been using purported AI-generated voice messages and smishing tactics since April 2025 to impersonate senior U.S. officials. The campaign reportedly targets government personnel and their contacts to gain access to personal or official accounts. The FBI warns the scheme may involve credential theft and social engineering, with AI voice cloning used to increase believability.

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Incident 10852 Report
Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

2025-05-30

President Trump announced that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had been impersonated via a phone breach involving AI-generated voice messages and spoofed texts. The attacker reportedly contacted high-profile individuals in her network while posing as Wiles. The incident is linked to a campaign identified by the FBI in April 2025, involving malicious actors using social engineering and AI to impersonate senior U.S. officials and gain access to sensitive information. See Incident 1077.

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Incident 14821 Report
Purported AI-Generated Voice Reportedly Impersonated Washington Man's Daughter in $13,000 Extortion Scam

2026-03-23

A man in Washington state, Mark A. Young, reportedly wired $13,000 after scammers used a purportedly AI-generated copy of his daughter's voice to convince him she had been kidnapped after a staged car-crash story. The caller allegedly kept him on the phone for about 30 hours, directed him to banks and money-transfer locations, and sought another $17,000 before a Pullman bank manager and police confirmed his daughter was safe.

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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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Unknown scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

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Entity

Unknown generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1482
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Voice Reportedly Impersonated Washington Man's Daughter in $13,000 Extortion Scam

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Entity

Unknown voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1482
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Voice Reportedly Impersonated Washington Man's Daughter in $13,000 Extortion Scam

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Entity

United States state government officials

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

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Entity

United States federal government officials

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

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Entity

Former United States government officials

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

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Entity

Family and friends of United States government officials

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

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Entity

Unknown voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

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Entity

Smishing infrastructure

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

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Entity

Mobile messaging networks

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

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Entity

Account authentication systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1077
    3 Reports

    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

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Entity

Susie Wiles's network

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

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Entity

Susie Wiles

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1085
    2 Reports

    Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident

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Entity

Mark A. Young

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1482
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Voice Reportedly Impersonated Washington Man's Daughter in $13,000 Extortion Scam

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1482
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Voice Reportedly Impersonated Washington Man's Daughter in $13,000 Extortion Scam

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Entity

Daughter of Mark A. Young

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1482
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Voice Reportedly Impersonated Washington Man's Daughter in $13,000 Extortion Scam

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Wire transfer services

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1482
    1 Report

    Purported AI-Generated Voice Reportedly Impersonated Washington Man's Daughter in $13,000 Extortion Scam

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