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Voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer

Incident 15082 Report
Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

2026-05-31

Italian media reported that scammers purportedly used AI to create fake social media profiles and a video impersonating Mediaset journalist Safiria Leccese, using her image and footage associated with her political-interview program Super Partes to promote a personal loan. Leccese said several people were deceived within an hour. After she contacted postal police, two additional fake profiles using her image were reportedly found and blocked.

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Incident 15092 Report
Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

2020-01-01

Beginning in 2020, Wayne Luxon, a 43-year-old self-employed father of four from Taunton, Somerset, reportedly lost £140,000 after responding to a Facebook advertisement using a purportedly AI-generated Martin Lewis deepfake to promote cryptocurrency investment. Luxon said he was directed to a clone platform where he made additional payments after seeing fictitious gains, and later paid purported tax fees before the account balance fell to zero.

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Incident 15051 Report
Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call

2026-05-24

Deborah Del Mastro of Martinez, California, reportedly wired $5,400 to Mexico after scammers falsely claimed her daughter Sarah had been kidnapped and played what she believed was Sarah's panicked voice. AI had reportedly been used to mimic the daughter's voice during a five-hour call that pressured Del Mastro to send money. After she contacted her daughter and learned she was safe, Martinez police reportedly began investigating.

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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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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Fake kidnapping scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1505
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call

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Entity

Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Deborah Del Mastro

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1505
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call

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Entity

Daughter of Deborah Del Mastro

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1505
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Victims of impersonation scams

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1505
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call

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Entity

Victims of fake kidnapping scammers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1505
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call

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Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Voice synthesis technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1505
    1 Report

    Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call

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Entity

Safiria Leccese

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

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Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

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Entity

Mediaset

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

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Entity

Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1508
    2 Reports

    Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Unknown cryptocurrency scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Wayne Luxon

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Investors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Cryptocurrency scam victims

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Cryptocurrency investors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Meta

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Facebook

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Cryptocurrency scam platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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Entity

Clone investment websites

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1509
    2 Reports

    Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam

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