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Scammers Deepfaked Videos of Victims' Loved Ones Asking for Funds over Facebook in Vietnam

AI Incident Database · article · Mar 30, 2023 · UTC

In Vietnam, to convince victims of their disguises when prompted, scammers deepfaked audios and videos of victims' friends and families asking them over Facebook to send over thousands of dollars.

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incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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