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Mother in Louisville, Kentucky Describes Phone Scam Involving Purported AI-Generated Voice of Her Daughter

AI Incident Database · article · Apr 30, 2025 · UTC

Louisville, Kentucky mother Kim Alvey reportedly received a phone call in which an unknown individual purportedly used AI-generated voice cloning to impersonate her 10-year-old daughter, claiming she had been in an accident. The call escalated with a male voice threatening to kidnap the child. Alvey confirmed her daughter was safe at school and identified the call as a scam.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2025-04-29T00:00:00.000Z

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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