Hindi reporting describes a parent in Aligarh transferring INR 400,000 after callers impersonated police and used a voice presented as his son’s. Police reportedly stopped INR 86,000. The AI attribution and transfers have not been independently verified here; final net loss is unknown.
AI System
Unspecified voice-generation system
Occurred
30 Jan 2024
Reported
2 February 2024
Event location
India
Platform
Unknown
AI involvement: reported. AI use is attributed in the source; no independent technical verification performed.
AI-to-person relation
Core relations are communication, acting on someone’s behalf, and depiction or impersonation. Decision and claim relations are retained as contextual cases.
Someone else’s AI use. Settings: Finance, Fraud.
Claim status: Reported
Local reporting says a parent transferred INR 400,000 after a call claiming his son was in police trouble. The report says police stopped one INR 86,000 transaction.
Causal attribution: Attributed in the account; independent causation has not been established.
Local reporting · hi · Source inspected
Model read the original language. No separate bilingual human review.
Event countries: India. Affected-person countries: India. Court countries: Unknown.
Report explicitly places the parent and incident in Aligarh, India.
Reviewed for publication 2026-09-15: Source body re-read, event boundary and duplicates checked, identity details minimized, and claim uncertainty stated.
Local reporting says a parent transferred INR 400,000 after a call claiming his son was in police trouble. The report says police stopped one INR 86,000 transaction.
Person described in the source; identifying details omitted.
1 person
0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed
One person is described as harmed in this account; wider affected populations are not counted.
Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.
Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.
APA
NOPE. (2024). Aligarh parent reportedly transfers money after an alleged AI voice-impersonation call. NOPE: AI and people. https://nope.net/incidents/2024-aligarh-alleged-voice-cloning-fraud
BibTeX
@misc{2024_aligarh_alleged_voice_cloning_fraud,
title = {Aligarh parent reportedly transfers money after an alleged AI voice-impersonation call},
author = {NOPE},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {NOPE: AI and people},
url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2024-aligarh-alleged-voice-cloning-fraud}
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