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Medium reported severity Involving minors

Mother reportedly sought police help after a teen received a fabricated sexual video and extortion demand

A Newswav creator article relays a mother's account that her teenage son received his photograph and a purported AI-generated sexual video through Telegram, followed by a demand for RM5,800. The mother said the family sought police help and that the boy asked a school contact for advice. The article attributes the AI explanation to the family's account and reported police comments. No payment, precise event location or independently verified generation method is established.

AI system
Unidentified video tool
Unknown
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
18 October 2025
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or Abuse
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Privacy · Finance
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
3 claims: 3 reported. 2 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 1 person

AI system as recorded: Purported AI-generated sexual video

What Happened

A Newswav creator article relays a mother's account that her teenage son received his photograph and a purported AI-generated sexual video through Telegram, followed by a demand for RM5,800. The mother said the family sought police help and that the boy asked a school contact for advice. The article attributes the AI explanation to the family's account and reported police comments. No payment, precise event location or independently verified generation method is established.

Reported harm

The relayed family account describes a teenage boy threatened with circulation of fabricated sexual footage and a demand for RM5,800. No payment is reported.

What remains unknown

  • The precise event date and country are not established from the inspected article.
  • The original family post, police report, footage and technical generation method were not inspected. No payment or case outcome is reported.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The creator account relays the mother's report of an AI-generated video and police comments, without the original post, footage or a technical determination.

3 claims: 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported The creator report says the boy received his photograph and a doctored sexual video on Telegram.

Causal attribution. One Newswav creator article relaying a mother's public account. It is not represented as an independently corroborated police finding. The mother's original post was not read.

Reported The mother's relayed account says an extortionist demanded RM5,800 and threatened to release fabricated footage, and that the family went to police.

Causal attribution. One Newswav creator article relaying a mother's public account. It is not represented as an independently corroborated police finding. The mother's original post was not read.

Reported The article attributes the footage to AI and relays police comments describing deepfake tools.

Causal attribution. One Newswav creator article relaying a mother's public account. It is not represented as an independently corroborated police finding. The mother's original post was not read.

Sources

1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.

The article describes a local family and uses Malaysian currency but gives no explicit event location. Publisher location and currency are not used to establish the family's country.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-30: A concrete, attributed public creator account describes a minor's experience of fabricated sexual-video extortion. The limited reporting chain and missing original account remain explicit. The boy and family are not identified and the event is undated.

People reported harmed in this case

At least 1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

One teenage boy is the described target. A mentioned earlier student and the boy's relatives are not counted.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Mother reportedly sought police help after a teen received a fabricated sexual video and extortion demand. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-reported-teen-deepfake-video-extortion-demand

BibTeX

@misc{2025_reported_teen_deepfake_video_extortion_demand,
  title = {Mother reportedly sought police help after a teen received a fabricated sexual video and extortion demand},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-reported-teen-deepfake-video-extortion-demand}
}

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