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Samsun couple report losing about 1.5 million lira after an AI investment video

A Samsun couple who collect scrap told Yeni Akit that they lost about 1.5 million Turkish lira after responding to an AI-created investment video on Facebook. The report describes screen sharing, access to accounts and cards, and additional borrowing. The couple filed a criminal complaint and described their distress. The first event date and the identity depicted in the video are unknown.

AI system
Unidentified video tool
Unknown
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
26 December 2025
Event location
Türkiye
What the AI did
Communicated with the person
Reported harm
Financial LossPsychological Distress
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Finance
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
3 claims: 3 reported. 2 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 2 people

AI system as recorded: Reported AI-generated investment video

What Happened

A Samsun couple who collect scrap told Yeni Akit that they lost about 1.5 million Turkish lira after responding to an AI-created investment video on Facebook. The report describes screen sharing, access to accounts and cards, and additional borrowing. The couple filed a criminal complaint and described their distress. The first event date and the identity depicted in the video are unknown.

Reported harm

Reported couple's loss of about 1.5 million lira and distress

What remains unknown

  • The first contact date, depicted identity and generation tool are unknown.
  • No police finding, prosecution outcome or recovery was inspected.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The Turkish article expressly attributes the triggering investment video to AI. A related headline referring to the president's voice is not evidence about this couple's video.

3 claims: 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported The Turkish report says the couple responded to an AI-created Facebook investment video.

Causal attribution. The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group.

Reported The couple reported about 1.5 million lira lost and described borrowing and distress.

Causal attribution. The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group.

Reported The report says the couple lodged a criminal complaint.

Causal attribution. The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group.

Sources

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

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Turkish body read with an English translation for review; no independent human translator or media forensics. Applies to s1.

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

The report places the couple and complaint in İlkadım, Samsun, Türkiye.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-30: An inspected source describes a concrete person-level adverse experience connected to the specified AI use. Statements remain attributed, private identities are minimized, and unknown dates, counts and technical details are preserved.

People reported harmed in this case

At least 2 people

0 AI participants · 2 other people harmed

Two spouses are described as losing their shared money. Relatives who loaned money are not separately counted without documented loss.

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). Samsun couple report losing about 1.5 million lira after an AI investment video. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-samsun-reported-ai-investment-video-couple-loss

BibTeX

@misc{2025_samsun_reported_ai_investment_video_couple_loss,
  title = {Samsun couple report losing about 1.5 million lira after an AI investment video},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-samsun-reported-ai-investment-video-couple-loss}
}

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