{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T05:57:07.071Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"cryptocurrency-atm","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-alba-county-romania-police-say-ai-made-documents-and-photos-won-older-womans-trust-in-fake-stock-investment-fraud","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'i-au prezentat documente și fotografii create cu ajutorul inteligenței artificiale, potrivit polițiștilor'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Cercetările efectuate au relevat faptul că femeia ar fi fost indusă în eroare, încrederea acesteia fiind câștigată prin prezentarea unor documente și fotografii create cu ajutorul inteligenței artificiale.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the police, the investigation found that the woman had allegedly been misled and her trust won by being shown documents and photographs created with the help of artificial intelligence.","causal_attribution":"The police attribution, relayed by both outlets from one release; its technical basis is not disclosed."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'prima operațiune ar fi avut loc pe 4 septembrie, când femeia ar fi fost convinsă să transfere 46.600 de lei în contul personal al suspectului'; 'În perioada 26 septembrie - 13 octombrie, bărbatul s-ar fi deplasat de mai multe ori'; 'ar fi ridicat în total 207.000 de lei'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'sub pretextul că o vor ajuta să obțină venituri din investiții la bursă'; '207.000 de lei, pe care ar fi introdus-o într-un ATM dedicat achiziționării criptomonedelor'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Under the pretext of stock-market investment income, the woman transferred 46,600 lei to the man's account on 4 September 2026, and between 26 September and 13 October he collected another 207,000 lei that he fed into a cryptocurrency ATM.","causal_attribution":"Police findings in conditional form, relayed by both outlets from one release."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'La data de 21 octombrie 2026, polițiștii Serviciului de Investigații Criminale Alba au luat măsura reținerii, pentru 24 de ore'; 'cercetările sunt continuate sub aspectul săvârșirii infracțiunii de înșelăciunea'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 21 October 2026 police caught the man in the act as he came to collect more money and detained him for 24 hours on suspicion of complicity in fraud; the investigation continues.","causal_attribution":"The police account of the detention; a detention is not a finding of guilt."}],"effects":[{"label":"about 253,600 lei lost to a fake stock-investment scheme","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/o-femeie-din-alba-a-fost-inselata-cu-peste-250-000-de-lei-printr-o-falsa-investitie-la-bursa-escrocii-au-folosit-imagini-create-cu-ai-4004243","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ro","translation_note":"Read in full in the original Romanian (HTML body and stripped text). Passages are quoted in Romanian; the English renderings are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"ipj-alba-police-release-21-22-oct-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://alba24.ro/video-documente-si-fotografii-create-cu-ai-folosite-intr-o-inselaciune-la-blaj-prejudiciu-urias-pentru-o-femeie-de-68-de-ani-1163888.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ro","translation_note":"Read in full in the original Romanian (HTML body and stripped text). Passages are quoted in Romanian; the English renderings are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"ipj-alba-police-release-21-22-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance"],"unknowns":["What the AI-made documents and photographs showed and how the police established that AI made them.","Who ran the scheme and how they first contacted the woman.","Whether any money has been recovered and whether the detained man is charged."],"geography":{"basis":"The money was handed over and collected in a town in Alba county, Romania, and the Alba county police and the local prosecutor investigate, as both reports state. The woman's nationality is not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["RO"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete fraud in which the investigating police attribute the victim's deception to AI-made documents and photographs and report a loss of about 253,600 lei. The facts rest on one police release relayed by two outlets; the technical basis of the AI finding is undisclosed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Alba county police say their investigation found that the woman had allegedly been misled and her trust won by being shown documents and photographs created with the help of AI, and that she then handed over the money. The police are the investigating party; the technical basis of their finding and the content of the material are not disclosed.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Romanian police say AI-made documents and photos won an older woman's trust in a fake stock-investment scheme that cost her over 250,000 lei","summary":"Police in Alba county, Romania, said on 22 October 2026 that an older woman had been persuaded, under the pretext of earning money from stock-market investments, to hand over about 253,600 lei between 4 September and 13 October 2026. According to the police, their investigation found that she had allegedly been misled and her trust won by being shown documents and photographs created with artificial intelligence. A man suspected of collecting the money and feeding it into a cryptocurrency ATM, for a commission of 3,000 lei per operation, was caught in the act on 21 October while coming to collect more and was detained for 24 hours on suspicion of complicity in fraud. The people behind the scheme are unidentified and the investigation continues under the local prosecutor's office. The police do not say what the documents and photographs showed or how they established that AI made them.","incidentDate":"2026-09-04","incidentEndDate":"2026-10-13","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-22","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI tools with which documents and photographs shown to the woman were created, according to the investigation of the Alba county police (IPJ Alba) as relayed by Digi24 and Alba24","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and document tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Alba county police, a woman lost about 253,600 lei between 4 September and 13 October 2026 after fraudsters won her trust with documents and photographs that the police investigation found were made with AI.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the woman the police describe as defrauded. She did not use the AI tools herself.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"RO","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/o-femeie-din-alba-a-fost-inselata-cu-peste-250-000-de-lei-printr-o-falsa-investitie-la-bursa-escrocii-au-folosit-imagini-create-cu-ai-4004243","primarySourceLabel":"Digi24, 22 October 2026: woman in Alba cheated of over 250,000 lei in a fake stock investment; fraudsters used AI-made images","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:18:01.515483+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:18:01.515483+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["investment-fraud","ai-generated-documents","older-victim","cryptocurrency-atm","romania","police-release"]}]}