{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-19T07:54:59.881Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"cybertrading","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"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-rhein-sieg-district-police-say-man-lost-small-five-figure-sum-after-falling-for-deep-fake-crypto-investment-video","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'fiel auf ein Deep-Fake-Video herein und investierte mehrere tausend Euro in ein fragwürdiges Finanzprodukt.' ... 'Im April stieß er zufällig im Internet auf das Video und wurde neugierig.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Rhein-Sieg district police say a man fell for a deep-fake video and invested in a dubious financial product, having come across the video by chance on the internet in April.","causal_attribution":"The police call the video a deep fake in their release on this case; they do not disclose how they established this."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Er eröffnete ein Konto, überwies Geld - und erlebte das böse Erwachen, als er nach angeblich rekordverdächtigen Gewinnen in Kryptowährungen sein Geld zurückforderte. Alles war gefälscht, sein kleiner fünfstelliger Betrag verloren.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The police say he opened an account and transferred money, and when he asked for it back after supposedly record gains in cryptocurrencies, everything was fake and his small five-figure sum was lost.","causal_attribution":"Loss as reported by the police; the release gives both several thousand euros and a small five-figure sum."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Mit Hilfe von KI verfälschen Betrüger Bild und Ton prominenter Persönlichkeiten'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The police describe the scheme as cybertrading fraud in which fraudsters use AI to falsify the image and voice of prominent people in videos that appear to promote a crypto investment strategy on television.","causal_attribution":"Police description of the method in general terms; it does not identify the person in the man's video."}],"effects":[{"label":"man lost a small five-figure sum after a deep-fake investment video","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/65853/6298968","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read in German by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-19 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Rhein-Sieg district police press release on presseportal.de, 22 June 2026; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"rhein-sieg-police-22-jun-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance"],"unknowns":["Which person the deep-fake video depicted; the names in the release are general examples.","How the police established that the video was a deep fake, and which tool was used.","The exact amount lost: the release gives several thousand euros and a small five-figure sum."],"geography":{"basis":"The police describe the man as from a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, Germany, so the affected person's country is Germany. He found the video online and the release does not say where he was when he opened the account or paid, so no event country is recorded. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["DE"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the Rhein-Sieg district police say a man was deceived by a deep-fake video he found online in April 2026 into an investment that cost him a small five-figure sum. The technical basis of the police attribution and the person depicted are undisclosed. No name, age or municipality appears in the public record.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Rhein-Sieg district police say in their release on this case that the man fell for a deep-fake video that he found online in April and that led him to open an account and transfer money, and they describe the scheme as one in which fraudsters use AI to falsify the image and voice of prominent people promoting a crypto investment. The generated impersonation in the video was what deceived him, according to the police. The police do not say whom the video showed, how they established that it was a deep fake, or which tool was used.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Rhein-Sieg district police say a man lost a small five-figure sum after falling for a deep-fake video promoting a crypto investment","summary":"The Rhein-Sieg district police reported on 22 June 2026 that a man from a municipality in the district fell for a deep-fake video and invested in a dubious financial product. In April he came across the video by chance on the internet, opened an account and transferred money; when he asked for his money back after supposedly record gains in cryptocurrencies, everything turned out to be fake and, the police say, his small five-figure sum was lost. The police describe the scheme as cybertrading fraud in which fraudsters use AI to falsify the image and voice of prominent people; they do not say whom his video showed.","incidentDate":"2026-04-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-06-22","aiSystem":"A video that the Rhein-Sieg district police call a deep-fake video, of the kind in which fraudsters use AI to falsify the image and voice of prominent people (tool and depicted person not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Rhein-Sieg district police, a man who came across a deep-fake video online in April 2026 opened an account with a dubious crypto investment product and lost what the police call a small five-figure sum.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One man who lost his money (police release). The prominent people named in the release are general examples, not people reported as depicted in his video.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"DE","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/65853/6298968","primarySourceLabel":"Kreispolizeibehörde Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (presseportal), 22 June 2026: Anlagebetrug durch Deep-Fake-Videos","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-19T03:25:56.925805+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T03:25:56.925805+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["investment_fraud","deepfake_video","cybertrading","crypto","germany"]}]}