{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-09-30T05:35:34.609Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"financing","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":1,"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-serra-es-personal-trainer-facial-biometrics-fraudulent-vehicle-financing","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Segundo a Polícia Civil, o personal foi convencido a fazer um reconhecimento facial para supostamente transferir a titularidade do automóvel. A vítima só descobriu que o carro não pertencia ao suspeito semanas após a negociação.'; 'Com o valor da motocicleta e o financiamento, o prejuízo total causado passou de R$ 100 mil.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'teria dito à vítima que seria necessário realizar um procedimento de reconhecimento facial para transferir a titularidade do automóvel. A biometria teria sido utilizada posteriormente para a contratação fraudulenta de um financiamento de veículo em nome da vítima.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'A biometria, porém, teria sido usada posteriormente para contratar um financiamento de veículo em nome do personal trainer, sem autorização dele.'; 'Somando o valor da motocicleta e do financiamento feito de forma fraudulenta, o prejuízo ultrapassou R$ 100 mil, segundo a investigação.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"According to the Espírito Santo Civil Police, the suspect offered a car in exchange for the personal trainer's motorcycle, persuaded him during the negotiation to complete a facial-recognition procedure on the pretext that it was needed to transfer the car's ownership, and later used the biometric to contract a vehicle financing in the victim's name without authorisation; weeks later the victim found the car was a rental; the combined loss exceeded R$100,000.","causal_attribution":"Police account (one chain, delegado Fabiano Alves) as reported by four outlets; the victim's own account is relayed only through the police."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Um homem foi preso por aplicar um golpe de mais de R$ 100 mil em um personal trainer na Serra, na Grande Vitória, na terça-feira (22).'; 'O preso foi encaminhado ao Centro de Triagem no Complexo Penitenciário Rodrigo Figueiredo da Rosa. Ele permanece à disposição da Justiça.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'ocorreu na última terça-feira (22) no cumprimento a um mandado judicial.'; 'Em julho do ano passado, ele foi preso pela Defa em São Paulo'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'foi preso na terça-feira (22). As informações, divulgadas pela Polícia Civil, foram publicadas pelo portal A Gazeta.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A 27-year-old suspect was taken into preventive detention in Serra on 22 September 2026 under a judicial warrant in a Defa estelionato investigation, taken to the Centro de Triagem of the Rodrigo Figueiredo da Rosa complex, and remains at the disposal of the courts; police say he had been detained in São Paulo in July 2025 in a 'love scam' case.","causal_attribution":"Police statement as reported; A Tribuna gives the arrest as 'terça-feira (24)', an evident dating error against the other reports."}],"effects":[{"label":"a vehicle financing was contracted in the victim's name after his facial biometric was captured on a false pretext, adding to the loss of his motorcycle; combined loss above R$100,000","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://g1.globo.com/es/espirito-santo/noticia/2026/09/24/golpista-troca-carro-alugado-por-moto-e-deixa-personal-trainer-com-divida-de-r-100-mil-na-serra.ghtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt-BR","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-26 (G1 Espírito Santo, 24 September 2026; Portuguese). Police account with the delegado's quotes. Reviewer translation; no human translator.","independence_group":"pces-defa-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://extra.globo.com/blogs/radar-brasil/post/2026/09/suspeito-de-estelionato-e-preso-em-golpe-com-fraude-de-reconhecimento-facial-para-financiamento-de-carro-em-es.ghtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt-BR","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-26 (Extra, Radar Brasil blog, 25 September 2026; Portuguese). Same police statement; notes the victim's identity was not disclosed. Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pces-defa-statement"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.correio24horas.com.br/brasil/personal-trainer-troca-moto-por-carro-alugado-e-golpista-usa-biometria-facial-da-vitima-para-financiar-r-100-mil-0926","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt-BR","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-26 (Correio, Salvador, 25 September 2026; Portuguese). Relays the police information as published by A Gazeta (A Gazeta itself returned 403). Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pces-defa-statement"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://eshoje.com.br/seguranca/policia/2026/09/personal-trainer-r-100-mil/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt-BR","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-26 (ES Hoje, 24 September 2026; Portuguese). Same police statement. Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pces-defa-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use","others_use"],"contexts":["finance","privacy"],"unknowns":["When the exchange and the financing took place ('weeks' before the arrest; no dates given).","Which financing provider and which facial-recognition or identity-verification system was involved, and how a biometric captured for one purpose came to authorise a loan (the bodies say only that it was used).","Whether the financing has been cancelled or the victim remains liable; the exact loss.","The suspect's account and any charges filed.","The victim's age and residence beyond Serra."],"geography":{"basis":"The negotiation, the victim and the arrest are placed in Serra, Espírito Santo (G1 'na Serra, na Grande Vitória'; Extra 'no município de Serra, no Espírito Santo'); the arrest was under a judicial warrant and the suspect is at the disposal of the courts in Espírito Santo.","court_countries":["BR"],"event_countries":["BR"],"affected_person_countries":["BR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a contextual case: the state Civil Police say a facial-recognition biometric captured from the victim on a false pretext was used to contract a vehicle financing in his name, a consequential identity decision about a person; four outlets carry the one police chain. How the biometric was used is not reported and is recorded as unknown. The victim is unnamed and the suspect is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-26"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Civil Police say the victim's facial-recognition biometric, captured during the negotiation on the pretext of a title transfer, was later used to contract the financing in his name (delegado Fabiano Alves via G1, Extra, Correio, ES Hoje). The bodies do not say how the biometric was used, for example whether a financing provider's automated face-verification check accepted it; the made_decision_about relation rests on that reading of a biometric identity check and is recorded with this caveat.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_decision_about"]},"name":"Serra, Espírito Santo: a personal trainer who swapped his motorcycle for what turned out to be a rented car was told to complete a facial-recognition check 'to transfer the car's title'; police say the biometric was then used to contract a vehicle financing in his name, leaving a loss above R$100,000 (suspect arrested 22 September 2026)","summary":"The Espírito Santo Civil Police (Defa, the fraud and forgery unit) said a 27-year-old man was arrested on a warrant in Serra on 22 September 2026, suspected of defrauding a personal trainer of more than R$100,000. According to the police, the suspect offered a car in exchange for the victim's motorcycle; during the negotiation he persuaded the victim to perform a facial-recognition procedure, saying it was needed to transfer the car's ownership; the biometric was later used to contract a vehicle financing in the victim's name without his authorisation, and weeks after the exchange the victim discovered that the car he had received did not belong to the suspect and was a rental. The loss, combining the motorcycle and the fraudulently contracted financing, exceeded R$100,000. The suspect, who police say had been arrested in São Paulo in July 2025 in a 'love scam' case, was taken to the Centro de Triagem at the Rodrigo Figueiredo da Rosa prison complex and remains at the disposal of the courts. The financing provider and the facial-recognition system are not identified, and the reports do not say how the captured biometric was used to pass the financing.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-24","aiSystem":"Facial-recognition (biometric) capture that the police say was later used to contract a vehicle financing in the victim's name; the financing provider, the verification system and the way the biometric was used are not reported","aiProduct":"Unidentified facial recognition system","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The victim lost his motorcycle to a rental-car swap and, according to the police, was left with a vehicle financing contracted in his name through his own facial biometric, for a combined loss above R$100,000 (PCES statement via G1, Extra, Correio and ES Hoje).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One victim, the personal trainer (police statement via G1, Extra, Correio, ES Hoje). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"BR-ES","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://g1.globo.com/es/espirito-santo/noticia/2026/09/24/golpista-troca-carro-alugado-por-moto-e-deixa-personal-trainer-com-divida-de-r-100-mil-na-serra.ghtml","primarySourceLabel":"G1 Espírito Santo, 24 September 2026: golpista troca carro alugado por moto e deixa personal trainer com dívida de R$ 100 mil na Serra","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-26T04:07:12.519263+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:53.010934+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["facial-recognition","biometrics","identity-fraud","financing","scam","brazil","espirito-santo","made-decision-about"]}]}