{ "meta": { "exportedAt": "2026-09-22T18:27:41.373Z", "formatVersion": 2, "selection": { "q": "greece", "system": "", "harm": "", "context": "", "country": "", "role": "", "relation": "core", "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": "NOPE Incident Tracker", "url": "https://nope.net/incidents", "license": "CC BY 4.0" }, "incidents": [ { "id": "2026-attica-nea-ionia-ai-voice-clone-relative-fraud-ring", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Ιδιαίτερο χαρακτηριστικό της δράσης της εγκληματικής οργάνωσης αποτελούσε η χρήση εργαλείων τεχνητής νοημοσύνης (A.I.) για την κλωνοποίηση της φωνής συγγενικού προσώπου του υποψήφιου θύματος'; 'Κατά τη διάρκεια της σύντομης συνομιλίας αποκτούσαν δείγμα της φωνής του και, με τη χρήση εργαλείου τεχνητής νοημοσύνης, προέβαιναν στην κλωνοποίηση'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'επικοινωνούσαν τηλεφωνικά με τα υποψήφια θύματα και τα έπειθαν να προβούν σε συγκεκριμένες ενέργειες'; 'κυρίως για θέματα που αφορούν την εγκατάσταση οπτικής ίνας'; 'αναπαράγοντας μέσω της τεχνολογίας κλωνοποίησης τη φωνή του συγγενικού ή οικείου του προσώπου'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "The organisation used an AI tool to clone the voice of a relative of the intended victim, obtained from a pretext call, and played the cloned voice to the victim to confirm the fraudsters' instructions during fake fibre-installation or utility scenarios.", "causal_attribution": "Hellenic Police statement; single official chain." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'συνελήφθησαν -2- από τα μέλη της οργάνωσης, τη στιγμή που μόλις είχαν αφαιρέσει από οικία θύματος, τιμαλφή αξίας -30.000- ευρώ'; 'Πρόκειται για έναν 23χρονο και έναν 25χρονο'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'συνελήφθησαν δύο από τα μέλη της οργάνωσης, τη στιγμή που μόλις είχαν αφαιρέσει από οικία θύματος, τιμαλφή αξίας 30.000 ευρώ'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "Two members aged 23 and 25 were arrested in Nea Ionia, Attica, immediately after removing valuables worth €30,000 from a victim's home.", "causal_attribution": "Police account of the arrest; the loss is attributed to the ring." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Μέχρι στιγμής έχει πιστοποιηθεί η εμπλοκή των μελών της οργάνωσης σε επιπλέον -5- περιπτώσεις με παρόμοια μεθοδολογία'; 'με όφελος άνω των -120.000- ευρώ, περιλαμβάνονται ακόμη -4- άτομα'; 'το παράνομο περιουσιακό όφελος από τη δράση της εγκληματικής οργάνωσης ξεπερνά το -1.000.000- ευρώ'; 'τουλάχιστον από τις αρχές Ιουλίου 2026'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Μέχρι στιγμής έχουν διακριβωθεί ακόμη πέντε περιπτώσεις με παρόμοια μεθοδολογία'; 'Το παράνομο περιουσιακό όφελος που αποδίδεται στη δράση της ομάδας εκτιμάται ότι ξεπερνά το 1 εκατομμύριο ευρώ'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "Police have confirmed the group's involvement in at least five further cases with the same method, document proceeds above €120,000 in the case file, which names four further people, and estimate total illicit gains above €1 million; the group operated since at least early July 2026.", "causal_attribution": "Police figures; the €1 million is an estimate and is not used as a loss count." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Οι συλληφθέντες οδηγήθηκαν στον αρμόδιο Εισαγγελέα και παραπέμφθηκαν στον Ανακριτή'; 'κατασχέθηκαν ένα όχημα Δημόσιας Χρήσης και -2- συσκευές κινητής τηλεφωνίας'; 'κλοπή οχήματος που τελέστηκε στις 14/9/2026'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The two arrested were brought before the prosecutor and referred to an investigating judge; a taxi and two mobile phones were seized and a vehicle stolen on 14 September 2026 was attributed to the group.", "causal_attribution": "Police statement." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "a victim's valuables worth €30,000 were taken after calls in which a cloned relative's voice confirmed the fraudsters' instructions; police confirm at least five further victims", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://tvstar.gr/2026/09/18/klonopoious", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "el", "translation_note": "Read in Greek on 2026-09-19; the second half of the article reproduces the Hellenic Police announcement verbatim. Quotations translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "hellenic-police-release" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.in.gr/2026/09/18/greece/egklimatiki-organosi-eksapatouse-klonopoiontas-fones-syggenikon-prosopon-ton-thymaton-leia-ano-tou-1-ekat-eyro/", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "el", "translation_note": "Read in Greek on 2026-09-19; carries the police announcement text ('Σύμφωνα με την ΕΛ.ΑΣ.').", "independence_group": "hellenic-police-release" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://indicator.gr/i-nea-ai-apati-mama-eimai-ego-klonopoioyn", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "el", "translation_note": "Read in Greek on 2026-09-19; a rewritten account of the same police announcement ('σύμφωνα με τις πληροφορίες', 'σύμφωνα με την ΕΛ.ΑΣ.'), grouped with it.", "independence_group": "hellenic-police-release" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "finance", "everyday_life" ], "unknowns": [ "The AI voice-cloning tool is not identified and no recording of a cloned call has been published.", "The number of people harmed in the five further cases, their losses, and whether any money was recovered are not stated.", "The date of the arrests is not given (the release is dated 18 September 2026).", "The Hellenic Police release page itself could not be fetched (astynomia.gr 403); its text is taken from full reproductions.", "Names and ages of the victims and of the cloned relatives are not published." ], "geography": { "basis": "Arrests in Nea Ionia, Attica, at a victim's home; the police describe an Attica-based operation; the arrested were brought before the competent prosecutor and referred to an investigating judge (Hellenic Police release as reproduced by tvstar.gr and in.gr).", "court_countries": [ "GR" ], "event_countries": [ "GR" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "GR" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an impersonation-fraud series with a police-documented loss to an identified (unnamed) victim and at least five further confirmed victims, where the police describe AI voice cloning as the method of persuasion. Three Greek reports read, all relaying one Hellenic Police release; claims recorded as reported. Victims and relatives unnamed; suspects identified only by age.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-19" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The Hellenic Police announcement states that the organisation used artificial-intelligence tools to clone the voice of a relative of the intended victim from a sample obtained in a pretext call, and played the cloned voice to the victim to confirm the fraudsters' instructions. The cloned voice impersonated the relative and was used to speak to the victim, which is why both relations are recorded. The tool is not identified and no recording has been published; all inspected accounts relay the police release.", "status": "reported" }, "person_relations": [ "communicated_with", "depicted_or_impersonated" ] }, "name": "Attica, Greece: a fraud ring cloned relatives' voices with AI to 'confirm' fake fibre-installation instructions; two collectors arrested in Nea Ionia with €30,000 of a victim's valuables, at least six cases since July 2026", "summary": "On 18 September 2026 the Hellenic Police announced that its Organised Crime Directorate had dismantled a criminal organisation, active since at least early July 2026, whose members defrauded and robbed residents of Attica by posing on the phone as staff of the electricity distributor ΔΕΔΔΗΕ, mobile operators or fibre-optic installers. When a target hesitated, the callers asked for a relative's phone number, called that relative under a mobile-operator pretext to obtain a voice sample, cloned the voice with an AI tool and then played the cloned voice to the target to 'confirm' the instructions. Two men aged 23 and 25, described as the ring's 'collectors', were arrested in Nea Ionia just after removing valuables worth €30,000 from a victim's home; the case file, covering criminal organisation, fraud and aggravated theft with proceeds above €120,000, names four more people. Police have so far confirmed at least five further cases with the same method and estimate the group's total proceeds above €1 million. The two arrested were brought before the prosecutor and referred to an investigating judge.", "incidentDate": "2026-07-01", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "month", "exposurePattern": "single_interaction", "reportedDate": "2026-09-18", "aiSystem": "AI voice-cloning tool (not identified by police)", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A victim lost valuables worth €30,000 to collectors who arrived after calls in which a cloned relative's voice confirmed the fraudsters' instructions; police confirm at least five further victims of the same method and document proceeds above €120,000. The police attribute the persuasion to AI voice cloning; the losses are attributed to the ring.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "partial", "affectedCountEvidence": "The police release describes one victim from whose home valuables worth €30,000 had just been removed when the arrests took place, and 'at least five further cases with a similar methodology' without saying how many people each involved. One counted person plus additional unquantified victims (partial). The €120,000 in the case file and the estimated €1 million in proceeds are not person counts.", "victimAgeRange": "unknown", "jurisdiction": "GR", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "criminal_charges", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://tvstar.gr/2026/09/18/klonopoious", "primarySourceLabel": "tvstar.gr (STAR Κεντρικής Ελλάδας), 18 September 2026: Κλωνοποιούσαν με Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη τις φωνές συγγενών για να πείθουν τα θύματά τους (reproduces the Hellenic Police release in full)", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-19T03:12:18.18414+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "voice-cloning", "impersonation", "phone-fraud", "greece", "attica", "police-operation", "financial-loss", "organised-crime" ] } ] }