{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-08T07:41:20.531Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"hillsborough","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2025","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":"2025-hillsborough-reported-daughter-voice-impersonation-bond-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 39: paragraph about voice impersonation belief.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 49: paragraph about voice impersonation belief.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The woman said she received a call from someone sounding like her daughter and the family believes the voice was AI-generated from social media material.","causal_attribution":"One WFLA family interview syndicated by Yahoo. The alleged voice cloning is the family's belief. Reported scam narratives of injury and death were false demands and are not actual harm outcomes."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 40: paragraph about cash handover.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 42: paragraph about cash handover.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 52: paragraph about cash handover.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She said she withdrew $15,000, handed it to a driver and lost money she and her retired husband held as savings.","causal_attribution":"One WFLA family interview syndicated by Yahoo. The alleged voice cloning is the family's belief. Reported scam narratives of injury and death were false demands and are not actual harm outcomes."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 33: paragraph about shared retirement savings.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 47: paragraph about shared retirement savings.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The WFLA account says the call began the previous Wednesday and the family stopped a further payment demand after reaching the real daughter.","causal_attribution":"One WFLA family interview syndicated by Yahoo. The alleged voice cloning is the family's belief. Reported scam narratives of injury and death were false demands and are not actual harm outcomes."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported loss of $15,000 in shared retirement savings","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillsborough-woman-conned-15k-ai-201429833.html","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wfla-family-interview"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","relationships"],"unknowns":["The suspected voice-cloning method has not been technically confirmed.","Whether any money was recovered or anyone was charged is unknown."],"geography":{"basis":"The report places the woman and cash handover at her home in Dover, Hillsborough County, Florida.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"A concrete family interview describes a cash loss and case-specific suspicion of AI voice impersonation. AI involvement is marked suspected. The false emergency narrative is not treated as an actual injury or death.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The family believes social media videos were used to generate a replica of the daughter's voice. The source supplies no forensic or police confirmation of the generation method.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Florida woman reports $15,000 loss after a call she believed used her daughter's cloned voice","summary":"A Hillsborough County woman told WFLA that she handed over $15,000 after a caller sounded like her daughter and another person claimed the daughter needed bond money. The report dates the call to the preceding Wednesday, 9 July 2025. The family believes the voice had been generated from social media videos with AI. A later demand was stopped when the family reached the real daughter. The woman said the money was savings she shared with her retired husband. Technical confirmation of voice cloning is unavailable.","incidentDate":"2025-07-09","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-07-15","aiSystem":"Suspected AI-generated voice impersonation","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool (suspected)","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The woman reported handing over $15,000 of the retired couple's shared savings. She said the family stopped a further demand after reaching the real daughter.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The woman expressly describes the lost money as savings belonging to herself and her retired husband. Two holders of the shared savings are counted. The daughter and grandson are not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillsborough-woman-conned-15k-ai-201429833.html","primarySourceLabel":"WFLA report syndicated by Yahoo, 15 July 2025, family account of bond scam","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:10:36.689861+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:24:47.29504+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]}]}