{ "meta": { "exportedAt": "2026-09-22T16:48:56.243Z", "formatVersion": 2, "selection": { "q": "impersonation", "system": "", "harm": "", "context": "", "country": "", "role": "", "relation": "", "evidence": "", "year": "2024", "response": "", "severity": "", "verification": "", "view": "incidents", "sort": "added" }, "totalIncidents": 3, "coverage": { "cases": 3, "countries": 2, "languages": 2, "unknownLocation": 0, "locationPending": 0, "unknownLanguage": 0, "unknownDate": 0, "lawsuits": 0, "regulatory": 2, "minors": 1, "coreRelations": 1, "contextualRelations": 0, "mixedRelations": 0, "unknownRelations": 2, "relationPending": 1, "relationUnknown": 1 }, "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": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-claim-1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Incident narrative, payment paragraphs.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-source-1" } ], "assertion": "Reporting says a seller transferred INR 100,000, including INR 40,000 borrowed from nearby traders.", "causal_attribution": "Reported attribution remains unestablished independently." }, { "id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-claim-2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Police-investigation paragraph and closing police quotation.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-source-1" } ], "assertion": "Reporting says police registered a case and began investigating.", "causal_attribution": "Reported proceeding; this does not establish AI causation." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "money_transferred", "claim_id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-claim-1", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-source-1", "url": "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/kanpur/cheated-for-the-first-time-by-deepfake-ai-in-kanpur-told-uncle-in-nephews-voice-save-me-by-any-means-2024-04-10", "kind": "local_reporting", "access": "read", "language": "hi", "translation_note": "Model read the original language. No independent bilingual human review.", "independence_group": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-account" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "finance" ], "unknowns": [ "No recording, forensic report, bank proof or police record inspected.", "Final loss after any recovery is unknown.", "The caller’s allegation about a relative is a scam claim, not adopted as a true offence.", "The event year follows the dated article context; the narrative explicitly gives 27 March." ], "geography": { "basis": "Narrative explicitly locates the seller and episode in Kanpur, India.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "IN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "IN" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "A concrete adverse account with an inspected source, explicit attribution and uncertainty. Duplicate and identity review completed.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "Closing police quotation gives only a preliminary AI attribution.", "status": "suspected" }, "person_relations": [ "unknown" ] }, "name": "Kanpur seller reportedly transfers money after alleged AI voice impersonation", "summary": "Hindi reporting describes a seller transferring INR 100,000 after an impersonation call. A quoted police assessment treats AI involvement as preliminary. The transfers and AI attribution remain independently unverified.", "incidentDate": "2024-03-27", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2024-04-10", "aiSystem": "Unspecified voice-generation system", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "unverified", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A seller reportedly transferred INR 100,000.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One seller is described as harmed; other people are not counted.", "victimAgeRange": "unknown", "outcomeType": "investigation_opened", "outcomeStatus": "unknown", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/kanpur/cheated-for-the-first-time-by-deepfake-ai-in-kanpur-told-uncle-in-nephews-voice-save-me-by-any-means-2024-04-10", "primarySourceLabel": "Amar Ujala, Hindi reporting", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-15T03:07:27.856477+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "finance", "impersonation" ] }, { "id": "2024-aligarh-alleged-voice-cloning-fraud", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-claim-1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Article body, incident narrative and closing police statement", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-source" } ], "assertion": "Local reporting says a parent transferred INR 400,000 after a call claiming his son was in police trouble. The report says police stopped one INR 86,000 transaction.", "causal_attribution": "Attributed in the account; independent causation has not been established." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "money_transferred", "claim_id": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-claim-1", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-source", "url": "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/aligarh/cheated-four-lakhs-by-creating-son-voice-with-ai-2024-02-01", "kind": "local_reporting", "access": "read", "language": "hi", "translation_note": "Model read the original language. No separate bilingual human review.", "independence_group": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-account" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "finance", "fraud" ], "unknowns": [ "AI technique is attributed to a police statement in reporting; no recording or forensic evidence read.", "Final net loss and any later recovery are unknown.", "The son's alleged offence was part of the scam narrative, not an allegation adopted by this dossier." ], "geography": { "basis": "Report explicitly places the parent and incident in Aligarh, India.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "IN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "IN" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Source body re-read, event boundary and duplicates checked, identity details minimized, and claim uncertainty stated.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "AI use is attributed in the source; no independent technical verification performed.", "status": "reported" } }, "name": "Aligarh parent reportedly transfers money after an alleged AI voice-impersonation call", "summary": "Hindi reporting describes a parent in Aligarh transferring INR 400,000 after callers impersonated police and used a voice presented as his son’s. Police reportedly stopped INR 86,000. The AI attribution and transfers have not been independently verified here; final net loss is unknown.", "incidentDate": "2024-01-30", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2024-02-02", "aiSystem": "Unspecified voice-generation system", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "unverified", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Local reporting says a parent transferred INR 400,000 after a call claiming his son was in police trouble. The report says police stopped one INR 86,000 transaction.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One person is described as harmed in this account; wider affected populations are not counted.", "victimAgeRange": "unknown", "outcomeStatus": "unknown", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/aligarh/cheated-four-lakhs-by-creating-son-voice-with-ai-2024-02-01", "primarySourceLabel": "Amar Ujala, Hindi reporting", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-15T01:18:49.295668+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "finance", "fraud" ] }, { "id": "2025-valencia-spain-deepfake-school", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'began investigating in December last year after a female student reported the creation of a social media account in her name that featured an AI-generated video'; '\"All these photos had been modified from the originals, which had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked\"'; 'a webpage devoted to advertising the images for commercial purposes'; 'After 15 other minors came forward with similar complaints'; 'a 17-year-old boy was being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "From December 2024 a girl in the Ribera Alta area reported fake accounts in her name with an AI-generated video and AI-manipulated nude photos of minors, plus a webpage advertising the images commercially; 15 other minors complained; the Guardia Civil traced the accounts to a 17-year-old schoolmate, now investigated for corrupting minors under a Valencia youth court.", "causal_attribution": "Guardia Civil statement as reported by the Guardian; single chain." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "16 minors depicted in AI-generated nude images and videos on fake accounts, one impersonated by name, images advertised for sale", "claim_id": "c1", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/27/spanish-teenager-investigated-ai-generated-nude-videos", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-18 (The Guardian, 27 July 2025). Reports and quotes the Guardia Civil's statement of 27 July 2025; the Spanish original of the statement was not read.", "independence_group": "guardian" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "education", "privacy", "justice" ], "unknowns": [ "The outcome of the youth-court proceeding is not known.", "The AI tools and the platforms hosting the accounts are not named.", "Whether any images were actually sold is not stated." ], "geography": { "basis": "Guardia Civil officers in the Ribera Alta area of Valencia province investigated; the victims are the suspect's schoolmates there; a youth court in Valencia oversees the case (Guardian).", "court_countries": [ "ES" ], "event_countries": [ "ES" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "ES" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case involving identified (unnamed) depicted minors, an impersonation and a police investigation under a youth court. One chain read; claims recorded as reported. Original ID and first-publication timestamp preserved; incident date corrected to the first complaint.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-18" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The Guardia Civil statement, as quoted by the Guardian, describes AI-generated videos and AI-modified photos and a website advertising AI image-modification services; no forensic detail is published. The artifacts depicted the minors and impersonated one girl by name.", "status": "reported" }, "person_relations": [ "depicted_or_impersonated" ] }, "name": "Ribera Alta, Valencia: a 17-year-old was investigated for making AI-generated nude images and videos of 16 schoolmates, impersonating a girl on fake accounts and advertising the images for sale", "summary": "In December 2024 a female student in the Ribera Alta area of Valencia province reported to the Guardia Civil that a social-media account had been created in her name featuring an AI-generated video, and later a second account in her name, other accounts showing AI-generated nude videos, and a webpage advertising the images for commercial purposes; the Guardia Civil said the photos, all of minors, had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked. After 15 other minors came forward with similar complaints, officers traced IP addresses and account emails to the home of a 17-year-old schoolmate, who is being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors under a Valencia youth court. The Guardia Civil announced the investigation on 27 July 2025.", "incidentDate": "2024-12-01", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "month", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2025-07-27", "aiSystem": "AI image and video manipulation tools (not named; police examined a website advertising AI image-modification services)", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "exploitation_or_abuse", "psychological_distress", "reputational_harm" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Sixteen minors were depicted in AI-generated nude images and videos published on fake accounts, with one girl also impersonated by name, and the images were advertised for sale; a schoolmate is under youth-court investigation.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 16, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One complainant plus 15 other minors who came forward with similar complaints (Guardian, quoting the Guardia Civil): exact count of 16 depicted minors.", "victimAgeRange": "minor", "jurisdiction": "ES", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "investigation_opened", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/27/spanish-teenager-investigated-ai-generated-nude-videos", "primarySourceLabel": "The Guardian, 27 July 2025: Spanish teenager investigated over AI-generated nude videos of 16 schoolmates (Guardia Civil statement)", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-03-09T05:45:25.741735+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "deepfake", "ai-generated-imagery", "minors", "school", "impersonation", "spain", "valencia", "guardia-civil", "youth-court", "depicted" ] } ] }