{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-01T07:40:02.202Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"impersonation-scam","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-singer-samuel-sarmiento-ai-cloned-voice-used-to-ask-for-funeral-money","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'No se vale que haya gente tan ruin que ande pidiendo dinero con mi voz, con IA, para el sepelio de mi madre. Ahorita me avisaron'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'No se dejen engañar, yo no ando pidiendo dinero'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'El intérprete denunció públicamente que personas malintencionadas están clonando su voz mediante Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para solicitar depósitos económicos a su nombre'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Sarmiento said in a video on his Instagram account that people were asking for money for his mother's funeral using his voice made with AI, and that he was not asking anyone for money.","causal_attribution":"His own account, relayed by all four outlets from one video; the fake videos were not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Horas después de informar sobre la muerte de su madre, el cantante recurrió nuevamente a sus redes sociales para advertir a sus seguidores sobre un presunto intento de fraude.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The warning came hours after he announced his mother's death on social media.","causal_attribution":"Timing as reported by Récord; the death is not connected to AI by any source."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'están circulando videos falsos en los que se utiliza su imagen e incluso una voz clonada mediante inteligencia artificial (deepfake), en los que supuestamente él pide dinero para cubrir los gastos del sepelio de su mamá'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"According to El Diario de Sonora, the fake videos used his image as well as a voice cloned with AI.","causal_attribution":"One outlet's paraphrase of his video; his quoted words mention only his voice."}],"effects":[{"label":"AI-cloned voice used in fake videos asking his followers for funeral money in his name during his bereavement","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.razon.com.mx/entretenimiento/2026/09/30/asi-despidio-a-su-mama-samuel-sarmiento-exvocalista-de-los-recoditos-alerta-a-fans-de-estafa-con-su-voz/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-01 (La Razón, 30 September 2026). Quotes his Instagram video. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"sarmiento-instagram-video"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.record.com.mx/historia/vuela-alto-madre-mia-samuel-sarmiento-anuncia-la-muerte-de-su-mama-y-alerta-por-fraude-2026093018264889429","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-01 (Récord, 30 September 2026); relays the same Instagram video. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"sarmiento-instagram-video"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://lamejor.com.mx/news/2026/9/30/samuel-sarmiento-desmiente-videos-de-extorsion-donde-presuntamente-pide-dinero-para-el-sepelio-de-su-mama-video-30078.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-01 (La Mejor, 30 September 2026); quotes the same video. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"sarmiento-instagram-video"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://eldiariodesonora.com.mx/espectaculos/2026/09/30/samuel-sarmiento-denuncia-extorsion-inteligencia-artificial-fallecimiento-su-madre.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-01 (El Diario de Sonora, 30 September 2026); paraphrases the same video. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"sarmiento-instagram-video"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether anyone sent money, and how much.","On which platforms the fake videos circulated and how many people received them.","Whether a police complaint or takedown request was made.","Which tool was used.","Whether the requests were videos, audio messages or both: La Razón and El Diario de Sonora say videos, Récord says messages or audios, and his quoted words mention only his voice."],"geography":{"basis":"The inspected bodies say the videos circulated on social networks and place him in the regional Mexican music scene; Récord calls him 'cantante sinaloense', an origin descriptor. None states where he lives or where the requests were received, so no country is inferred from origin, the genre, the outlets or the language.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: an AI-cloned voice impersonated the singer to solicit funeral money in his name, and he describes it in his own public video. He is a public figure and is named as all sources do; his mother is not named. One underlying account (his video) relayed by four outlets.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-01"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Sarmiento says in his Instagram video that people are asking for money 'con mi voz, con IA' (La Razón; La Mejor); the outlets describe a video made with AI (La Razón) and a voice cloned with AI (Récord; La Mejor; El Diario de Sonora). The fake videos were not inspected and no tool is named. The cloned voice impersonated him (depicted_or_impersonated).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Singer Samuel Sarmiento, formerly of Banda Los Recoditos, warns followers that fake videos using his voice cloned with AI are asking for money for his mother's funeral, hours after he announced her death in September 2026","summary":"Samuel Sarmiento, a former lead singer of Banda Los Recoditos, announced his mother's death on social media in late September 2026. Hours later he posted a video on his official Instagram account warning that people were circulating fake videos using his voice, cloned with AI, in which he appeared to ask for money to cover her funeral costs. 'No se vale que haya gente tan ruin que ande pidiendo dinero con mi voz, con IA, para el sepelio de mi madre', he said, adding that he was not asking anyone for money. La Razón, Récord, La Mejor and El Diario de Sonora relayed his video on 30 September 2026. No report says whether anyone paid, and no police complaint is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-09-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-30","aiSystem":"Fake videos using the singer's voice cloned with AI ('con mi voz, con IA', in his words) and, per El Diario de Sonora, his image, circulated on social networks to solicit money for his mother's funeral; the tool and operators are not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"During his bereavement, fake videos used his AI-cloned voice to ask his followers for funeral money in his name, and he had to post a public warning that he was not asking for money (his Instagram video, relayed by La Razón, Récord, La Mejor and El Diario de Sonora).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, Samuel Sarmiento (La Razón; Récord; La Mejor; El Diario de Sonora). Followers who received the request are not counted because no source reports anyone deceived. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.razon.com.mx/entretenimiento/2026/09/30/asi-despidio-a-su-mama-samuel-sarmiento-exvocalista-de-los-recoditos-alerta-a-fans-de-estafa-con-su-voz/","primarySourceLabel":"La Razón, 30 September 2026: Así despidió a su mamá Samuel Sarmiento, exvocalista de Los Recoditos; alerta a fans de estafa con su voz","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-01T03:12:27.821728+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-01T03:12:27.821728+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","voice-cloning","impersonation-scam","celebrity-deepfake","bereavement","musician","spanish-language"]}]}