{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-02T17:24:32.934Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"keraniganj","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":2,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":0,"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":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-keraniganj-italy-based-expatriate-ai-female-soldier-persona-romance-fraud-pbi-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'সামাজিক যোগাযোগমাধ্যম ফেসবুকে ‘লেডি সোলজার/নারী যোদ্ধা’ নামের একটি পেজের মাধ্যমে এআই প্রযুক্তি দিয়ে তৈরি সেনাপোশাক পরা নারী সদস্যের আকর্ষণীয় ছবি ও ভিডিও পোস্ট করা হতো।'; 'ভুক্তভোগী ইতালি প্রবাসী তরুণ'; 'বাড়ি কেরানীগঞ্জে'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'কৃত্রিম বুদ্ধিমত্তা (এআই) ব্যবহার করে বাংলাদেশ সেনাবাহিনীর নারী সদস্যের পোশাক পরা ছবি ও ভিডিও তৈরি করে সামাজিক যোগাযোগমাধ্যমে ব্যবহার করে এক ইতালি প্রবাসীর সঙ্গে প্রেমের সম্পর্ক গড়ে তোলার অভিযোগ উঠেছে।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A Facebook page called 'Lady Soldier' posted AI-made photos and videos of a woman in Bangladesh Army uniform, through which a man built a romantic relationship with a young man from Keraniganj living in Italy.","causal_attribution":"PBI Dhaka District account as relayed; how the material was established as AI-made is not reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'নারীর মতো কণ্ঠে কথা বলতে পারেন'; 'পরে ইমোতে নারী কণ্ঠে কথা বলার মাধ্যমে সম্পর্ক বজায় রাখতেন তিনি'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'পুরুষ হলেও নিখুঁতভাবে নারীদের মতো মেহি কণ্ঠে কথা বলতে পারদর্শী'; 'মেসেঞ্জার ও ইমোতে (Imo) ভয়েস কলে'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The accused spoke to the young man in a woman's voice himself on Messenger and Imo calls.","causal_attribution":"PBI investigation findings as relayed."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'প্রেমের সুবাদে ইতালিতে থাকা'; 'তাঁর দেশে থাকা মায়ের কাছ থেকে বিভিন্ন সময়ে বিকাশ ও নগদের মাধ্যমে “মায়ের চিকিৎসার” কথা বলে মোট ৭ লাখ টাকা হাতিয়ে নেওয়া হয়'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'তার মায়ের কাছ থেকে বিকাশ ও নগদের মাধ্যমে প্রায় ৭ লাখ টাকা নেওয়া হয়'; 'আসামি নিজের মায়ের অসুস্থতার কথা বলেও বিভিন্ন সময়ে টাকা নেন বলে তদন্তে জানা গেছে'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"About Tk 7 lakh was taken at different times through bKash and Nagad from the young man in Italy and his mother in Bangladesh, partly by citing the accused's own mother's illness.","causal_attribution":"PBI account of the complaint and the traced transactions; no court finding."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'এ ঘটনায় প্রথমে আদালতে সিআর মামলা করেন ভুক্তভোগীর মা।'; 'এর ভিত্তিতে ১০ সেপ্টেম্বর কেরানীগঞ্জ মডেল থানায় মামলা করা হয়। ১৩ সেপ্টেম্বর মামলাটি স্বউদ্যোগে তদন্তের জন্য নেয় পিবিআই ঢাকা জেলা।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The young man's mother first filed a complaint case in court; a case was filed at Keraniganj Model police station on 10 September 2026 and taken over by PBI Dhaka District on 13 September.","causal_attribution":"PBI account."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'এ ঘটনায় গত ২০ সেপ্টেম্বর ঢাকার দারুস সালাম এলাকা থেকে'; 'রিমান্ড শেষে ২৩ সেপ্টেম্বর তিনি আদালতে ফৌজদারি কার্যবিধির ১৬৪ ধারায় স্বীকারোক্তিমূলক জবানবন্দি দিয়েছেন বলে জানিয়েছে পিবিআই'; 'আদালত এক দিনের রিমান্ড মঞ্জুর করেন'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'এ সময় তাঁর কাছ থেকে প্রতারণায় ব্যবহৃত একাধিক সিম ও ৩টি স্মার্টফোন জব্দ করা হয়।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"PBI arrested the accused in the Darus Salam area of Dhaka on 20 September 2026, seized three phones, and says he gave a confessional statement under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on 23 September after one day's remand.","causal_attribution":"PBI account at the 27 September briefing."}],"effects":[{"label":"drawn into a romance by a Facebook page posting AI-made photos and videos of a female soldier and defrauded of about Tk 7 lakh with his mother","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.deshebideshe.com/455942/by-posing-as-a-female-soldier-using-ai/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"bn","translation_note":"Read live in Bangla on 2026-10-02 (DesheBideshe, Dhaka, 27 September 2026); relays the PBI Dhaka District press briefing. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"pbi-dhaka-district-briefing"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.gulfbangla.com/Bangladesh/3491/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"bn","translation_note":"Read live in Bangla on 2026-10-02 (Gulf Bangla, 28 September 2026, desk report); relays the same PBI briefing with fuller case chronology. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"pbi-dhaka-district-briefing"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","finance"],"unknowns":["Which tool made the photos and videos, and how PBI established that they were AI-made.","When the relationship began and when the payments were made.","Whether other people were targeted through the same page, and whether others were involved, which PBI says it is checking."],"geography":{"basis":"PBI says money was taken from the young man in Italy and from his mother in Bangladesh, whose home is in Keraniganj; the accused was arrested in Dhaka and the case is before Bangladeshi police and courts (DesheBideshe; Gulf Bangla). The young man was living in Italy when the money was taken from him and his mother was in Bangladesh, so the event spans both countries; no source states where the accused was when he ran the page.","court_countries":["BD"],"event_countries":["BD","IT"],"affected_person_countries":["IT","BD"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a reported adverse experience: a young man and his mother lost money to a romance built through a Facebook page that police say posted AI-made photos and videos of a female soldier. The account is PBI Dhaka District's, relayed by Bangla outlets. The victim, his mother and the accused are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"DesheBideshe attributes to PBI Dhaka District the statement that the Facebook page posted photos and videos of a woman in army uniform made with AI technology. Gulf Bangla states the AI use in its lead as an allegation, and its paraphrase of the superintendent's briefing mentions the uniform photos and videos without AI. Neither report names the tool or says how this was established. PBI says the accused spoke in a woman's voice himself. The AI-made material depicted the female-soldier persona the accused presented, no source says whether any real woman's likeness was used, and the victim's conversations were with the accused, so none of the listed relations between an AI system and him is established. The relation is recorded as unknown.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Keraniganj, Bangladesh: a 22-year-old expatriate in Italy and his mother lost about Tk 7 lakh to a man who ran a Facebook page with AI-made photos and videos of a woman in army uniform and talked to him in a woman's voice; PBI arrested the man in September 2026","summary":"The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) Dhaka District said at a press briefing on 27 September 2026 that a man had run a Facebook page called 'Lady Soldier' that posted AI-made photos and videos of a woman in Bangladesh Army uniform. Through the page he built a romantic relationship with a 22-year-old man from Keraniganj who lives in Italy, speaking to him in a woman's voice on Messenger and Imo calls. According to PBI, about Tk 7 lakh was taken in instalments through bKash and Nagad from the young man in Italy and from his mother in Bangladesh, partly by citing the accused's own mother's illness. His mother first filed a complaint case in court, and a case was then filed at Keraniganj Model police station on 10 September. PBI arrested a 35-year-old man in Dhaka on 20 September and seized three phones. PBI says he gave a confessional statement in court on 23 September.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-27","aiSystem":"AI-made photos and videos of a woman in Bangladesh Army uniform posted on a Facebook page called 'Lady Soldier', per PBI Dhaka District; the tool is not named. The voice on calls was the accused's own, per PBI","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A young expatriate and his mother lost about Tk 7 lakh to a man who drew him into a romance through a Facebook page posting AI-made photos and videos of a female soldier (PBI Dhaka District, via Gulf Bangla and DesheBideshe).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the young man in Italy and his mother, from whom PBI says the money was taken (Gulf Bangla; DesheBideshe). Exact 2.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"BD","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.deshebideshe.com/455942/by-posing-as-a-female-soldier-using-ai/","primarySourceLabel":"DesheBideshe, 27 September 2026: এআই দিয়ে ‘নারী সেনা’ সেজে ইতালি প্রবাসীর সঙ্গে প্রেম (PBI arrest report)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:17:44.407305+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:17:44.407305+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-images","ai-generated-video","fake-persona","romance-scam","facebook","mobile-money","bangladesh","keraniganj","pbi"]}]}