{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-10T08:59:32.961Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"kolkata","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"regulatory","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"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-kolkata-man-transferred-rs-95990-after-call-in-acquaintances-voice-reported-ai-voice-cloning-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A 67-year-old man from Beleghata was cheated of Rs 95,990'; 'The caller sounded exactly like his acquaintance'; 'claimed that a relative had been admitted to a private hospital and needed urgent money for treatment.Believing the voice was real, the victim made several online bank transfers within less than an hour'; 'who said he had not made any call or asked for money'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A 67-year-old man from Beleghata, Kolkata, received a call from an unknown number in a voice that sounded exactly like an acquaintance, who claimed a relative needed urgent hospital money; he made several online transfers within less than an hour totalling Rs 95,990, and the real acquaintance later said he had made no call.","causal_attribution":"Single newspaper report; the victim and the acquaintance are not quoted directly and no police statement on the facts is quoted."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'cheated of Rs 95,990 by scammers using AI voice-cloning technology'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Times of India attributes the fraud to scammers using AI voice-cloning technology; no police finding, recording or tool is described.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper's own characterisation of the method; recorded as the basis for a suspected AI involvement, not as an established fact."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The victim then filed a complaint at Beleghata PS. Cops have started an investigation and are checking the phone number, call records, and bank accounts used in the fraud'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The man filed a complaint at Beleghata police station; police have started an investigation and are checking the phone number, call records and bank accounts used.","causal_attribution":"As reported by the Times of India; no police statement was inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"loss of Rs 95,990 in online transfers after a call in a voice resembling an acquaintance, which the newspaper attributes to AI voice cloning","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/man-loses-rs-95k-to-ai-voice-scam/articleshow/133331043.cms","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10; no translation needed. The Times of India, Kolkata city desk, 19 August 2026 00:19 IST, HTTP 200; a short single-reporter item. Its account of the police investigation is attributed to the police only in general terms (\"Cops have started an investigation\").","independence_group":"toi-kolkata-report-2026-08-19"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the voice was produced with an AI tool or by a human imitator; the AI attribution is the newspaper's and no police finding, recording or tool is described.","The date of the call and the transfers; the report of 19 August 2026 gives none.","Whether any money was recovered or anyone identified; the investigation is described only as started.","Any corroborating account: no police statement or second outlet was located."],"geography":{"basis":"The report is datelined Kolkata, places the man in Beleghata and says the complaint was filed at Beleghata police station; the transfers were made by him there. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on a single attributed newspaper report: the Times of India says a 67-year-old Kolkata man transferred Rs 95,990 after a call in a voice sounding exactly like an acquaintance, that the acquaintance made no such call, and that a complaint was filed; the newspaper's attribution of the voice to AI voice cloning is recorded as suspected because no police finding or tool is described. The victim is unnamed in the report and the acquaintance's first name is omitted here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-10"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Times of India states that the man was cheated \"by scammers using AI voice-cloning technology\" and describes the caller's voice as sounding exactly like his acquaintance, who later said he had made no call. The described output toward the man is a voice imitating a specific acquaintance in a call asking for money (communicated_with and depicted_or_impersonated), and the report connects that call to his transfers of Rs 95,990. The AI characterisation is the newspaper's own; no police officer, examiner, recording or tool is cited for it, so the status is suspected and the label carries that qualifier. Whether the voice was produced by AI or by a human imitator is not established.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Kolkata: a 67-year-old man transferred Rs 95,990 after a call in a voice matching an acquaintance; the Times of India reports it as an AI voice-cloning scam","summary":"A 67-year-old man from the Beleghata area of Kolkata was cheated of Rs 95,990, according to a Times of India report of 19 August 2026, after a call from an unknown number in a voice that sounded exactly like an acquaintance of his. The caller said a relative had been admitted to a private hospital and needed urgent money for treatment; believing the voice, the man made several online bank transfers within less than an hour. When he later contacted the real acquaintance, that person said he had made no call and asked for no money. The man filed a complaint at Beleghata police station, and police are checking the phone number, call records and bank accounts used. The newspaper describes the scammers as having used AI voice-cloning technology; no police finding, recording or tool is described, so the AI involvement is recorded as suspected.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-19","aiSystem":"AI voice-cloning technology, as the Times of India describes the scammers' method; the call came from an unknown number in a voice that \"sounded exactly like\" the victim's acquaintance. No tool is named and the characterisation is the newspaper's","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool (suspected)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Times of India, the man lost Rs 95,990 in several online transfers made within less than an hour after a call in a voice resembling an acquaintance; a complaint was filed at Beleghata police station.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the report describes a single victim (\"A 67-year-old man from Beleghata was cheated of Rs 95,990\"). He received the call rather than operating any tool, so he is counted as another person harmed (participant_users_affected_min 0).","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/man-loses-rs-95k-to-ai-voice-scam/articleshow/133331043.cms","primarySourceLabel":"The Times of India (Kolkata), 19 August 2026: man loses Rs 95K to AI voice scam","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-10T03:26:32.207775+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T03:26:32.207775+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["voice-cloning","impersonation-scam","financial-loss","elderly","police","india","kolkata","communicated-with","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}