{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-20T07:07:18.375Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"online_trading","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"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-lippe-district-police-say-man-lost-savings-and-took-loan-after-adverts-with-ai-generated-deepfake-videos-of-supposed-tv-shows","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Kürzlich wurde erneut ein Lipper Opfer eines betrügerischen Online-Tradings über eine vermeintliche Anlageplattform, bei dem ein fünfstelliger Schaden entstanden ist.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Lippe police say a man from the district recently became a victim of fraudulent online trading through a supposed investment platform, with a five-figure loss.","causal_attribution":"The police's account of the fraud and the loss."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Die Betrüger nutzten Werbeanzeigen mit KI-generierten Deepfake-Videos aus angeblichen Fernsehsendungen, forderten nach der Anmeldung wiederholt Gebühren und lenkten das Opfer schließlich zu Überweisungen auf Kryptobörsen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The police say the fraudsters used adverts with AI-generated deepfake videos from supposed television programmes, repeatedly demanded fees after he registered and steered him to transfers to crypto exchanges.","causal_attribution":"Attribution by the police; the technical basis and the people depicted are not disclosed."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Der Mann ließ sich von den Tätern dazu überreden, zusätzlich einen Kredit aufzunehmen, um weitere Einzahlungen leisten zu können.' ... 'Auszahlungen gab es nie, stattdessen verlor der Mann sein Erspartes und geriet durch den Kredit in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The police say he was talked into taking out a loan for further deposits, never received a payout, lost his savings and got into financial difficulty because of the loan.","causal_attribution":"Consequences as reported by the police."}],"effects":[{"label":"man lost his savings and got into debt after investment adverts with deepfake videos","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/12727/6220819","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read in German by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Lippe police press release on presseportal.de, 20 February 2026; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"lippe-police-20-feb-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance"],"unknowns":["When he saw the adverts and made the payments; the police say only that it happened recently.","Which programmes and people the deepfake videos showed, which tool made them and how the police established this.","The exact amount lost, the size of the loan, the platform and whether any money was recovered."],"geography":{"basis":"The police call the man a Lipper, a person from the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, so the affected person's country is Germany. The release does not say where he saw the adverts or made the transfers, which went to crypto exchanges, so no event country is recorded. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["DE"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the Lippe police say a man was drawn to a fraudulent trading platform by adverts with AI-generated deepfake videos of supposed TV programmes, lost his savings and fell into debt through a loan he was persuaded to take. The technical basis and the people depicted are undisclosed. The event date is unknown; the id year is that of the February 2026 release, which calls the case recent.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Lippe police say the fraudsters used adverts with AI-generated deepfake videos from supposed television programmes and then, after the man registered, demanded fees and steered him to transfers, so, on the police account, videos presented as television programmes were generated with AI for the adverts that preceded his registration and payments. The police do not disclose which programmes or people the videos showed, which tool made them or how they established that they were AI-generated.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Lippe district police say a man lost his savings and took out a loan after investment adverts with AI-generated deepfake videos of supposed TV shows","summary":"The Lippe police reported on 20 February 2026 that a man from the district had recently been defrauded through a supposed online trading platform, with a five-figure loss. According to the police, the fraudsters used adverts with AI-generated deepfake videos from supposed television programmes, repeatedly demanded fees after he registered and steered him to transfers to crypto exchanges. He was talked into taking out a loan to make further deposits, never received a payout, lost his savings and got into financial difficulty because of the loan. The police do not say whom the videos showed or how they established that they were AI-generated.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-02-20","aiSystem":"Investment adverts with what the Lippe police call AI-generated deepfake videos from supposed television programmes (tool and depicted people not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Lippe police, a man drawn in by investment adverts that used AI-generated deepfake videos of supposed TV programmes lost a five-figure sum and his savings, and got into financial difficulty after being persuaded to take out a loan for further deposits.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One man (police release). The people shown in the videos are not identified and no response from them is reported, so none is counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"DE","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/12727/6220819","primarySourceLabel":"Polizei Lippe (presseportal), 20 February 2026: Kreis Lippe. Warnung vor Anlagebetrug","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-20T03:12:41.005298+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T03:12:41.005298+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["investment_fraud","deepfake_video","online_trading","crypto","germany"]}]}