{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-06T07:46:26.589Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"orlando","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","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-orlando-suspected-ai-cloned-friend-voice-jail-call-cash-courier-loss","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'told her he was in jail after drinking and getting into a crash involving a pregnant woman'; 'Exactly like him. Absolutely exactly like him.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A woman in the Orlando, Florida area received a phone call from a caller who said he was her friend, that he was in jail after drinking and a crash involving a pregnant woman, and who asked for help; she told News 6 the voice sounded exactly like the friend.","causal_attribution":"The woman's account to WKMG News 6."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Within minutes, another man called.'; 'claimed to be a public defender'; 'He hadn’t been in the crash.'; 'And he wasn’t the person'; 'wasn’t in jail.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Within minutes a second caller claiming to be a public defender for the friend said money was needed to get the friend out of jail; the friend had not been in jail or in a crash, and had not made the call.","causal_attribution":"The woman's account and the friend's statement to WKMG News 6."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'being instructed to put cash inside an envelope, write down a case number'; 'I got the money. They sent a courier,'; 'By then, she had already handed over thousands of dollars.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Following the callers' instructions she put cash in an envelope with a case number and paperwork and handed thousands of dollars to couriers who came to her home.","causal_attribution":"The woman's account to WKMG News 6; the amount is not stated beyond thousands of dollars."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the alleged attorney asked for even more money.'; 'She refused.'; 'he told her he’d had a normal day and was eating dinner.'; 'she said it was disconnected.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"When the supposed attorney asked for more money she refused; the number she called back was disconnected, and later that day she reached the real friend, who said he had had a normal day.","causal_attribution":"The woman's account and the friend's statement to WKMG News 6."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'believes artificial intelligence may have been used to clone'; 'News 6 has not independently determined how the caller produced the voice she heard.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The woman believes artificial intelligence may have been used to clone the friend's voice; News 6 states that it has not independently determined how the caller produced the voice.","causal_attribution":"The AI cloning is the victim's belief; the outlet says it has not determined how the voice was produced. No police or forensic finding on the voice is reported."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'s my survival, my nest egg,'; 'I desperately, desperately need this money.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She described the money she handed over as her survival and her nest egg and said she desperately needs it.","causal_attribution":"The woman's statement to WKMG News 6."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Orlando police told News 6 the case remains an active and ongoing investigation.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Orlando police told News 6 the case remains an active and ongoing investigation.","causal_attribution":"Orlando police statement as reported by WKMG News 6. It says nothing about how the voice was produced."}],"effects":[{"label":"handed thousands of dollars in cash to couriers after a jail-emergency call in a voice that sounded exactly like a friend, which she believes was AI-cloned","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/10/02/ai-voice-cloning-scam-targets-orlando-woman-with-fake-jailhouse-emergency/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-06 (HTTP 200); no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the article. WKMG News 6 investigative report (Pavlina Osta, Paul Giorgio), published 5 October 2026.","independence_group":"wkmg-news6-orlando-voice"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the voice was AI-generated; the outlet says it has not determined how it was produced.","The date of the calls; the report says only that it happened one afternoon.","The amount lost beyond thousands of dollars.","Whether anyone has been identified or any money recovered while the Orlando police investigation continues.","Which tool, if any, was used."],"geography":{"basis":"The report’s headline describes her as an Orlando woman, the couriers came to her home to collect the cash, and Orlando police told News 6 the case remains an active and ongoing investigation. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case with AI involvement recorded as suspected: a woman in the Orlando area told WKMG News 6 that a jail-emergency caller spoke in a voice exactly like her friend's, that she handed thousands of dollars in cash to couriers sent to her home, and that she believes the voice was cloned with AI. The outlet says it has not determined how the voice was produced. The woman is identified by first name in the report and is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"WKMG News 6 reports that the caller spoke in a voice the woman says sounded exactly like her friend, and that she believes artificial intelligence may have been used to clone the friend's voice. If the voice was AI-made, it was the channel through which she was spoken to (communicated_with) and it impersonated the friend (depicted_or_impersonated), and it is what persuaded her to hand over the cash. News 6 states that it has not independently determined how the voice was produced; no recording, police statement or forensic finding on the voice is reported.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Orlando-area woman handed thousands of dollars in cash to couriers after a jail-emergency call in a friend’s voice, which she believes was AI-cloned","summary":"WKMG News 6 reported on 5 October 2026 that a woman in the Orlando, Florida area received a call from someone who said he was her friend, that he was in jail after drinking and a crash involving a pregnant woman, and that he needed help. She told the station the voice sounded exactly like the friend. A second caller claiming to be a public defender said money was needed to get the friend out of jail. Following the callers' instructions, she put cash in an envelope with a case number and handed thousands of dollars to couriers who came to her home. She refused when the supposed attorney asked for more, and later that day reached the real friend, who had not been in jail or made the call. She described the money as her survival and her nest egg. She believes artificial intelligence may have been used to clone the friend's voice; News 6 says it has not independently determined how the voice was produced.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-05","aiSystem":"A voice on a phone call that the victim says sounded exactly like her friend and that she believes was cloned with AI, as reported by WKMG News 6 (tool not identified; the outlet has not determined how the voice was produced)","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool (suspected)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A woman in the Orlando area handed thousands of dollars in cash to couriers after a jail-emergency call in a voice that sounded exactly like her friend, which she believes was AI-cloned; the outlet has not determined how the voice was produced.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the woman who handed over the cash (WKMG News 6). The friend whose voice was imitated is not reported to have been harmed and is not counted. Other people mentioned in the report (a BBB Scam Tracker complainant, FBI and IC3 aggregate figures) belong to other events and are not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/10/02/ai-voice-cloning-scam-targets-orlando-woman-with-fake-jailhouse-emergency/","primarySourceLabel":"WKMG News 6 / ClickOrlando, 5 October 2026: AI voice-cloning scam targets Orlando woman with fake jailhouse emergency","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-06T03:23:09.095649+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T03:23:09.095649+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["voice-cloning","impersonation-scam","grandparent-scam","fraud","cash-courier","orlando","florida","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}