{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-29T06:42:54.997Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"passport","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":2,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":3,"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-norway-tax-agency-ai-chatbot-said-swedish-passport-would-do-as-id-tromso-office-refused-it-after-long-bus-trip","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Der møtte jeg deres chatbot og stilte spørsmålet mitt til den. Jeg beskrev saken min detaljert og fikk som svar at «ja, du kan legitimere deg med svensk pass».'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Så hun gikk til nettsiden og fant Skatteetatens chatbot, som bruker kunstig intelligens.'; '«Ja, du kan legitimere deg med svensk pass», skal chatboten ha svart.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The woman says she asked Skatteetaten's chatbot whether she could identify herself with her Swedish passport to complete her moving notification, after describing her case in detail, and that it answered yes.","causal_attribution":"Her account of the chatbot's answer; the agency's reply says the chatbot gave correct information in this case without quoting the answer."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Jeg kom til Skatteetatens kontor i Tromsø etter fire timer på full rutebuss'; 'reise tilbake til Nord-Troms med uforretta sak'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Dermed satte hun seg på bussen til Tromsø, en reise på fire timer per veg, for å gjøre nettopp det.'; 'satte seg på bussen i fire timer hjemover igjen, med uforrettet sak'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"She says she travelled about four hours each way by bus to the Tromsø tax office, where staff said the Swedish passport could not be used, and she went home with the errand unfinished.","causal_attribution":"Her account: she made the trip because of the chatbot answer."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'«Du kan ikke stole på den heller, du må ringe oss»'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She says office staff told her she could not rely on the chatbot either and had to phone the agency.","causal_attribution":"Her account of what staff said."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Før hun møtte opp, skulle hun ha registrert på nettsiden deres at hun også er svensk statsborger, forteller hun til kode24.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"She told kode24 that, according to staff, she should have registered on the agency website that she is also a Swedish citizen before attending.","causal_attribution":"Staff's explanation as she relays it."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'For å være ærlig ble jeg først sjokkert, så fly forbanna'; 'Jeg måtte også ta fri fra jobben en hel dag'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"She told kode24 she had to take a whole day off work and was first shocked and then very angry.","causal_attribution":"Her account of the effects."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hun fikk samme svar'; 'Jeg har ikke nok data om hvilke ID-dokumenter vi godtar ved oppmøte. Besvart med kunstig intelligens.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She says a colleague put the same question to the chatbot a week later and got the same answer, and that when challenged the chatbot replied that it lacked data on which ID documents are accepted, marking the reply as answered with artificial intelligence.","causal_attribution":"Her account of a colleague's test; no screenshot was inspected."},{"id":"c7","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Vår KI-baserte chatbot ga imidlertid helt riktig informasjon i en sak om identifikasjon.'; 'det vi kan si, er at Skatteetatens chatbot i dette tilfellet ga helt korrekt informasjon'; 'Er du nordisk borger og har et gyldig pass fra andre nordiske land er dette tilstrekkelig ved oppmøte på et skattekontor'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Skatteetaten's acting department director wrote that its AI-based chatbot gave correct information in this case, because a Nordic citizen with a valid passport from another Nordic country can use it at a tax office.","causal_attribution":"The operator disputes that the chatbot erred; this places the error, if any, at the office."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Han opplyser at chatboten er instruert i å kunne bruke informasjon frå nettsidene til skatteetaten.no for å svare brukerne.'; 'Med all teknologi som er basert på kunstig intelligens er det en feilmargin. Så det kan skje feil'; 'Skatteetaten begynte med kunstig intelligent i chatboten i desember 2024'; 'Til nå i 2026 så er nesten alle svarene generert av kunstig intelligens'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Skatteetaten told kode24 that the chatbot is instructed to answer from skatteetaten.no and that AI-based technology has a margin of error, and that so far in 2026 nearly all of its answers are generated by artificial intelligence; kode24 reports the agency began using artificial intelligence in the chatbot in December 2024.","causal_attribution":"The operator's description of the AI system."},{"id":"c9","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'men det kan virke som om modellen har en liten vei å gå'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The digitalisation minister told kode24 that the model may seem to have a little way to go.","causal_attribution":"A minister's comment, not a finding."}],"effects":[{"label":"made a long return bus trip on the strength of the chatbot answer, but the tax office refused her passport and her moving notification stayed unfinished","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"took a day off work and felt shock and anger after the refusal","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.nordnorskdebatt.no/bomtur-til-tromso-pa-grunn-av-en-lognhals-av-en-chatbot/o/5-124-436127","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"nb","translation_note":"Read in Norwegian (Bokmal) on 2026-10-28; translation by the research agent, an AI. Opinion piece by the affected person, published 20.06.26.","independence_group":"author-op-ed-nordnorsk-debatt"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.kode24.no/artikkel/raser-mot-skatteetatens-lognhals-av-en-chatbot-etter-bomtur/266304","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nb","translation_note":"Read in Norwegian (Bokmal) on 2026-10-28; translation by the research agent, an AI. kode24 article dated 24 June 2026; it relays her op-ed, interviews her and quotes Skatteetaten. Her account in it is the same witness as s1.","independence_group":"kode24-interview-and-agency-comment"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.nordnorskdebatt.no/var-ki-baserte-chatbot-ga-helt-riktig-informasjon/o/5-124-437252","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"nb","translation_note":"Read in Norwegian (Bokmal) on 2026-10-28; translation by the research agent, an AI. Reply by an acting department director at Skatteetaten, published 26.06.26 (also republished by kode24).","independence_group":"skatteetaten-reply"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.kode24.no/artikkel/tung-om-skatteetatens-ki-blemme-har-en-liten-veg-a-ga/266638","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nb","translation_note":"Read in Norwegian (Bokmal) on 2026-10-28; translation by the research agent, an AI. kode24 article dated 25 June 2026 with the digitalisation minister's e-mailed comment.","independence_group":"kode24-minister-comment"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["public_services"],"unknowns":["When the chatbot exchange and the trip took place; the op-ed of 20 June 2026 is the earliest dated evidence.","The full text of the chatbot exchange; no screenshot was published in the sources read.","Whether the chatbot omitted a precondition, such as registering the Swedish citizenship, or the office applied the rules wrongly.","Whether the moving notification was completed later."],"geography":{"basis":"The trip and refusal took place at the tax office in Tromsø, Norway, reached by bus from Nord-Troms; she had moved from Sweden to Norway and writes as a communications adviser in Nord-Troms. No court was involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["NO"],"affected_person_countries":["NO"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete adverse experience after a public agency's AI chatbot answer: the affected person's own account of the answer, the trip and the refusal, the agency's reply confirming its AI-based chatbot gave that information while disputing that it was wrong, and national tech-press coverage with the agency's and the minister's comments.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-28"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The woman says Skatteetaten's chatbot answered her detailed question that she could identify herself with her Swedish passport, and that she made the trip to the Tromsø tax office because of that answer. Skatteetaten itself calls the chatbot AI-based, says it is instructed to answer from the agency's website, told kode24 that so far in 2026 nearly all of the chatbot's answers are generated by artificial intelligence, and says that in this case it gave the information that a Nordic passport suffices; the reply she quotes to a later challenge is marked as answered with artificial intelligence. Whether the answer was wrong is disputed: the agency says it was correct and the office refused it, while she says staff told her not to rely on the chatbot.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Woman says Norway's tax agency AI chatbot told her a Swedish passport would do as ID, but the Tromsø office refused it; agency says the chatbot was right","summary":"In an opinion piece published by Nordnorsk debatt on 20 June 2026, a communications adviser from Nord-Troms who had moved from Sweden to Norway wrote that she needed to identify herself at a tax office to complete her moving notification. Her Norwegian passport had expired and only her Swedish passport was valid. The Norwegian Tax Administration (Skatteetaten) phone line was closed for the day, so she asked the agency's chatbot on its website, describing her case in detail, and she says it answered that she could identify herself with her Swedish passport. She travelled about four hours each way by bus to the Tromsø tax office, where, by her account, staff said the Swedish passport could not be used, told her she could not rely on the chatbot and should phone instead, and she returned with the errand unfinished. She told kode24 she had to take a whole day off work and was first shocked and then very angry; staff also told her, she says, that she should first have registered her Swedish citizenship on the agency's website. She wrote that a colleague put the same question to the chatbot a week later and received the same answer, and that when challenged the chatbot replied that it lacked data on which ID documents are accepted, marking the reply as answered with artificial intelligence. In a reply on 26 June 2026 an acting department director at Skatteetaten wrote that its AI-based chatbot gave entirely correct information in this case, because a Nordic citizen with a valid passport from another Nordic country can use it at a tax office; he told kode24 the chatbot is instructed to answer from skatteetaten.no and that AI-based technology has a margin of error. The digitalisation minister told kode24 the model may seem to have a little way to go. Whether the chatbot's answer or the office's refusal was wrong is disputed, and the date of the trip is not stated.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-06-20","aiSystem":"Skatteetaten's AI-based chatbot on skatteetaten.no (Norwegian Tax Administration); the agency says it is instructed to answer from the agency's website, and kode24 reports AI was introduced in the chatbot in December 2024","aiProduct":"Skatteetaten chatbot","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"By her account, the woman relied on the tax agency chatbot's answer that her Swedish passport would serve as identification, made a bus trip of about four hours each way and took a day off work, but the Tromsø tax office refused the passport and her moving notification stayed unfinished; she describes shock and anger. Skatteetaten says the chatbot's answer was correct.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the op-ed author who used the chatbot and made the trip. Her colleague who repeated the question reports no harm and is not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"NO","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.nordnorskdebatt.no/bomtur-til-tromso-pa-grunn-av-en-lognhals-av-en-chatbot/o/5-124-436127","primarySourceLabel":"Nordnorsk debatt, Bomtur til Tromsø på grunn av en løgnhals av en chatbot (opinion piece), 20 June 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-28T03:11:52.396283+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:11:52.396283+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["public-service-chatbot","tax-administration","identity-document-answer","wasted-trip","operator-disputes-error"]},{"id":"2025-amsterdam-court-jails-man-who-used-deepfakes-of-other-peoples-id-photos-to-open-47-bank-accounts-in-their-names","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hij zou 47 bankrekeningen geopend hebben' ... 'met behulp van deepfake-technologie' ... 'Dit gebeurde in de periode van 20 maart 2025 tot en met 14 november 2025' ... 'Hij zou deepfake-technologie gebruiken om het identiteitsverificatiesysteem te misleiden'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Amsterdam District Court said a 34-year-old man was suspected of opening 47 bank accounts in other people's names with deepfake technology between 20 March and 14 November 2025, using it to mislead the identity-verification system.","causal_attribution":"The court's own statement of the charge; documents what was charged, not guilt."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Volgens het OM omzeilde de man dat door de foto op ID-bewijzen te vervangen door een pasfoto van hemzelf' ... 'Ook paste hij volgens justitie zijn eigen gezichtsfoto' ... 'aan, zodat die leken op de pasfoto' ... 'In de gezichtsscan van de man zijn kenmerken uit de pasfoto van de vrouw te zien'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"At the hearing the prosecution said the man got past ABN AMRO's app check by replacing ID-document photos with a photo of himself and by adjusting his own face photos to resemble them, and the judge noted that a selfie submitted with a woman's identity document showed features of her passport photo.","causal_attribution":"Prosecution's account and the judge's remark, reported from the hearing."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ID-bewijzen van slachtoffers op wier naam rekeningen waren geopend'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The prosecution said identity documents of victims in whose names accounts were opened were found on his phone.","causal_attribution":"Prosecution's statement in court."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'waarin hij verklaarde dat hij vanaf 28 september 2025 wetenschap had van de strafbare feiten' ... 'De rechtbank heropent daarom het onderzoek ter terechtzitting'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In a written statement the man said he only knew of the offences from 28 September 2025, and on 31 March 2026 the court reopened the investigation to examine the data on his phone.","causal_attribution":"Interim ruling and the content of his written statement, documented by the court's release."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'krijgt 2,5 jaar cel' ... 'De rechtbank ging mee met de eis van het OM' ... '13.000 euro schadevergoeding betalen aan ABN Amro' ... 'Van de 2,5 jaar cel zijn zes maanden een voorwaardelijke straf'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to AT5, on 17 June 2026 the court followed the prosecution's demand and sentenced him to two and a half years in prison, six months of it suspended, and ordered him to pay 13,000 euros to ABN AMRO.","causal_attribution":"Verdict as reported by AT5; judgment text not inspected."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hij wist 47 rekeningen te openen door gezichtskenmerken van zijn slachtoffers met AI op zijn eigen gezicht te plakken' ... 'Een deel van deze bankrekeningen is gebruikt voor bankhelpdeskfraude en het opnemen van contant geld'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"AT5 reports that he opened the 47 accounts by pasting his victims' facial features onto his own face with AI, and that part of the accounts was used for bank-helpdesk fraud and cash withdrawals.","causal_attribution":"AT5's account of the convicted conduct; consistent with the court's and prosecution's deepfake description."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'De verdachte zegt dat hij in die periode niets met de fraude te maken had'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'De verdachte heeft zelf altijd ontkend'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The man denied involvement in the fraud during the earlier period at the hearing, and AT5 reports that he always denied the charges.","causal_attribution":"Counterevidence: the defendant's denial."}],"effects":[{"label":"identities of other people used to open 47 bank accounts by deepfaked face scans","claim_id":"c6","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-en-contact/organisatie/rechtbanken/rechtbank-amsterdam/nieuws/2026/03/extra-onderzoek-nodig-in-zaak-oplichting-bank-met-deepfake-technologie","kind":"court_press_release","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-26; English renderings are the agent's own translation. Press release of the Amsterdam District Court on its interim judgment, 31 Mar 2026; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"rechtbank-amsterdam-31-mar-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://nos.nl/artikel/2606734-man-met-wiens-gezicht-tientallen-bankrekeningen-werden-geopend-voor-de-rechter","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-26; English renderings are the agent's own translation. NOS report of the 17 Mar 2026 hearing (prosecution and judge's statements in court); HTTP 200.","independence_group":"nos-hearing-17-mar-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/238721/amsterdammer-deepfakes-47-bankrekeningen-openen","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-26; English renderings are the agent's own translation. AT5 report of the 17 Jun 2026 verdict; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"at5-verdict-17-jun-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which deepfake tool was used.","How many distinct people's identities were used for the 47 accounts.","The losses of the people defrauded through the accounts and whether the verdict was appealed."],"geography":{"basis":"The Amsterdam District Court in the Netherlands heard the case, so NL is the court country. The sources do not state where the accounts were opened from or where the people whose identities were used live, so no event or affected-person country is recorded from the court's seat or the bank's nationality.","court_countries":["NL"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a Dutch court and prosecutors say a man used deepfake technology to make his face scans match other people's ID photos and open 47 bank accounts in their names, and the court convicted him in June 2026 according to AT5. Private names are not used.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-26"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Amsterdam District Court's press release states that the man was suspected of using deepfake technology to mislead the bank's identity-verification system and open 47 accounts in other people's names. At the hearing the prosecution described how he adjusted his own face photos to resemble the ID photos, and the judge noted that a selfie submitted with a woman's document showed features of her passport photo. AT5 reports that he was convicted and sentenced for opening the accounts by pasting his victims' facial features onto his own face with AI. The specific tool is not named and the written judgment was not inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Amsterdam court jails man who used deepfake technology to pass a bank's face check with other people's IDs and open 47 accounts in their names","summary":"The Amsterdam District Court said in March 2026 that a 34-year-old man was suspected of opening 47 bank accounts in other people's names between 20 March and 14 November 2025 by using deepfake technology to mislead a bank's identity-verification system. At the hearing on 17 March 2026, the prosecution said he had beaten ABN AMRO's app check, which compares a face scan with the photo on an identity document, by replacing ID photos with his own and by adjusting his own face photos to resemble the ID photos; the judge noted that a selfie submitted with one woman's identity document showed features of her passport photo. The prosecution said identity documents of the victims in whose names accounts were opened were found on his phone. The man denied knowing of the fraud before late September 2025, and the court reopened the investigation on 31 March to examine his phone data. According to AT5, on 17 June 2026 the court sentenced him to two and a half years in prison, six months of it suspended, and ordered him to pay 13,000 euros to ABN AMRO; AT5 reports that he pasted his victims' facial features onto his own face with AI and that some of the accounts were used for bank-helpdesk fraud and cash withdrawals.","incidentDate":"2025-03-20","incidentEndDate":"2025-11-14","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-03-17","aiSystem":"Deepfake technology used to alter face scans so that they matched other people's identity-document photos in ABN AMRO's account-opening app, according to the Amsterdam District Court and the prosecution (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Amsterdam District Court, the prosecution and AT5's report of the verdict, a man used deepfake technology to make his face scans match other people's identity-document photos, opening 47 ABN AMRO accounts in their names; some accounts were then used for bank-helpdesk fraud and cash withdrawals.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The court says 47 accounts were opened in the names of others, and the hearing report describes two of the identity holders (a man and a woman); the number of distinct people is not stated, so two is the documented minimum. Victims of the bank-helpdesk fraud run through the accounts and the bank itself are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"NL","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-en-contact/organisatie/rechtbanken/rechtbank-amsterdam/nieuws/2026/03/extra-onderzoek-nodig-in-zaak-oplichting-bank-met-deepfake-technologie","primarySourceLabel":"Rechtbank Amsterdam, 31 Mar 2026: further investigation needed in bank fraud case using deepfake technology","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-26T03:20:11.628878+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-26T03:20:11.628878+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","identity-verification","bank-account-fraud","identity-theft","criminal-conviction","netherlands","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-natore-father-ai-cloned-son-voice-fake-arrest-call-gaibandha-arrests","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'এসআরবি-এর ভাষ্যমতে, গত ২০ জুলাই দুপুরে নাটোর সদর উপজেলা স্বাস্থ্য কমপ্লেক্সে কর্মরত'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'র‍্যাব জানায়, গত ২০ জুলাই নাটোর সদর উপজেলা স্বাস্থ্য কমপ্লেক্সে কর্মরত'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 20 July 2026 a man working at the Natore Sadar upazila health complex received a call saying his younger son had been arrested by police with drugs.","causal_attribution":"SRB-13 account relayed by several outlets (one chain)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'প্রতারকরা এআই প্রযুক্তি ব্যবহার করে হুবহু তার ছেলের কণ্ঠে কথা বলে'; 'এরপর ছেলেকে ছাড়িয়ে আনতে টাকা দাবি করা হয়।'; 'তিনি দুই দফায় মোট ৪০ হাজার টাকা মোবাইল ফাইন্যান্সিয়াল সার্ভিস (এমএফএস) নগদে প্রতারকদের হাতে তুলে দেন।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'এরপর এআই প্রযুক্তির সাহায্যে তার ছেলের কণ্ঠ নকল করে কথা বলে বিশ্বাস স্থাপন করে এবং ছেলেকে ছাড়িয়ে নেওয়ার নামে দুই দফায় নগদ’র মাধ্যমে ৪০ হাজার টাকা হাতিয়ে নেয়।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The callers used AI to imitate the son's voice to gain the father's trust and demanded money to free the son; he paid a total of Tk 40,000 in two payments through Nagad and realised it was a fraud when he reached his son.","causal_attribution":"SRB-13's account of the fraud; the use of AI is SRB's description and no tool or forensic finding is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'গত ২৫ সেপ্টেম্বর নাটোর সদর থানায় একটি প্রতারণা মামলা করেন, যার নম্বর ৫৯।'; 'প্রাথমিক জিজ্ঞাসাবাদে তারা প্রতারণার সঙ্গে নিজেদের সম্পৃক্ততার কথা স্বীকার করেছে বলে জানিয়েছে এসআরবি।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'তাঁদের কাছ থেকে নয়টি মুঠোফোন, একটি পাসপোর্ট ও নগদ ১৪ হাজার ১০০ টাকা জব্দ করা হয়েছে।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'মামলার পর তথ্যপ্রযুক্তির সহায়তায় অবস্থান শনাক্ত করে গোবিন্দগঞ্জে অভিযান চালিয়ে তাদের গ্রেপ্তার করে এসআরবি।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'শনিবার (২৬ সেপ্টেম্বর) দুপুরে আদালতের মাধ্যমে গ্রেপ্তারদের গাইবান্ধা জেলা কারাগারে পাঠানো হয়েছে।'","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"He filed a fraud case at Natore Sadar police station on 25 September 2026, and that evening SRB-13 arrested two men at their homes in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha, seizing nine mobile phones, a passport and Tk 14,100; SRB says they admitted involvement in initial questioning.","causal_attribution":"SRB-13 press release; admissions in initial questioning are SRB's statement and not a court finding."}],"effects":[{"label":"lost Tk 40,000 to a fake-arrest call that used an AI imitation of his son's voice","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://dbcnews.tv/articles/178460","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"bn","translation_note":"Read live in Bengali on 2026-10-01 (DBC News Gaibandha correspondent, 26 September 2026); relays the SRB-13 press release. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"srb13-press-release"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ajkerpatrika.com/bangladesh/gaibandha/ajpkshyqabmdm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"bn","translation_note":"Read live in Bengali on 2026-10-01 (Ajker Patrika Gaibandha correspondent, 26 September 2026); relays the SRB-13 press release. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"srb13-press-release"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.ntvbd.com/bangladesh/news-1810005","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"bn","translation_note":"Read live in Bengali on 2026-10-01 (NTV Gobindaganj correspondent, 27 September 2026); relays SRB-13. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"srb13-press-release"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and how the son's voice was obtained.","Whether the arrested men are accused of other frauds, and whether any of the Tk 40,000 was recovered.","Whether a charge sheet has been filed."],"geography":{"basis":"The father works at the Natore Sadar upazila health complex and filed the case at Natore Sadar police station; the suspects were arrested in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha (DBC News; Ajker Patrika; NTV); NTV reports they were sent to jail through a court on 26 September.","court_countries":["BD"],"event_countries":["BD"],"affected_person_countries":["BD"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: an AI-imitated voice of a family member used to deceive a father into paying money. The account is SRB-13's press release, relayed by DBC News, Ajker Patrika and NTV. The father, son and arrested men are named in reports and not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-01"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"SRB-13 says the callers used AI technology to imitate the son's voice and spoke to the father in it (DBC News; Ajker Patrika; NTV). The AI-generated voice was the channel through which the father was spoken to (communicated_with), and it impersonated his son (depicted_or_impersonated). No forensic detail or tool is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Natore, Bangladesh: callers told a health-complex employee that his son had been arrested with drugs, then used an AI-cloned copy of the son's voice to win his trust and took Tk 40,000; two men were arrested in Gaibandha in September 2026","summary":"According to a press release from Special Response Battalion-13 (SRB-13), relayed by Ajker Patrika, DBC News and NTV, on 20 July 2026 a man who works at the Natore Sadar upazila health complex received a call saying that his younger son had been arrested by police with drugs. The callers then used AI to imitate the son's voice so that the father believed the story, and demanded money to get the son released. He sent a total of Tk 40,000 in two payments through the mobile financial service Nagad, and realised it was a fraud when he reached his son directly. He filed a fraud case at Natore Sadar police station on 25 September 2026. That evening SRB-13 arrested two men, described as the ring's leader and an associate, at their homes in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha, seizing nine mobile phones, a passport and Tk 14,100 in cash; SRB says they admitted involvement during initial questioning and handed them to the police for further legal action, and NTV reports they were sent to Gaibandha district jail through the court on 26 September.","incidentDate":"2026-07-20","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-26","aiSystem":"An unidentified AI voice tool used by fraudsters to imitate the son's voice during a fake-arrest call (per SRB-13)","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A father lost Tk 40,000 after fraudsters used an AI-cloned copy of his son's voice to support a false claim that the son had been arrested (SRB-13 via Ajker Patrika, DBC News and NTV).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the father who paid Tk 40,000 (SRB-13 via DBC News, Ajker Patrika, NTV). The son whose voice was imitated is not reported to have been harmed and is not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"BD","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://dbcnews.tv/articles/178460","primarySourceLabel":"DBC News, 26 September 2026: এআই দিয়ে ছেলের কণ্ঠ নকল করে বাবার কাছ থেকে টাকা আদায়, গ্রেপ্তার ২","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-01T03:17:53.62748+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-01T03:17:53.62748+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["voice-cloning","fake-arrest-scam","impersonation","mobile-money","bangladesh","natore","gaibandha","arrest","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}