{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-22T10:15:52.039Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"police-release","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","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":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-primorye-police-say-fraudsters-used-deepfake-of-regional-governor-in-video-call-to-draw-pensioner-into-month-long-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"В Приморском крае полиция пресекла онлайн-аферу с использованием мошенниками технологии дипфейк; Перейдя по ней, заявитель увидел на экране собеседника, который был похож на губернатора региона.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"злоумышленники, используя дипфейк, организовали видеозвонок \"губернатором\" региона.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Primorsky Krai police press service said that fraudsters used deepfake technology in an online fraud in which a 77-year-old resident saw, in a video conference, a person resembling the region's governor who told him of a cyberattack and stolen funds routed through his account.","causal_attribution":"The police release attributes the deepfake; its technical basis is not stated. Vesti.ru attributes the same description to the pensioner's words, so both rest on one police account."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"На протяжении месяца зарубежные аферисты ежедневно звонили приморцу.; Пожилой человек снял один миллион рублей, но заподозрил неладное и обратился за помощью в полицию.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Accomplices posing as law-enforcement officials called him daily for a month, urging him to hand over all his savings, and he withdrew one million roubles before becoming suspicious and going to the police.","causal_attribution":"Police account of the complaint."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"заявитель вручил прибывшему курьеру муляж денежных средств.; Ею оказалась 79-летняя жительница Санкт-Петербурга; возбуждено уголовное дело по признакам преступления, предусмотренного ч. 3 ст. 30, ч. 4 ст. 159 Уголовного кодекса Российской Федерации.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Under police supervision he handed a courier a dummy package; police detained the courier, a 79-year-old woman from St Petersburg, opened a criminal case for attempted large-scale fraud, and she was remanded in custody.","causal_attribution":"Police account."}],"effects":[{"label":"pensioner deceived by a deepfake governor video call and pressed for a month to hand over savings (police account; no money lost)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://mvdmedia.ru/news/operativnye-novosti/v-primorskom-krae-politsiya-presekla-onlayn-aferu-s-ispolzovaniem-moshennikami-tekhnologii-dipfeyk/","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"ru","translation_note":"Read in Russian by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200); quotations are Russian originals, and English renderings in the record are the research agent's translations. The release is credited to the press service of the Primorsky Krai police directorate.","independence_group":"primorye-police-release-oct-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.vesti.ru/ns/aferisty-vo-vremya-videozvonka-s-gubernatorom-ubedili-primorca-perevesti-dengi","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ru","translation_note":"Read in Russian by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200); quotations are Russian originals, and English renderings in the record are the research agent's translations. The report follows the police account of the pensioner's complaint, so it shares the release's independence group.","independence_group":"primorye-police-release-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["How the police established that the video was a deepfake, and which tool made it.","Whether the police examined any recording of the video call: the release body describes only a person who resembled the governor, and Vesti.ru, relaying the police channel, gives the deepfake as the pensioner's own account.","The dates of the first call, the month of calls and the arrest.","Whether the one million roubles the pensioner withdrew were all recovered; the release reports only that he handed over a dummy package."],"geography":{"basis":"The police release places the complainant in the Khorolsky district of Primorsky Krai, Russia, where he reported the fraud and where the courier was arrested.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["RU"],"affected_person_countries":["RU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published because the investigating police directorate's press service attributes the fraud to deepfake technology, describing a video call with a person resembling the regional governor that drew a 77-year-old into a month of daily pressure to hand over his savings. The technical basis of the police attribution is undisclosed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The investigating police directorate's press service states that the fraudsters used deepfake technology and that the pensioner saw, in the video conference, a person resembling the regional governor who set the fraud in motion (depicted_or_impersonated: the generated likeness impersonated the governor toward him). The release gives no technical basis for the deepfake attribution and names no tool.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Primorye police say fraudsters used a deepfake of the regional governor in a video call to draw a pensioner into a month-long scam","summary":"The press service of the Interior Ministry's Primorsky Krai directorate said on 21 October 2026 that it had stopped an online fraud in which scammers used deepfake technology. According to the release, a 77-year-old resident of the Khorolsky district was sent a video-conference link in a messenger app and saw on screen a person resembling the region's governor, who told him of a cyberattack on the regional administration and stolen funds routed abroad through his bank account. He was passed to accomplices posing as law enforcement and financial-monitoring officials, who called him daily for a month and urged him to hand over his savings. He withdrew one million roubles but became suspicious and went to the police, who arrested a courier when he handed her a dummy package. A criminal case for attempted large-scale fraud was opened. The police did not say how they established that a deepfake was used.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-21","aiSystem":"A deepfake video likeness of the Primorsky Krai governor shown in a video conference, as described by the regional police; the tool is not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Primorye police, a pensioner deceived by a video call with a deepfake of the governor was pressed by daily calls for a month to hand over his savings and withdrew one million roubles before going to the police; no money was lost.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the 77-year-old pensioner the police release describes. The governor whose likeness was used is not counted because no response from him is reported. The arrested courier is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"RU","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://mvdmedia.ru/news/operativnye-novosti/v-primorskom-krae-politsiya-presekla-onlayn-aferu-s-ispolzovaniem-moshennikami-tekhnologii-dipfeyk/","primarySourceLabel":"MVD Media (press service of the Primorsky Krai police), 21 Oct 2026: police stop online fraud using deepfake technology","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:12:26.49224+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:12:26.49224+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","video-call-fraud","official-impersonation","russia","primorsky-krai","police-release"]}]}