{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-22T10:15:39.728Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"police-warning","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":0,"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":"2024-korean-police-say-foreign-parent-was-sent-deepfake-video-of-daughter-travelling-in-korea-held-captive-with-ransom-demand","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'지난 10월께 외국인 A씨의 스마트폰에 한국을 여행하던 딸이 방 안에 감금된 채 울면서 \"살려달라\"고 하는 영상이 전송됐다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'지난 10월 외국에 거주하던 부모(외국인)는 한국을 여행 중인 딸이 방 안에 감금된 채 울면서 “살려달라”고 애원하는 영상을 받았다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Around October 2024 a foreign national received on a smartphone a video showing a daughter who was travelling in Korea locked in a room, crying and asking to be saved; police said the parents, foreign nationals, lived abroad.","causal_attribution":"Police account via Yonhap."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'영상을 보낸 상대방은 \"당신 딸을 납치했다. 딸을 살리고 싶으면 합의금을 보내라\"고 부모를 협박했고, 부모는 이 사실을 영사관에 알렸다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The sender said the daughter had been kidnapped and demanded a settlement payment to keep her alive; the parents told their consulate.","causal_attribution":"Police account via Yonhap."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'신고를 받고 출동한 한국 경찰은 즉각 딸의 안전을 확인했다. 울부짖던 딸은 딥페이크로 만든 가짜 영상이었다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'영상에 등장한 딸의 모습이 딥페이크 기술로 만들어진 가짜였다는 점이 확인되면서'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Korean police who responded confirmed the daughter was safe, and the crying daughter was a fake video made with deepfake technology.","causal_attribution":"Police finding, quoted directly by JoongAng and reported by Yonhap (one origin); the technical basis is not disclosed."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'경찰청 국가수사본부는 7일 이러한 사건을 공개하면서 \"국내에서도 유사한 사건이 발생할 가능성이 있으므로 각별히 주의해달라\"고 당부했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The National Office of Investigation disclosed the case on 7 November 2024 to warn that similar crimes could occur in Korea.","causal_attribution":"Police disclosure as reported."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'이 사건으로 다행히 피해는 발생하지 않았지만'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police said that, fortunately, the case caused no damage, while warning that it showed how AI technology can be misused for crime.","causal_attribution":"Police statement quoted by JoongAng; one source."}],"effects":[{"label":"parent sent a deepfake video of a daughter apparently held captive with a ransom demand, per police","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20241107094500004","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in the original Korean on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. Reports the Korean National Police Agency's disclosure of 7 November 2024.","independence_group":"korean-national-police-agency-disclosure"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/25290315","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in the original Korean on 2026-10-22 by the verifier (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/verify-mix25-joongang.html/.txt). Quotes the National Police Agency's National Office of Investigation directly. English renderings are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them.","independence_group":"korean-national-police-agency-disclosure"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","finance","justice"],"unknowns":["The family's nationality and the country where the parents lived; police say only that they lived abroad.","How the daughter's images were obtained and which tool made the video.","How police established that the video was a deepfake.","Whether anyone was identified or arrested."],"geography":{"basis":"Police, quoted by JoongAng, say the parents were foreign nationals living abroad when they received the video; the country is not named, so the event and the affected person's country are left unknown. The video claimed the daughter was held in South Korea, where she was travelling and where Korean police confirmed her safety; that is the depicted person's location and the place of the police response, and it is not used as the place where the parent received the threat.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): South Korean police, who responded to the report, said a foreign parent was sent a deepfake video of a daughter apparently held captive with a ransom demand. The National Police Agency's disclosure, relayed by Yonhap and JoongAng, also says the case caused no damage; the technical basis of the attribution is not disclosed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Korean police, who responded and confirmed the daughter was safe, said the video of the crying daughter was a fake made with deepfake technology; JoongAng quotes them saying it was confirmed that the daughter's appearance in the video was a fake made with deepfake technology. The video depicted the daughter to deceive the parent into paying (depicted_or_impersonated). The technical basis of the police attribution is not disclosed.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"South Korean police say a foreign parent was sent a deepfake video of a daughter travelling in Korea crying for help while held captive, with a ransom demand","summary":"South Korea's National Police Agency disclosed on 7 November 2024 that around October 2024 a foreign national received on a smartphone a video showing a daughter, who was travelling in Korea, locked in a room, crying and asking to be saved. The sender said the daughter had been kidnapped and demanded a settlement payment to keep her alive. The parents told their consulate, and Korean police who responded confirmed that the daughter was safe; according to the police, the crying daughter was a fake video made with deepfake technology. Police used the case to warn that similar scams could occur in Korea. Police said the parents lived abroad and that, fortunately, the case caused no damage.","incidentDate":"2024-10-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2024-11-07","aiSystem":"Deepfake video, made with unidentified AI tools, showing the daughter apparently held captive and crying for help","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Korean police, a parent was sent a deepfake video of a daughter apparently held captive and crying for help, with a demand for money to keep her alive; police confirmed the daughter was safe. Police said the case caused no damage.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"At least one person, the parent who received the video and the ransom demand (police account). The report speaks of the parents in the plural and of the depicted daughter but describes no further harm to them, so the count is a minimum of 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20241107094500004","primarySourceLabel":"Yonhap News Agency, 7 November 2024: daughter crying for help was a deepfake video used in a kidnapping scam","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:21:35.077213+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:21:35.077213+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","fake-kidnapping","extortion","police-warning","south-korea","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}