{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-28T06:38:52.757Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"real-time-face-swap","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":2,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"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":"2025-malaysia-based-ring-used-ai-deepfake-face-swap-to-pose-as-japanese-police-in-video-calls-eight-victims-prosecutors-say","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'佯稱被害人手機欠費，需要接受檢警調查，當被害人要求視訊查證時，即由' ... '利用AI變臉技術假冒日警進行視訊，致被害人陷於錯誤，將款項匯入指定金融帳戶'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'佯稱手機欠費並須配合檢警調查，再由本國籍成員操作AI深偽技術，假冒日本警察與被害人進行視訊對談'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Taichung prosecutors say members of a Kuala Lumpur-based ring phoned people in Japan, said their phone bills were unpaid and they had to cooperate with a police and prosecutors' investigation, and when a victim asked for a video check, a member used AI deepfake face-swapping to appear as a Japanese police officer, leading victims to transfer money.","causal_attribution":"The investigating prosecutors' account, relayed by two outlets; one origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'不法利得共計日幣1865萬3667元'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'致使8名日籍被害人受騙匯款，金額高達1865萬日圓'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors say eight Japanese victims were deceived into transferring about 18.65 million yen (18,653,667 yen in illegal gains).","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' figures; the count is from the Liberty Times relay of the same account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'利用 ChatGPT 撰寫詐欺腳本，並以 AI Deepfake（深偽） 技術冒充日本警察'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors say the ring's fraud scripts were written with ChatGPT.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' account as relayed by Minbao."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'馬來西亞警方在現場查扣了日本警察制服及偽造警察徽章' ... '不僅派員赴日取得被害人筆錄，更前往馬來西亞針對扣案電子設備進行數位採證' ... '犯後至今均未賠償被害人損失'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'馬來西亞警方去年8月間在吉隆坡查獲並逮捕10名機房成員'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Malaysian police raided the base and arrested ten members in August 2025, seizing Japanese police uniforms and forged badges; prosecutors took victim statements in Japan, examined seized devices and indicted four defendants, who they say have not compensated the victims.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' account of the investigation; the August 2025 date is the Liberty Times relay (published June 2026, 'August last year')."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'大阪府警の警察官を名乗り、東京都内の70代男性とビデオ通話を実施。捜査対象になっていると脅し、現金500万円を騙し取ったとして起訴された。' ... '生成AIを使い、制服姿の人物の顔を警察手帳の写真に即時変換する「リアルタイムディープフェイク（※）」を導入' ... 'グループは2025年6月以降、日本人8人から計約1900万円をだまし取った疑いがあり'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Japanese reporting says members claiming to be Osaka police held a video call with a Tokyo man in his 70s and took 5 million yen, that the group used generative AI to convert a uniformed person's face in real time into the photo on a fake police ID, and that it is suspected of taking about 19 million yen from eight Japanese people since June 2025.","causal_attribution":"PlusWeb3's summary of Japanese reports; the underlying reports and the Japanese authorities' statements were not read."}],"effects":[{"label":"eight people in Japan transferred about 18.65 million yen after video calls with callers shown as Japanese police through AI face-swapping","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.peoplenews.tw/articles/anti-fraud-alert/14492","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-TW","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-28; English renderings are the agent's own translation. Minbao report of 29 Jan 2026 relaying the Taichung District Prosecutors Office's account of the indictment; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"taichung-prosecutors-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/breakingnews/5461268","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-TW","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-28; English renderings are the agent's own translation. Liberty Times report of 4 Jun 2026 on an award to the prosecutors, restating the prosecutors' account of the case; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"taichung-prosecutors-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://plus-web3.com/media/latestnews_1010_7552/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in Japanese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-28; English renderings are the agent's own translation. PlusWeb3 article of 4 Feb 2026 summarising Japanese reports of 30 Jan 2026 on the Japanese side of the case; the underlying reports were not read; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"japan-reports-30-jan-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","justice"],"unknowns":["Which face-swapping tool was used and how many calls used it.","Whether every one of the eight victims saw a deepfake officer.","The outcome of the Taiwanese indictment and of the Japanese charges.","Whether the Japanese-side reports summarised by PlusWeb3 concern exactly the same set of victims as the Taiwanese indictment (both give eight)."],"geography":{"basis":"Prosecutors and the Liberty Times say the call centre was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and targeted people in Japan; PlusWeb3 places one victim in Tokyo. Prosecutors describe the victims as Japanese. The indictment was brought by prosecutors in Taiwan; no court ruling is reported, so no court country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["MY","JP"],"affected_person_countries":["JP"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): investigating prosecutors say a Malaysia-based ring used AI deepfake face-swapping in video calls to impersonate Japanese police toward people it had phoned, and eight victims transferred about 18.65 million yen. The attribution rests on the prosecutors' indictment account and is described separately in Japanese reporting; no verdict is reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-28"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Taichung District Prosecutors Office, which took victim statements in Japan and examined devices seized in Malaysia, says a ring member used AI deepfake face-swapping in video calls to appear as a Japanese police officer when victims asked to verify the call, and that victims then transferred money. Japanese reporting relayed by PlusWeb3 separately describes the group's real-time AI face replacement in video calls. The prosecutors' technical findings beyond this description are not disclosed and the tool is not identified.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Prosecutors say Malaysia-based ring used AI face-swapping to pose as Japanese police in video calls; eight victims lost about 18.65 million yen","summary":"Taiwan's Taichung District Prosecutors Office said in January 2026 that it had indicted members of a fraud ring that operated from a base in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 2025. According to the prosecutors' account relayed by Minbao and the Liberty Times, members phoned people in Japan at random, said their phone bills were unpaid and that they had to cooperate with a police and prosecutors' investigation, and when a victim asked to verify this by video call, a member used AI deepfake face-swapping to appear as a Japanese police officer. Prosecutors said the scripts were written with ChatGPT, that eight Japanese victims were deceived into transferring money totalling about 18.65 million yen, and that the defendants had not compensated them. Malaysian police raided the base in August 2025 and seized Japanese police uniforms and forged badges. Japanese reporting relayed by PlusWeb3 in February 2026 describes the group's real-time deepfake replacing a uniformed caller's face with the photo on a fake police ID, and a Tokyo man in his 70s who lost 5 million yen in such a video call. No verdict is reported in the sources read.","incidentDate":"2025-06-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-01-29","aiSystem":"Real-time AI deepfake face-swapping software used in live video calls to show a caller as a Japanese police officer; tool not identified. Prosecutors also say the fraud scripts were written with ChatGPT.","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Taichung prosecutors say eight people in Japan transferred about 18.65 million yen after members of a Malaysia-based ring, phoning about unpaid bills and an investigation, appeared in video calls as Japanese police officers through AI deepfake face-swapping; Japanese reporting describes a Tokyo man in his 70s who lost 5 million yen this way.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":8,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Eight Japanese victims who transferred money, per the Taichung prosecutors' account (Liberty Times); PlusWeb3's Japanese reporting also gives eight.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"TW","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.peoplenews.tw/articles/anti-fraud-alert/14492","primarySourceLabel":"Minbao, 29 Jan 2026: ChatGPT scripts and AI deepfake Japanese police; Taiwanese ring defrauds Japanese victims","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-28T03:09:56.451732+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:09:56.451732+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake-video-call","police-impersonation","real-time-face-swap","fraud","malaysia","japan","taiwan","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}