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American mother, Italian tycoons, businesses deepfake (May 2025)
An American mother almost fell victim to a virtual kidnapping scam using a cloned voice mimicking her daughter's cries. Scammers posed as the Italian defense minister, asking the country’s top tycoons for money to…
- Incident date
- May 2025
- Target
- American mother, Italian tycoons, businesses
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
An American mother almost fell victim to a virtual kidnapping scam using a cloned voice mimicking her daughter's cries. Scammers posed as the Italian defense minister, asking the country’s top tycoons for money to free kidnapped journalists which lead to nearly €1 million frozen linked to the AI-generated voice deepfakes.