Deepfake case study · Video
Nikki MacLeod deepfake (Dec 2024)
A 77-year-old woman, Nikki MacLeod, was defrauded of £17,000 through a romance scam involving AI-generated deepfake videos. The scammer, posing as a woman named Alla Morgan working on an oil rig, used the videos to…
- Incident date
- Dec 2024
- Target
- Nikki MacLeod
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
A 77-year-old woman, Nikki MacLeod, was defrauded of £17,000 through a romance scam involving AI-generated deepfake videos. The scammer, posing as a woman named Alla Morgan working on an oil rig, used the videos to build trust and then requested increasing sums of money under various fabricated pretenses. While some funds were recovered, personal payments sent via PayPal were not. A cybersecurity expert confirmed the videos' manipulation.