{
 "id": "AIR-2025-0105",
 "slug": "florida-couple-loses-money-in-deepfake-elon-musk-scam",
 "title": "Florida Couple Loses Money in Deepfake Elon Musk Scam",
 "summary": "Scammers impersonated Elon Musk using synthetic video and social engineering to run a fraudulent giveaway. Victims transferred forty-five thousand dollars before realizing the scheme was fake.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "deepfake_fraud"
 ],
 "severity": 4,
 "targets": [
  "individual_victims"
 ],
 "products": [],
 "incident_date": "2025-12-15",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2025-12-15",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1306",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Florida Couple Reportedly Loses $45,000 in Alleged AI-Generated Elon Musk Impersonation Scam",
   "published_at": "2025-12-15"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.9,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "deepfake",
  "elon-musk",
  "financial-fraud",
  "impersonation"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}