{
 "id": "AIR-2025-0097",
 "slug": "investor-loses-bitcoin-in-ai-enabled-deepfake-romance-scam",
 "title": "Investor Loses Bitcoin in AI-Enabled Deepfake Romance Scam",
 "summary": "An investor lost his retirement funds in a pig-butchering scam involving AI-generated portraits and real-time deepfake video calls. The perpetrator posed as a romantic partner and trusted crypto trader to execute the theft.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "deepfake_fraud"
 ],
 "severity": 4,
 "targets": [
  "individual_victims"
 ],
 "products": [],
 "incident_date": "2025-12-31",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2025-12-31",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1327",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Romance Scam Allegedly Used to Steal One Bitcoin From Recently Divorced Investor",
   "published_at": "2025-12-31"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.9,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "deepfake",
  "romance-scam",
  "pig-butchering",
  "crypto-fraud"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}