{
 "id": "AIR-2023-0034",
 "slug": "ottawa-retirees-lose-ca-177-000-to-elon-musk-deepfake-invest",
 "title": "Ottawa retirees lose CA$177,000 to Elon Musk deepfake investment scam",
 "summary": "Fraudsters deployed an AI-generated video of Elon Musk to bait an Ontario couple into a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. The attackers subsequently obtained remote computer access and drained CA$177,023 through unauthorized transfers.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "deepfake_fraud",
  "ai_phishing_social_engineering"
 ],
 "severity": 4,
 "targets": [
  "individual_victims"
 ],
 "products": [],
 "incident_date": "2023-10-01",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2023-10-01",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1276",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Ottawa Couple Reportedly Loses CA$177,023 After Purported Deepfake Elon Musk Investment Scam",
   "published_at": "2023-10-01"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.95,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "deepfake-fraud",
  "social-engineering",
  "cryptocurrency",
  "remote-access",
  "elon-musk"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}