{
 "id": "AIR-2024-0042",
 "slug": "police-chief-s-likeness-misused-in-ai-deepfake-scam-email",
 "title": "Police chief's likeness misused in AI deepfake scam email",
 "summary": "Scammers used a cloned voice and deepfake video of a police chief to send fraudulent extortion emails demanding money. The victims recognized the scam and no financial loss was reported.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "deepfake_fraud"
 ],
 "severity": 3,
 "targets": [
  "individual_victims"
 ],
 "products": [],
 "incident_date": "2024-10-25",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2024-10-25",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/851",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown's Voice and Image Misused in AI-Generated Scam",
   "published_at": "2024-10-25"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.9,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "deepfake",
  "voice-cloning",
  "extortion",
  "fraud"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}