AI Incident Database - Incident 911
Source evidence cited by public records. This page shows where the source is used, its trust tier, and when it was last checked in the seed.
Records using this source
- deepfake-technology-developers
entity | 4 July 2026 | 70%
deepfake-technology-developers - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- brouteurs
entity | 8 July 2025 | 70%
brouteurs - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- yahoo-boys
entity | 8 July 2025 | 70%
yahoo-boys - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- scammers-in-nigeria
entity | 21 Apr 2025 | 70%
scammers-in-nigeria - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- targets-of-brouteurs
entity | 27 Jan 2025 | 70%
targets-of-brouteurs - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- targets-of-romance-scams
entity | 27 Jan 2025 | 70%
targets-of-romance-scams - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- targets-of-scammers-in-nigeria
entity | 27 Jan 2025 | 70%
targets-of-scammers-in-nigeria - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- targets-of-the-yahoo-boys
entity | 27 Jan 2025 | 70%
targets-of-the-yahoo-boys - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- Yahoo Boys Allegedly Employ Real-Time Deepfake Technology in Romance Scams
event | 27 Jan 2025 | 78%
Scammers from Nigeria, known as "Yahoo Boys," are reportedly utilizing real-time deepfake technology to impersonate individuals during video calls, deceiving victims in romance scams. By allegedly altering their appearance with face-swapping software, they build trust under false identities to defraud targets of substantial sums.