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of loss rather than a dollar band, since no USD figure is given. story.caught is null because no source says who first noticed the fraud. event.trigger: human_misuse was classified, not stated; a trigger is never inferred, so it is unknown. system.tier: not set; no operator named and deployment_context is not a lab's. [aggregated by deepseek-chat, aggregate-2026-09-27.1, 2026-10-18] system.developer: no source names the developer. system.autonomy_level: no source states the arrangement. system.deployment_context: no source states where it ran. event.near_miss: classified from described behaviour. event.agent_involved: classified from described behaviour. event.incident_class: a source states an attacker, an injected instruction or a misused credential caused the system to act, or that the system's own boundary (sandbox, permissions, weights, accounts) was breached. event.trigger: no source states a cause. event.detection_method: no source says who first noticed. context.denominator_available: no denominator is available for this incident. [corrected by Srini Iyer, approved 2026-10-18 in the corrections review: severity reason printed the whole rubric] event.incident_class: other: people used AI-generated video or voice to impersonate someone in a fraud; no source states that an AI system was breached or acted, so no class's test is met. [corrected by Srini Iyer, approved 2026-10-22 in the corrections review: citations to sentences about a different event were removed; impersonation fraud was reclassed: no AI system was breached] Stated loss not stored as a number: the source says the dentist handed over P93 million (Philippine pesos); impact.direct_loss_usd holds only a stated USD figure and the schema has no field for another currency. 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