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The fraud used an AI-generated deepfake video that appeared to show Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman endorsing an investment scheme. The victim saw the video on YouTube, clicked a link in its description, and was later contacted on social media by a person who persuaded him to invest. A small initial investment appeared to earn profits, but when he tried to withdraw, he was asked to pay a 'customs duty' of Rs 4.2 lakh and then a further Rs 2 lakh before he realised he had been cheated. Police registered a case under the Information Technology Act on May 1 and are investigating. The police commissioner warned the public not to trust such videos.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Test: moderate, data of others touched with bounded scope stated. The victim entered his personal details on the fraudulent link, and the scope is one named victim who lost Rs 7.9 lakh.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.rediff.com/news/report/deepfake-video-used-in-scam-duping-belagavi-man/20260506.htm","publisher":"Rediff","date":"2026-05-06","type":"press","title":"How Deepfake Video Duped Belagavi Man Of Rs 7.9 Lakh - Rediff","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A Belagavi man was defrauded of Rs 7.9 lakh in a sophisticated online investment scam involving an AI-generated deepfake video impersonating Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, highlighting the growing threat of deepfake technology."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The victim clicked on the link, entered his details, and was later contacted on social media by a person identifying himself as Adarsh Anand, who persuaded him to invest, the officer told reporters."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The victim clicked on the link, entered his details, and was later contacted on social media by a person identifying himself as Adarsh Anand, who persuaded him to invest, the officer told reporters."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A 76-year-old man in Belagavi city was allegedly cheated of Rs 7.9 lakh in an online investment scam that used an AI-generated deepfake video misusing the name of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to lure investors, police said on Wednesday."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"According to Police Commissioner Bhushan Gulabrao Borase, the victim, Prakash Gubbi, a senior citizen, stated in his complaint that in November last year, he came across a video on YouTube in which Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman appeared to endorse an investment scheme."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The victim clicked on the link, entered his details, and was later contacted on social media by a person identifying himself as Adarsh Anand, who persuaded him to invest, the officer told reporters."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"When he attempted to withdraw the amount, the accused demanded a \"customs duty\" payment of Rs 4.2 lakh, claiming it was required to process the withdrawal."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The victim paid the amount, after which he was asked to pay an additional Rs 2 lakh."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"It was at this stage that he realised he had been cheated."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"A case has been registered under relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act, and police are investigating the matter, police said."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The commissioner cautioned the public not to trust such videos, stating that the finance minister does not endorse any such schemes."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Single press source (Rediff), no organisation report or government evaluator. This is a fraud case with no AI agent described, so no agent fields, failure classes or controls of an AI system are recorded. The deepfake generator, model and platform are not named. The year of the November event is not stated (only 'November last year'), so date_occurred is left out. Disclosure and detection dates are not stated in the text (the article date is only metadata), so they are left out. The loss is stated in Rs, not USD, and no conversion was made, so direct_loss_usd is left out. Country is not stated as a word in the source; India is not recorded. Industry is not stated. The USD 65,000 profit figure appears in the source but is not treated as a loss. Severity 'moderate' is my judgement: one named person's data and money were touched, with bounded scope. The remediation entry is public advice from authorities, not a change to any system, and I4 is mapped to it as a judgement. Controls: no control is stated as held, failed or missing in the sources. The victim's 'entered his details' is not specified, so data categories are left out. Trigger 'human_misuse' is my reading that the accused deliberately ran the scam. 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