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A Southeast Texas viewer searching for the game was taken to the video instead, which showed a fabricated news conference with officials whose likenesses and voices appeared to be generated or manipulated using artificial intelligence. The video urged viewers to act quickly by scanning a QR code. Researchers say such videos often display QR codes that send viewers to fraudulent websites. YouTube's policies prohibit channels from using artificial intelligence to impersonate a person in a way that could mislead viewers. The report describes the scheme as an investment scam and does not state how or when the stream was removed.","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: data or systems of others touched with a bounded scope stated. The sentence states one viewer was led into the scam, a bounded scope; no loss amount is stated.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":"One Southeast Texas viewer was led into the cryptocurrency scam.","protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://kfdm.com/news/local/fake-youtube-stream-leads-viewers-to-ai-trump-crypto-scam","publisher":"KFDM","date":"2026-09-14","type":"press","title":"Looking for the game? 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No date of occurrence is stated beyond Sunday night, and no date of disclosure or detection is given, so date fields are omitted. The article is dated 2026-09-14 but that is not treated as a disclosure date. No loss amount for this incident is stated; the $7.7 billion figure refers to older Americans in general and is not used. The sources do not say how the stream was detected, removed or contained, and no remediation is reported. No control is stated to have held, failed or been bypassed in this incident, so no links are given. Judgements made: incident_class set to harmful_output for a deepfake scam video; trigger set to human_misuse and adversarial_actor to external_attacker from the general statement that scammers use such streams; responsible_party set to third_party; severity set to moderate because one third party was targeted with a bounded scope, which is a judgement. Single press source only. 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