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Deepfakes push fake Family Card offers on Facebook

Preliminary Why: Publisher not yet named · subject to change

Status: no action reported

Severity moderate
Reported 10 Mar 2026

No source states: loss or records, developer and model, agent tool, could do, deployer, industry.

Deepfake videos of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and his family, with AI-synthesised voices, circulated on Facebook offering Family Cards and cash to viewers who followed, shared and commented. The Daily Star documented 52 such videos between 19 and 26 February, mostly offering Family Cards or cash rewards for engagement. Many users shared personal contact numbers in the comments, and the newspaper reported that the personal information could later be used for fraud. Fact-checker Dismislab reported on 24 February that the motive was rapidly growing followers to sell the pages. The pages were not identified as responding to press contact, as none of at least seven contacted replied. The sources do not describe any platform action, remediation or outcome for the scam.

What happened

1 · What went wrongMany users shared personal contact numbers in the comments.
2 · What it reached or didOne fake page gained 57,000 followers within seven days.
3 · How it was caughtFact-checker Dismislab revealed the motive in a report published on February 24.

What was done

No source states an action or fix.

Risks

Manipulation and misinformation
Primary65 incidents
Harmful content and jailbreaks
Also84 incidents
Rising: 6 vs 3.8 a week

Sorted by rule from the case's fields; not yet read from the sources.

Controls

Not yet read for controls. Controls that mitigate the primary risk:

Model

Marking machine-made output · Abuse monitoring and account enforcement · Content safety classifiers

Application

People told they are dealing with AI

Infrastructure / target

Phishing and fraud filters

Evidence

No source states: what the AI was doing, when it happened, how many records were exposed, the direct loss, a count of the other parties affected, any court case, the cause, what set it off, what was done.

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What happened, in order

  1. 2026-02-18 First of two Zaima Rahman lookalike pages created; the second was created on February 22.
  2. 2026-02-19 to 2026-02-26 The Daily Star documents 52 deepfake videos of the family offering Family Cards or cash rewards.
  3. 2026-02-24 Dismislab publishes a report on the motive for the deepfake videos.
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What happened

Earliest source we hold
2026-03-10
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What went wrong
produced harmful content
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Impact

Severity
moderate
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Notes on gaps

The year 2026 for the dates is taken from the article publication date, since the text gives only month and day.

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