Incident·WS-0082·Feb 11, 2026·in the wild·Deepfakes & fraud
Turkish ring uses deepfaked officials in investment fraud
37/100
WS-2 ModerateHarm score 60, signal score 8. Autonomy: tool (a person misused it). How the scores work.
Harm 3/5
damage actually done
Reach 2/5
who was affected
Autonomy 0/4
how much the AI did on its own
Novelty 1/5
how new the behavior was
Permanence 4/5
how hard it is to undo
Police in Osmaniye, Turkey, detained eight suspects, five of whom were jailed. The group allegedly used AI-generated images and voices of government officials to promote fake investment schemes on social media across several provinces.
Damage
~410 million TL in losses (per Turkish press via OECD AIM)
The capability behind it
- VALL-E clones a voice from 3 seconds of audioJan 5, 2023 · Microsoft Research · reliable for a defined task: yes
Sources
OECD AI Incidents Monitor. Evidence confidence: medium. The date is the arrest/reporting date; the fraud ran earlier. The loss figure comes from Turkish press aggregated by OECD.
Factor ratings and the score are this index’s judgments by a published formula; facts, dates and figures come from the linked sources. Where a lawsuit is pending, the summary reports allegations, not findings.
