Incident #1525
Purported Deepfake Video Reportedly Impersonated Former Mongolian Deputy Prime Minister Amarsaikhan Sainbuyan in Investment Scam
Description
A Facebook post reportedly used a deepfake-altered clip of then-Mongolian Deputy Prime Minister Amarsaikhan Sainbuyan to promote investment in the "Power of Siberia-2" pipeline and direct viewers to a registration website. The video allegedly modified a 2024 MONGOL TV interview with altered lip movement and added Russian audio, while the linked site sought personal information.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- today-information-(facebook-account)
- scammers-in-mongolia
- scammers
Alleged Developers
- deepfake-creators
- synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers
- synthetic-audio-generation-technology-developers
- synthetic-video-generation-technology-developers
Harmed Parties
- social-media-users-in-mongolia
- social-media-users
- mongolian-investors
- investors
- financial-scam-victims
- facebook-users-in-mongolia
- facebook-users
- epistemic-integrity
- amarsaikhan-sainbuyan