Ledger / 23 Feb 2026
Fideuram chairman tricked by cloned voice and fake CEO messages into EUR 95M transfers
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Reuters-based reporting says investigators believe a lawyer's voice was AI-cloned; video use is not established.
A WhatsApp message posing as the Intesa CEO about a secret acquisition was followed by a call in the cloned voice of a known lawyer. Milan prosecutors and Eurojust are investigating; the disclosure date is approximate.
“AI Voice-Cloning Scam Hits Italian Bank: Fake Executives Trick Fideuram Into EUR 95 Million Overseas Transfers”Gulf News
Sources
- AI Voice-Cloning Scam Hits Italian BankGulf News · 25 Sep 2026 · secondary source
- Date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Disclosed
- 25 Sep 2026
- Actor
- unknown (criminal), as attributed by Gulf News
- Targets
- Fideuram - Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking
- What the AI did
- Deepfake, Fraud, Social engineering
- Model
- unspecified voice-clone/deepfake tool
- Model family
- Deepfake / voice
- Model basis
- stated by researcher
- Autonomy
- assist
- Outcome
- About EUR 95M sent overseas; about EUR 53M recovered, EUR 36M converted to crypto and untraced.