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Affinity fraud: Deepfakes in the diaspora

The “law student” who contacted me online and later joined a Zoom call seemed credible. He said he’d found my email through the Armenian Bar Association, spoke with a light accent and referenced community life. His posture felt stiff, but I chalked it up to nerves. Only after a series of urgent messages did the truth surface: he wasn’t a person at all, but a synthetic construct stitched from fragments of data, voice and likeness — a deepfake eng…
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The Armenian Weekly broke the news in on Monday, December 1, 2025.
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