Description: A deepfake video falsely depicting Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong endorsing commercial products circulated online in December 2023. Wong publicly denied the endorsement, warning that scammers had used AI-generated deepfake technology to impersonate him. The manipulated media aimed to mislead the public into believing he promoted fraudulent investments. Wong urged vigilance against AI-driven scams and encouraged reporting through the ScamShield Bot on WhatsApp.
Editor Notes: Lawrence Wong was Deputy Prime Minister at the time of this incident. This incident is not to be confused with Incident 983, which pertains to another deepfake scam in March 2025 involving Wong during his time as Prime Minister.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown voice cloning technology developer and Unknown deepfake technology developer developed an AI system deployed by Scammers impersonating Lawrence Wong , scammers and Fraudsters, which harmed Lawrence Wong and General public of Singapore.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown voice cloning technology and Unknown deepfake app
Incident Stats
Incident ID
987
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-12-11
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
SINGAPORE - Information circulating online that the Government is planning to reinstate a circuit breaker is false, said Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in a Facebook post on Dec 11.
He also said posts and messages showing him endorsing…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
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