{
  "id": 1895,
  "url": "https://www.nbcchicago.com/consumer/deepfake-scam-targets-alzheimers-patients-with-false-promises-of-honey-based-cure/3955606",
  "title": "Deepfake scam targets Alzheimer's patients with false promise of honey-based cure",
  "summary": "A social media scam is using deepfakes of celebrities to promote products they falsely claim could cure Alzheimer's disease and dementia, the Better Business Bureau warned. Some victims they even found reoccurring charges after buying the h ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1564#7483)",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "incident",
  "topics": "misinformation",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-02T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:04:12.223Z",
  "source_slug": "aiid",
  "source_name": "AI Incident Database",
  "source_homepage": "https://incidentdatabase.ai",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1895",
  "original_url": "https://www.nbcchicago.com/consumer/deepfake-scam-targets-alzheimers-patients-with-false-promises-of-honey-based-cure/3955606",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}