AI voice clone drains tens of millions from Intesa’s Fideuram
Milan prosecutors are investigating a February scam in which an AI-generated voice posing as Intesa Sanpaolo’s CEO, followed by a fake lawyer whose voice was also AI-made, talked Fideuram’s then-chairman into approving urgent, confidential transfers for an invented foreign bank acquisition, ANSA and Il Fatto Quotidiano report, citing a judge’s order. Nearly €95 million left the bank; about €42 million was stopped on accounts in China and €13 million was frozen at a Portuguese bank, leaving roughly €39.5 million still missing. One suspect is under investigation as an alleged member of the group on suspicion of aggravated fraud, and no one has been convicted; prosecutors are separately probing similar voice scams at Banca Ifis and a smaller lender.