At least two named companies have been consumed by an alleged form -changing scammer selling millions of dollars in fake FTX liquidation requirements by apparently using artificial intelligence to help mask his appearance in video call with buyers, according to a study by the data company Inca Digital .

It is said that a thief (or thieves) has made with at least $ 5.6 million by posing as a person who wants to sell his FTX liquidation analges buyers. The potential thief may have used face-exchanged video cnology in calls and is also said to have forged other credentials, said officials at Inca Digital, who had been asked to provide help.

“It’s probably happening to more people than we know about,” said Adam Zarazinski, CEO of Analytics and Risk-Intelligence Company Inca Digital, in a Coindesk interview. Getting the word out, he said, could warn others that this has happened on the threshold of the FTX payments.

The stolen funds were quickly laundered through non-American exchanges including binance, and it is still unclear whether federal law enforcement authorities are pursuing data on the exchanges involved. Inca Digital Detailed Fidus in a report published on Tuesday.

The criminal collapse of the global FTX exchange left billions in assets to be distributed to creditors in a process to start as soon as next week. Of course, a secondary market has developed into the amounts that have not yet been distributed.

Some of the conclusions of Inca’s report are evidence -backed guesses about what happened, the document notes. But it is said that the person or the characters behind the reported theft have made video calls to talk to the staff of the companies that buy requirements, and in these calls the video passed the first pattern, but then raised questions about whether it was real – one More common event during the emergence of AI Fakery.

In addition to the supposedly false video presence, buyers were also shown identification that had been falsified, provided with false addresses in Singapore and was – possibly most important – considering real claim data. Such data is sometimes publicly available online, but it has also been the subject of data violations from companies involved in the bankruptcy proceedings, the report said.

Zarazinski said this kind of theft can increasingly exchange the rolling crypto markets, especially given the recent boost in industry activity from the administration of President Donald Trump.

“For every opportunity, there are also evil guys lurking behind this opportunity,” he said.