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title: SDNY charges three men with using AI to clone CEOs' and lawyers' voices and faces on calls, stealing about $129 million in wire transfers | ctxsec
url: https://ctxsec.com/items/sdny-soall-hazan-sheetrit-ai-ceo-attorney-impersonation-129m
description: "Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment charging Jacob Soall, Sharon Hazan and Guy Sheetrit over a July 2024 to February 2026 scheme in which they allegedly posed as a company's CEO on voice or video calls, asked an employee for help with a confidential deal, then handed the employee to a fake attorney at a major law firm who directed the wire. Victims listed include a Missouri hospital system ($4.8M), a Rhode Island bank ($2.7M), a California hospital system ($3.0M), a UK fintech ($11.6M), a Massachusetts mutual fund company ($4.6M) and a Florida pet food company ($5.2M). Soall and Hazan were arrested in Spain and Sheetrit in the UK; each faces seven counts."
status: "official (U.S. Attorney's Office SDNY press release, Nov 5); charges are allegations, defendants presumed innocent; extraditions pending"
published: 2026-11-07
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> Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment charging Jacob Soall, Sharon Hazan and Guy Sheetrit over a July 2024 to February 2026 scheme in which they allegedly posed as a company's CEO on voice or video calls, asked an employee for help with a confidential deal, then handed the employee to a fake attorney at a major law firm who directed the wire. Victims listed include a Missouri hospital system ($4.8M), a Rhode Island bank ($2.7M), a California hospital system ($3.0M), a UK fintech ($11.6M), a Massachusetts mutual fund company ($4.6M) and a Florida pet food company ($5.2M). Soall and Hazan were arrested in Spain and Sheetrit in the UK; each faces seven counts.

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official (U.S. Attorney's Office SDNY press release, Nov 5); charges are allegations, defendants presumed innocent; extraditions pending

2026-11-07

### SDNY charges three men with using AI to clone CEOs' and lawyers' voices and faces on calls, stealing about $129 million in wire transfers

- **Pattern to train on:** a 'confidential acquisition' request from the CEO, then a call with outside counsel, then an urgent wire to a new account.
- **Control that breaks it:** verify any new-payee or large wire by calling back a number already on file, with a second approver, no matter how real the voice or video looks.
- The FBI asks companies that may be victims to come forward.

Sources: [U.S. Attorney's Office SDNY press release, Nov 5 (DOJ text via Forth mirror)](https://www.forth.news/lists/doj/CgkUWVfdtkLmpLy6EC3bK) · [AP: 3 charged in scheme to use AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys to steal $129 million](https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-impersonation-theft-fraud-c348a0c96e941214e56f8d923d03fc4b) · [The Record: CEO-spoofing scammers used AI to help steal more than $100 million (Nov 6)](https://therecord.media/ceo-spoofing-scammers-charged)