{"id":223571,"date":"2026-01-06T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/223571\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:08:03","slug":"warning-over-tiktok-scam-using-ai-generated-videos-of-spains-princess-leonor-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/223571\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning over TikTok scam using AI-generated videos of Spain\u2019s Princess Leonor | Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A foundation representing Princess Leonor, the 20-year-old heir to the Spanish throne, has warned that scammers are using AI-generated videos of the princess posted by fake profile pages to cheat social media users out of money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In the posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tiktok\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a> \u201cLeonor\u201d promises users payments running to thousands of dollars in return for an upfront \u201cfee\u201d of a few hundred dollars. Once this \u201cfee\u201d has been paid, the fraudster typically keeps demanding more before disappearing from sight.<\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of a fake TikTok video made with AI that purports to show Princess Leonor. Photograph: TikTok<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/tecnologia\/2024-12-03\/crei-que-hablaba-con-leonor-y-ahora-estoy-endeudada-asi-suplantan-a-la-princesa-de-asturias-para-realizar-estafas-en-latinoamerica.html?outputType=amp\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An investigation by the El Pa\u00eds newspaper in 2024<\/a> found that all the telephone numbers used in the scam were from the Dominican Republic. Some of the videos had been viewed over a million times, the paper has reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a warning about the fraud, the website of the Princess of Asturias Foundation, which represents Leonor, said: \u201cThe foundation does not have any programmes offering financial help, subsidies for projects, lotteries or any other monetary operations for the benefit of individual citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cEqually, the Princess of Asturias doesn\u2019t offer financial help via the foundation and any message or profile that suggests the contrary is false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">TikTok\u2019s rules say the platform does \u201cnot allow accounts that cheat or try to manipulate our platform, nor an exchange of services that artificially increases interaction \u2026 including behaviour such as undercover operations to influence or to supplant identity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">However, El Pa\u00eds said that whenever it complained to TikTok about the theft of the princess\u2019s identity, which was first detected in December 2024, it received the same reply: \u201cWe have determined that the reported content is not in breach of our regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Leonor is the eldest daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia. After Felipe became king following his father\u2019s abdication in 2014, Leonor assumed the full title of the heir to the throne \u2013 Princess of Asturias, Princess of Girona, Princess of Viana, Duchess of Montblanc, Countess of Cervera, and Lady of Balaguer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If she becomes queen, Leonor will be Spain\u2019s first female ruler since Isabella II, who ruled from 1833 until she was deposed in 1868 and is the only queen who has ruled a unified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/spain\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> in her own right rather than through marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Leonor studied for an international baccalaureate in Glamorgan, Wales, and this year will complete her three-year military training in preparation for her role as commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A foundation representing Princess Leonor, the 20-year-old heir to the Spanish throne, has warned that scammers are using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-223571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}