India, July 3 -- BJP legislative council member Prasad Lad was the target of an alleged cyberfraud as some unidentified miscreants recently tried to transfer local area development funds from Ratnagiri district in the Konkan to Beed district in Marathwada. The miscreants used Lad's fake letterhead, signature and voice recording, likely generated using artificial intelligence (AI), to hoodwink district officials to transfer the money till an alert official called their bluff, Lad told the legislative council on Wednesday.

"On Tuesday evening, I received a call from the Ratnagiri district planning officer (DPO) saying someone from Beed had used my letterhead and sign and sought to transfer Rs.3.20 crore from Ratnagiri to Beed," Lad said in...