Real-time deepfake romance scams are here… and frighteningly real: How YOU could be duped by scammers in Africa using face-swapping devices
by WSTPost
WSTPost— Online daters may believe they are too smart to fall for one of the love scammers who swindle smitten Americans out of millions every year.They may need to think about it again.Scammers have done their best, hitting their targets with real-time deepfakes in shockingly convincing video calls.For the victim – often an unremarkable middle-aged couch potato – it is all too convincing.You meet an attractive candidate online, start chatting, and then do Zoom or WhatsApp video calls. The “Yahoo...
dailym.ai—Real-time deepfake romance scams are here and scarily realistic: How YOU could be duped by con artists in Africa with face-swapping gear. Scammers have raised their game and hit targets with real-time deepfakes in scarily persuasive video calls. For the victims - often an unremarkable, middle-aged homebody - it's all-too convincing.
PetaPixel—A Woman Lost $50,000 to a Deepfake Elon Musk in AI Romance Scam. A woman was scammed of $50,000 by a deepfake Elon Musk who sent her AI-generated photos and told her he loved her over a deepfake video call. [Read More]
Tech Times—South Korean Woman Scammed Out of $50K by Impersonator Using Deepfake of Elon Musk. Being an ardent admirer of Elon Musk, the victim received a friend request from an account purporting to belong to the renowned entrepreneur, utilizing sophisticated deepfake techniques to impersonate Musk convincingly.