Real-time deepfake romance scams are here and scarily realistic: How YOU could be duped by con artists in Africa with face-swapping gear
by dailym.ai
dailym.ai— 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.
WSTPost—Real-time deepfake romance scams are here… and frighteningly real: How YOU could be duped by scammers in Africa using face-swapping devices. 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...
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]
Fortune—Drake’s fake Tupac, a $50,000 Elon Musk romance scam, and AI-generated racist tirades: Deepfakes are terrorizing society. The accessibility of deepfake apps has enabled the average person to use the technology to pull off viral trickery and petty revenge plots—and even five-figure romance scams.