Florida man lost $45,000 on an AI-generated Elon Musk scam
www.independent.co.uk
The 69-year-old was reportedly targeted after he posted in a Facebook group advertising Elon Musk car giveaways

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/56223456

George Hendricks, a 69-year-old from Leesburg, a suburb of Orlando, told ClickOrlando he lost $45,000 after a scammer targeted him with a deepfake video of Musk. Deepfakes are digitally-altered videos often used to impersonate notable public figures.

Now, Hendricks tells the outlet that his wife “wants to get a divorce” over the scam.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So would I.

    Edit:

    ​“Scammers know that he is well-known and the richest person in the world, so they use the allure of his success to try and manipulate you with FOMO, the fear of missing out,” Amy Nofziger, director of victim support for the AARP Fraud Watch Network, said in a statement

    No. She just doesn’t want to disparage the people she represents. The reality is that scammers know that stupid people admire musk.