Seeing is no longer believing

[pawanjain]

Scams involving deep fake videos are on the rise these days and we keep hearing how people are using deep fake videos of famous people and tricking others.
Lots of people are losing thousands of dollars every day because of deep fake videos. The cons of AI are rising and there is no solution to this yet.
Lack of awareness about AI is the cause of this and people need to be aware of it so that they can avoid getting scammed.

[Marykeller]

It doesn't sound good any longer, the way people are being scammed in the crypto space in different means via crypto investment.

Some of us may think that we know it all in crypto while we know nothing compared to what these scammers know. It's like each passing day, these scammers are strategizing ways to appear real to us. They know what we want to hear or see before we believe them to be real. So they are upping their game to make sure they get us convinced since we can't get them physically.

To beat them in that aspect, we should up our games also, not believe or accept fully what we are been told about a given project.

[Cityhunter34]

Imagine being on a video call and everyone interacting with you are fake?


At first I don't believe this until later on, a guy from my local Crypto WhatsApp group lost close to 18k in dollars to scammers, this is a guy who have been a victim of some past scams and jave learned from it all, thinking he has passed been scammed until now.

He is into startup projects just like I am, using Seedify, Decubate, Ape terminal and others, he is an investor of a newly launched project who have raised some money and they are planning their second fundraising, the team came for him, and to confuse him they use video.

Imagine talking to the CEO of a favorite crypto project that you liked, including two extra team members on video call, and they managed to confuse you that they are picking few numbers of people to invest into the second seed round at a cheaper rate per token?  They got him good, he was too excited and all sense of curiosity was shut down.

Before he knew what was happening he lost everything and accused the team on telegram group only to find out that none offer existed and all seed rounds are already completed.

The scammers went online and download the pictures of the company, including every staff members, everything they can get and used Artificial intelligence to create fake videos and with fake voices they will use in the video call, I went on doing my own research amd ended up with Deep fake technologies.

Read more about deep fake technologies 👇


https://www.idenfy.com/blog/deepfake-technology/amp/

Be on the look out guys, anytime you found any CEOs or notable people online telling you to do something or sending some transactions, please do not rush, take a minute, relax and do some research first or just look away.

If you are curious, find the projects telegram group and ask questions, and post screenshots on the group, I am positive that people will stop you from getting scammed, they will be exposed to you that you are about to get scammed, sadly we have gotten to this stage only to end up having more confusing tools for scammers, all we can do is warn each other of the threats that lurk

Normally we are ment to be aware that scammers are everywhere in the internet now and they are using some many strategy to hack people's funds, and most of us here are always falling victims for them which is very wrong, sometimes I used to wonder why most people's are always in a hurry in something that they didn't do research for, more especially when comes to something like investment they'll just quickly jump in conclusion that is a Genuine business without noing that is a scam.

[Zanab247]

The internet is filled with scammers but few are just genuine, so we should know that even when you see someone on video call you shouldn't conclude that they are real because there are more then enough tools that scammers can use to make video calls and you the person they are planning to scam will see them as the legit people. Although, this season $18k is not a small amount that one should lose and still feel alright but your friend should put in conner of his mind that the crypto world is very large and he should also be very careful next time.

That is why people need to be very careful the way they relate to strangers in the Internet, because many people have lost big money to scammers easily because they thought they are into business with real people not knowing that they are scammers.

Some scammers use videos call to deceive some people in this forum, because you will believe that  the person is a white man or black man through the video call and he or she will present somethings that will make you to believe that he or she is real investors which is the strategy they use to scam money from people.

I guess newbies will learn lesson from this incident, because they like to relate to strange people on social media and start giving them some information that will make the scammers to deceive them.