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People Are Still Getting Scammed by Deepfake Catfish

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0:00 cuter. This one's cuter. >> Yeah, that's me. That's the girl. My love. >> My love. >> So, a British man >> was scammed by an AI deep fake of Jennifer Aniston in a fake romance. >> So, there's >> Yo, when people when people get catfished thinking they're like in a relationship with a celebrity, >> I thought Jennifer Anderson's really into him. Oh my. >> She's like, she wrote a picture, dude. She did it. >> Yo, >> it's really her. >> This has no photos of himself not ████ 2 in from his face. >> Yeah, he doesn't have any pictures where he doesn't look like he wants to kill Superman. >> He does look like an evil villain for sure. >> Yeah, dude. I don't know why Luther, >> how does so many people fall for it? >> Yeah, I don't know. There's There's a

0:51 lot of >> mental illness and depression. >> Oh, and maybe combined with low IQ. Yeah, >> but you want to believe though, dude. You want to believe that Jennifer Anist >> Xiles problem. >> Yeah. >> Is hitting you up, dude. You want to believe like I am worthy of that. >> It's so simple to like figure these things out. >> So, he says he's His name's Paul Davis. He's 43. He says he was targeted with Bless you. >> Yo, he's 43. >> Yeah. He say he's targeted with AI generated videos that include fake messages and images from celebrities like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and generations. >> So, it's multiple celebrities that like said a bunch. But then Jennifer Anderson one hooked him cuz he says in the deep fake she said that she loves me and she asked for money even sending what looked like a copy of her driver's license. >> Cuz he's basically like um he's like ah

1:41 yeah I don't know like I don't know who you are or whatever. And then she's like this is my driver's license. You texting with the real Jennifer Anderson. Okay. Don't go to Facebook to reply anyone anymore. Don't go comments on any page so you don't get into problems. So it sounds like Jennifer Anderson. Yeah, she would say that she's very specific in her instructions. >> Sounds like her in horrible bosses. >> And they were they were going back and forth a little bit, right? And then Jennifer Anderson starts asking like for for Apple gift cards, >> right? She she's like uh >> even though I have a hit TV show on Apple TV. >> Well, no. I think she's just hard up for gift cards or something. She didn't want to go get them cuz you have to activate them. >> She's broke right now. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Her her money's all tied up in investments. >> So Jennifer Anderson sends to sends to this guy. She says, "U, what time will you send it to me, my love? Are you there, my love? My subscription is about to be expired." >> My god.

2:32 >> Um, can you send me the $100 Apple gift card to purchase? >> She types like she's from India. >> My love uses a lot of >> She uses a lot of emojis that seem like Jennifer Anderson, like she uses the kissy one. >> You're such an ass, dude. >> Right. And then she sends a picture like of herself doing the kissy face. >> Oh god. >> Right. Little kissy face. Little little duck lips on that one. >> It's good lighting in that picture, too. We should do it as a selfie. >> Could be Jennifer Anist maybe. And then Yeah. So then he he sends the driver's license. He's like, "Look, obviously now you know it's Jennifer Aniston." And the guy's like, "I I think I see it. Yeah, I see what you mean." He says, "I okay. I see what you mean." And then um so then he started sending her $200 200 worth of Apple gift cards, >> which is what, five bucks? >> My god, how mean you are. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like five bucks. What? It's like 250 300.

3:23 >> Yeah. >> And then u >> five bucks. >> Yeah. Dirt money. Stupid. >> And then he found out later on um cuz he talked to some of his friends that that it wasn't Jennifer. >> He had friends. >> Well, he was talking to people with a Facebook page. >> Oh, okay. >> Cuz I was just going to say loneliness. >> Having friends is what prevents this. Cuz someone tells you don't be a ████ ████ >> No, that's how we have screenshots of his test cuz he was sending it to Facebook people. He's like, "Do you guys think that like me and Jennifer Anderson should get married in Paris?" They're like, "Wait, what? >> Wait, hold on." >> Yeah. Who is this? England, maybe. >> Loneliness is a real problem, though. >> Yeah, it honestly is. Like, it's hard to It's hard to be this mean to these people. >> The olds, too, man. >> Yeah. >> My mom can't distinguish what's AI or not. >> Really? >> I don't think most moms can. Yeah. >> Yeah, for sure. Like, I'll catch my mom looking at, you know, cuz on Instagram now, you can see when people like things

4:13 and they they kind of snitch you out. >> I'll look at the stuff that my mom likes. It's all AI ████ Yeah. >> And she's do she's doing the call to actions when they say like comment apple if you want like recipes for smoothies. She's like apple, you know, she's typing that in and I'm like, "Mom, this is AI. Don't believe this." Okay. Lemon peel is not going to make you lose 50 lbs. >> Has your mom ever sent you uh videos from Jesus Daily? >> No, not yet. >> Those are Dude, those are the >> Is it AI? Jesus. >> It's not AI. They've been running it a long It's a long scam, but it it is invincible. They just keep finding videos of kids that have some kind of sickness. It might not even be real, but it's just like ████ up looking kids just begging for like donations and they just keep on like re-uploading the same videos and then you give money to this like random ass kid who probably doesn't even exist. Yeah. Jesus Daily. >> It's like the puppy ones where they're

5:03 like, "We found this this like >> he got punted." >> Yeah. This ████ up dog on the street. So, is it like is the scam like to sponsor this kid and then you're like >> sponsor him for skin medicine that he needs cuz his skin's all ████ up, >> but then like kids were dropkicking this pump. >> My kid never ages. It's been the same kid for like 6 years. >> Your mom keeps sponsoring the same kid. >> No, my aunts do and my mom my aunts send me Chinese videos and they're like, "Don't eat this, okay?" And it's a Chinese guy with a ████ AI octopus. I'm like, "What?" >> You're like like in a restaurant in front of an octopus. was like, "Oh, better not." >> Thank God for my aunt for sending me that video. >> The chopsticks down. >> He's like, "Be careful. Don't." It's my aunt for the Philippines. Like, she goes, "Don't eat this. This is This is a disease in it." I was like, "I'm not even This is in China." First of all, >> I like how they think they're smarter than you and they need to teach you a thing or two. And it's kind of fun.

5:54 >> It's kind of sad, too, because they've never left the tiny ass island. So, like they just see the world and they and they want to they want to connect with me. So, they send me things. They're like, "Look out for this. >> It's freaking GTA 5 plane crash. The Boeings are going down. >> It say it'll just say prayers for you >> and it has the wasted thing on the screen. >> I'll show you. I'll show you. >> Wasted. >> My aunt. She's really cute. >> 911. Is this what happened? >> Dude, that's like during the when the Ukraine war started like all these people taking like ████ from some game like one of those fighter jet games and people are saying this is all real footage. >> A flight sim. >> Yeah. >> Oh, they said that's a ghost of Keev. Yeah, they were doing all that, dude. >> It's a War Thunder. They're taking not off of War Thunder. >> And people like, "Look at this, dude. The Russians are getting ████ up and it's like it's all just

6:44 >> It's a Call of Duty mission, bro. >> I play that one." >> Do you guys remember that one um >> show? It was like It was like to show all these like catfish people or whatever and they catch them, right? >> Great show. >> And it was that one mom that swore she was like talking to The Rock or something. >> Oh my. And she was getting hella they couldn't even find the other guy, right? God, >> I don't want to laugh. >> Yeah, dude. No, it's >> too funny, man. >> It's I feel so bad. >> You think you're actually talking to The Rock. >> Yeah, but the kids were like, >> I've been there, >> dude. So, the kids sat her down, showed her like how to do a reverse Google image, like how to do all this like they were just breaking to every and then like at the end of the like like like intervention, it seemed like she was she was like, "Yeah, that's true. Okay, I got it." Right. And right after she starts talking to him again, >> why does that always happen?

7:34 >> Yeah, you can't do it. You can't do it. >> You keep trying to show me reverse Google image, but I know it's not you. I know you didn't do that to me. >> Or or is that true that you send me reverse? No, of course not, baby. I love you. >> Yo, she's got >> every day. >> She got gifs for days, dude. >> Every single day she sends me another >> Happy Sabbath. >> She sends me another GIF about the Lord and I just go, "Thanks, Auntie. Thanks." >> Yo, that looks like MySpace gif. >> The Lord sparkly ones. There's like a there's like a a huge lion and it says, "Thank God." >> Yo, God, it looks like sarcastically made. Hi. He's hyped about this. >> That does look sarcastic. >> Thanks, Auntie. >> That's fun. >> So, there's a lady in a related case. A French woman was defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of pounds by a scammer who claimed he was Brad Pitt. >> I love this one. This was great, dude. If after you saw F1 though, you're like,

8:25 "Dude, I I know Brad Pitt is." >> I started reading into it. I'm like, it could have been Brad Pit. >> It could have been him, dude. >> They use reels of AI generated images and romantic messages to build trust over time. And then they claimed Brad Pit finally one day claimed like, "Hey, I'm in love with you." And I'm Brad Pit. >> I didn't want to say this, but I think we have some bug. I don't know. >> I can't stop thinking about you. >> None of you guys have been catfished in your life, right? >> No. >> No, >> not yet. There's time. >> Remember that time? I think it was 2001. We went out with these two MySpace girls and then when they showed up they looked nothing like their photos and we that's when we started the term contrast queen >> contrast the catfish was cuz on MySpace on MySpace people would turn the contrast up and they would it would eliminate your features. You would just look like eyes in a mouth >> and these two girls did that to us and we met up with them at some movie theater I think like at the block and

9:15 that was one of the first times I almost threw up from not even having food in my stomach. I had to go to the bathroom and I was in front of the urinal and I was going I almost threw up for them. >> Not even drug. They were really ugly. >> Is that crazy? >> They look like, you know, you ever seen you ever been to Great Cons? >> You know the logo? >> Yeah. >> They look like two like if two great cons were competing and they try to one up each other. >> So wait, how did the what >> how did that look? How did that turn out to that? Like what did you guys see that was like, "Oh, they're ████ cute." >> Contrast. They just had their contrast way up and I'm like, "Oh, they look so >> You couldn't see how ████ fat they were." Like contrast cuz remember the MySpace angles? Remember that? >> Oh, the up helicopter. >> How did you guys get out of that situation? >> I I feel like we went we watched the movie and then we boned out. Yeah. >> What movie was it? Do you guys remember? >> I don't remember. Pelum 123. I have no idea. >> But we But yeah, that was the first time

10:05 I was like, damn, we got gone. >> Put your arm around. >> So there was just >> What was it? They were just big or acne like Yeah. They had bad skin. They were bad hair. They were big. And then they were they were Asian. Yeah. But then like Asia Asian like like when it was taken over by like Kubla Khan like you said >> Kubla like >> so it was just not it. >> ████ Mongolian queens dude. >> Like Brock Lesnar's kid. >> Damn. >> Great Lesnar's kid. >> Is she Brock Lesnar's like daughter? >> No. >> She like just got she's like getting married, dude. It's crazy, man. >> Does she look like Brock Lesnar with a wig? >> Ugly. >> No, she's not. But she looks like Brock Lesnar. >> She looks like Brock Lesnar, dude. >> It's wild, dude. >> And she's like jacked. You know what I mean? She's ████ She's a She's a beast. >> Yeah, dude. Look at that. >> Oh my god. >> And And his And the wife is Sable,

10:55 right? Isn't his wife Sable? >> I think so. >> Let me see this ████ >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> I don't know if that's mom, but >> Oh, have you ever seen You've seen Mulan, >> you know, the Huns? >> Yeah. >> They would have right in. >> That's Brock Lesnar's daughter. >> ████ >> Like, is there any doubt? >> I could see that. >> She doing a spinning clothesline. Okay, >> dude. She has bigger wings than me >> for real. >> No, that's tight. You know, that's tight. >> Not to say that women like >> No, that's elite genetics. >> Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. >> She's a thrower, too, bro. >> I was just saying when you said like great con dynasty or whatever, I'm like, this is some jeans, brother. >> Not to say that women like that don't deserve love, but I mean that was they got us good. >> No. No. Yeah, they >> But these ones didn't deserve love. >> They're winners in this case. Look at you. Eris, you still try You try You still try to >> No. No. Different. >> You try to smack that ████ a little bit. It was It was different.

11:46 >> Tame it. >> Yeah. >> Did you feel like Did you feel lied to? >> Did you feel like Why Why did you Why did you do it that much? >> Yeah, cuz we were chatting with him for a good amount. Like we had some rapport already, so I was like, "Oh s███." Now, >> you guys didn't even try to look at them down, dude. >> P. >> You guys didn't try to look at him from far before walking in. >> No, we met him up at literally at the movie theater. >> Just like, "Yo, I'm at the Coke Coke bottle station." And he just stare at the Coke bottle. >> Oh, you try to spy. No, I just didn't. We had never even heard of like catfishing yet. It was new. >> That wasn't a term yet. >> Probably one of the first catfish. >> That wasn't even a known thing. There was no word for it. >> So, how about how about how about how about trying to You guys even try to talk to them? >> Yeah, we chilled. >> No, we acted normal. We acted totally normal the whole time. Just afterwards, we were like felt like we got out of a war. >> What was making >> We talked to a normal. I just almost threw up in the urinal. That's all. >> You think you actually want to throw up?

12:36 >> I think just the nervousness of like I just never happened to me before. >> It's like a weird situation. Yeah, cuz we, you know, like you you you flirt, you talk online and ████ >> and then this is supposed to be like all the all the dirty talk you've been saying is supposed to culminate. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> When I see you, ████ >> Yeah. >> And then you get there, you're like, I said all that ████ to her. >> When I see you in person, girl, I'm going eat that butt. >> I'm going to get I'mma put my face between those cheeks in the movie theater. When I see you, girl, >> first thing before the movie, >> I'll tell you I'll tell you what it's like. It's like you put a ████ code in your game and you end up at the final boss at level one. >> Okay. >> No shot. Yeah, we were like, "No shot, dude." And mine was worse than his. >> Wa! >> He's like, "Aris, you want to trade?" >> It was both bad. It was both bad, too. >> No, mine was worse.

13:26 >> Great cons. >> Mine was probably like three sizes up. >> Can you pull out the Great Con's logo? >> Yeah. >> I think we need to >> Expectations are a big thing, you know. Oh, it looks like the guy that's the, you know, the guy that chases Aladdin through the whole movie. The guard. >> Oh my god. >> Look like that. Mine look like that guy. >> Oh my god. >> No. >> Mine look like the Aladdin guard. >> And every reference you have is like they're all bearded men. >> Yeah, >> they're all fat bearded men. >> Let me see. Let me see. >> Coming. It's coming. >> Come on. See, too slow. >> Mine was way way off. >> This one's cuter. >> Yeah, that's me. That's the girl. My love. >> My love. It's a clear It's a clear skin at least. >> She was unequipped with of swords at the moment. >> But yeah, that was the very first time. >> My god. We learned though.

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