I just saw a YouTube commercial that is a doctored (maybe ai?) video of Michael Saylor offering to double the bitcoin you own, if you just scan him your bitcoin. The audio sounds just like him, but on the video you can see his mouth moving slightly out of sync with the audio.
It's an obvious scam, but I just want people to be aware that this is going on, and will probably become more common.
Beware!
297 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 28 Dec 2023
Serious question: what does it take before a person asks themselves if some rando giving them money for nothing is a legit thing? I mean, if this lesson has not been learned at the cusp of 2024, is there any hope?
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228 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 28 Dec 2023
I guess when they disappear we'll know that people have stopped falling for these scams.
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228 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 28 Dec 2023
I suspect there's a utopian halo around all new tech that gets fainter and fainter with every exploit. Sadly ourworldindata doesn't have cybercrime stats on offer but I'd guess they're trending down per unit of time-spent-online.
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211 sats \ 0 replies \ @CUMDUMPSTER 28 Dec 2023
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211 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 28 Dec 2023
Yup bull market is back and newbies will get rugged! Be careful all. Also not your keys not your coins! Never stake and self custody!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eobard 28 Dec 2023
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228 sats \ 5 replies \ @quark 28 Dec 2023
This scam has been running for years with different videos but always the same thing about getting back double of what you send. It became like a meme sentence. It is good that you see it as an obvious scam but I worry that many people seem to fall into this, because they keep doing the same for years so it must be profitable for the scammers. I cannot understand.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 OP 28 Dec 2023
I'm familiar with the old scams from the last bull market using Saylor. They were different. They used real Saylor audio/video while banners along the margins laid out the scale. These new ones seem to use ai of Saylor's actual voice, and may be more convincing.
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211 sats \ 3 replies \ @quark 28 Dec 2023
oh... wow, the voice and the image? Now I want to see it. Fake AI videos are going to be very dangerous as they improve the quality each month.
Of course they improve the method but in the end, the send me 1 and you receive back 2, doesn't seem to change and it is so obvious as you said. Maybe more intelligent scammers appear and do other more credible videos, which is worrying.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 28 Dec 2023
Exactly my feelings. Honestly the only real tell (besides the 1 for 2 absurdity) was that his mouth movements were slightly off. If they can resolve that it would be scarily realistic.
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47 sats \ 1 reply \ @Eobard 28 Dec 2023
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 28 Dec 2023
Yes. I also think there was a Microstrategy livestream scam a few years back.
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57 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eobard 28 Dec 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 29 Dec 2023
This morning I saw a new one where Saylor is hawking ETH. It appears that in this version the audio is synced better to the video, but it's still slightly off. As someone pointed out yesterday, these fraudulent ads will only get better.
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