The host of The wolf of all the streets Podcast, Scott Melker, said he received the word that his face and name were indicated by Scammers, with at least one victim doubled at $ 4 million.
On April 23, the crypto investor said, “I’m sick,” Reporting That he has been in contact with a private investigator who revealed that a client of his was that he had been the amount of $ 4 million of a Nigerian group with his name and face as a bait.
“They seem to have stabbed a number of people,” Melker said, and added, “they sent him a fake driver’s license to prove it was me,” and used his X Avatar as a picture.
Scammers used AI to produce Fake ID And use a fake but convincingly look like email account.
“They make pag -zoom calls with AI,” which is “seemingly sophisticated,” Melker said, adding that scammers have been spying his wife and children’s accounts to support the confirmation of identity.
Technical analysts “TheChartGuys” reported a similar thing, with someone who scammed for $ 5,000 after scammers replicate their voice using Ai deepfakes.
The fake ID is easy to see, says trader
The Crypto and businessman “Nebraskan Goooner” said a quick Google search that easily revealed that the ID was fake.
He said there were some subtle differences -different in address and date formats. He said it was giving up that these scammers were getting sophisticated, but “surprised how error it was on how sophisticated an operation it seemed.”
Cointelegraph handed Melker for further comments but did not receive an immediate response.
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AI-generated scams reduce as technology changes.
In March, the California Department of Justice warned That discovered seven new types of crypto scams involved in AI.
In February, the chainalysis said that 2025 would be a Big year for the AI scamstating that the development of AI makes the scams “more scalable and reach for the bad actor to perform.”
In a recent -only ReportGiant Microsoft software said the evil actors use AI to “supercharge their scams.”
“AI tools can scan and scrape the web for company information, which helps cyberattackers develop detailed profiles of employees or other targets to create highly convincingly -attract -Gineering,” he said.
“It’s going to be worse, I’m worse,” Melker mourned.
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