I started a dedicated thread on this topic, with a detailed report from the CBC explaining how these scammers use AI and social media to fleece their victims.
Jeezus this report is alarming. A team of fraudsters first exposed by Swedish media, who shared their findings with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who analyzed fraudster conversations to locate victims, in this case folks in Ontario and Quebec.
Two key points in this fraudster scheme: the use of AI generated videos (presented by the CBC starting around the 5:30 mark in the video below) which are spread around on f-book which has apparently become a fraudster playground.
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