How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer

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• something_random_tho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since when is Deepfake Musk a bigger scammer than real Musk? The man’s been selling “full self-driving” upgrades to Teslas for years, and they’re no closer to “full self-driving” now than they were at the start. Surely real Musk has scammed for more people.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the tube trains that the world has know to be a scam for over a century. But at least he was correct when he said Starship would be sending people to Mars in 2022 and 2024, that the cybertruck would work as a boat, that model 3s would appreciate rather than depreciate, that solar roof tiles would replace normal solar panels by 2020, that the tunnels under Vegas would use high speed sleds, that Falcon 9 couple be reconditioned for flight faster than the space shuttle, that a $30k Tesla roaster was released in 2017, and Twitter hasn’t become an (even more) hate filled echo chamber.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The list goes on…

      elonmusk.today

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t invest 690000$ on any single opportunity, even if Jesus himself came to endorse it and promise lifetime supply of red wine.

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• jagermo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, doubling money sent to this account, the old Jita scam.

  Playing Eve online should be mandatory to teach people about scams an social engineering

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The scams are designed as alzheimers screening tools. Teaching will help some people, but not that many.

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• damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could it be that the one who tweets is also this scammer?

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most of the ones I see are just spam emails for some amazing new heater/air conditioner/phone charger with Musks name and face on them, they don’t even bother with a deep fake.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine seeing his face on a product and thinking, “Wow this looks trustworthy and reliable.” 🫤

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s very interesting! kitboga actually paid to get into this Elon AI scam, and talked to this sociopath Lana for a long while.

  As soon as you sign up for the AI “trading” scam, you get added onto a database to be spammed endlessly by scammers who bought into the ads.

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