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Ontario man loses $12K to deepfake scam involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
(toronto.ctvnews.ca)
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
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This is when my headache started.
After reading the fairly uninformative article, it sounds like the deepfake video recommend a platform that looked legit, but was essentially a one way black hole for people's money. It showed them fake numbers climbing to get them to invest more - not just JT recommending crypto, which is actually kind of a shame.
Buying bitcoin last November (2023) would be one of the best times to buy as it's basically doubled since.
I remember that scam being top of my yt list for about 4 months. When I saw it was Elon and JT I knew it was a scam as 1) Elon wouldn't give us access to this advantage and 2) JT is not a grifter like a certain orange individual, this smelled foul from the start. I would also be surprised to see PP in something like this as he and JT both like their cash for access dinners. Now this DOES fall squarely on YT for not vetting their ads and protecting their viewers. What would happen to CBC, CTV, or any other network that aired ads like this? No one who is wealthy is going to help us plebs get to their level, that should be all you need to spot a scam.