Quantum AI Scam Reportedly Used AI-Generated Celebrity Endorsements and Spoofed Media Sites to Solicit Investments
January 1, 2020
A global investment fraud network known as Quantum AI has reportedly used AI-generated deepfake videos, fake news sites, phishing pages, and spoofed calls to deceive victims. The scheme allegedly impersonates celebrities, news outlets, and political leaders to promote fraudulent trading platforms, leading targets to transfer money they cannot recover. Investigations suggest coordinated operations across multiple countries and platforms.
- Alleged deployer
- quantum-ai-scammers, quantum-ai
- Alleged developer
- unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers, unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, generative-ai-companies
- Alleged harmed parties
- youtube-users, victims-of-impersonation-scams, victims-of-deepfake-enabled-fraud, steph-mcgovern, spencer-and-stanley, social-media-users, smithville-international, rishi-sunak, richard-branson, retail-investors, meta-users, martin-lewis, mark-carney, keir-starmer, investors, general-public, forbes, financial-services-customers, elon-musk, elderly-investors, el-universo, dw-news, domenica-in, david-beckham, daily-mirror, cryptocurrency-investors, consumers, cnn, bbc
Source
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