cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/56223456
George Hendricks, a 69-year-old from Leesburg, a suburb of Orlando, told ClickOrlando he lost $45,000 after a scammer targeted him with a deepfake video of Musk. Deepfakes are digitally-altered videos often used to impersonate notable public figures.
Now, Hendricks tells the outlet that his wife “wants to get a divorce” over the scam.
He’s an idiot…but his wife is also likely a gold digger?
…but at the same time he’s old and shouldn’t be expected to be tech savvy. I’m always worried about the viral nonsense my elderly mom falls for. If mom didn’t have a son like me drilling it into her head that everything is fake…theydve got her money by now.
What don’t understand is why isn’t social media fucking complicit for allowable these ads? Back in the 80s you couldn’t tell a white lie in a TV commercial or else you’d get fined…but YouTube and Facebook aren’t even required to have actual people checking the ads people post on their site?
Pfft, I would divorce my husband if he fell for a Musk grift, and it has nothing to do with gold digging. It would, however, mean that my husband kept hidden for a long time (which is impressive, I gotta say) just how big of a fucking moron he is and I won’t be married to that. And he should be avoiding anything to do with Musk like the plague anyway.
Also, it would mean that he made the decision to throw away a bunch of money without even talking to me about it (because I would veto the hell out of it), which means he’s an asshole.
Both good reasons to divorce someone imo.
But would you marry an idiot in the first place?
Seriously? Idiots do very well with women.
It’s true.
But could it be that idiot men do well with idiot women?
No, that’s why I said it would be impressive to hide it this long. :p
I don’t see where his wife is a gold digger. According to the article, he’s fallen for repeated scams and, the way they work is that once you’ve fallen for one scam, they sell your information to other scammers as an easy mark. As her spouse, he probably has access to all her money; if they get divorced, she’ll at least be able to protect her half of their assets.
[Notice that it doesn’t say his wife wants to leave him, just get divorced.]
I’m just guessing…who knows what her motivation is.
I commented because of how bad social media is for automating ads.
Would you stay married to that dumbass? That stupidity is unforgivable.
She married that dumbass in the first place…maybe because he had money shrug.
Gold diggers don’t go for 69-year-olds with 45k to their name
I’m not super committed to this…but we know nothing about her and the only thing we know about her is she didn’t love him and left when the money was gone. I like fiction, so I can fill in the rest:
She obviously “dug her gold” long before he was 69. She was a meth head…10s of thousands was like millions to her. It’s Florida, after all. She married a moron in the first place, she’d been stealing his money for years. Him being stupid wasn’t surprising…it was just a pretext for her to bail and take half of what was left because, with no cash, there was no point in staying.
You don’t know anything about how they earned their money or manage it other than he wasted a considerable amount of their wealth near or probably past retirement.
You’re bringing way to much logic to his “women are the actual bad ones” bullshit.
Neither do you.
I feel like it’s not just being tech-savvy though. He seems to lack basic common sense.
Why would you assume that a free car giveaway would necessitate you paying transfer fees, why wouldn’t that have already been pre-arranged. After all it’s a Tesla car presumably Tesla the ones who are going to deliver it. Additionally why would the competition be exclusive to a niche Facebook group and not a national campaign. It all just seems very obviously a scam.
My parents aren’t particularly tech savvy and often send me AI garbage but they wouldn’t be easy marks because both of them have critical thinking skills, or at least my mother does. But my dad has learnt to do what he’s told.
Plenty of giveaways work just like this. Paying the taxes and fees wasnt that common at all up until recently.
I said he was an idiot AND she’s a gold digger.
She married this dumbass, ffs…she’s probably not cool.
What aspect of any of this makes you think she’s a gold digger the article never says virtually anything about her except she wants to divorce.
Because she married a moron? What about this article makes you think good things about her?
In your head canon she’s an angel with bad taste or something?
Cutting someone loose who makes terrible financial decisions is not gold digger behavior. They are likely retired and have limited resources to worry about and he just blew a big chunk of that. This also doesn’t speak well of his intelligence overall so maybe this was a long time coming.
Huh. Why would you write this positive back story for her?
All we know about her is she married this dumbass in the first place and left him because of money.
Nothing I wrote is positive buddy. It’s a shit situation.
I dunno. My mom is his age and taught us how to build crystal radios when we were kids for fun. She still does it every few years with the grandkids as they grow up. She’s still sharp as a whisk.
Whisks are not sharp. Do you mean whip? Or am I missing the joke?
Whips are not sharp
True but it’s an idiom, so I’d be more confident of the meaning. I thought they might be making a pun.
it’s “smart as a whip” and “sharp as a tack”
Yes, I know, but it sounds like “whisk” so I thought it was supposed to be a joke. Didn’t think I’d spend this long on this topic. Take care :)
You know what else isn’t sharp? Lisps.
You don’t have to be tech savvy to realise the adage “if it sounds too good to be true…”. I would have thought Americans of all people would develop armour against scams. But even a modicum of due diligence like asking relatives, or googling his situation might have protected him.
I should add that my dad is 80 and housebound and gets scam calls all the time and bats them off like flies so being old is not an excuse.
I said he was stupid. What do you want from me?