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.
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?