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by betterhealth12 301 days ago
I watched this story and couldn't believe it when the actor responds to the anchor,

"That I know of that have lost money (to scammers impersonating him)? It's in the 100s...

I see people come to my appearances and look at me like we've had a relationship online for a couple of years and I'm like, no, I'm so sorry, I don't know who you are. It's so sad, and you see the devastation."

youtube.com/watch?v=ghmvOP6Daso

At 1:52:00 in this DOAC video Steven says his team spends 30% of their time sorting through deepfake ads, to the extent he had to hire someone whose exclusive job is to spot scam videos and report them to FB etc:

https://youtu.be/JMYQmGfTltY?si=ntuDgXuhMYj2fh5z&t=6706

I feel like there's a big undercurrent brewing but because the individual damages are not high enough and victims have limited recourse, nothing significant happens.