AI Elon Musk crypto scam - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: graybeard
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 12:56:52 am
content: I searched youtube for a link to the spacex launch and came across this channel SpaceXhttps://www.youtube.com/@spacex-official-corpI started watching it and it appeared to be the official spacex channel with the launch. 3-minutes after the launch it said standby for an important message from Elon Musk. Then the AI generated Musk came on pushing a crypto scam.

author: Jackster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 01:15:44 am
content: Can't be too sure these days. Might be a scam. Might actually be Elon Musk.BTC wallet on their stream has received $6k in the past hour or so...https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qusp87n2mng39sl6ckx5xx74ryudcsk9g0g74ms$1200 on Dogehttps://blockchair.com/dogecoin/address/DQ4BGpNMeM6YQ7PwKGaWpW8X8NyN4zyLFy

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 01:20:18 am
content: Its been a thing for a while now. Videos that mentions his name seem to have a ton of crypto scam comments in them as well.The real channel is just "https://www.youtube.com/spacex"https://www.cloudsek.com/knowledge-base/elon-musk-deepfakes-are-fueling-crypto-scams-a-dangerous-trend

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 01:34:00 am
content: Yes crypto scams with fake Musk channels have been going on for a long time. Actually, they had mostly disappeared but they seem to be coming back.Nobody's ever going to double your crypto just because they're nice.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 01:43:07 am
content: Yep, any time you see a- QR code, and/or,- Musk, and/or,- People talking about crypto, and/or,- 2 for 1 crypto schemesIt's a scam.Additional signs the above is a scam- It's a livestream (they usually are live)- It has comments/chat disabled- The Youtube channel only hosts that 1 live video you are watching, or it has other videos that seem to be random and not at all related to crypto/musk/space. (They are usually hijacked YouTube channels that have been renamed to something space or crpto related).Just right click and report as bitcoin/crypto scam.

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 01:58:18 am
content: SpaceX does not stream on YouTube for like 2 years already. Either watch it on X or watch some other 3rd party stream. Crypto scammers with hacked accounts are in love with SpaceX and Elon.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 02:05:05 am
content: thats from the year 3000 when there is robot marriage scams

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 03:27:11 am
content: Quote from: Simmed on January 17, 2025, 01:37:04 amYes, same for some comments that can be deleted pretty fast, while the rampant bot fake accounts on YT that comment always the same stuff with those butt avatars are apparently welcome. (My wild guess is that they are actually YT bots to experiment with non-human accounts, that they are all going to implement, FB announced it already.) There are also these accounts who impersonate the channel owners, asking to discuss on Telegram - these comments are like ULTRA easy to spot automatically, but somehow YT doesn't do squat about it.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 12:21:50 pm
content: FB has been running fake bot accounts for a long time, and reportedly they are nuking them now because users found out and started to play with them and laugh at the stupidity.https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.htmlQuote

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 01:37:52 pm
content: Those videos promoting crypto scams are common place for quite a while. Another scam method using celebs is via emails allegedly from Buffet or Musk gifting you a large sum of money (variant of the classic Nigerian scam). Obtrusive celebs.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2025, 10:09:57 pm
content: Quote from: magic on January 17, 2025, 12:21:50 pmNuking them... uh huh. Sure. They just have an odd way of "nuking".https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2025/01/02/meta-opens-floodgates-on-ai-generated-accounts-on-facebook-instagram/

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 18, 2025, 12:08:49 am
content: Well, my article is one day newer, so maybe yours is part of the "backlash" that mine talks about.But then again it's the Fake News Network, so who knowsI'm afraid I'm too lazy to register a Farceberg account to find out first hand. Anyone willing to take one for the team?

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 19, 2025, 05:26:15 am
content: Wow, so it's possible, (maybe even happened), that one FB user's BOT could be paying real cash money, to some other random FB user's BOT, and totally automatic, while the, uhh; Owners are in the dark!

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 19, 2025, 06:40:56 pm
content: On a sidenote, we have some new Crypto scam happening, right in front of every US citizen.As we Germans say: "Kann man sich nicht ausdenken."

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 19, 2025, 06:48:55 pm
content: Translation: "You can't make this stuff up!".

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 20, 2025, 06:29:25 am
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on January 19, 2025, 06:48:55 pmThat's the translation, but it lacks the deeper meaning.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 20, 2025, 06:40:11 am
content: Quote from: Haenk on January 20, 2025, 06:29:25 amCould be.Sometimes translation is like making a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox of a ... phrase.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 26, 2025, 06:28:44 am
content: This is a really common scam that has been running for quite a while, can be hard to spot straight away. It usually involves Youtube accounts that have been compromised, the legitimate owners either don't know, or have been locked out by the threat actor, and they "rebrand" the channel and livestream old launches.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 27, 2025, 10:31:53 am
content: hmm the clip of austin powers account got terminated after I posted it in this threadi guess this forum has a copyright snoopi wonder what he violated by having a ancient video up of a old ass movie that was not popular for 20 years, I think the last time anyone mentioned it was like 2005 lol.i saw it happen a number of years ago on a old music video.