Internet scams are becoming more and more common and Scammers are doubling their ingenuity to find the best way to extract money from their gullible victims.. Today, It is Alain Chabat who alerts Internet users to a scam that uses his image and his name.
Scammers are betting on deepfakes to scam internet users
With the development of new technologies, and mainly with artificial intelligence, Scammers have no qualms about using deepfake to trick victims into thinking they are communicating with celebrities et in fine, to make them transfer sums that could amount to thousands of euros. Recently, Brad Pitt found himself at the heart of a scam. Two Spanish fans of the American star believed they were in a relationship with her and lost 325,000 euros. We also remember that Florent Pagny had a rant on social networks after Several of his fans were scammed with a deepfakeThe singer explained that the scammers had used an old video of him that he had shared himself and modified the lyrics while keeping his voice.
Lately, Alain Delon video featuring the late French actor to promote the services of an online casino and viewed by millions of Internet users on social networks had finally been deactivated.
Alain Chabat alerts his fans about this scam of which he is a victim
Today it’s the turn ofAlain Chabatthe famous actor-director to whom we owe the exceptional Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra or the excellent game Burger Quiz, who wished alert his fans of a scam in which he finds himself in the front row without his knowledge.
Indeed, it is through his press officer that we learn that Alain Chabat’s image is fraudulently used for a scam using a fake interview with the latter. For his agent, “This scam found on the Cronetrix Form program website misuses the image and words of Alain Chabat, without his knowledge.“. He specifies that the artist has no connection with “these so-called methods of easy enrichment through investments in social banking programs.” Quite simply: “it is a pure scam“.
And Alain Chabat wanted to alert the public through his agent, it is because the actor and director “is concerned to prevent gullible Internet users from being victims of abuse of trust and from being trapped by this site or others of the same nature“.
Now you know that If you see Chabat promising you to make money on the Internet, it is a scam. With him, you can, at most, win a Jeep Renegaaaaade and have a laugh and that is priceless!
Source: hitek.fr
