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 Crypto scammers use AI deepfakes to promote fake Trump and Musk giveaways.

With the addition of artificial intelligence (AI), deepfake scams have reached new levels of sophistication, making fraud schemes more and more difficult to decipher. A recent illustration of this is the distribution of deepfake videos featuring US President Donald Trump on the X platform to entice unsuspecting individuals to take part in a scam involving cryptocurrency.  On the X platform, AI-generated videos of Trump, Musk, and Butrin promoted crypto fraud.  While creative AI drives significant advances, it also increases the risk of deep-fake scams.    The widespread availability and decreasing cost of generative AI tools has put these technologies within the reach of even the most cash-strapped fraudsters, allowing them to produce great, realistic fake media with minimal effort.

  Digital deception utilized manipulated images and fake websites in the past. Real videos with voices that are almost indistinguishable from reality are now being shared on the Internet, making it hard to tell the difference between real and fake.

This article does not link to any scam websites, but the account X behind these fraud schemes is very real.    It is strongly recommended to avoid interacting with these X accounts or these websites.    Even a brief visit to one of these fictitious websites could result in unintended and potentially harmful outcomes.  A fake video shared this week specifically shows Donald Trump interviewing Maria Bartiromo, which may have been edited from one of his previous interviews.    In the artificially produced and deceptively edited video, the AI-altered Trump announced, "Share this with the world.  Starting right now, I'm going to give [scam website] with Elon Musk $20 million in cryptocurrency."  Fake Bartiromo then asked, "How do I join the video?", "Just go to the website [scam website], it just takes a few simple steps.  Bartiromo enthusiastically responded, "It shouldn't take more than three minutes."  I will unquestionably join.  Videos can be found all over the X platform, particularly in the response section for posts from crypto media and influencers. Notably, each of the Trump deepfake videos we found contained a different URL, although some websites were repeated across multiple videos.    A query revealed that all of these Trump-related scam websites were privately registered by Nicenic on March 12, 2025.    Further examination of these X accounts distributing the videos reveals that this is not their first attempt to spread AI-generated scams.

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