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Deepfake Anthony Albanese used in celebrity scams duping Australians out of $7.4m, Asic warns
Australia’s corporate watchdog says PM is the figure most commonly used in deepfakes to promote phoney investment opportunities
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There has been a steep rise in scammers luring victims into phoney investment opportunities using deepfakes of celebrities and politicians, Australia’s corporate watchdog has warned.
Real footage of the prime minister, overlaid with fake audio promising Australians can invest $4,000 to earn $40,000 a month, appears in one video online.
“This is not just another scam product,” the deepfake Albanese says, falsely describing it as an “official platform” with a government guarantee.
VIDEO: Alan Kohler among public figures most impersonated in investment scams
Scammers are using impersonations of celebrities, politicians and trusted public figures to promote fake investment schemes, with the corporate watchdog warning AI is making the practice increasingly common, sophisticated and harder to detect.
Scammers are using impersonations of celebrities, politicians and trusted public figures to promote fake investment schemes, with the corporate watchdog warning AI is making the practice increasingly common, sophisticated and harder to detect.
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The fake Alan Kohler interview that shows a type of scam that’s on the rise
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock sits down across the studio from ABC finance presenter Alan Kohler.
According to a now-removed article that appeared online, the interview gets increasingly heated, until, astonishingly, Bullock storms out. She doesn’t like Kohler’s questions about a system called Boulder Sparhaven, “an algorithm that automatically exploits market functions”.
But Boulder Sparhaven, a cryptocurrency trading platform, is not licensed to provide financial services in Australia, and the federal government’s Moneysmart website urges people to “be wary” of dealing with it. And that fiery interview between Kohler and Bullock never happened.
It’s a kind of scam that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission says is on the rise.
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