While Apple presented the iPhone 16, Crypto Scammers used deepfakes pf Tim Cook to pull off a crypto scam.
Everyone was hyped about the announcement of the new iPhone 16, but crypto scammers took advantage of that hype for their own good.
Fake Tim Cook Wants You To Go Into Crypto
While Apple was presenting its new iPhone 16 via YouTube livestream, crypto scammers were flooding YouTube with fake livestreams on accounts that pretended to be Apple.
Breaking Apple US YouTube channel hacked? There is a fake Ai video of TimCook streaming on it asking for bitcoin. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/b2DOyhxBLL
— Abhishek Bhatnagar (@abhishek) September 9, 2024
In those fake livestreams an AI-generated version of Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, asked viewers to send their Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ether and Tether to a certain address, so that Apple would send them double the amount back, as a giveaway.
That sounds like Apple, doesn't it?
How Did They Fall For This?
We have no idea how people fell for this, especially since the AI-generated stream had two very obvious giveaways:
- The fake Apple channel only had 194k followers, where the official channel has almost 20 million.
- The description of the livestream was just a collection of buzzwords.
Please don't be this gullible yourself.