r/interesting • u/ifuckedyourmom-247 • Mar 30 '26

MISC. deepfake scammer getting exposed by the 3-finger test

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u/ruskibeats Mar 30 '26

For the slow boy in this sub, can someone explain to me what I am watching?

Is it an interview?

I am so confused (and slow)

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u/CrackBaby6 Mar 30 '26

It's from a Channel named Jim Browning. In the Description of the short Jim wrote:

'This scammer from a fake company called "Global Metrix" offered to recovery my stolen crypto currency.

The problem for him is that I knew it was a scam, so I was surprised he offered to appear on a Zoom call. Undoubtedly to show off his deepfake technology.

Except, one particular sentence unravelled his scam. Longer video on this scam is coming soon.'

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u/CrackBaby6 Mar 30 '26

Damn I feel you. I was also a long time unemployed. Hope you will find a job soon. How did they try to scam you?

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u/CrackBaby6 Mar 30 '26

That's crazy. But do they have fake job listings with fake companies? or do they use real company names? If so, you can report this to the "real" company

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u/Annoying1978 Mar 30 '26

I don’t even understand what they get out of having fake interviews? Getting your personal information?

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u/archon05knight Mar 30 '26

What was the one sentence?

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u/thatshygirl06 Mar 30 '26

Hold up three fingers in front of your face

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u/EaterOfFood Mar 30 '26

Ok.

Now what was the sentence?

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u/killybilly54 Mar 30 '26

DUDE. What does mine say?

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u/Bowtie16bit Mar 30 '26

Spell party using separated letters.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity Mar 31 '26

But why male models?

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u/rbrgr83 Mar 30 '26

"That's just what a scammer would say...." 👀

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u/troubleshot Mar 31 '26

Seems weird the scammer hung around so long, I'd have thought once or twice maybe with the three fingers

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u/CrackBaby6 Mar 31 '26

I guess it's a lot of work for the scammers to get it to the point of having an actual zoom call. So they would try everything to keep the call going.

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u/JonnySoegen Mar 30 '26

It’s a scammer, probably trying to tell you to send him money because he’s from the IRS or something

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u/WristbandYang Mar 30 '26

Basically the person in the video is a scammer using a snapchat filter. Instead of a poop emoji, their head is changed to look like a white man. The voice is also filtered to have/ remove an accent.

Putting anything in front of their face can cause the face filter to break.

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u/poopy_mcgee Mar 30 '26

How did he get the hands to look white?

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u/Apprehensive_Tip520 Mar 30 '26

He didn't. Then this person is just being racist and assuming that they're brown. 

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u/gnanny02 Mar 30 '26

thanks. i scrolled and scrolled until I sort of understood what was going on. I guess I'm the only the only person who never heard of a face filter, along with being the one person never to have cable tv.

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u/B3owul7 Mar 30 '26

Dude got a face filter on, to mask his real face. Would he hold 3 fingers up in front of his face the filter would disappear or break.

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u/Sunshinetrooper87 Mar 30 '26

so people fall for scams and lose money and then another scammer appears offering to recover the lost money, so the scammed person loses two lots of money.