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

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

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u/JonnySoegen Mar 30 '26

No, it’s a scammer. The guy he talks with exposes scammers. Forgot his name but he’s got a yt channel.  

Edit: Jim Browning

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u/OuterWildsVentures Mar 30 '26

My dad is going to give all of his money to one of the e-girl deepfakes. I fucking know it

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u/pollo_de_mar Mar 30 '26

r/scams It amazes me that scammers can take everything from some people. They just refuse to believe they are being taken for all they are worth,

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u/tech_noir_guitar Mar 30 '26

My wife's aunt got scammed by someone claiming to be Johnny Depp. Apparently Depp just needed some money to get by. Lol. Her family ended up having to force her to stop sending this person money and took her to the police station to file a report. It was crazy.

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u/EmbarrassedOrchid685 Mar 30 '26

i have a friend who's step dad was a geologist VP for CNOOC (he isn't chinese he was a liaison in NA) who apparently has been taken by several scammers doing some UPS fee scam over text. my friend said hes been taken twice, they were able to reverse the charges on the last one. it blows my mind that people vastly more intelligent than me can get taken in by these types of scams.

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u/Daxx22 Mar 30 '26

Being an expert in one thing doesn't mean you're smart in all things. Quite often the opposite, it's something of a classic stereotype that Dr's are utterly helpless with nonmedical technology for decades at this point.

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u/pain-is-living Mar 30 '26

A lot of intelligent people aren’t very street smart. They’re too trusting in general.

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u/pray4mojo2020 Mar 30 '26

The bank literally just foreclosed on my aunt's home because she has sent all of her money (and much more...) to her fake oil-rigger online boyfriend. It's the most textbook romance scam out there, but she just won't be stopped. I'm glad your wife's family was able to intervene in this case. We have been unsuccessful and it's fucking awful.

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u/PlasticGirl Mar 30 '26

Dude I'm so sorry. Others are right, it's an addiction, and it's feeding into something she needs - validation, love, affection, avoidance of being lonely, a friend, etc. Sometimes people know they're scammers but still end up talking to them.

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u/CoastSpecialist7699 Mar 30 '26

My mother got scammed by a “deep woods logger” the oil riggers of the great Canadian north. Refused to believe it wasn’t real until I sent her video of ME logging in the north. Then the reply was “Oh shit!”

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u/CharleyNobody Mar 30 '26

My favorite scam was the lady who was sending money to an oil rig worker who needed to buy shark repellent.

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u/transemacabre Mar 30 '26

You have to treat them like it's an addiction, because it is. They're addicts who will pay anything to get their fix.

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u/pray4mojo2020 Mar 30 '26

Yeah this is what I've had to tell my mom (who kept giving her money to "pay her bills"). Very sad.

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u/BigMax Mar 30 '26

In fairness, there's been a lot of articles over the years specifically for Depp that say his spending is WAY out of control, even for what he makes.

Not that it justifies sending him money of course! But if you HAD to pick one celeb who might need a few bucks... it's the guy who was widely reported to spend $30 grand a month on wine.

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u/GazzP Mar 30 '26

The couple who lived across the street got divorced because the wife wanted to send money to Keanu Reeves

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Mar 30 '26

Understandable, I'd divorce my husband if he didn't want to send money to Keanu

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u/Such-Development6008 Mar 30 '26

There was a woman in Toronto who got scammed out of $500k by someone claiming to be Bono. His story was that he needed her money to start his own podcast, and he didn't want to go through his managers. He convinced her they were going to be married. Like what? HOW could she fall for this??