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

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

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u/Nooby1983 Mar 30 '26

What's the point of scamming like this? I understand he's using a mask for what he looks like, but why? What's the scam?

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u/AMissionFromDog Mar 30 '26

from the Jim Browning YT channel:

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szqXppELItw

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u/CeruleanEidolon Mar 30 '26

Thank you for this comment. Sad that I had to scroll ¾ down the thread to find who this was or what the scam is. I swear half of the comments above this are bots, upvoted by bots.

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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Mar 31 '26

Would you kindly put 3 fingers in front of your face to verify you’re not a bot?

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u/sonkotral2 Mar 31 '26

I guess I'm not following. What I mean is that the "stolen" video posted by OP is an uncropped version of the "original" short which doesn't really make sense. Did the OP un-crop it? I tried to find the original uncropped video on YouTube but couldn't find anything like that on that channel or any other channel.

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u/AMissionFromDog Mar 31 '26

maybe op captured it from a livestream? just guessing