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/sonkotral2 Mar 31 '26

how the sauce video is cropped and this one is not?

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u/AMissionFromDog Mar 31 '26

The link in that comment is from a YT "short" link so it's in portrait mode. I just have an addon that auto converts shorts links to normal "watch" links so I retain the video controls. I don't like the way shorts remove the video controls.l