Internet scams are becoming more and more common and crooks are becoming more ingenious in finding the best way to get money from their gullible victims. Today, it's Alain Chabat who alerts Internet users about a scam that uses his image and name.
Scammers are banking on deepfake to scam Internet users
With the development of new technologies, and mainly with artificial intelligence, scammers have no qualms about using deepfake to make victims believe that they are communicating with celebrities and ultimately, to make them transfer sums that could amount to thousands of euros. Recently, Brad Pitt found himself at the heart of a scam. Two Spanish fans of the American star thought they were in a relationship with her and lost 325,000 euros. We also remember that Florent Pagny had a rant on social networks after several of his fans were scammed with a deepfake. The singer explained that the scammers had used an old video of him that he himself had shared and modified the lyrics while keeping his voice.
Recently, a video of Alain Delon which featured the deceased French actor to praise the services of an online casinoand viewed by millions of Internet users on social networks had finally been deactivated.
Alain Chabat alerts his fans about this scam he is the victim of
Today, it is the turn of Alain Chabat, the famous actor-director to whom we owe the exceptional Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra or the excellent game Burger Quiz, who wanted to alert his fans about a scam in which he finds himself in the front row without his knowledge.
Indeed, it is through his press officer that we learn that Alain Chabat's image is being fraudulently used for a scam using a fake interview with the latter. For his agent, “this scam found on the Cronetrix Form program website misuses Alain Chabat's image and words, without his knowledge“. He specifies that the artist has no connection with “these so-called methods of easy enrichment through investments in social banking programs”. Quite simply: “this is a pure scam“.
If Alain Chabat wished alert the public through his agent, it is because the actor and director “is anxious to avoid gullible Internet users are victims of abuse of trust and do not get trapped by this site or others of the same nature“.
Now you know that < strong>if you see Chabat promising you to earn money on the Internet, it's a scam. With him, you can, at most, win a Jeep Renegaaaaade and make yourself laugh and that, çIt's priceless!