2 How did musk become Jindong in the coin circle ？

source ： Face the pie （ID：faceurhart） author ： Bi Andi

Enthusiastic citizen musk worries about the fake twitter account , And roast started a video website YouTube Fraudulent advertising .

“YouTube The scam ads on the Internet are endless .”

6 month 7 Friday night , Musk posted this tweet and a spoof expression pack ： Avatar animated characters “ Patrick Star ” Of YouTube Angry in the face of dirty words , But it has nothing to do with advertising fraud 、 Hang up high , Alluding to the video site's over sensitivity to the creators' terms , But let fraud advertising rampant . These two tweets have gained 5 Wan Zan Zan .

In the comment area , Netizens suggested musk to open an advertising service YouTube In addition to paid services , They all think of twitter, which was flooded with fake accounts , Guess if musk is eyeing YouTube.

Someone posted a classic “ Chop and change ” emoticon ,“ musk ” Look at the passing YouTube, One side of the twitter cast surprised and angry eyes …… And musk flipped the sign of this comment , Watch the fun together .

But the joke is the joke , If you know how popular musk is with fraudsters , I knew he might not want to PUA This company , But I really want it to take care of it .

After all , The distress of ordinary netizens is just that they see fraud advertisements , Light is disturbing , The worst is to be cheated ; But musk —— The richest man in the world 、 Virtual currency is a well-known anchor with goods —— It is very possible to directly see your face appear in the fraud video .

Photos of female musk synthesized by face changing technology （ It's beautiful ）

Rely on advanced artificial intelligence technology , This kind of fraud is more and more bewitching ; And then spread through social media and short video platforms , Fly into ordinary people's homes , There are many cheaters .

The iron man of Silicon Valley , When you look at it, it becomes “ Jin Dong ”. Jin Dong is always making eye contact , Musk always sends tokens to people , Who can resist this .

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At the end of May , A scam advertisement suddenly appeared on the Internet , It claims that musk founded the cryptocurrency trading platform BitVex, Every day can bring 30% The underlying benefits . Swindler through deepfake Face changing technique , Made a series of videos .

In the video , So-called “BitVex founder ” Musk and TED Chairman Chris · Anderson sat together , The latter came up and asked “ Tell us how this project can help you make money ”, Musk replied ：“ It's all very simple , Everyone can make money .” He also said that , I have invested in this platform 5000 Thousands of dollars .（ Prompt again , It's all fake .）

And shoddy “ A false look ” A change of face is different , The face changing technology of this video has reached the level that ordinary people can't tell the true from the false , The sound is also musk's .

A liar forges “ Musk pushed BitVex” Video capture

besides , The fraudsters also forged the ark investment （Ark Invest）CEO Catherine · Wood 、 Charles, co-founder of Ethereum · Hoskinson and other celebrities in the coin circle recommend BitVex In the video .

And then , Fraudsters have hacked a lot YouTube account number , To post these videos . For example, a channel that originally introduced Arabic game videos , Suddenly upload a series BitVex Promotional videos .

Get into BitVex Website , Musk can also be seen in C position , The position is “ CEO ”, And money safety net （Binance）CEO Zhaochangpeng and ark investment CEO Catherine is divided between the left and the right .

The fraud was soon exposed . Musk himself responded to the video of face changing interview on twitter ：“ Mouth area , This must not be me .（Yikes. Def not me.）”

According to foreign media reports , This scam has only got about 2000 dollar . But such scam websites often change , So it is still not clear how many leeks were actually harvested .

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This is not the first time that musk has become a guest of the coin circle scam . In previous scams , Some swindlers even make a lot of money .

This year, 1 month , Musk and other famous people have been choreographed by cheaters , Directly cheated 130 Thousands of dollars .

“ Where it happened ” still YouTube. The swindler throws out a modified video , The original video is musk 、 Twitter founder Jack · Dorsey and Catherine discuss cryptocurrencies , After editing, it became a recommendation about ark investment .

The basic way to play a scam , And the supermarket commonly used “ Send eggs ” Promotions are very similar ： You save a coin , Give you two coins back . The fraudster reaped in just seven hours 40 Thousands of dollars .

Final , This scam was broken by the famous information security company McAfee . McAfee's security researchers released the report , Details the scam , And identified 11 A fraud website . According to the subsequent information released by McAfee , By 5 month 6 Japan , The total value of the wallet transactions of the above malicious websites has soared to 130 Thousands of dollars .

The largest amount of fake musk scam has been punctured at present , It was last year. “SpaceX Cryptocurrency ” event .

last year 5 At the beginning of , Cheaters use Musk's old video , With fake musk tweets , Swindle more than 1000 Thousands of dollars , and YouTube It's the hardest hit area , The swindler led the traffic here 900 Thousands of dollars .

The reason why this scam makes crazy money , Because its layout is very “ With your heart ”.

First , The swindler made a set of templates , You can put a fake tweet from musk 、 A previous video of musk and Tesla or SpaceX The logo of , It doesn't look as simple as a naked video , At a glance, I advise you to buy money quickly .

secondly , The swindler hacked many accounts , There are even millions of fans YouTube large , Location includes the United States 、 Germany 、 Brazil 、 India 、 Saudi Arabia 、 Philippines, etc. , All over the world .

then , The swindler changed his picture and name , Disguised as a famous American TV talk show 《 Saturday Night Live 》（SNL）, Or the producer of the program, NBC （NBC） The official account number of .

Why NBC and SNL？ Because musk was on the show , Swindlers take the opportunity “ Rub hot spots ”, The truth is that four or two pounds are needed 、 Take advantage of the situation .

Interestingly , Musk personally admitted that the dog coin is “ A scam ”. Although there is an element of joking , But combined with the pile of rotten things that happened behind it , I have to say the irony is full .

Musk in 《 Saturday Night Live 》 Say dog money is a scam , But the next sentence is “ sportive ”

Last , Liars on Twitter and YouTube A deluge of fraudulent advertisements , A straightforward template , Let you 3 To 5 You'll know what happened in minutes , And guide you to participate “ Double return ” The beauty of life .

Imagine , Official account with tens of millions of fans , Release the news that musk wants to send virtual currency , It's too hard not to be fooled .5 month 8 Musk on the program on the th , Before that, the scam “ frame ” It's all set up and has begun to cheat .

One by one, the money giving scams , Everyone is no stranger . But it is such a simple and old-fashioned scam , In musk and social media V blessings , It's still crazy .

So musk became “ Jin Dong ”. It's not an aunt who seeks the meaning of life , But money speculators who are afraid of missing a good opportunity .

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Virtual currency scams are rampant , Mask and YouTube They are all chessmen used in the scam .

6 month 3 Japan , A report issued by the Federal Trade Commission shows that , since 2021 Since the start of the year , exceed 4.6 Ten thousand people reported encountering a cryptocurrency scam , The total amount of loss exceeds 10 Billion dollars , amount to 2018 Year of 60 times .

Except for musk , Many celebrities have been used by scams .

2020 year , bill · gates 、 Obama 、 Twitter of celebrities such as Buffett was stolen , Swindlers release bitcoin fraud messages , Also familiar “ Send eggs ” tricks , You give to me. 1000 dollar , I'll pay you back 2000 dollar .

YouTube Is not the only cryptocurrency scam “ Fertile field ”, Musk is also a liar's paradise when he wants to buy twitter that he hasn't bought yet .

As early as 2018 year , American Internet security company Duo Security I found twitter “ Corpse ” The Internet . The network is composed of 1.5 Ten thousand robots , It will copy the avatar and account name of ordinary users , Then by commenting on the tweets of ordinary people , Spread cryptocurrency scam Links .

In the same year , Hackers have hacked into multiple twitter authentications “ blue V” account number , Including film production companies 、 Members of Congress and even the Colombian Ministry of transport , Change the name and picture to musk , And publish such as “ I will leave Tesla ” And send out 1 Ten thousand bitcoins .

BBC （BBC） Also reported last year happened to a German man “ tragedy ”.

He followed musk twitter , I received a message from musk that night ：“Dojo 4 Doge”, It's incredible , Just click to see what this means .

After the open , He saw musk in the comment area “ own ” Another link has been posted , Open link is a link from “ Musk and Tesla team ” A limited time event , Invite people to send 0.1~20 Bitcoin , The team will return double .

He examined the avatar of the comment carefully 、 The names are musk , And there is a dazzling blue beside the name V identification , for gospel truth , Choose to send 10 Bitcoin wallet with a bitcoin to comment link .

But actually , Although released “Dojo 4 Doge” It was musk himself , But this one in the comment area is a fake , It's probably black and blue V The account is disguised as musk , Comment on Musk's tweets , People think it is Musk's own post . The man eventually lost about 40 Thousands of pounds （ renminbi 335 Ten thousand yuan ）.

BBC What the man saw in the report , It's real musk , The comment area is fake musk

Liars are hard to track , The platform cannot escape the blame .

2020 year ,YouTube Face at least 18 A lawsuit involving cryptocurrency fraud . Cryptocurrency companies Ripple And apple co-founder Steve · Wozniak has been with YouTube Engage in a lawsuit .

Ripple The company wrote in its blog post ：“ Large technology companies and the media need to assume the responsibility of protecting consumers .” but YouTube The lawyer of said , According to the relevant US fouls , The platform is not responsible for these scams .

Most of these lawsuits ended in platform wins . For example, Steve lost the lawsuit , The local judge held that YouTube You don't have to be responsible for what users post .

The platform is not indifferent to scams , But it seems that I can't do what I want .

last year , Of a late American musician YouTube Account stolen , It is used to publicize the virtual currency scam under the guise of musk .YouTube At that time, he responded that , platform “ There are strict guidelines , No fraud , Including hacking and counterfeiting ”, And the videos violating the regulations have been deleted .

But this kind of scam will use several accounts to spread , The speed of platform audit often cannot catch up with the speed of swindlers . Now , Swindlers are becoming more and more skilled “ acting ”—— Including the impossible to prevent fake accounts , And confuse the fake with the real Deepfake Face changing technique —— Make everything worse .

for example , Not long ago, a Hebei man who looks like musk burst into flames on his microblog , It even attracted the attention of the Buddha . Musk tweeted that , Willing to meet this person , But the premise is that he really exists .

Musk sighed at the same time ,“ It's hard to tell these days Deepfake 了 .”

The Internet users are enthusiastic about eating melons “ Two way to ”, Finally, it came to an outrageous end ：“ Hebei musk ” Blocked by Weibo , Several videos imitating musk have been deleted . This is obviously another AI Technical support farce .

go back to “ Coin circle Jindong ” The topic of , Musk can only count on YouTube Do something other than organize fraud advertising , just so so “ Three provinces in my body ”：

Am I too enthusiastic about virtual currency （ So people think I have something to do “ Send eggs ” The probability is high ）？

Do I always do things that people expect （ So it's very easy to cheat people with my trading platform ）？

Is it true that I always send tweets with unclear meaning （ So there are opportunities for counterfeiting accounts ）？

however , Musk will certainly continue to turn the tide in the coin circle , Swindlers will use technology to make more money , Unfortunately, only ordinary money speculators . It's not because we want to fry money .