Modified Video of FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Directs Users to Fraudulent Website - This is What You Need to Know
A modified video of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, is trying to trick users into a fake crypto giveaway to potentially steal their funds. Over the weekend, a deepfake video im...
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Over the weekend, a deepfake video impersonating SBF was circulating on Twitter. To make the fake video more believable, scammers managed to use a Twitter blue account and mimic SBF’s real account....
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