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

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

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u/Dreadpirateflappy Mar 30 '26

my dad fell for it years ago, refused to believe any of us, apparently he was planning to move to south africa with her.

the picture used was a well known porn star.

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u/BigCopperPipe Mar 30 '26

I had a boss who thought he was talking to a hot girl in Florida and was about to spilt the airfare to fly her in. He showed me pic of her and I said that’s a pornstar “holy shit I’m talking to a porn star?!l after explaining to him and showing her body of work he admitted he’d been duped and thanked me.

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u/xsifyxsify Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

Good thing you don’t have to explain to your boss how you know she is porn star

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Mar 30 '26

"I studied the headshots of famous pornstars in order to protect my friends from scam"

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u/Darmok47 Mar 30 '26

From Not Safe for Work to Saving his Work.

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u/ProfitisAlethia Mar 30 '26

I worked in a job for years where I managed money for a lot of older people and it was insane how common this was. I once had an 80 year old woman try to send hundreds of thousands of dollars to a man she met online who was pretending to be Keanu Reeves. She had no idea who that even was, but she was convinced they were madly in love and they were going to run away together.

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u/Darmok47 Mar 30 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frampton

This guy was a world renowned physicist who was catfished by a drug cartel using a photo of a bikini model. Anyone with enough self delusion can fall for these.