A British widow was conned out of £500k and misplaced her dwelling after being scammed by a pretend AI model of Jason Momoa.
Older individuals are typically the targets for scammers, who now benefit from synthetic intelligence to assist them persuade susceptible victims that they are surely the celebrities they declare to be.
We have already seen con artists tackle the personas of Brad Pitt and Gary Barlow in a bid to steal cash from the aged and the Hawaiian Hollywood star has grow to be the newest man to be utilised by sickening on-line scammers.
The lady, who has not been named, had adopted a fan web page for the Aquaman actor after her husband of fifty years had handed away, and she or he was shocked to obtain a message which she believed to be from Momoa himself not lengthy after.
AI-generated movies quickly satisfied the widow that she and the 46-year-old actor had been destined to be collectively after his divorce to Lisa Bonet in 2024, and the requests for money quickly adopted.
The fraudster advised to the lady that Momoa’s cash was tied up in movie tasks and requested for £500,000 in order that he may construct them a dream dwelling in his birthplace of Hawaii.
She even offered her home in Cambridgeshire to lift the funds however as soon as she despatched over the big sum, she instantly misplaced all contact together with her mysterious suitor.
Cambridgeshire Police stated: “This would possibly sound far-fetched however it’s a real story and it left a susceptible lady and not using a dwelling.”
This is not even the primary time that a man-made model of Momoa has been used to dupe an older lady out of her cash, as a grandmother from Newcastle additionally misplaced £80k in the identical manner.
She first despatched cash to him so he may e book flights to see her however ‘then it was presents for his daughter’.
The grandmother added: “I had conversations with who I assumed was his daughter who was turning 15.
“I used to be additionally instructed he was preventing his ex-wife for the home and he stated we would have liked a wedding certificates to maintain the home.
“So I used to be gullible and paid it.”
That is solely the newest instance of how AI continues to hurt society, with consultants virtually unanimously in settlement that the expertise is posing an enormous risk to humanity because it continues to realize intelligence.
You solely want to match the unique movies of Will Smith consuming spaghetti to see how far the tech has come previously few years, and AI dupes might be the least of our worries if it will definitely enslaves the human race.
In any case, as consultants have identified, there are only a few examples in historical past of a extra clever factor or individual being subservient to a much less clever one, with the godfather of AI suggesting that there could now solely be a method by which we will save ourselves.
LADbible has contacted the representatives of Jason Momoa for remark.
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