Attention XRP investors: Ripple warns of increasing fraud attempts using AI
- XRP investors see each other more and more Threat of AI-powered fraud exposed – the fraudsters pose as Ripple executives.
- The IT security company Certik reports that crypto fraud caused damage of over $2.1 billion in the first half of 2025 alone.
Ripple has issued a scam warning to XRP investors. It’s a new variant in which fraudsters use artificial intelligence to target their victims.
According to Ripple Criminals create fake livestreams and deepfake videos posing as Ripple executives, such as CEO Brad Garlinghouse, to trick unsuspecting investors into sending them money.
Beware of scams using fake Ripple or XRP livestreams, giveaways, or deepfake videos.
Ripple employees will never ask you to send funds, share wallet info, or join investment streams.
Always verify information through @Ripple and @RippleXDev. Keep your XRP yours.
— RippleX (@RippleXDev) November 11, 2025
The scam is currently circulating on relevant social media services, especially on X, and it often appears in the comment sections of legitimate posts.
The Ripple warning emphasizes that no Ripple employee would ever ask a customer to send money, reveal wallet credentials, or make certain investments.
Ripple strongly recommends verifying information only through official Ripple accounts such as @Ripple and @RippleXDev, and otherwise requests that customers „Hold on to your XRP.”
Fake XRP incentives
Scammers often advertise fake XRP giveawaysthe customers the doubling of their deposits promisewhen sending small amounts to specific wallets.
CAUTION: This is a scam.
The key sign would be if you mouseover the "Review Offer" link, it goes to a SurveyMonkey link. If you click on it, you would have gotten a fake OpenSea page but SurveyMonkey has already blocked it. pic.twitter.com/l14USuyQ5s
— David ‘JoelKatz’ Schwartz (@JoelKatz) January 25, 2024
The scammers often get attached to them publicly announced milestones from Rippleincluding the legal victory against the US Securities and Exchange Commission in mid-2023, with the fraudsters ceremoniously presenting the fake giveaways as “special offers”.
AI-generated videos that are supposed to show Ripple CEO Garlinghouse, but of course do not, have attracted attention due to their high level of realism. In In one viral case, an AI clip showed the alleged CEO wearing bright clothing with headphones in a playful scene in which he urged viewers to part with their money – in exchange for high profits.
Garlinghouse himself reacted in a humorous way with a brief online remark, a rare departure from his usual corporate statements on regulation, acquisitions and international payments.
LFG!
— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) October 17, 2025
The IT security company CertiK announcedthat crypto scams resulted in a loss of over $2.47 billion between January and July 2025 alone.
Fake promotional gifts are the most common Type, including impersonation of official social media handles as well the use of AIto change the appearance and voices of the Top-Managementsof the company to replicate . Im July pointed die New York Post on a 456% increase in AI-driven crypto scams, highlighting the increasing risk to investors.
Ongoing fraud prevention efforts
Ripple has taken action against fraud cases in the past. In 2020, the company sued YouTube for failing to remove scam videos, including those containing deepfakes depicting Ripple CEO Garlinghouse.
In the following Year Ripple placed the E against YouTuberemoval of such fraudulent advertisements. Nonetheless there is always fraud cases, and ripple gives again and again Warnings out of here.
There’s been an uptick in deepfake scam videos (ex below) overlaying new words with old video footage from Ripple’s events (@YouTube are you asleep at the wheel again?!). Reminder: don’t trust, verify (all approved messaging will only come from official Ripple accounts). pic.twitter.com/e30ZhOk6DW
— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) November 13, 2023
Garlinghouse has previously pointed out that fraud attempts are likely to increase when markets are rallyingand the XRP community is once again being tested by market volatility, this time through one Liquidation wave worth 19 billion dollars.
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