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we have a scam alert to tell you about
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this one comes from the FBI and it
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involves artificial intelligence we're
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told people have lost thousands of
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dollars from masquerading malware Fox
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Kevin Stewart joins us live from Atlanta
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FBI headquarters in Shamy with more on
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Kevin yeah Christine this is some Next
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Level stuff here we're talking about all
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kinds of uh Hightech activities to try
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look Austin Andis certainly considers
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himself a tech guy yeah into computers
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the web and cryptocurrency everything I
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do is digital and a lot of ways yet even
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he got faked out deep faked by this
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phony Elon Musk video don't forget
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friends that our crypto giveaway is your
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chance to increase your crypto assets it
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popped up on what he thought was a
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legitimate YouTube screen on a
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legitimate news site on this
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announcement there was a QR code on the
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podium go to our official website and
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make a deposit in cryptocurrency he was
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urging you to scan the QR code that
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piqued our interest enough to scan the
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QR code which took us to a very well
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polished um .org website and that's when
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$44,000 he looked at the YouTube video
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again changing over and over again and
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then and it's realized he had been
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fooled by someone with some Hightech
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skills it's incredible it'd be nice if
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those were used for good in Georgia
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alone we've already seen dozens of
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victims the FBI says it's seen this
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growing Trend pick up in the last year
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artificial intelligence deep fixes tied
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to hijacked highly used social media
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accounts of organizations or influencers
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in order to scam sending them targeted
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fishing links usually what we see is if
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they're say a YouTube Creator it would
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be an email from Google saying hey it's
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time to reset your password and that's
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how a cyber crook can hack into a social
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media account to spread Mayhem the FBI
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says protect your password and double
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check websites I always encourage people
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to look up what we call a who is lookup
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Google the website and who is and that
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will tell you registration information
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when was it registered was it registered
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really recently probably a red
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flag and if it comes from out of the
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country that's another red flag and the
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FBI says typically they believe most of
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the stuff is uh from out of the country
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actors in it says unfortunately he does
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not believe he's going to get his money
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back poing line from FBI headquarters in
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chamley Kevin Stewart Fox 5 so
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unfortunate for victims of this type of
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scam uh Kevin thanks for the warning