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Crypto scammers use Apple CEO Tim Cook’s deepfake AI video to lure people into double-your-money scams

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Scammers ran major crypto scams using AI -generated video of Apple CEO Tim Cook to scam people after luring them into double-your-money scheme.

Scammers used some of the old clips of Tim Cook’s interviews and edited them with the Deepfake AI .

More than 355 K people viewed one single livestream, where the scammers created a lookalike of the Apple YouTube channel, making it look legitimate.

Many such live streams hit YouTube on the same day , with many of these were from channels not even related to tech.