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Florida man says his wife ‘wants a divorce’ after he lost $45,000 on an AI-generated Elon Musk car scam (www.independent.co.uk)

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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/56223456

George Hendricks, a 69-year-old from Leesburg, a suburb of Orlando, told ClickOrlando he lost $45,000 after a scammer targeted him with a deepfake video of Musk. Deepfakes are digitally-altered videos often used to impersonate notable public figures.

Now, Hendricks tells the outlet that his wife “wants to get a divorce” over the scam.

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[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

After exchanging several messages with the scammers, he says he drained his accounts and sent them nearly $37,000 more

Gold diggers don't go for 69-year-olds with 45k to their name

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m not super committed to this…but we know nothing about her and the only thing we know about her is she didn’t love him and left when the money was gone. I like fiction, so I can fill in the rest:

She obviously “dug her gold” long before he was 69. She was a meth head…10s of thousands was like millions to her. It’s Florida, after all. She married a moron in the first place, she’d been stealing his money for years. Him being stupid wasn’t surprising...it was just a pretext for her to bail and take half of what was left because, with no cash, there was no point in staying.