A deepfake video featuring Elon Musk promoting fake cryptocurrency investment has arrived, and the ingenuity of putting his voice on the real video
A deepfake video was discovered by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk calling for an investment in a fake crypto exchange. The video is reportedly being delivered through a YouTube channel hijacked by a fraudulent group.
Elon Musk deep fakes promote new BitVex cryptocurrency scam
An example of Mr. Musk's deepfake video identified by Bleeping Computer, an IT news site, can be found below.
In this deepfake video, Mr. Musk said he set up a new cryptocurrency trading platform called 'BitVex' and invested 50 million dollars (about 6.4 billion yen). It claims to allow anyone to make a 30% profit.
From the background, you can see that this video is from an interview with Mr. Musk at the
However, when compared to the real video that Mr. Musk is talking about, the way he speaks and his voice sounds clearly different.
According to Bleeping Computer, this video was created by overlaying a regular interview video with a voice that was processed according to the script by processing the voice of the person himself with deepfake technology.
Not only Mr. Musk, but also deepfake videos such as Charles Hoskinson , a founding member of Ethereum, and Cathie Wood , who founded the investment company Ark Invest, have been made, and YouTube videos and YouTube shorts have been made since early May 2022. It came to be spread in. Bleeping Computer actually launched a YouTube channel hijacked by a fraudulent group, starting with a YouTube channel that was previously playing live in Arabic and suddenly started throwing BitVex investment fraud videos in rapid succession. We have confirmed dozens of cases.
When you visit the BitVex fraudulent site, you'll find Musk and Wood, as well as Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance founder and CEO
There is also a plausible management screen with recent Bitcoin and Ethereum transaction amounts. However, the amount is completely bullshit automatically generated by JavaScript.
When Bleeping Computer checked the cryptocurrency address published as a BitVex account, it was only $ 1,700 (about 210,000 yen) transferred to the Bitcoin address, so this scam is this It seems that it has not been very successful so far. However, in the past, there have been cases where $ 580,000 (about 74 million yen) was deceived in a week by a cryptocurrency scam that also scammed Mr. Musk, so we cannot be alert.
From this point, Bleeping Computer said, 'Almost all sites that give away cryptocurrencies are fraudulent, especially using names such as Mr. Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, Ark Invest, Gemini, and promise big returns. You need to know that your site is definitely a scam. There are a lot of messages, tweets, videos, etc. on social media that promote this kind of gift, but even if you send money to it, nothing Please remember that it will not come back. '
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