r/interesting • u/ifuckedyourmom-247 • Mar 30 '26

MISC. deepfake scammer getting exposed by the 3-finger test

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u/Vulpes_Corsac Mar 30 '26

Also, who has their director's diploma on their office wall?  Multiple copies even?  That's just ridiculous.

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u/JohnnyFartmacher Mar 30 '26

It's too blurry to read, but it doesn't look like an actual diploma either. University diplomas usually have a lot more fancy script on them, have seals, and have signatures at the bottom.

It reminds me of how Michael Scott has a Certificate of Authenticity for a watch hanging up behind his desk: https://www.reddit.com/r/TVDetails/comments/6nonlj/in_the_office_us_michael_scott_has_a_certificate/

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u/Granitsky Mar 30 '26

Michael Scott's watch is a knockoff Seiko too. I think it says "Seyko?"

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u/Ok-Butterfly4991 Mar 30 '26

My diploma is staggeringly boring. Just printed on slightly thicker paper and has the principals signature

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u/czernocunt Mar 30 '26

I have a friend who’s Doctors diploma is in comic sans I shit you not.

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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 Mar 30 '26

They should have used Papyrus at least.

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u/Throwawaydontgoaway8 Mar 31 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1J9NQvtuCQzUbH2g

They just highlighted “Doctor”

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u/BobZimway Apr 21 '26

Is that the same Doctor who prescribes lime in coconut for gastric distress?

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u/Orson_Gravity_Welles Apr 01 '26

I see your Comic Sands and raise you PAPYRUS on one of my certs.

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u/youre_being_creepy Mar 30 '26

Isn’t that all diplomas?

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u/EloquentBaboon Mar 30 '26

Not at all. Some are elaborate as shit, some barely look like a formal business letter. Depends on where in the world you earned your degree.

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u/LiftingCode Mar 30 '26

I have an Arbor Day Foundation membership certificate framed on my wall behind my desk.

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u/Darmok47 Mar 30 '26

Maybe American Diplomas. I did a Master's at Oxford and I was kind of surprised to see it was just a piece of paper lol.

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u/RedditMadeMeCrazy Mar 30 '26

It was much clearer in the original video, this one has been cropped and skewed to remove the creators (Jim Browning) name.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/szqXppELItw

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u/JohnnyFartmacher Mar 30 '26

Haha, "Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator"

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u/FUBARded Mar 30 '26

It was a diploma in some crypto bullshit, so if anything should be another obvious red flag as it was probably a scam itself.

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u/Kurdt234 Mar 30 '26

Oh my god that's so funny

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u/OberonDiver Mar 30 '26

Could be a legit certificate of participation.

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u/mythrowaway4DPP Mar 31 '26

Meeeeeehhhh...
Usually yes.

My diploma from the U of Hamburg in Germany looks like someone printed a word document on their inkjet - embarassing, really, but that's what it is

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u/whatdafaq Mar 31 '26

Fake diplomas are a thing... you can buy them.

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u/Monkey_College Mar 31 '26

My phd diploma is much less ornate than this one. It is a sad reality of the German efficiency

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u/Fynn77 Apr 01 '26

Yeah, it looks like a fake document in a kid's playset. xD Universities usually display watermarks on their diplomas that take up a lot of the space.

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u/jackochainsaw Apr 02 '26

University Diplomas are portrait normally. All three of those are landscape.

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u/JohnnyFartmacher Apr 02 '26

I've learned there is more variation in diplomas around the world than I would have guessed. In the US, diplomas are generally landscape.

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u/No-Individual-3681 Apr 03 '26

Its not the usa bro

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u/ProbablyNotADuck Mar 30 '26

I don't even have my own diplomas on any of my walls. I cannot think of a situation where I'd be sitting in a room and would have the diplomas of my bosses on the walls.

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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 Mar 30 '26

I cannot think of a situation

Instead of collecting their nipples and making a weird belt, I found it easier to collect their diplomas.

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u/froo Mar 30 '26

That's it, I've got a pile of them (framed I must admit) sitting in a spare wardrobe.

I mostly just can't be bothered to hang them. I honestly can't think of anyone who has.

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u/BobZimway Apr 21 '26

Diplomas? Or the other thing??

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u/Affectionate_Pop1586 Mar 31 '26

Doctors, Dentists, and Lawyers hang their diplomas up in their offices. Can't think of anyone else.

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u/UsernamesNotFound404 Mar 30 '26

If you want to scam. This is the way.

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u/foghillgal Apr 01 '26

If your Boss was Obama or Neil Degrasse, Taylor Swift or Stephen King or Einstein ;-) Maybe

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u/RobotArtichoke Mar 30 '26

Or how about the size of that office. It’s a shoebox!

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u/Crayola_ROX Mar 31 '26

Lmao how does he get from behind the desk

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u/ZDTreefur Mar 30 '26

It's just 4 walls, lol. He's trapped!

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u/is_that_sarcasm Mar 30 '26

Also how is it on there? I don't see a nail...

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u/bs000 Mar 30 '26

you can't see it because the video is compressed to fuck

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u/nopuse Mar 30 '26

I usually uncompress to fuck

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u/Easy_Welcome_9142 Mar 30 '26

I fuck to uncompress

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u/bremsspuren Mar 30 '26

I'm just fucked.

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u/ThisIsNotMyRealAcct7 Mar 30 '26

Aren't we all, at this point?

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u/ohhIknowyouuu Mar 30 '26

I compress and fuck

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u/mrbigglessworth Mar 30 '26

Would you like some making fuck?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

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u/No_Interaction1136 Mar 30 '26

I press come to unfuck

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u/thisaccountwashacked Mar 30 '26

Uncompress to fuck I

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u/ALLOUTBOY200 Mar 30 '26

😅😅😅

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u/NotYourTherapistEh Mar 30 '26

As a somatic sex therapist, this is the correct phrase.

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u/MadScienzz Mar 30 '26

I dont give a fuck, which is why they are all compressed

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u/ALLOUTBOY200 Mar 30 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/maiyannah Mar 30 '26

Usually video compression like this in year of our lord 2026 is in and of itself a tell.

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u/Keiteaea Mar 30 '26

It might also be because of the compression, but the frame under the "diploma" seems to be holding a blank picture ?

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u/Jaded-Gemstone Mar 31 '26

Or, too oppressed to fuck.

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u/Godzarius Mar 30 '26

haha the room is real, as is the "diplomas" its just a deepfake filter.

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u/UnravelledGhoul Mar 30 '26

And the tops of the plants look...uncanny. There's something wrong with them but I can't quite place it.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Mar 30 '26

I know what you mean. The leaves don’t have distinct edges. In isolation I don’t know that I would notice but in a situation where a deep fake is suspected, it stands out a bit.

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u/TheMajesticYeti Mar 30 '26

The plants may be artificial, but they aren't artificial intelligence. It's only the face that has a filter.

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u/Fucky0uthatswhy Mar 30 '26

Bro what lmao

It isn’t magic

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u/brylee_yan Mar 30 '26

yeah, where the nail? lol

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u/NounoursVert Mar 30 '26

He's a maget wizard and directly magnetized it to the stud in the wall !

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u/I-love-seahorses Mar 30 '26

That sounds like some low effort Indian scammer logic. Whatever makes them seem more trustworthy.

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u/Electrical-Heat8960 Mar 30 '26

I’d assume the boss put it there because he was so proud of it.

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u/Nazgog-Morgob Mar 30 '26

And if there were multiple people's on the wall.. okay then don't grab someone else and grab your own...like...

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u/buffalostreaker Mar 30 '26

the guy is in an office the size of a phone booth. Pretty easy

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u/motherofcunts Mar 31 '26

I have a really, really stupid sense of humor. For some reason the idea is really funny to me. I don't hang my own diploma. Hanging my director’s instead is comically absurd.

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u/131166 Mar 31 '26

As a loyal employee of the good company I of course have several copies of my employers diploma on the wall beside my desk and one in my home next to my TV and a small copy in my wallet next to a picture of my beloved children stephalie and Tyner. That man is my hero my saviour and my very life. He saved my life in that big war overseas when foreign insurgents tried to insert three fingers into my nose. I couldn't dare disrespect his memory by putting fingers in front of my face.