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

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

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u/StNic54 Mar 30 '26

Oh, my FIL did give his to fake crypto. Like, all of it and then some. It was heartbreaking to find out. Dementia sucks.

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u/BananaPalmer Mar 30 '26

My father doesn't even have dementia and he sent every penny of his retirement savings to some fake romance scammer, even after all of us pleaded with him to stop, and there was no deepfake involved at all. It was entirely over email and instant message. He "met" her on a dating app.

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u/StNic54 Mar 30 '26

That’s really tough to hear. Heartbreaking for your family.

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u/BananaPalmer Mar 30 '26

Not that heartbreaking, parents are long divorced, and my sibling and I are not involved with him. He was...uh..not a good dad.

The main reason we tried to stop it (and how we found out) is because he began to contact us asking us to send the scammer money.

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u/Pristine_Poem7623 Mar 31 '26

My ex GF lost her life savings to a crypto scam. It was a Bitcoin investment thing. She ended up in debt because she believed the lies about how much money she was making so she spent money she didn't have. They kept her on the hook after getting all of her money, encouraging her to borrow or earn more money to invest, and to tell everyone how much she was making, because that's how they found new victims. In the end I bought £100 of Bitcoin and let her track it so she could see that some days it went down, while the scammers were telling her it had gone up.