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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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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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[–] hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This poor woman has been living her entire god damned life with this clown. Poor, poor woman.

Just imagine thinking Elon musk has the time of day to ask you for $7500. Mother fucker makes more than that every minute of his life

Absolute clown shoes, I'm not gonna say he deserved it. But christ on a stick, you're making me define where the line of "deserving" is.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

He makes about that per second, and about $400,000/minute.

https://www.gobankingrates.com/net-worth/business-people/how-much-elon-musk-makes-in-a-day/

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

That is absolutely sick. And just in case tone isn't coming across in text, I'm saying that in a negative way.

[–] hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Haha I purposely used minutes instead of seconds cause I knew I'd get blasted on the Internet if I was wrong with my figures. Minutes was safer