Quantum AI and Related AI-Themed Investment Scams Reportedly Used Deepfake Endorsements and Spoofed Media Sites to Solicit Investments
Researchers have described a global AI-themed investment fraud ecosystem using deepfake videos, spoofed news sites, phishing pages, and phone outreach to impersonate celebrities, news outlets, and political leaders. Reports link the scheme to fake trading platforms including Quantum AI and related sites, and to cloaked adtech infrastructure used to route likely victims while hiding scam pages from scanners.
- Date it happened
- 2020-01-01
- Organisation involved
- Unknown operators of malicious Keitaro infrastructure, Unknown cryptocurrency scammers, Scammers, Quantum AI scammers, Quantum AI, FaiKast, Investment scam operators
- Product, system or model
- Spoofed phone number systems, Quantum AI, Phishing websites, Automated trading bots, Meta, Deepfake technology, Synthetic audio generation technology
- malwarebytes.com
- mirror.co.uk
- ndtv.com
- theguardian.com
- investigate-europe.eu
- cryptopotato.com
- expatriot116.substack.com
- bbc.com
- tlmartin.ltd.uk
- thehindu.com
- lat.london
- scamwatch.gov.au
- northeastbylines.co.uk
- unit42.paloaltonetworks.com
- scmp.com
- thebureauinvestigates.com
- apps.sfc.hk
- centralbank.ie
- darkreading.com
- rmit.edu.au
- accc.gov.au
- cbc.ca
- cbc.ca
- which.co.uk
- which.co.uk
- con-telegraph.ie
- fenimoreharper.com
- theguardian.com
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