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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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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/56223456

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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[–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

After exchanging several messages with the scammers, he says he drained his accounts and sent them nearly $37,000 more

Gold diggers don't go for 69-year-olds with 45k to their name

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    I’m not super committed to this…but we know nothing about her and the only thing we know about her is she didn’t love him and left when the money was gone. I like fiction, so I can fill in the rest:

    She obviously “dug her gold” long before he was 69. She was a meth head…10s of thousands was like millions to her. It’s Florida, after all. She married a moron in the first place, she’d been stealing his money for years. Him being stupid wasn’t surprising...it was just a pretext for her to bail and take half of what was left because, with no cash, there was no point in staying.

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