A victim of an elaborate online romance fraud has told BBC Scotland that she was completely convinced by deepfake videos used to scam her out of £17,000.

Nikki MacLeod, 77, sent gift cards and made bank and Paypal transfers believing she wa…

Nikki MacLeod, 77, was sent a scammer £17,000 after she was conned by a deep fake in a pretend online romance. Picture: Social media

A 77-year-old woman who was under the impression she was in an online relationship with another woman hande…

A retired academic has told how she was conned out of thousands of pounds in an elaborate romance fraud after scammers used artificial intelligence to fake videos and photos.

Nikki MacLeod was lonely after a long-term relationship ended and…

A series of deep-fake videos convinced Nikki MacLeod, 77, a former lecturer at Edinburgh University, to send gift cards and make bank and PayPal transfers to what she believed was a real woman with whom she was in an online relationship.

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A 77-year-old woman from Scotland's Edinburgh lost £17,000 (around Rs 18,06,863) in an online romance scam, the BBC reported. The victim Nikki MacLeod was tricked by deepfake videos and sent gift cards, bank transfer and PayPal payments, th…

A RETIRED lecturer has told how she was scammed out of £17,000 by a 'deepfake' girlfriend she met online.

Nikki MacLeod, 77, from Edinburgh, lost the huge sum of money to a romance scammer who used AI-generated videos to send convincing mes…