Unknown cryptocurrency scammers
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Incident 123628 Report
Quantum AI and Related AI-Themed Investment Scams Reportedly Used Deepfake Endorsements and Spoofed Media Sites to Solicit Investments
2020-01-01
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.
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AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains
2025-10-01
Researchers reported that threat actors abused Keitaro Tracker infrastructure to cloak and route AI-themed investment scams across about 15,500 domains. The campaigns allegedly used AI-trading claims, deepfake videos or imagery, generative AI-produced copy and visuals, spoofed news pages, and fraudulent trading platforms to target potential victims while hiding scam content from scanners and reviewers.
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Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam
2020-01-01
Beginning in 2020, Wayne Luxon, a 43-year-old self-employed father of four from Taunton, Somerset, reportedly lost £140,000 after responding to a Facebook advertisement using a purportedly AI-generated Martin Lewis deepfake to promote cryptocurrency investment. Luxon said he was directed to a clone platform where he made additional payments after seeing fictitious gains, and later paid purported tax fees before the account balance fell to zero.
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Quantum AI
Incidents involved as Deployer
- Incident 123628 Reports
Quantum AI and Related AI-Themed Investment Scams Reportedly Used Deepfake Endorsements and Spoofed Media Sites to Solicit Investments
- Incident 14862 Reports
AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains
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Investors
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- Incident 123628 Reports
Quantum AI and Related AI-Themed Investment Scams Reportedly Used Deepfake Endorsements and Spoofed Media Sites to Solicit Investments
- Incident 15092 Reports
Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam
Meta
Incidents implicated systems
- Incident 123628 Reports
Quantum AI and Related AI-Themed Investment Scams Reportedly Used Deepfake Endorsements and Spoofed Media Sites to Solicit Investments
- Incident 15092 Reports
Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam