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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Fraudsters Use Deepfake Video of Tim Cook to Promote Apple Crypto Scam on YouTube
Fraudsters repurposed an old interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook using AI or video editing to promote a fake crypto event on YouTube. The altered video was designed to mislead viewers into believing Tim Cook endorsed a new cryptocurrency scheme. The stream attracted tens of thousands of viewers, potentially exposing them to the scam before it was removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service.
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2022-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2022-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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