The online con person employed the use of AI to manipulate videos to make them appear as if Chris Martin was speaking and gesturing to the victim, leading to her being scammed out of thousands
A Dublin woman says she was duped out of €25,000 by an online catfish scammer, who posed as famous musician Chris Martin of Coldplay fame.
After much back and forth, the scammer led her to believe a romantic relationship was established, and over the course of months, she was scammed out of €25,000 of her pension savings - representing five years worth of savings. "I think I gave a one-word reply to a post that they put up, and he contacted me from that. So there are, you see, trawling readers comments and targeting people that way."
"It was friendly initially, and then he kind of started saying I'm interested in you, and I like what I see in your pictures. He got to the point where he started asking me for flight money to come to Ireland to visit me." “He sent me images of the real Chris Martin, direct headshots looking at the camera, images of orphans he said he was looking after. He sent me a passport for Chris Martin. When you looked closely, you could see it was a German passport with Chris Martin's information put on it."
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