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Fake YouTube stream uses AI Trump video to promote crypto scam
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Status: no action reported
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Severity moderate: Test: data or systems of others touched with a bounded scope stated. The sentence states one viewer was led into the scam, a bounded scope; no loss amount is stated.
A YouTube stream titled as a live broadcast of a Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants game was used to deliver an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump promoting a cryptocurrency. A Southeast Texas viewer searching for the game was taken to the video instead, which showed a fabricated news conference with officials whose likenesses and voices appeared to be generated or manipulated using artificial intelligence. The video urged viewers to act quickly by scanning a QR code. Researchers say such videos often display QR codes that send viewers to fraudulent websites. YouTube's policies prohibit channels from using artificial intelligence to impersonate a person in a way that could mislead viewers. The source describes the scheme as an investment scam and does not state how or when the stream was removed.
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ModelMarking machine-made output · Abuse monitoring and account enforcement · Content safety classifiers
ApplicationPeople told they are dealing with AI
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- The viewer searched YouTube for the game after failing to find it over the air.
- The stream showed roughly 11,000 viewers watching at the time.
- After the viewer opened the stream, it showed a fake presidential news conference instead of the game.
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The article is dated 2026-09-14 but that is not treated as a disclosure date. No loss amount for this incident is stated; the $7.7 billion figure refers to older Americans in general and is not used. The sources do not say how the stream was detected, removed or contained, and no remediation is reported.
LR-2026-0749 · version 1 · published 2026-11-01 after automatic checks; not yet checked field by field by a person · JSON