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Fake SpaceX Solar Eclipse Livestreams Feature Deepfake Elon Musk Seeking Crypto Deposits
Sujha Sundararajan
Last updated:
April 9, 2024 06:53 EDT | 2 min read
The live telecast featured business tycoon and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s AI-generated speech, promoting a crypto investment scheme.
“The stream shows a deepfake of Elon Musk asking users to scan a QR code on the screen and deposit cryptocurrencies to have them doubled,” research group and iOS developer Mysk flagged first.
The channel has 310K subscribers, rebranded to look similar to SpaceX. Mysk further noted that the video still live and appears among the first when searching for “solar eclipse livestream.”
Deepfake Elon Musk Speech Promotes Crypto Scam
Titled “Live: Solar Eclipse Spectacular 2024 of SpaceX,” the stream played a pre-recorded video of Musk, addressing a crowd. However, the video played an AI-generated voice of Elon Musk talking about a crypto investment opportunity and promising double returns.
According to a report from Mashable, the fake video had a QR code that read – “Eclipse of 2024 – Change your life,” calling viewers to scan and invest. Once they scan the QR Code, the link takes to a legit-looking scammer’s website impersonating SpaceX for their crypto scheme.
The live chat also had a link to a scam website – eclipse-spaceX.com – hosted in Russia. A message from dupe Elon Musk said that 630 Bitcoin (BTC) and 5,200 Ethereum (ETH) “have already been sent to live stream viewers.”
This is not the first time SpaceX and Elon Musk videos have plagued YouTube. In October, a short video circulated showing Musk being interviewed, encouraging viewers in a clearly manipulated audio track to invest in the BitVex trading platform.
Following the crypto scam, Musk responded in brief to the Tweet, stressing that he is not involved in any such fake promotions.
“Yikes. Def not me,” the tech entrepreneur said at the time.
El País reported that impersonating media outlets and falsifying news became popular during the crypto boom Twitter, in particular, is “the perfect breeding ground” for deepfake crypto scams to “proliferate again.”
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