TH-cam fed me the ads for Quantum Code, Tesler Investments, Gemini 2, Click Money, the David Beckham deepfake ad that led to the Lucrosa website, and the deepfake ads I covered in my Golems video. After that I went looking for more videos based on information in Gizmodo's article and an order issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission - because people enjoy this series and they're fun to make. The situation was that there were 12 Affiliate Marketers who promoted the fake binary options trading software which was always the same, just branded with a different identity. They got the film-maker to make a video to promote each one, and he called on the services of a copywriter friend to write the scripts. That's why there are so many similarities, though that's something I've only gradually come to understand in the making of this series. Those videos would be uploaded to accounts on TH-cam and then embedded on websites. The Affiliate Marketers then sent out thousands of spam emails promoting each new scam system. The made-up millionaires often refer to the viewer having received a special invitation - that was just a spam email. So the Affiliates are the main villains who got very rich from this long-running scam. But seeing as they paid the film-maker $550,000 he did pretty well out of it - until he was ordered to pay a fine of that amount plus interest by the CFTC. The original Affiliates were dealt with by law enforcement, but new scammers have started using their old videos (and new deepfakes) to push new scams that run on the same basis (investment/trading systems that display fake results). They paid for the ads that were displayed to me.
Do you find these ads, or do they find you?
Have you ever looked into a link between them all, who runs them? The scripts are so similar 😮
TH-cam fed me the ads for Quantum Code, Tesler Investments, Gemini 2, Click Money, the David Beckham deepfake ad that led to the Lucrosa website, and the deepfake ads I covered in my Golems video. After that I went looking for more videos based on information in Gizmodo's article and an order issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission - because people enjoy this series and they're fun to make.
The situation was that there were 12 Affiliate Marketers who promoted the fake binary options trading software which was always the same, just branded with a different identity. They got the film-maker to make a video to promote each one, and he called on the services of a copywriter friend to write the scripts. That's why there are so many similarities, though that's something I've only gradually come to understand in the making of this series. Those videos would be uploaded to accounts on TH-cam and then embedded on websites. The Affiliate Marketers then sent out thousands of spam emails promoting each new scam system. The made-up millionaires often refer to the viewer having received a special invitation - that was just a spam email. So the Affiliates are the main villains who got very rich from this long-running scam. But seeing as they paid the film-maker $550,000 he did pretty well out of it - until he was ordered to pay a fine of that amount plus interest by the CFTC.
The original Affiliates were dealt with by law enforcement, but new scammers have started using their old videos (and new deepfakes) to push new scams that run on the same basis (investment/trading systems that display fake results). They paid for the ads that were displayed to me.