This story is truly heartbreaking, knowing that a 72-year-old woman lost her entire life savings and inheritance, totaling $224,000, to crypto scammers. They used a deepfake video of Christopher Luxon, the New Zealand Prime Minister, to lure her in. She got interested and responded, which is where things took a dark turn. A scammer, pretending to be Adam Manolas, who claimed to be an expert investment adviser, convinced her to open accounts with Easy Crypto and Binance.
It is so disheartening as I must say. Having inherited funds and saving them again for a generational inheritance and then get them all lost to scammer? That is sorry.
The tricks used by these scammers are highily neutralizing to their weak targets and making them vulnerables. I will always say that the tactics of scammers can not be whole revealed because these people are too smart than we may think and they are always developing new strategies in thrive of luring their victims on targets.
There is this video tool I know you to be Webcam, it is a front camera in the PC which when you plays anyone's video in the system and then switches over to video call, the people on the video call with you is automatically assumed who he/she is seeing on the video call is reall but it is a scam.
They would mute the video background voices and while the video plays, the scammers takes over the vocal and as the scammers speaks, you would quite believe the people you sees in the video is real so when you realistically believe on the person whom the scammer claims to be such as the Christopher Luxon of the New Zealand Prime Minister, they then uses the medium to instruct you convinceably to lure you and steal your funds.
I believe such was a medium used to fraud this old woman.
Please let us always watch out and resist to trust online instructors but if need be, always consult for verification and staying updated on what legitimate or illegitimate possibilities it could be.