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. She thought her Bitcoin was safe in her Binance wallet, but instead, it was sent to an account controlled by the scammers. Once they emptied her savings, they even took funds that were meant for her grandchildren. In one of their last calls, she overheard him say, "This woman has no money."
Of course this is a sad story, it's not the first and, unfortunately, it won't be the last. I personally think that elderly people shouldn't have a Facebook account because they don't understand that the internet is full of scammers, just like they believe many fake news, they believe scammers as well.
Facebook should be considered accountable as well because if you allow such advertisement you are accomplice of the scam.