Скачать или смотреть ‘I was heartbroken’ | Two Canadians lose $2.3 million to crypto scams

Canadians are being aggressively targeted by Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated videos and images to invest in cryptocurrency scams, a W5 investigation has found.

Some investors have lost their entire life savings by the time they realize it’s a scam.

“I was heartbroken. Broken in pieces,” said a woman who W5 is naming Denise as she didn’t want to be identified after losing her life savings in a cryptocurrency scam.


Denise, a 51-year-old woman from Markham, Ont., said she is devastated and embarrassed to have lost $1.7 million in a cryptocurrency scam after viewing a AI-generated video online.

In July 2023, she saw a video on Facebook featuring billionaire Elon Musk claiming that by following his instructions, she could get rich fast.

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