She must have been star-struck, she said, after the fraudster hid behind the Fast & Furious star’s photo and reached out from a fan page.
Tag Archives: Celebrities
YouTube subscribers getting spammed by celebrity imposters
YouTube personality Philip DeFranco warned that the messages pretending to be from him and other top influencers are scams.
Facebook debuts scam ads reporting tool
Adverts on Facebook featuring fake celebrity endorsements scam people out of their savings, and Facebook is now doing something about it.
Former high school teacher pleads guilty to hacking celebrities
A fifth man has pleaded guilty to federal charges of phishing celebrities’ and non-celebrities logins and raiding their iCloud accounts for nude photos.
Jennifer Lawrence nude photo thief is going to the slammer
George Garofano has been sentenced to prison for his part in hacking into and stealing personal images from 240 iCloud accounts.
Deepfakes porn service: Don’t worry, we’ll only use “consenting adults”
“You,” or “footage that you swear is of a consenting adult,” though details on how that will be ascertained by Naughty America are sketchy.
DARPA takes aim at deepfake forgeries
DARPA’s MediaFor project has come up with tools it says can spot AI-created fakes.
Twitter pops a lot of famous people’s follower bubbles
It wiped out accounts locked due to misbehavior, obliterating about 4 followers for non-famous mortals and millions for the glitterati.
Curt Schilling suspended over tweet comparing Muslims to Nazi-era Germans
The tweet compared the percentage of Germans who were Nazis with the number of Muslims who are extremists.
Jennifer Aniston’s wedding dress photos are fake
A photo of the dress has fans swooning, but the label on that designer gown should be changed to read “House of Hoax.”