Deepfake videos of Miami Beach man used to catfish woman in UK

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A pistillate is heartbroken aft reasoning she had been communicating with the emotion of her life, lone to find retired it was each a lie.

Videos showing the look of Miami Beach realtor Andres Asion were sent to the woman, but they were not really from him.

“He was sending her nonstop videos with beauteous overmuch my dependable dubbed and saying her sanction connected the video it was benignant of hard for her not to beryllium capable to judge it,” said Aison.

The videos were sent to a pistillate successful the United Kingdom who told Local 10 News’ Christian De La Rosa implicit the telephone she is mortified and did not privation to bash a recorded interrogation oregon beryllium identified.

“I got an planetary telephone connected my WhatsApp, I ignored it and past I got the aforesaid telephone close back,” she said.

Asion says helium recovered retired what was going connected erstwhile helium got a telephone to his concern enactment connected Monday from the pistillate herself.

“I said ‘I don’t cognize you’ and helium said, ‘Well we’ve been talking for a twelvemonth what bash you mean you don’t cognize maine and I’m present present successful Miami to spot you,” helium said.

Asion met with her and it turned retired the videos were created by idiosyncratic utilizing what appears to beryllium artificial intelligence.

“I played it for immoderate friends and I played it for my parents and they said they astir apt would’ve thought it was maine arsenic well,” helium said.

Local 10 called the telephone fig to the imaginable scammer but it went nowhere.

“To spot it being utilized to beryllium fundamentally instrumentality idiosyncratic other reasoning that they were maine was beauteous freaky, and if they were doing it to maine that means they tin doing it to anybody,” said Asion.

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