A teen catfish story that shows how unprepared people are for AI scams
JasonBotterill · x · 2026-09-21
The author recalls meeting a 17-year-old on a language exchange app who firmly believed in her American online boyfriend — despite an older man joining every video call and a raspy elderly voice on his messages. She only accepted the truth when shown her 'boyfriend's' photo was actually Jacob Satorius.
The takeaway: the bar for deceiving people is astonishingly low, and most are utterly unprepared for scammers and predators weaponizing AI models.
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