Boardroom Talk: Deepfakes, boiler rooms, and bully tactics – The truth about FXSI

About this episode

Alec Hogg exposes the AI-powered FXSI scam involving deepfake footage and fraudulent trading schemes.

In this episode of Boardroom Talk, BizNews editor Alec Hogg exposes the AI-powered FXSI scam that used deepfake footage of him and President Cyril Ramaphosa on a fake Carte Blanche set to lure unsuspecting South Africans into a fraudulent trading scheme. After BizNews interviewed an anonymous victim who lost more than R24,000, lawyers claiming to act for FXSI demanded the article and podcast be removed. Hogg’s response: no.

People in this episode

Host: Alec Hogg

Guest: Anonymous victim

Topics covered

• deepfakes
• fraud
• trading schemes
• scams
• legal issues

Keywords

• deepfake
• FXSI
• scam
• trading
• fraud
• Alec Hogg
• Cyril Ramaphosa
• Carte Blanche

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FXSI, Carte Blanche

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