‘I stopped all my internet accounts’: 70-year-old Australian man falls in love with six-fingered deepfake, transfers $180,000
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August 28, 2026
Australian man Michael thought he found his soulmate in Melanie and transferred money. But it was a deepfake. A retired psychologist in his 70s has been scammed out of $180,000 while he believed he had found his soulmate online. Queensland’s…