Recently we have wrote about How Scammers were using prominent Bollywood Celebrities videos to deepfake and promote betting apps. The same scammer has doubled down and is creating and running ads on Facebook and Instagram but now with Indian Billionaire Mukesh Ambani, Former NDTV Journalist Ravish Kumar and Bollywood Actor Akshay Kumar’s deepfake videos.
All these videos are used to promote an illegal betting app (1Win,1Bet) that are banned by the Indian Government recently as a part of crackdown on Illegal Gambling apps. The scammer “Amir Khan” has also created an own application of his own that isn’t listed on Google Play and has made clones of Google Play page so as to show that his app is listed on Google Play.
Here is the link to Deepfake Video of Mukesh Ambani, Akshay Kumar, Ravish Kumar and India Today Anchor
The scammer has also created a deepfake of Sadhguru and Isha Foundation has released a press notice that the video being circulated is not of Sadhguru
There have been complaints from some users on the Consumer Forum that Amir Khan has duped them of thousands of rupees.
One Ajit Yadav wrote “Telegram channel amir khan told me to deposit my 1win account 20,000 rs he makes 20,000 to 170000.00. so i deposit 20,000 rs after 1 day he makes money and transfer all amount in own account my all money (20,000) gone and he block me on telegram where we used to chat.”
This was posted in July 2023, and as of December 2023, The scammer Amir Khan is still running Ads on Facebook and Instagram 6 Months later.