I've been seeing these especially on YouTube shorts and have considered saving them as well as reporting them. I wish I had one now to share as an example of what they look like.
I've also been seeing one where a deepfaked Elon (with AI generated Elon voice) encourages you to visit a crypto scam website.
I work in the security/user trust space and it was amazing how it went from 1-2 scams like this and me going “huh that’s new and weirdly effective” to copycats springing up so often now that they seem to be a modus operandi for a lot of scam groups now.
Unfortunately they’re getting more sophisticated and usually coordinating with a large social media push (usually on Twitter via bots) and using hacked verified Twitter account and hacked YouTube channels with lots of followers to signal boost their scam.
Putting myself in Google’s shoes this is a hard game of cat & mouse, but they are also uniquely in the position to do something about it, and I’m positive their massive org can fight this better than they are today. Devils advocate being that they are making tweaks to things to stomp out this behavior and it’s just subtle enough that overall things are trending downwards and I just have selection bias since I’m looking for these scams.
I've also been seeing one where a deepfaked Elon (with AI generated Elon voice) encourages you to visit a crypto scam website.