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The Elon Musk energy-saving scam works by using flashy online ads, unsolicited emails and other deceptive tactics to lure victims. Scammers promote so-called "revolutionary" devices through social ...
A South Korean woman was deceived into transferring $50,000 to a scammer impersonating Elon Musk through advanced deepfake technology. The scam, which involved artificial intelligence (AI ...
A recent FBI report found that elder fraud complaints rose by 14% in 2023, with 101,000 victims over the age of 60. These scams caused over $3.4 billion in losses that year, with the average ...
In May 2022, Business Insider cited an anonymous friend of an unnamed SpaceX contract flight attendant, alleging that Musk engaged in sexual misconduct in 2016. The source stated that in November 2018, Musk, SpaceX, and the former flight attendant entered into a severance agreement granting the attendant a $250,000 payment in exchange for a promise not to sue over the claims. [35]
During that year, in the lead up to a defamation case against Musk by a British caver following the Tham Luang cave rescue, Birchall paid over $50,000 of Musk's funds to hire a private investigator, who turned out to be a convicted fraud, to dig up dirt on the caver. [13] Birchall stated in court deposition he had an "instinct to protect Musk". [6]
On October 24, 2019, the transcripts of video depositions of Elon Musk and other SolarCity board members became widely available. [97] The trial was held in July 2021. [ 98 ] On October 22, 2021, the lawsuit was limited to a derivative lawsuit and the direct claims against Musk were dismissed. [ 99 ]
People have reported sending more than $2 million in cryptocurrency to Elon Musk impersonators over just the past six months, the Federal Trade Commission said in a statement yesterday. See: This ...
A month later, Musk invested about $12 million into co-founding X.com in March 1999 with Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho. [5] [6] Fricker worked with Musk when Musk was an intern at the Bank of Nova Scotia, Payne was a friend of Fricker, and Ho was an engineer at Silicon Graphics and executive at Zip2. [7]