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6d ago

Bengaluru Woman Loses ₹3.75 Crore to Deepfake Sadhguru Trading Scam

Police say the complaint came nearly five months late, making recovery difficult.

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The scam, which took place between February 25 and April 23, exploited the widespread circulation of AI-generated celebrity content on social media.
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Overview

  • A social‑media reel using an AI‑generated video of Sadhguru promoted a $250 stock‑trading pitch that led the 57‑year‑old to a fake platform between February 25 and April 23.
  • After submitting her details via a link, she was contacted by a person calling himself Waleed B from a firm named Mirrox using multiple UK‑style numbers.
  • She was added to a WhatsApp group of about 100 members, asked to download the Mirrox app, and was coached over Zoom by Waleed and later by someone identified as Michael C.
  • The platform displayed large returns and group messages showed purported profit screenshots, prompting transfers totaling ₹3.75 crore in multiple transactions to accounts provided by the fraudsters.
  • When she tried to withdraw funds, the operators demanded extra ‘processing’ and tax payments, then cut contact; police say they are working with banks to freeze the implicated accounts, and note a June Delhi High Court order protecting Sadhguru’s personality rights from AI impersonation.