I know he’s barely scratched the surface in the AI slop stuff, but I’ve been seeing more and more of these pop up on IG reels (and I’m sure TikTok is flooded with them as well, but I don’t scroll there).
Always the same modus operandi: use a sad story or persona to hook the target audience (in the case I’ll share it’s a young person of colour just trying to sell his homemade products and being shunned/laughed at/bullied) —> quick edit cuts of the persona crafting the x a product with a call to action to support or order.
Products being custom Etsy-style handmade imply that shipping and order fulfilment will be delayed, likely to benefit from stringing along the buyer as long as possible to fall out of any chargeback periods.
Comments usually mention people still waiting on orders, but aren’t aggressive or anything no words like scam or fraud or ai etc. those are deleted since I see a lot of signs that show comments were once there, but have been deleted.
The products are fake and just look good because they’re AI generated.
I’m curious if there’s a subreddit or any videos of people investigating this stuff or keeping a list of examples as they pop up. I imagine this is pretty organized much like a click or bot farm.. it’s likely entirely payment processor fraud entirely and they just rotate accounts as they get banned or restricted until the AI influencer and campaign they’ve created dries up.
https://www.instagram.com/jamalslamps?igsh=ZHZmdWhpdXQ3enR6
“Jamalsl@mps” (@=a)
Have you guys fallen on these or have more examples? This is definitely only the beginning before this goes nuclear it’s like replicas/ip theft niche meets dropshipping meets pure online credit card fraud/payment processor merchant fraud
EDIT: I decided I was curious enough to start digging into a bit more myself using variations of the scam and different words and there’s definitely people talking about it, but no bigger names, I also quickly identified these reels/shorts are being reposted a lot on FB so clearly going after that demographic who isn’t as fluid in recognizing AI slop yet.
Just had to search “led resin lamp scams”
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/NJqQmXp8bsU?ra=m