I am flabbergasted that you both get scammed. I would understand if this was two years ago, but now? Do people really not know about these scams? I can already see down votes coming for victim blaming, but this is to me really shocking. Notice that there isn't "tell hn: don't get scammed by deep fake crypto Elon" because people who usually posts also consider this general knowledge. That's why it's so effective I guess. In a similar manner there will never be "tell hn: don't drink acid it will burn your intestines", the danger is so obvious that nobody feels the need to post it and because nobody is posting it, people get scammed. I don't know what is the solution to that. How should you tell people what everybody should be already knowing?

I remember being on a machining workshop and he was telling such an obvious things. Obvious things are obvious until they aren't, and then somebody gets hurt.

Yes, I've heard about these scams. I've made deepfakes myself in the past. I've openly mocked people who have fallen for these scams. But this was sophisticated. Perfectly timed, very convincing deepfake, popular YouTube channels showing this stream during the launch, as if it were legit. The website was branded as SpaceX (the domain was obviously not, but I wasn't vigilant in the exciting hullabaloo of the impending launch). The instructions to participate were clear and easy to use.

Hey it takes courage to admit to it. That’s admirable.

To be fair, if that was only $10 it's because it was more of a "let's see if that works". It was believable enough to try this out.

The point of my message was to "tell hn: it could happen to people in this community".