The popular morning news anchor has been inundated with calls and emails from scam victims desperate to get their money back
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Bitter pill: SABC presenter Leanne Manas’s identity has been stolen to make deepfake adverts for weight-loss ‘gummies’ and an online trading platform. Photo supplied
But Banxso’s general manager, Manuel de Andrade, has repeatedly denied that the company has any association with the deepfake adverts featuring prominent people, previously telling the M&G the company was investigating them. Similar deepfake adverts for online trading leading investors to Banxso’s platforms have featured prominent business people such as Elon Musk, Johann Rupert, Nicky Oppenheimer and, more recently, Patrice Motsepe, according to people who lost money due to scams.
“Moreover, we reiterate that our client was one of several service providers affected by these scams,” Hanekom said. “They had to change their banking details to stop the money from coming off the account,” Manas said. “Of course, I disappeared from being on air because I was overseas on holiday, having the time of my life. Little did I know that this investment thing started to gain traction from me being absent.“And social media started getting flooded with images of me being arrested. They are the funniest things you’ve ever seen — my face superimposed on other people being arrested.
“I replied to them and said, ‘This is fake, you know. And then I got a bit scared because I realised that I don’t know who I’m talking to. I don’t know what I’m part of and what my identity is being used for,” she said. “My email box is full every single day of people asking me about this R4 800. I don’t have the capacity to respond to everyone. At one stage, I was responding to every single message.”
“What hurts me even more is the fact that this gets reported repeatedly by myself and so many other people but nothing is done about it.
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