Bogdan Botezatu

Women are a little bit more reserved.

They don't go as fast and as far as the male population, but they still, when they fall for the scam, they fall the hardest.

To answer your question, I wouldn't say that cyber criminals are targeting demographics, but rather that there are specialized cybercrime groups that prefer one type of scam over another.

And us getting...

targeted by so many scam groups on a daily basis would look like there's something very structured as the same organization targeting different demographics with different tactics, while it was about us getting targeted by multiple cybercrime rings

at the same time.

My guess is that what you described is a crime that has two distinct victims.

The first one is you, because you have just become an unwitting accessory to a bigger scheme that was shown to a potential public.

Your reputation is at damage here, and that's

that somehow can be controlled because you have the leverage to report that video to the hosting platform and probably take it off.

But you have still presented some information, you.

That version of you has presented some maybe misaligned information to your potential audience.

And that's how deepfakes normally run.

Cybercriminals pick up a very prominent figure, like a president, a bank governor, a medic,

And then they place a discourse on top of the video.

They will attempt to convince people that what that person is saying is true.

The people will flock to heed the call to action and probably will lose money.

So for some people, there's the reputation of damage.

That's

you, the persons that get impersonated.