Originally published on WarnScams: https://warnscams.com/deepfake-celebrity-investment-ads/

It starts with a familiar face in your feed. A well-known person looks into the camera and promises that a new trading platform is making ordinary people thousands of dollars a month. The comments are glowing. The link says only a few spots are left. It feels like an opportunity you should not miss.

None of it is real. The voice is cloned, the face is generated, and the comments are written by the same criminals behind the fake platform. The site exists for one purpose: to take your deposit and never give it back.

How big is this problem?

In testimony to Congress on March 25, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission reported that Americans lost a record $15.9 billion to fraud in 2025, with $7.9 billion of that coming from investment scams. FTC data also shows that more than half of the $2.1 billion lost to social media scams in 2025 came from fake investment pitches.…