Lesson 139 · 2 min
Scam ads with famous doctors
Ads where a well-known doctor or TV health expert praises a miracle supplement are often deepfakes, and the product can be useless or harmful.
Scammers take real interviews with respected doctors and use AI to change the words, so the doctor appears to endorse a cream, a herbal pill or a "natural cure".
The ads usually include a fake news page, before and after photos, a countdown timer and a phone number for ordering. The hospital name may be real, which adds trust.
Doctors and hospitals have publicly warned that these ads are fake. A real doctor does not sell a single product to cure many diseases through a social media ad.
Ask your own doctor or pharmacist before buying any health product, and report the ad on the platform. Check that a product is registered for sale before you trust it.
Do it now
Check a health ad
- 1. Find a health product ad that features a doctor.
- 2. Search the doctor's name with the product name and "fake" or "giả mạo".
- 3. Look for a warning on the hospital's official page, then report the ad.
Quick check
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- Deepfake
- A fake video, photo or audio clip made with AI to show a real person saying or doing something they never did.
- Voice cloning
- Using AI to copy someone's voice from a short recording so it can say anything. Common in phone scams.
- Generative AI
- AI that produces new text, images, audio, video or code, rather than only sorting or scoring existing things.