Chennai, May 1 -- The Cyber Crime Wing of the Tamil Nadu Police on Thursday issued an alert to the public to a rising trend of cyber frauds involving fake promotional videos on social media platforms such as Instagram, portraying Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of promoting crypto trading.

These videos falsely portray Elon Musk as endorsing cryptocurrency trading platforms, a CCB release said and advised the public not to fall prey to it.

These scams typically use edited or manipulated clips from real interviews (including from recent discussions involving Errol Musk, Elon's father) to falsely lend credibility to fraudulent investment schemes.

The CCW has identified 26 such Instagram URLs and 14 such fake websites and sent blocking re...