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...