New intricate Elon Musk scam being played as a pre-roll advertisement on YouTube. Don't fall for this. If English is not your first language, it might pass as authentic.

https://imgur.com/a/YrjMUZB - imgur album of evidence.

So basically, the key to this scam is that you see Elon Musk holding a microphone and looking a bit too "energetic" for the tone of voice he is using. It even sounds as though he is doing everything correctly and his face has been deep-faked to match the words that are coming out of his mouth (or so I believe).

Reluctantly, I clicked on the website that the commercial directs its viewers to and I saw the following red flags:
In the testimonials section, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Changpeng Zhao all endorsed this new "Quantum AI" project that Elon allegedly spent 3 billion dollars to make.

The website advertises that you can turn 250 USD into 9500 USD in no time.

They also float the binance logo on their website (among others like paypal and cashapp) trying to add a feeling of legitimacy to whatever kind of scam they were running.

I want to add some other notes, but if the scammers are reading this reddit post, they'll take it as "feedback" and then try to find ways to "tweak" or "perfect" the way their "fake elon" talks. I will simply say that if English is your first language, you can clearly identify that the way "fake elon" was talking was not authentic.

That is all. Feel free to warn your friends and family. Last, but not least, I truly fear the days when we cannot actually differentiate between "real elon" and "fake elon."