OPINION | AI Powered Scams.

Opinion
24 Jun 2026 • 3:00 PM MYT
Jack Ung
Jack Ung

Retired factory manager with a U.S. MNC in Penang’s semiconductor industry.

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Believe or Not? Bold and daring scam ads on display daily alongside mainstream news media.

AI has penetrated the scams business in a big way now. It is so good that you won't be able to differentiate them unless you make a check on AI itself.

There is a new investment platform called- Voltarian AI that can make money easily for you. All you need is to pay a minimum deposit of RM400 and this powerful tool supposedly invented by Elon Musk will do automated trading ( using algorithm) to trade in cryptocurrency and make money for you.

No special skills required. Only a smartphone or computer.

Is this real?

It's further back up by testimonies of ordinary people who had made money from it and they are on the way to become millionaires.

Upon verification by AI Gemini. Confirmed. It's scammer's website.

See verification answer below.

According to the report in the link above two women were arrested at the KLIA airport for not declaring RM5.1 million out of the country. This money they made it from this platform.

You believe?

Reported in the news by The Star,

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Image source: The Star. Dated: 17 June 2026. Link above.

Elon Musk, the inventor of this platform( as claimed by the website) anyone can become a millionaire within 3–4 months. ( Read link above) by investing in this platform.

Can money be made so easily?

Where does the money going to come from to pay some many winners?


Today's AI world has morphed into a monster of lies and deceptions.

Fake news, imitative postings, fabrications, can be seen alongside mainstream news media to the point we are confused as to which is true and false?

Let's do a bit of due diligence and verification.

Look at the picture of the policemen or Immigration officers in the picture. reported in the link above.

Do they look like our Malaysian officers?

Is the news really reported by the The Star - our local daily?

I checked on the paper newsprint. No such news.

The platform also has testimonies by investors who had made money from this platform and also registration forms for new investors.

Do you dare to join? I won't.

If it is so easy to become a millionaire, nobody will be working right now!.

Can an economy sustain whereby there's no trade or exchange of goods. Everyone is into trading in cryptocurrency and doing nothing else?


Another suspicious platform -

This one is - BitVoleut. See below.

Again. Same modus operandi. The Star newspaper logo is being used. Some high level officials are used.

In this platform you can also easily make a lot of money through their investment schemes.

Example: How fast your investment grows.

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Image source: The Star. Link above.

Look at that !

Within 24 hours your RM400 deposit can grow up till RM1965k!

Wow!

Making malicious claims, using high ranking government officials to attract people to join their investment schemes.

Showing bank accounts. Everything look so real and convincing. Those greedy and naive people will fall for this trap.

How can such things happened?

Don't we have any censoring or control by the MCMC over such ads?

Last ads. Again. Another phoney ads.

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Image source: From link above.

Another scam website.

Verified by AI Gemini. See below.

Conclusion.

It's the AI world now.

Voice imitation, face fabrication, cut-and-paste images, all can be done by generative AI now. create images, voice imitation

Writing essays, thesis, research papers,image creation, novels, short stories, reports, contents, can all be done by AI.

Even reading palm and face reading and Feng Shi- geomancy can be done. See below link.

What's next. Stealing money from bank accounts?

I can't imagine the day when it happens. We are living in a dangerous world of illusion now where falsehoods and truths, real or unreal is blurry.

For good or bad, AI is the future. It's not going away.

The faster we update ourselves and learn them, the better we are empowered to protect ourselves from being scammed.

Good and evil always go together. That's what humans are capable of.

Remember. If anything that is too good to be true, it usually is.


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