French filmmaker Yzadel Dzisky wanted to interview people on the dating app for his new documentary. While there are many people who find love from the app, the producer, who believes he can find it himself, was left with his heart broken.
Meeting new people has now become very easy with applications such as Tinder, but not every person you meet on the Internet or mobile applications may be well-intentioned. Tinder Hunter, published on Netflix, also reveals that there are many people who have been defrauded from dating apps. Just like they described in Tinder Hunter, an incident happened to the filmmaker living in France.
French filmmaker Yzabel Dzisky was considering making a documentary about dating practices. Dzisky created an account on a dating app to interview people for his documentary. However, she believed that she too could find love after her friends told her funny love stories on these apps. This thought led him to a great heartbreak.
Ignored your lies, thinking she found true love
Dzisky met a surgeon named Tony who lived in Los Angeles from the practice. Tony was a very handsome gentleman and Yzabel liked Tony’s profile. She swiped it sideways and they matched Tony’s liking it too. The two began to have romantic conversations, They discovered many commonalities. After more than a week of these conversations, Yzabel told Tony that she wanted to video chat. lasting 10 minutes During their video chats, Yzabel showed Tony to her friends and afterwards the two continued to make short video calls.
When everything was going well, Tony stopped responding to Yzabel’s calls and texts without giving any reason. When you finally answer that his name is ‘Murat’, not Tony told. ex-husband’s name Yzabel, who is also Murat, was shocked. Later, Murat said that he was Turkish and lived in Istanbul. When Yzabel asked why he did such a thing instead of getting angry at this situation, he said to Murat, “Because my name is of Arab origin, I had reservations” he replied.
He asked Yzabel for 3,000 euros ‘for medical equipment’
Searching for his name on Google, Yzabel found a lot of information about Murat. Murat’s videos and photos were everywhere. appeared on television There were even videos of him and Yzabel said that Murat was a famous surgeon. He was completely convinced. In the later days of their relationship, Murat said that he would buy medical equipment and that he had to go to Shanghai for it. When he went to Shanghai, he said that his credit card was broken and that if he could send him 3 thousand euros, he could come to Paris from there to meet Yzabel in person. Although this situation aroused some suspicion for Yzabel, she finally told Murat. He sent 200 euros.
Counting the days to meet face to face, Yzabel was very excited when that day finally came. She went to the airport and started to wait for Murat, but Murat never showed up. In the following days, he did not respond to Yzabel’s calls or messages. After a few days of silence, as he had done before, Murat said that he wanted to talk to Yzabel. These quiet days had brought to mind that Yzabel might have been scammed, and she said she wanted to video chat on a larger screen, not on the phone as usual.
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It is better than the constant freezing of the speech they make on the computer screen, the sounds coming from the background and the poor quality of the image. the suspicious Yzabel, the video editor told a friend about this situation. friend of these videos ‘Deepfake’ video that and people using another person’s face He said he was able to shoot videos. Yzabel, who was surprised by what she learned, texted Murat and asked who he was. After dozens of messages and calls, the answer finally came and said, “He said his name is David and he lives in Nigeria. he is a 20 year old hacker” told.
He set out to find the real ‘Murat’ he fell in love with.
Although David says that the identity ‘Murat’ was invented randomly, Yzabel could not give up her love for the fake Murat. She sets out to find the real Murat, whom she believes has been stolen. Yzabel came to Turkey after she got the number and social media information of Murat, whom she fell in love with. He went to the hospital where Murat worked and as soon as you see He realized that he was truly in love with her. They talked to Murat a few more times and After that, their relationship ended. Heartbroken Yzabel showed Murat all the conversations and calls made from the fake account so that he could go to the police and complain, but they could not achieve the desired result due to insufficient evidence and the difficulty of tracking such cybercrimes from abroad. (The name Murat was used throughout our article, since the aforementioned surgeon did not want his real name to be known)
So what is ‘Catfishing’ with the help of deepfake videos?
By creating fake profiles of people and making themselves look like people they are not, defraud people who seek emotional relationships It’s called ‘catfishing’. People who gain the trust of people by video chatting use ‘Deepfake’ videos, in which they embed a different person’s face into a video. According to the data of 2019, the people who use dating apps 27 percent scammed by catfishing.