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Please beware of "Robert Reich" impersonators

Robert Reich · Robert Reich · last updated

Friends,

I’ve heard from a few of you that scammers are continuing to impersonate me online, preying on people in the comments of my posts on Substack and YouTube.

Apparently, the scammers create fake profiles and suggest that the conversation move to a different platform, such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Gmail. And they use generative AI to craft convincing text messages, clone voices, and generate deepfakes (such as personal voice notes).

Please know I will NEVER ask you to chat back and forth with me in a one-on-one capacity. Nor will I ask you to wire me money personally.

You can see my original post about this here.

Scams like these don’t just steal money. They exploit something more fundamental: people’s trust in one another. That makes them particularly pernicious.

I’m truly sorry I have to make this announcement again, but unfortunately this is the world we now live in.

Thank you,

Robert Reich

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