A social media post or website reports that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have endorsed CBD or keto gummies for weight loss.
In May 2023, we reviewed several fraudulent video ads on Facebook and Instagram that claimed to show country music star Tim McGraw saying that his wife, Faith Hill, had “forced” him to lose weight by consuming keto “do melt the belly”. diet weight loss gummies.
In reality, this couple story was false. McGraw and Hill have never endorsed any kind of CBD or keto weight loss gummies.
The ads featuring the star couple were nothing more than the latest attempt by scam artists to use the image and likeness of various celebrities in an attempt to trick users into buying candy-like gummy products.” without diet or exercise. Purchasing these erasers from scam websites incurs users in high priced recurring charges, potentially charging them thousands of dollars over an entire year.
Voice announcement generated by McGraw AI
The Facebook and Instagram video ads appeared to feature audio recordings of McGraw speaking. However, this audio was generated by artificial intelligence. In other words, the things said in the video were never actually spoken by McGraw.
Note: This is different from a deepfake. The Deepfake clips show a fake video of a person’s mouth moving with the fake sound. In this case, with the ads featuring McGraw and Hill, the video showed random clips and photographs of the couple, but only the audio was AI-generated. In other words, none of the mouth movements in the scam video matched what McGraw was supposed to say.
For create the fake voice for McGraw, the crooks gathered raw sound clips of him speaking and fed those audio files into a voice replication tool. This tool then gave crooks the ability to make it sound like it was saying the words the crooks typed.
One of the fraudulent video ads showed McGraw saying that Dr. Mehmet Oz had supplied him with the alleged weight loss gummies. However, as we previously reported, Oz had nothing to do with these products.
In the fraudulent video ad with McGraw’s AI audio, the scammers put the following words in his mouth:
After hearing “you’re great on TV daddy” from my own daughter, I was embarrassed. My wife, Faith Hill, gave me an ultimatum to either control myself and get my health back, or they might not be around any longer.
So when Dr. Oz told me there was a way to melt everything down and still eat what I loved, it seemed too good to be true. But he showed me the transformation results of Trisha Yearwood and Miranda Lambert after using it, and they had both lost a lot of weight in a short time.
I tried the Oz method, and my goodness, it helped me lose over 45 pounds in just six weeks and more! I am now in the best shape of my life. It even helped me improve my singing and stage performance. I look good and I feel even better. The best part was that I didn’t even have to include hard workouts or a strict diet.
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We’ve seen many more of these AI-generated voice replication ads, all hosted on Meta. The list of famous people that scammers have used to promote keto weight loss gummies include fellow country music stars Miranda Lambert and Trisha Yearwood and her husband, Garth Brooks.
McGraw’s Real Way: Diet and Exercise
While there’s an element of truth to one of McGraw’s daughters making a remark about his weight to him, the idea that he was losing weight on keto diet gummies wasn’t true.
In 2019, entertainment tonight reported that McGraw lost 40 pounds with diet and exercise, not gummies:
After the release of McGraw’s film, “Four Christmases”, [his daughter] Gracie told him he looked “great on screen”. That moment stuck with McGraw, who told the magazine, “I got away with it for a while. I was at the peak of my career and I wasn’t enjoying it.”
So the singer began to cut out burgers and alcohol, as well as “truckstop food” and started his days with a morning walk. Soon he was running 20-minute runs and lifting weights. McGraw began to notice that all of that hard work and dedication in the gym translated into her performances on stage.
Hill ‘forces’ McGraw to lose weight?
Clicking on the links in these fraudulent video ads led users to a fake Time magazine article that was not hosted on time.com. The scammers created this fake article simply by copying the design of what a Time magazine story might look like from a scam website.
The headline of the fake Time article read: “REVEALED: Faith Hill is making Tim McGraw melt 45 pounds of diabetic belly fat in just 6 weeks. Again, none of this was true, and this story was never published on time.com.
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