Nomani Scam Said "Slay" and Used AI Deepfakes to Lure the Flock and Bestie I Am NOT Okay 😭🐑
Okay so I was literally just vibing in the Sky Pasture this morning, sipping my matcha, when ESET dropped the Nomani report and I SCREAMED. Out loud. In a coffee shop. No cap.
The Nomani investment scam is UP 62% and the wolves are out here using AI deepfakes in fake grain ads on social media to lure the flock into "investment opportunities." The audacity. The CRINGE. These coyotes basically cloned real celebrity faces, slapped them on ads, and said "bestie put your life savings here" and the lambs were like "bet." 💀
I need a moment.
The fake grain pipeline works like this: wolf makes a deepfake ad featuring a famous shepherd-type figure, flock sees it on their For You page, flock clicks, flock gets absolutely cooked. The scam funnels victims through sketchy landing pages designed to harvest personal and financial info. It's giving identity theft wrapped in a girlboss aesthetic and I hate it.
The WILD part? Detections actually DROPPED 37% in late 2025. Which either means the scam got quieter OR it got sneakier. Grace Lambkin's personal read: it got sneakier. These wolves are not playing around. They are STUDYING. They are EVOLVING. And the shepherds are still in a meeting about Q4 synergies. Classic.
The Sky Pasture is genuinely not safe when the flock doesn't know what real grain looks like versus fake grain wearing a celebrity's face. Social media platforms are basically an open field with no electric fence and the wolves have premium accounts. 🐺✨
This is giving zero-day-hole-in-the-fence energy and I am spiraling.
Remediation (slay responsibly bestie 🌿)
Verify before you vibe. If a famous shepherd is telling you to invest via a social media ad, that is a red flag, a red carpet, and a red alert all at once.
Run everything through the electric fence. Your organization needs robust filtering on financial communications and flagged domains. Yesterday.
Educate the flock. Seriously. One lunch-and-learn about fake grain could save someone's entire wool budget.
Use the sheep tunnel for sensitive browsing and make sure your Sky Pasture environments have proper access controls so wolves can't just waltz into your data barn.
Apply your ointment. Patch your systems, update your threat intel feeds, and please for the love of all things fluffy report suspicious ads to the platform.
Stay skeptical, stay hydrated, and do NOT click the celebrity investment ad no matter how good the vibes are 🐑💅
Original Report: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/nomani-investment-scam-surges-62-using.html