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My Identity Is Being Stolen...

a couple years ago I was touring my live show around the United States one night a fan stayed after the meet and greet and told me a tragic story it turns out she had been contacted by someone on Whatsapp claiming to be me the fake Dr Mike convinced her that Not only was she speaking to the real Dr Mike but that I was unhappy with my life in New York and that I wanted to move to Texas to live near her the only thing getting in the way was $3,000 that was needed for my travels so she sent him the money and never heard back I wish that was an isolated story but scams like this happen every single day today I want to highlight the worst of these scams teach you how to protect yourself from having someone trick you and speak to a world-renowned lawyer about what I can do to fight back including getting one of these scam artists on the phone myself huge thanks to ground news for sponsoring this video the biggest example I think had to come this year when I got absolutely flooded by messages is both public and private about the fact that I am now touting Miracle weight loss products and I obviously am someone who is very anti- Miracle supplements in general cardiologists teaspoon on an empty stomach Slims waste from 35 to 22 first of all that is an unhealthy amount of weight to lose when you click on it you get some natural supplement BS again I'm going to say it for the record just cuz something's natural doesn't mean it's it's healthy and Miracle shortcuts don't exist one of the most uncomfortable ones because my Hospital actually reached out to me about this my lawyer reached out to me about this enlargement of a certain organ within 30 days looks like Men's Health might have been involved in this or at least their likeness was also stolen in this they promis 4.6 which is a very specific number of growth within 30 days not feasible I really hope people didn't fall victim to this oh this one pops up a lot for me and they they target me with the ad take advantage of your time at home 9month online medical assistant class no College this sounds strange to me cuz it feels like a you should have college and B how do you learn to be a medical assistant where you're going to be assisting medical professionals in the wild doing that at home learn surgery at your desk what are you going to practice on this is me with a little bit too much self tanner on and apparently after 9 years of working as a doctor NHS I don't work in the UK the red flags should be just blowing up in your mind from seeing yesterday misspelled and benefits is misspelled oh rapid this is the most lifelike of me I mean if people start fullon using AI this is what's going to happen you're a young and bright intern at St Marian's hospital but when you get to work with one of the most brilliant handsome cardi why am I always a cardiologist why can't I be a family medicine physician oh I I will do your Caris this is on Fiverr right I will do your Caris tensorflow deep learning and machine learning products 100% satisfaction guarante I think they take my face cuz they think I look trustworthy it's all the years of providing trustworthy guidance on social media that now they're like oh yeah that's a trustworthy fella let's do Caris I know what Caris is if someone can enlighten me there's an ambulance ad I'm on a Punjabi Ambulance Service freezer ambulance is that morg you can't have a smiley Dr Mike photo on a morg car on a morg car these scams just keep going suits Syrian food products Dental products the list just goes on and on but this is where it becomes problematic people start trying to pretend to be me and catfish people I know there was one person who reached out and told me that one of the fake accounts mentioned I was trapped in Haiti and I needed money from rescue cuz I was being held Ransom another one that I was uh selling a new medical crypto that would help them get better health insurance to me I'm like how like do they trick people just by having a fake username but in reality they actually sent like St Aggie's Hospital granted this doesn't look perfect but if you don't know this looks like I might be an orthopedic surgeon with access to all levels I can stand the lies being spread about me online which is why I've been so happy to partner with ground news and app and website that combines the world's news in one place allowing us to compare coverage and verify sources of information for example I came across the story about how earlier this year it seems millions of American Social Security numbers may have been hacked and distributed across the dark web you can go to ground. newsd Mike to check out the full coverage on this which includes a few cool features like coverage details and factuality rating which shows me the number of sources reporting on a story and how credible those sources tend to be they've also just rolled out a brand new feature called blind spot that shows how a story is being covered by a broad range of 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unfortunately this is incredibly common and is only going to get worse because of AI biggest question here is can I sue for these fake ads impersonation something I mean even if I do Sue how successful will I be can you sue this is America of course you can sue there are a variety of laws that would allow you to sue someone for impersonating you especially in the context of a fake ad many jurisdictions recognize What's called the right of publicity which protects a person's right to control the commercial use of their name image and likeness but as you probably know it's challenging bordering on impossible to track down every instance of an unauthorized use of your likeness so more often people just send a cease and toist letter and the Fly by Night company just quickly disappears this is a good one do you think I can contct major websites like Google to take the search results down yeah it's really hard to police the entire internet for misuse of your image platforms are Global which means you'll wind up filing enforcement actions in multiple jurisdictions and it took 9 years for Jordan to win a complex lawsuit against Chinese companies for infringing his trademarks to sell products all over the world and he's not even done litigating it but most platforms know that the creators need to be happy and are extremely unhappy when their name and likeness is used to defraud other people and they certainly don't want content that defrauds people to be on their platform so what takes place is you just go to these platforms and utilize whatever process they have to take down the scammers and that's often all you can do ooh o I got a good one can people who have been scammed by the fake version of me Sue or file charges against that individual is this illegal if you were damaged by one of these scams by uh someone that used your likeness in an ad in a fraudulent way the person who was scammed out of that money could definitely sue the person who did the scamming that doesn't even require the special laws regarding impersonation it's just Garden variety fraud which is illegal sometimes it's criminal but it's almost always civil and you can sue for compensatory damages if you were scammed out of your money thank you legal legal as always stay happy and healthy thanks Mike stay healthy and legal the most important part we have to cover is the scam that is going on almost everywhere with creators that for some reason I haven't seen anyone talk about is this fake podcast scam and I initially got hit with it maybe 6 months ago I got an invitation to go on the Lex Freedman podcast and I sent it to my team they reached out they had a conversation they said it sounded very fishy they wanted to give me some money but they needed our bank accounts so we decided not to do it I got this email not too long ago inviting me to the Mel Robbins podcast which is interesting considering I'm already speaking to the Mel Robbins podcast people to go on their show but we know this to be fake the person that's inviting us is this individual Noah hoot which I think is always the same person just going under different names they said it's a prepaid collaboration which is weird no one offers prepaid collaborations normally like I just block these and move on but I figured that we have to pursue it a bit more so I had Sam reach out thank you for your email we are big fans can you hop on a call it was time for the call and I became Sam Bowers hello Sam how are you doing hey it's Sam how are you Noah yeah I'm good how about you H doing good you know busy as ever here uh filming some content actually my schedule was was just full booked but I still uh took some uh time out of my schedule and uh it's really uh great to be in contact with you yeah yeah I mean I look we really appreciate the time because we're looking to grow the checkup podcast and you know having an opportunity to partner up with Mel who we're such big fans of here is great so how do we uh how do we make this happen talk to me Noah how what do we do as you know we do payments prior uh on the priv basis so uh what would be the preferred payment method as you said like uh the timing date is all set uh I'm sorry no what do you mean by payment method we offering the compensation as a token of appreciation from Mike like he will uh give his uh precious name to our show so uh we are to know about his preferred payment method so uh for his conversation and for his participation with very well look Dr Mike is very charitable um maybe she could make the donation to his favorite charity because he would appreciate that he doesn't want to take any money from the Mel Robins show that's maybe she can make a donation to um one of the cancer Charities he works with so can you please send me the details of uh that donation so I could proceed with it okay do you know uh approximately how much money that's going to be like we are offering US Dollars like $5,000 for excellent appearance yeah perhaps the American Cancer Society would benefit from that please uh share the details and the credentials of that uh charitable organization with me via email so that would be very helpful excellent we'll do they act like they're sending you money so like they're trying to get your bank information and they would say here's $5,000 we're sending it to you as a thank you for coming on this podcast and then you would give them your bank information they would actually send you $5,000 or at least start the process of sending you $5,000 so it appears as a as a charge or credit on your account not complete yet but pending and then they would say oh my God we made a mistake uh do you mind sending that money back we're going to send it from a different account and they would give you a new account number to send $5,000 so you end up sending $5,000 I've also seen different variations of this where they said oh my God we sent 6,000 we meant to send five do you mind sending a th000 back and you would send 1,000 back and say of course you you meant to send five like you promised they end up canceling their thing and your money's usually gone and abroad and impossible to retrieve but in our situation we offered them a donation and they said okay I have no idea where this goes but they sent us a full-on zoom link they did put a lot of pressure on making sure that I was going to be present at the zoom link but I'm a little scared of clicking the zoom link because I've heard of fake Zoom links where people take over your computer so I call on the scam Busters of YouTube continue this scam further and find out what the heck is going on and let's get the message out there that if you're getting fake podcast invites to be very very skeptical and I've gotten a lot of emails of people thinking of people asking if this is true that's a good thing to do always check in actually I had Jeff Whit DM me and he says that he gets this email every week and it's fake he doesn't want to give us credit our information away so this is happening across the board small creators large creators even people who are not creators so please be careful look we've been laughing at a lot of these cuz some of them are very ridiculous and we know them to be false but some people don't know some people have a language barrier issue some people have a cognitive disability where they are unable to know right from wrong people do get taken advantage of especially those who are elderly this happens very commonly with elderly individuals sending money please please be careful tell the loved ones in your life about scams like this and know that I will never DM you from some alternate account that is not verified I will never ask for telegram WhatsApp chats Facebook chats whatever else is out there because there just too many fake Dr mics and I needed to make this video oh and always report them if you do see them and I actually have to give a huge shout out to my Discord Community for helping police this they report so many accounts I think I get like 28 fake counts taken down a day and it's still a problem there's clearly a lot of fake Dr mics out there but if you're interested in learning a bit more about the real me click here to learn about my journey immigrating to America at just 6 years old click here to check that out and as always stay happy and healthy huge thanks Le legal [Music]

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