Residents of Bengaluru have lost £3.75 crore to cyber con artists who use deep fake videos of self-style spiritual guru Sadguru to promote fake trading platforms. Varsha Gupta from CV Raman Nagar bumped into a YouTube video generated by AI on February 25, 2025. The deepfake video showed Sadhguru, who supports investments starting from $250 for “huge financial profits.”
After clicking on the video link, Gupta was contacted by Waleed B, who claims to represent an app called Mirrox. The scammers conducted trading lessons via Zoom using international numbers and emails. Meanwhile, another con man, “Michael C,” provided backup support. The scammer persuaded the women to download the app and transfer the money.
Between February and April 2025, the victim transferred the entire amount from his bank account and credit card to an account managed by the scammer. Police suspect this has formed part of a larger cybercrime network and is investigating all angles of the operation.
Bengaluru woman loses 3.75 rupees after falling on Sadgul AI video@divyawadhwa pic.twitter.com/n1cl0t6ysn
-ndtv (@ndtv) September 12, 2025
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Reactions poured in, and the internet delved into a scam in which unsuspecting women fell. “Now I ask Sadguru to retrieve the money that was deceived through the power of his divine.”One user bedded, and another said “.”Scripted scam generates a tax-free corpus of £3.75 CR. ” The third user says howPeople have a lot of money to lose.Another user shared the same feelings.Gazabu!! People do so muchY! ”
Yet another user was excavated in cheeky ways.The con artist used a bigger con artist video. ”
One user says,These are just smoke screens for washing money to a safe shelter. Poor Ay was criticized. ”
Now, ask Sadguru to retrieve the money that was deceived through the power of his divine. —Manu (@mshahi0024) September 12, 2025
£3.75 Script fraud generating CR Table Free Corpus – Rahul Dev (@meetrahuldev) September 12, 2025
Sanghis Pe Duniya Hansti Hai pic.twitter.com/iygmuevecd
– Chirag Patel (@tuvter) September 12, 2025
People have a lot of money to lose. 🥲 – Sapna Madan (@sapnamadan) September 12, 2025
The con artist used a bigger con artist's video..— Mukesh (@mikejava85) September 12, 2025
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– Jitendra (@hydrabdshah) September 12, 2025
These are just smoke screens for washing money to a safe shelter. Poor ai has been criticized – tweetz | gtsr🚩🕉️ (Modi Ka Parivar) (@vettrikondan786) September 13, 2025
Gazabu!!
People have so much money – Punita Tauruscal (@Impuni) September 12, 2025
Chadgul pic.twitter.com/fwyy2mlomq
-shamshuddin (@er_shamshuddin) September 12, 2025
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