A popular YouTuber says a scammer posed as him to trick companies into sending him $50,000 worth of electric bikes.
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“He was reaching out, pretending to be me,” mountain biker and cycling YouTuber Seth Alvo said. “They were delivering the bikes. We had tracking numbers and everything.”
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Alvo believes the scammer used AI to fool companies.
On Eyewitness News at 5 p.m., Action 9 Attorney Jason Stoogenke explains how Alvo and a colleague took matters into their own hands to track the suspect and send police straight to his door.
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