Several Australian TV news clips have been manipulated in order to legitimise online scams.
In recent weeks AAP FactCheck has debunked several such clips (see here, here, and here). However, in recent days the numbers have increased significantly.
AAP FactCheck has since come across more than 10 such videos in the last 48 hours — all claiming to show reports from accredited Australian news media about investment schemes and gambling mobile apps.
All have been manipulated.
One ad (here and here, screenshot here) uses a July 2022 news clip from Nine News. The original report — a weather report — has been cut with alternative footage and overlaid with a voiceover to make it seem as if the newsreader is promoting a gambling app.
Other ads use edited February and July 2022 segments from A Current Affair (ACA) to promote an “investment platform for beginners” (here, screenshot here) and something called “the maximizer program” (here and here, screenshot here).
Another ad (screenshot here) manipulates a June 2022 Nine News report to entice users to join an oil and gas investment scheme.
Numerous other videos use Australian news clips, supposedly promoting Commonwealth Bank investment schemes, in a bid to get Facebook users to click on suspicious links.
For instance, one uses an edited August 2022 Nine News clip (here, here, here, and here, screenshot here); another (screenshot here) uses a Sky News…
