Viral Video Claiming Narayana Murthy Has Launched A Trading Platform Is Fake

RAM’s antivirus team discovered that it was a fake claiming that the audio was from the viral video.

A video claiming that Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy would launch an AI-based trading platform to “help Indians earn a stable passive income” is part of a fake phishing scam. The video shows Murthy speaking to journalists with overlaid audio claiming that he has launched a new trading platform.

This article is a hyperlink to a web page made to look like Indian Express news with the headline “Just in: Narayan Murthy reveals the secret to making ordinary Indians rich”. The article, with a photo of Narayan Murthy, talks about how he invested “$3,000,000” and created a new trading platform called “BTC iPlex Ai”. He then talks about the benefits of registration.

Check that the video there shows what scammers do.

The video is accompanied by a caption. wherein it claims. that Iplex AI already changed the lives of many other Indians. who have earned Rs 100,750 in their bank account in a week by investing just Rs 25,000.

RAM Antivirus Research team checks some facts.

RAM Antivirus has determined that the video is spam and a phishing scam disguised as news articles. In this case, first of all, the video caught our attention. wherein we saw that it had the logo of the business magazine India Today. and that Narayan Murthy had a head with NASSCOM written on it.

we do the words “Business Today Narayana Murthy NASSCOM” in a keyword search. On March 3, 2023, under “This Is What N R Narayana Murthy Feels. Is A New-Age Ponzi Scheme” the Video was uploaded. A Video description: Murthy speaks about the current state of the startup sector globally and within India. but he does not talk about a new trading platform.

We compared Murthy’s audio talking in the original video. So the audio in the viral video and did not find an exact match. The voice and what say are different. We sought help from experts on the case to determine if indeed the audio was a deepfake. We reviewed the Indian Express article. That is associated with the viral video. And found it fake designed to resemble a news article by the media house. The style and language of the viral article do not fit the real story of the Indian Express. The article is also full of spelling and grammatical mistakes. The last name of the author, Murthy wrongly spelled as Murti.

The URL of the article does not match the URL of Indian Express Media. The URL of the viral article is “new-indianexpress.com” while the original is https://indianexpress.com/ A Whois search of new-indianexpress.com showed that he had been registered in 2023 to someone in Iceland.

A search on the Bitcoin application iPlex did not produce any news stories or authenticated articles. That associating with Infosys or Narayana Murthy.