With hard work and success, Cristiano Ronaldo rose to the top and became a symbol of contemporary football. The striker currently playing for Al Nassr Club in the Saudi Arabian National Championship (Saudi Pro League) has brought respect to many people by winning 5 Golden Ball titles. It’s even more remarkable when the 39-year-old striker continues to have explosive performance in a “reverse aging” style. Ronaldo even considered joining the Portuguese team to attend the 2026 World Cup finals before thinking about hanging up his shoes.
Ronaldo’s popularity is unexpectedly becoming a target for high-tech criminals to exploit for fraudulent purposes. In particular, the former MU star is currently crying when his voice and image were faked using artificial intelligence for online fraud. Just recently, fraudulent videos with Ronaldo’s image and voice have continuously appeared, causing anxiety and insecurity among Ronaldo’s relatives and friends as well as the former star’s enthusiastic fans. MU stars.
One of these scam videos was just mentioned through information published in a recent issue of A Bola daily newspaper. Thanks to the application of artificial intelligence technology, the criminals used Ronaldo’s image and reproduced his voice quite smoothly. Therefore, if you take a quick look or listen, most people will be sure that this is a video recorded by Ronaldo himself.
However, if you listen carefully, anyone will notice the surprising absurdity of this clip. The first thing worth mentioning is that it mentions the insufficient costs to enroll Ronaldo’s children in a prestigious international school in Riyadh, the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. Not only that, the criminals also used artificial intelligence to recreate Ronaldo’s voice to request card numbers and passwords from potential victims. They even made up a shocking situation where Ronaldo asked to borrow money from Lionel Messi, but was refused by the star’s wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, who currently plays for Inter Miami Club in the American Professional Soccer League (MLS).
In fact, this is extremely absurd because Ronaldo is literally “living on money”. Most recently, the list of the 10 highest-earning athletes in history was announced by the website Sportico. The name that attracts the special attention of many fans, especially soccer fans, on the money chart of the website Sportico is Portuguese striker Ronaldo. Specifically, Ronaldo ranked third with inflation-adjusted earnings of 1.92 billion USD. That’s enough to see how rich Ronaldo is. Yet, the criminals made up a situation where Ronaldo was so needy that he asked Messi to borrow money.
However, according to warnings from some cybersecurity experts, high-tech criminals will become more and more sophisticated in impersonating the voices and images of football stars like Ronaldo or Messi using artificial intelligence. created for online fraud.
