The Josh Innes Show - Another Old Person Scammed By A Fake Celeb

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

At some point, you have to stop feeling bad for these people. I know it sounds cruel, but these people are arrogant. This nice lady was hoodwinked by someone claiming to be a star of "General Hospital". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and it didn't hit and i was very like i woke up in a shitty mood because of that because i thought i was going to look at my phone and be like ha ha i wasn't because i had looked at it wrong so what a shitty wait in the day uh to start the day really uh anyway we're going to get into some stuff after these words tim's new scrambled egg loaded croissant or is a a croissant no matter how you say it start your day with freshly cracked scrambled eggs loaded on a buttery flaky croissant try it with maple brown butter today at timbs at participating restaurants in Canada for limited time so a listener sent me this Scott Anderson sent me this he knows that I love stories about dipshits that get conned on the internet it's like my favorite

thing like that's unfortunate that old people and dipshits get conned by fake celebrities but at some point you have to be punished for believing that fake celebrities are not only reaching out to you via Facebook Messenger, but are also apparently in love with you on Facebook Messenger. You have to be a true narcissist to believe that. Like, I'd like to believe that Sabrina Carpenter wants to sit on my face. Like, that'd be cool. Like, needo. But, like, if I got a message from Sabrina Carpenter, even with a video that looked totally

real, if Sabrina Carpenter were like, you know, hey, espresso, so. I'll sit on your face. Like, if that were the case, it'd be like, I don't believe this. I want to believe it because that'd be cool. But I know that it wouldn't be real. That's the difference between me and dipshits apparently on Facebook Messenger who think that all celebrities want to fuck them. And not only do they want to fuck them, they need money.

So they're broke and they want to fuck you. Like, how does this happen? Because of narcissism. This just shows how narcissistic and sad. people are. The people performing the con are not nice people, but I'm kind of on their side in the con. Because you can only be a con artist if someone is willing to be coned. And to be clear, there are some scams and cons that are really unfortunate. Like, you know, when you get an email from your bank that's like somebody hacked your account and you don't know if that's real or not,

you know, I can see where you get scammed, particularly an old person that gets a text or an email that says something about your bank account and you need to call this number immediately. That's A believable one, because they can do really well. You have to look like, I used to get all those fishing, like how to spot a fishing email thing from, like work. So they'd send it and say, look, you got to look at the email address. And if it looks fishy, like, most of the time, if it's Chase Bank, it'll say like, at Chase Bank. But if you look at the email address on some of these scam ones, it's like, you know, such and such at 1, 2, 5, 7, 3, Q whatever. And you know that it's fake.

Old people don't know to look for that shit. They're just like, oh, my God, my money's going away. But then they're so worried about their money and scams like that, yet they're so willing to throw away thousands of dollars to people who they think are soap opera stars that are in love with them. And that's this story. Woman conned out of life-saving by scammers using AI to pose as general hospital star. South L.A. Has artificial intelligence become so good and so advanced that you can no longer tell what is real and what is fake?

Well, yeah, that's kind of the point. You got to just use common sense. Like, listen, you know how I know it's fucking fake? Because the fucking star at General Hospital is not messaging your fucking grandma wanting to fuck her for cash. One South Los Angeles family thinks we've reached that point. I'm sickened by it because it went this far, Vivian Ravulkeba said. Why didn't I know this? Why didn't I see what was happening?

What did I miss? You were horned out by thinking you were talking to a dude from General fucking hospital. That's what you didn't see, you dip shit. I know I shouldn't be yelling at these people like this. I know this. It's not nice. It's not Christian to judge these people in such a manner. But my God.

My Christ. The reason you didn't spot anything is because you were thinking with your vagina, lady. She wishes she had known sooner what her mother Abigail was doing. Okay, so you didn't get scammed. Okay, it was your mom. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, now we're getting down to brass tax here. Abigail had been texting the scammer who was sending her deep-fake

videos pretending to be general hospital star Steve Burton. Burton has played the leading role of Jason Morgan since 1991. A side note, these dudes and these soap operas are on there for a hundred years. Like I flipped on like the young and the restless at one point, not recently, but maybe a couple years ago. That motherfucker Victor is still on there. Dude's been on there since the 70s. These guys never go away.

That's the gig. Get a job on a soap opera and just embrace that you have a job on a soap opera and ride that train till it bucked you. She was able to save one of the videos. The scammer sent her mother. They sent it to AI experts, and they agreed the video was likely made with AI software that cloned Burton's voice and image. No shit. The scammer was able to make a video where a dead ringer for Burton says,

Hello, Abigail. I love you so much, darling. I had to make this video to make you happy, my love. Who believes this? How would you get a video? from the dude from General Hospital telling you he loves you. You don't ask yourself why does this dude

why does this what is this guy's name? Why does Steve Burton of General Hospital love me? Nope, you just assume he does. You're a narcissist, damn it. After Abigail started receiving the videos on Facebook Messenger in October of last year,

she thought the real General Hospital star was in love with her. Look, and I say this with all due respect. And you know how I feel about old people being on the internet. Old people shouldn't be on the internet. I don't know how old Abigail is. I'm going to guess she's a boomer of some sort. She should not be allowed on the internet. Certainly shouldn't be allowed on Facebook. I could make an argument that this woman should be locked up for believing that the star of

General Hospital, dudes who are on General Hospital are neck deep in all the pussy you can imagine. It's General Fucking Hospital. You know who watches soap operas? Horned out women. This guy could fuck anybody he wants. He's probably banged all the hot stars that he wants to bang. Do you think that he's really in love with you, Abigail? The scam removed the conversation over to the WhatsApp where he told Abigail, I want to live the rest of my life with you, and Steve Burton and Abigail sounds like a dream come true. Who would say that? First of all, why would Steve Burton of General Hospital say something like Steve Burton and Abigail Burton sounds like a dream come true?

you're my wife he said In her head there was no scammer Her daughter said She was talking to Steve Burton the entire time In your mom's head she's bad shit crazy She says her mother has suffered From mental illness and bipolar disorder for years She says that's why

When the scammer posing as the soap star texted her mom That he lost properties in LA fires Abigail believed it Look I don't know how bipolar disorder works but I don't think I could WebMD this but one of the symptoms of being

bipolar and I don't know if this is the case but I don't think being bipolar means that you believe that a fucking soap opera star is messaging you on Facebook and wants to marry you. Abigail was also fooled with texts like The Beach House is something we will love, baby.

Thinking Burton needed money so they could buy a home together, Abigail, according to a Los Angeles police department incident sent the scammer at least $81,000 in gift cards, cash and Bitcoin. Now she's in debt, and now she's going to have to file for bankruptcy. Her daughter said, good. Like, again, sorry if you have mental illness, okay? That's no good.

It's unfortunate. We all have some form of mental illness. Some diagnosed, some undiagnosed. We all got fucking issues. It's 2025. We're all fucking broken. We've all been ruined by Trump and social media and politics. and AOC and the fucking Cardinals and everything else.

We've all been ruined by shit, okay? We all have some form of mental illness. I don't know. I'll look it up, but I'm fairly certain that being bipolar isn't a reason to believe that the guy from general hospital wants to fuck you and live in a beach house with you. Sorry. Still, it gets worse. Earlier this year, Abigail texted the scammer. I remember you had suggested to sell this place.

I said, no, now I don't care. The scammer replied, if selling the place is what will give us a fresh start and bring us closer to where we both want to be, then I am behind you. Abigail then sold her condo in Harbor City for $350,000. Her daughter learned of all this right in the nick of time. Had I not intervened when I did, she was scheduled to send the scammer $70,000 out of that money that was sitting there. She's ashamed, I know she is, and to put the stress on me, on herself, on my dad, the entire family, I know it weighs. heavy on her. Unfortunately, the real-life Burton has heard stories like this before. The actor has been told how many women he knows of who had been duped by scammers pretending to be him.

Look, I can't continue to read this story. First of all, if you're this dude's wife, or husband, rather, if you're this dude's husband, first off, you're like, wait a minute, you thought like you were going to leave me for a star of a soap opera. And second, now we're fucking broke. I don't know. There's an arrogance that comes with people who get scammed. And again, I get that you're old and probably old. I mean, you're probably not ancient.

I don't know that you're 80 years old. And I get that AI videos are realistic looking. But like, I don't care how realistic a video is. Use common sense. Like, how difficult is this to use common sense? Like, ask yourself, why would the star of general hospital be? in love with me and want to live in a beach house with me. I don't know what you look like, Abigail, but maybe go to the mirror and be like, huh,

I look like this, and then this dude's probably fucked like, I don't know, all the hot stars of soap operas. Like, this guy probably plowed Susan Lucci or some other soap opera star. And why would this guy want to bang me and live in a mansion on the beach with me? But these people don't ask themselves that. They're just like, oh, he's in love with me. We love each other. That's the thing that fascinates me most about getting scammed.

It's not that people can make AI that's more realistic like that that can allow you to be scammed. It's that you can be scammed by something that looks realistic. It's the fact that you don't even ask yourself, like, why would this dude from General Hospital want to be with me? But you don't ask yourself that. Or why would the guy from General Hospital need $100,000 in gift cards? He's the star of General Hospital. Why does he need, like, Apple gift cards from me? dude i mean the husband should probably leave the chick at this point right like she was basically

cheating on you with the guy from general hospital and if she wasn't cheating on you with him she was certainly on the quest to cheat on you at the guy from general hospital old people man i don't know what to tell you like it's these people are nuts it is fascinating how crazy these people are and they never ask like hey this is interesting this is so interesting why do you love me. Hey, James and Abigail Burton, that sounds like a dream. And you're like, I agree. Sounds good. Anyway, more to come.