Scammers Use Deepfakes to Impersonate OnlyFans Creators

The reported harm extends beyond a disputed payment. Creator Jessieanna Campbell told USA TODAY that people have contacted her after believing they sent her $150 through Cash App and were then blocked. Shaghana Doyle said people who interacted with an impersonator had arrived at her home believing they had formed a relationship with her, leaving her afraid to go out alone at times.

Impostor accounts predate generative AI, but synthetic speech and moving video can make a fake account look more credible than a profile assembled only from reposted photographs. The same campaign can therefore combine payment fraud, identity abuse, lost creator income, and potential physical-world harassment.

USA TODAY reported that creator Jaimie Smiles first paid $45 per month for a takedown service and later paid $150 per month to work with Takedown Piracy. Reba Rocket, the firm's co-chief executive, said it had removed nearly 400 million infringements in total. That figure covers the company's wider takedown work, not only these impersonation cases.

Malwarebytes noted that the federal Take It Down Act covers non-consensual intimate imagery, including computer-generated depictions, and establishes removal duties for covered platforms. USA TODAY also reported that creators still face practical enforcement limits when copied material is hosted on foreign servers.

For security and trust-and-safety teams, the cases show how inexpensive synthetic media can amplify familiar social-engineering tactics: copied source material, cross-platform migration, urgency, and hard-to-reverse payment rails. Detection, identity verification, takedown workflows, and user education need to operate as connected controls rather than isolated moderation tasks.