If you have been on Twitter in the last few months, you have surely seen it: an image of David Broncano, the host of ‘La resistencia’, Cristina Pedroche, from ‘Zapeando’ and Carlos Sobera, from ‘First dates’, arrested for an interview in which they said “the whole truth” and for which Spain, apparently, is in shock. “I Didn’t Know The Camera Was Still Recording. Could This Be The End Of His Career?“, says an image alongside tweets like “What’s next?” or “Why did he say that?”. But, what is this about? Why are there hundreds of accounts promoting this kind of thing?
Resilient Scams
Broncano, who laughed about it on his show, has not had any incidents with the police since he was stopped for going too fast on his scooter in Madrid. If you click on the promoted post, which promises to be from a media outlet like RTVE, Cadena SER or El Mundo, it actually takes you to something called Garage Drouin. When you enter the website, the headline, which imitates a real website, says “Big scandal: Movistar+ management refuses to comment on their employee David Broncano”. If the way it is written, obviously created by ChatGPT, doesn’t give you enough clues, wait until you see the rest.
In the article, supposedly, a transcript of an interview from ‘La resistencia’ between Carlos Sobera and David Broncano is transcribed, in which the latter states about the former, “a year ago you were driving an old car and living in a small apartment”. Sobera, without hesitation, invites him to try his new cryptocurrency app for only 250 euros. And in thirty minutes, Broncano had earned 47 euros! Because if there’s one thing he needs, it’s definitely more money. The website then promises you can earn 4000 euros in just one week.
And in the end, of course, a link to the miraculous application, fake Facebook comments and people talking about “activating your brain”. Anyway. The curious thing is that this also happens in other countries (for example, in Canada with Michael Cera). What would have been surprising a few years ago is that Twitter allows this kind of fraud, but lately, the only surprising thing is that it hasn’t exploded in one way or another. That’s the level.
