This week on The Perfect Scamp.

A friend of mine sent me a link on TikTok and said, is this you?

I clicked on the video, it was a likeness of me hawking vitamins, K2D3, which is something I've never done and something I've never recorded.

And I was just stunned to

see what looked like me and words coming out of my mouth that wasn't me.

Welcome back to The Perfect Scam. I'm your host, Bob Sullivan. Imagine scrolling through TikTok or Instagram or Facebook and you see an ad that appears to

be from a doctor you know.

And she's telling you that there's a new supplement that she thinks would work perfectly

for you at your age or with your special skin condition or as you face that scary diagnosis and it's all fake this sounds a bit

like science fiction but this is happening right now in a moment you'll hear from a doctor who had his

image his personhood really and his, stolen and used to sell supplements.

We've heard a lot about deep fake videos and how they might distort a politician's point of view,

but we've heard much less about deep fake advertisements.

In the end, that might be an even scarier problem.

Okay, now I want you to meet a specialist who works with kids in the most heartbreaking situations.

Kids with spina bifida or kids left paralyzed by accidents.

And, as he says, he tries to get them to win, whatever winning means for them.

But recently, criminals put him in a no-win situation.

My name is Dr. Maurice Schultz, and I'm a Peds rehab doctor based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

That means I take care of children with acquired and congenital physical disabilities.

I'm the kind of doctor that I pray nobody ever has to come and see. So if a child is born with

cerebral palsy or spina bifida, those are my patients. If a child is typical and has an injury to

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