The Puerto Rican businessman Orlando Bravo This Thursday, he denied a video circulating on social networks in which his image allegedly appears requesting money for an investment product.
“I want to clarify that this video is a montage and is totally false. “I am not promoting any business opportunity, much less requesting that any type of investment be made.”expressed, in written statements, the managing partner and co-founder of the investment firm Thoma Bravo.
The Mayagüez investor, in turn, went to social networks to alert his followers about the recording.
“There is someone who is impersonating me and is asking for money for a project. Please, these videos on social networks are not true. “I have never asked for money for any project through the networks and I will never ask for money or funds for anything through social networks,” Bravo said in a “clip” published on his Instagram account.
“The last thing I want is for someone to fall for a scam,” he added.
According to the businessman, the recording in which his face appears was created using a recording tool. artificial intelligence. Bravo urged Internet users to report the video to prevent people from becoming victims of fraud.
Bravo, who has assisted in the development of many of the world’s leading software companies, He is recognized as the first Puerto Rican billionaire, born on the island, who appears among the list of the 400 richest people on the Forbes list.
In turn, he is the founder of the Bravo Family Foundation, a non-profit entity that seeks to promote the basic principles of social justice in Puerto Rico.