NORTH CAROLINA (WTVD) -- Scammers continue to target people on social media who want to lose weight. The popularity of GLP-1 weight loss drugs has exploded this past year, and so have the scams.

Consumers are spending a lot of money on these weight loss drugs and are looking for affordable options. Scammers know that and are trying to capitalize.

Chief Information Security Officer Cindi Carter with Check Point says, "They use artificial intelligence to create these deep fakes. They create synthetic videos. They create fake social media profiles, anything and everything, to showcase that they're real, but they're not."

Carter says their analysis reveals a wave of pharmaceutical scams.

"We have uncovered an estimated 500 plus similar fraudulent pages that are getting created daily.

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