An Instagram account clearly impersonating the actor behind Grand Theft Auto 6’s Lucia, Manni Perez, has more than 50,000 followers and seems to be fooling a good number of them.
Considering GTA 6 has been the biggest game in the world from the moment it was first announced (or leaked, if you want to go back that far), it’s no surprise that fans have spent a really long time trying to figure out the actors behind the game’s two leads, Jason and Lucia. Jason’s a bit harder to figure out, but most are sure who is bringing Lucia to life.
For some time now, the frontrunner for Lucia Caminos has been Manni Perez, who has a very similar face and voice to GTA 6’s lead. Even as that remains unconfirmed, Perez has been harassed for several years now and even deactivated her socials in the wake of endless GTA 6 comments. Now, a clearly fake account is taking everyone for a ride.
Ever since the big Grand Theft Auto 6 news drop this week, I’ve been seeing an account plastered over my Instagram. The account, named mannil.perez, is trying to impersonate the actor rumoured to be behind Lucia and currently has over 50,000 followers who seem to believe it’s actually her.
The first obvious sign that this isn’t actually Perez is that the account she deactivated last year after all the harassment, mannilperez, is still inactive and has been for some time. If Perez really was coming back to social media, then she’d surely be using the same account as before, instead of creating a new one.
If that’s not convincing enough and you want to believe she just lost a password or something, then the next clue is that the fake account’s username has been changed a whopping 16 times and only joined up in 2020, a clear sign that someone has repurposed an account to try and fool everyone into thinking they’re Perez.
All of the above is already suspicious enough, but then there’s the actual posts themselves. Running them through GPTZero shows that most of the text is AI-generated, which is already pretty obvious from how they’re worded and structured. One particularly ghoulish post showing a “childhood photo” also uses an AI-generated image pretending to be Perez’s family.
Not to mention that Rockstar hasn’t even confirmed that Perez is playing Lucia and likely won’t until much closer to release. It definitely wouldn’t just be announced on Instagram with little fanfare.
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