A South Korean woman says she fell in love with a fake Elon Musk who talked up a storm about building Gigafactories and luxe helicopter rides. Then she gave him $50,000.

• A South Korean woman lost $50,000 after falling in love with a fake Elon Musk.
• The Musk impersonator befriended her on Instagram, where he told her he "contacts fans randomly."
• Fake Musk then claimed he could make the woman rich by helping her invest her money.

A South Korean woman says she lost $50,000 to a con artist who was posing as Elon Musk.

"On July 17 last year, Musk added me as a friend on Instagram. Although I have been a huge fan of Musk after reading his biography, I doubted it at first," the woman, who declined to provide her real name, told South Korean broadcaster KBS in an "In Depth 60 Minutes" interview that aired April 19, per a translation from The Korea Herald.