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John Myatt, (born 1945), is a British artist convicted of art forgery who, with John Drewe, perpetrated what has been described as "the biggest art fraud of the 20th century". [1] In 1999 he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud and imprisoned for four months.
Art Signature Dictionary, One of the largest collections of counterfeit art See more than 4000 pictures of forged paintings and signatures from over 300 renowned artists. Anthony M. Amore (2016). The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-1250108609.
Insurance fraud includes a wide variety of schemes in which insureds attempt to defraud their own insurance carriers, but when the victim is a private individual, the con artist tricks the mark into damaging, for example, the con artist's car, or injuring the con artist, in a manner that the con artist can later exaggerate.
The FBI provided images of the artwork to a member of the authentication committee of the late artist’s estate. Another fake, the Basquiat expert said. According to the affidavit, Bouaziz bought ...
Anthony Enrique Gignac (born José Moreno, [1] 1970) is a convicted Colombian-born American fraudster and con artist.In a career spanning 30 years, Gignac used wealthy, high-ranking personas, most notably that of Saudi prince Khalid bin Al Saud, to fraudulently secure investment in a series of schemes that he presented as being backed by a large personal fortune. [2]
Toothing, an invented fad about people using Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices to arrange sexual encounters. The tourist guy, a fake photo of a tourist at the top of the World Trade Center building on 9/11 with a plane about to crash in the background. Trodmore Racecourse, a fictitious Cornish race meeting.
Brad Pitt attends the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Sept 1, 2024, in Italy. Credit - Jacopo Raule—AP. S panish police arrested five people for impersonating Brad Pitt in order to ...
Sim noticed his art from school being auctioned off as originals of other artists, and from there started forging on purpose. [4] He would forge artists such as Frances Hodgkins, Colin McCahon, and Charles F Goldie, He started selling forged paintings and drawings in his 40s, out of his antique and wine shop in Foxton. [5]