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In the 1990s, Todd Michael Volpe scammed several A-list celebrities, including Jack Nicholson, Barbara Streisand, and Kiss members, for $1.9 million through a shady art dealing scam. Nicholson ...
The melon drop is a scam similar to the Chinese version Pèngcí in which a scammer will cause an unsuspecting mark to bump into them, causing the scammer to drop an item of alleged value. The scam originally targeted Japanese tourists due to the high price of honeymelon (cantaloupe) in Japan.
The British television series Brass Eye, which encouraged celebrities to pledge their support to nonexistent causes to highlight their willingness to do anything for publicity. Dihydrogen monoxide, a facetious technical term for water. Disumbrationism, a hoax art exhibit. Genpets, a hoax mixed-media art installation of bio-engineered pet creatures.
Many ads pair AI voice cloning with "decontextualized video of the celebrity" to mimic authenticity. Others use a whole clip from a celebrity before moving to a different actor or voice. [108] Some scams may involve real-time deepfakes. [109] Celebrities have been warning people of these fake endorsements, and to be more vigilant against them.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
A Guardian Australia investigation traced the source of a major crypto scam using Google ads to addresses in Moscow. Bitcoin Scam Using Unauthorized Celebrity Images in Ads Traced to Moscow ...
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On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.