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In the late 1980s, a scam artist named Charles Agee Atkins scammed several celebrities into joining a fake tax shelter. This scheme generated phony losses totaling more than $1.3 billion ...
Comment discussing deepfake scams involving celebrities and the need for awareness. Text from online forum discussing deepfake scam affecting elderly dad\'s decisions.
Johnny Depp attends a screening of "Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness" at the Red Sea International Film Festival on Dec. 12, 2024. Daniele Venturelli via Getty Images
Christopher Rocancourt, a Rockefeller impersonator who defrauded Hollywood celebrities [50] Scott W. Rothstein , disbarred lawyer from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; perpetrated a decades long Ponzi scheme, until caught in 2009, which defrauded investors of over $1 billion [ 51 ]
• 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.
Fake nude photography is the creation of nude photographs designed to appear as genuine nudes of an individual. [1] [2] The motivations for the creation of these modified photographs include curiosity, sexual gratification, the stigmatization or embarrassment of the subject, and commercial gain, such as through the sale of the photographs via pornographic websites.
Ashley Anne Kirilow (born 1987) is a Canadian woman who raised money to aid cancer patients while pretending to have cancer herself. [1] [2] When Kirilow's fraud was made public, her story was republished around the world. [3]
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