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A fraudulent bitcoin advertising scheme that attracted thousand of victims with unauthorized celebrity images has been traced back to Russia, according to The Guardian.
Fans spotted a suspicious video of Jennifer Aniston allegedly talking about a health supplement and clocked it as AI, making the "Friends" star the latest celebrity to be victim of AI scammers.
In January, “Watch What Happens Live!” host Andy Cohen appeared on the Today Show to share a harrowing experience of ID fraud at his personal bank. Cohen said imposters pretending to reconcile ...
A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.
Musical artist. Louis Jay Pearlman(June 19, 1954 – August 19, 2016) was an American music manager and scam artist. He was the person behind many successful 1990s boy bands, having formed and funded the Backstreet Boys. After their massive success, he then developed NSYNC.
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Billy McFarland. William Zervakos McFarland (born December 11, 1991) is an American businessman whose enterprises have been characterized by fraud. He has served time in prison for financial crimes related to Fyre Festival, having defrauded investors of $27.4 million. [1] Vanity Fair describes him as "the poster boy for millennial scamming".
A Willy Wonka inspired 'Chocolate Experience' in Glasgow, Scotland, was 'where dreams go to die,' one actor hired for the event said.