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Sidney Poitier. 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 ...
The French branch of IKEA went on trial on 22 March 2021, for running an elaborate system to spy on staff members and job applicants by illegally using private detectives and police officers. [17] On 15 June 2021, IKEA France was found guilty of spying and ordered to pay €1.1m in fines and damages for these illegal practices.
Falsely reports celebrity appearances and filming locations in random local towns. Before the website went down, it referred to itself as a "fantasy news website". [41] [42] Likely part of the same network as WTOE 5 News. [43] [41] [42] [33] knp7.com knp7.com Part of the same network as WTOE 5 News. [36] [35] kspm33.com kspm33.com
In December Facebook and Twitter disabled a global network of 900 pages, groups and accounts sending pro-Trump messages. The fake news accounts managed to avoid detection as being inauthentic, and they used photos generated with the aid of artificial intelligence. The campaign was based in the U.S. and Vietnam.
The scam using doll faces to create false IDs made up a small part of the estimated $80bn in fraud connected to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to The Messenger.
In 2018, the company's plush toy shark "Blåhaj" was widely used in an internet meme, [262] [263] [264] with social media users posting humorous photos of it in their homes. [265] IKEA has been referenced a number of times in novelty music. In 2003, American musician Jonathan Coulton released the song "IKEA" on the album Smoking Monkey.
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.
On 8 January 1992, Headline News almost became the victim of a death hoax. A man phoned HLN claiming to be President George H. W. Bush's physician, alleging that Bush had died following an incident in Tokyo where he vomited and lost consciousness; however, before anchorman Don Harrison was about to report the news, executive producer Roger Bahre, who was off-camera, immediately yelled "No!