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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 ...
Operation Bullpen was an FBI investigation into forged celebrity autographs and sports memorabilia that ran from 1999 until 2006. The investigation uncovered $100 million worth of fraud that occurred in the United States.
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
The two women targeted by the online scammers lost a combined €325,000 ($364,000), ... “It’s awful that scammers take advantage of fans’ strong connection with celebrities. But this is an ...
A demand of money is then made, though usually the scam is either a bluff (e.g. the scammer never intended to publish them) or the pictures/videos are published regardless even if the money is sent. [1] Sextortion (a portmanteau of sex and extortion) employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim.
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.
Brad Pitt’s Rep Speaks Out on ‘Awful’ Love Scam That Cost French Woman $850,000: It Took ‘Advantage of the Strong Bond Between Fans and Celebrities’ Elsa Keslassy January 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The scam was supposedly performed by a company selling pornography or other sex aids and trading under a highly explicit name. Customers were invited to purchase adult material from the company, and were assured that the actual transaction could be made with a separate company with a non-explicit name in order to prevent the explicit name from ...