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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 ...
Brad Pitt’s rep has reacted to the viral story of a 53-year-old French woman who was swindled out of $850,000 by someone pretending to be the actor. The story broke on Sunday on the TF1 show ...
The following is an alphabetical list of notable people known to have committed fraud. A Frank Abagnale Jr. , American impostor who wrote bad checks in 12 countries until arrested in 1969: falsely represented himself as a qualified member of professions such as airline pilot, doctor, attorney, and teacher; the film Catch Me If You Can is based ...
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".
Alan Conway (1934–1998): American con man best known for impersonating film director Stanley Kubrick. Gregory Caplinger (1953–2009): American conman who perpetrated cancer and investment scams. Prosecuted by the FBI, he died in prison. [20] Bernie Cornfeld (1927–1995): Ran the Investors Overseas Service, alleged to be a Ponzi scheme. [21]
The result next to the underage fake nude photo of Cyrus is a similar fake nude photo of Selena Gomez. The Gomez image links out to a post in the same thread in the same forum from December 2013.
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Christophe Thierry Daniel Rocancourt colloquially Christopher Rocancourt (born 16 July 1967), is a French impostor and confidence man who scammed affluent people by masquerading in turn as a French nobleman, the heir to the Rockefeller family or family member of a celebrity.