scamming
Finesse2Tymes is coming under fire for allegedly having someone else perform for him at his show and scamming the promoter out of thousands of dollars. XXL reports that the Memphis native was set to perform at a Huntsville, Alabama club. Someone of a similar build, wearing a balaclava mask and Finesse2Tymes’ jewelry rapped his songs […]
Nearly one year after being released early from prison over the highly publicized failure known as Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland appears to be looking to bring the event back. McFarland posted a tweet Sunday declaring that Fyre Festival II is “finally happening.” “Tell me why you should be invited,” he added. McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison in […]
A Florida woman has been arrested and indicted in connection with the alleged scamming of a Holocaust survivor out of millions of dollars in savings. “Today we allege the defendant callously preyed on a senior citizen simply seeking companionship, defrauding him of his life savings,” FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll said in a news […]
A Georgia inmate is accused of stealing millions from a billionaire movie mogul by pretending to be him while behind bars. Arthur Lee Cofield Jr., 31, allegedly ran an elaborate operation inside the Georgia Department of Corrections’ Special Management Unit in which he tricked customer service representatives at Charles Schwab into believing he was Sidney […]
A man in Ohio was convicted on Friday after swindling 14 people out of more than $800,000 as part of a six-year operation where he claimed to be a Ghanaian prince. A press release from the Justice Department explains Daryl Robert Harrison, 44, pretended to be Prince Daryl R. Attipoe and Prophet Daryl R. Attipoe. He sought investors for alleged African mining […]
Netflix’s Inventing Anna is now at the center of a lawsuit from one of the individuals portrayed in the Emmy-nominated miniseries, Rachel DeLoache Williams. As detailed by the Hollywood Reporter on Monday, Williams—who is played by Katie Lowes in the Shonda Rhimes-created series based on a New York magazine piece by Jessica Pressler—has sued the […]
A New Jersey woman has been sentenced in connection with a GoFundMe scam that raised $400,000 by creating a fake story about a homeless veteran. According to the Burlington County Sheriff’s Office, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced Katelyn McClure, 32, of Bordentown, to one year and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. McClure […]
Jen Shah, one of the stars of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty on Monday to defrauding hundreds of victims in a telemarketing scheme. NBC News reports Shah entered her guilty plea in a Manhattan federal court for one charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As a result, a second charge for […]
Three individuals have pleaded guilty in connection with what authorities have described as a “Grandparent Scam” that saw hundreds of thousands of dollars being pilfered from senior citizens. Per WJAR, 14 seniors in the Rhode Island area were targeted with the scam, which is said to have ultimately resulted in them being defrauded out of […]
A scammer targeted the family of the Buffalo, New York security guard who died in the mass shooting, and tried to steal money from them. The family of the security guard and retired police officer, Aaron Salter Jr., launched a GoFundMe to help the family during the difficult time. According to TMZ, a scammer tried […]
