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the 60-year-old shared in a statement to People.The award-winning actress continued, “Please be aware that I do not participate in any form of social media. Any accounts pretending to be me or anyone associated with me are fake accounts The Oscar winner’s statement came after her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, took to social media to share that accounts have been impersonating her online.The baking instructor and TV personality wrote on Instagram, “I spend multiple times a day reporting fakes, dealing with weird & scary emails to my BUSINESS and HOME from men who believe that, through one of these many fake ‘me’s, they have a relationship with my sister through private messages and off app sites and have been giving (sometimes) THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to an incredibly famous and successful grown a–ed woman.”The 54-year-old also attached screenshots to emphasize her point.She explained that the screenshots show “a few FB imposter accounts, all of which I’ve reported both on this app and to a live human” at Meta.

a rather blase stint on “Dancing with the Stars.” One month later came “The Dropout,” the story of spooky Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried). A charismatic young medical CEO who aspired to be Steve Jobs and seemingly never blinked, she convinced deep-pocketed individuals to fund her “groundbreaking” blood-testing device to the tune of $700 million. Whoops.

New Zealand Herald.She claimed that after posting on a fan page for the Netflix show, she received a message from a person claiming they were Henderson’s agent, who put her in contact with who she thought was the 50-year-old actor.“We hit it off immediately and talked about favourite foods and common interests,” said Lea, claiming the two talked over WeChat and Telegram.The scammer, according to Lea, sent her voice messages in Henderson’s AI-doctored voice with promises that they’d be together soon.Come December 2024, Lea allegedly moved to New Zealand under the pretense that she was going to marry Henderson.“He told me he wanted to leave the acting world and live a quiet life in New Zealand with me – we planned marriage and three children,” she shared.Lea said she was supposed to pick the star up from Auckland Airport on New Year’s Eve, but the scammer told her that he allegedly was hospitalized during filming in South Africa.However, Lea’s friend allegedly sent her a Herald article about Henderson’s philanthropic mission in Matakana, New Zealand that exposed discrepancies in the scammer’s story.“I thought, ‘What is Martin doing in New Zealand in Matakana on a bike rally when he told me he was lying in a hospital bed in Johannesburg after a mild heart attack?'” said Lea.But by that point, Lea allegedly already spent more than $375,000 in purchases for “Henderson” due to the scheme.Lea said she paid $10K to bail him out of jail, $5K for a commercial flight for his trip back to New Zealand, $30K for a private jet from South Africa, $56K for fake invoices for a box that didn’t exist, $12K in gift cards and $5K in bitcoin transfers.

steal.Techsperts are warning Netflix subscribers about a “very large” cyber scam in which criminals hijack important financial info by sending people bogus messages. “These SMS scare campaigns targeting Netflix customers have become ubiquitous and never stop, but they vary in size and scope,” warned security firm Bitdefender, per tech site Cybernews.The latest digital scheme, which began in September but is still prevalent, cybercriminals send fake SMS texts warning Netflix subscribers of issues with their accounts.“NETFLIX : There was an issue processing your payment.

disastrous “Willy Wonka” experience in Glasgow shed her chrome-painted mask this past weekend to reveal how this role has changed her life. In a three-part TikTok series, the actress, whose name is Felicia, revealed that the role — which propelled her into the upper echelons of internet stardom — was her first ever paid acting gig. “So I was approached by the House of Illuminati and I was supposed to be cast as one of the Wonkas,” Felicia, 16, tells viewers while donning her iconic mask.

Ja Rule did in the wake of the Fyre Festival, he also felt “hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray.”An actor hired to work at the recent, disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland feels his golden ticket was a scam.Paul Connell, who played the part of Wonka at “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” at the Box Hub Warehouse in Glasgow, said the viral event was an “absolute mess” and one of the “most embarrassing things” he’s ever seen, South West News Service reported.The calamity, which cost $45 a person, promised guests a “journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises” — but instead ended with kids in tears and furious parents.Guests arrived on Saturday, Feb. 24, to a “dirty,” near-empty warehouse — which Connell further described as a “health and safety nightmare” — with a printed AI background, a sad bouncy castle and lackluster props.There was also virtually no candy at the “Chocolate Experience,” and Connell said he was told to give kids one single jelly bean each and a quarter of a glass of lemonade upon arrival.Red-headed Connell admitted that an immediate “red flag” came when he was asked to portray Willy Wonka, rather than an Oompa Loompa — which he felt he better resembled.“The first red flag for me was when I was cast as Willy Wonka.

Store.TaylorSwift.com — which sells gifts, CDs and vinyl, as well as T-shirts and sweaters from her record-breaking Eras Tour — has been dogged with complaints on social media of goods that have arrived either late, or damaged, or not at all.The Post spoke with multiple customers who claim they waited months for goods from the site — which promises many items “ship in 1 week” — with little to no response from UMG’s customer service. Ditto for requests for a refund.Grace Green, a 32-year-old Swiftie living in Arizona who has been a fan since Swift’s debut album came out in 2006, placed orders for 22 items on the site last year, collectively totaling $1,044.75, she told The Post.Green defended the splurge as “a desperate, mad attempt to get everything at once,” noting that products across the site quickly sell out.

Karma.” Several die-hard Taylor Swift fans have been reportedly scammed out of hundreds of dollars after tricksters released advertisements employing AI-generated video of the Grammy winner peddling Le Creuset in an attempt to steal money and data from fans. The ads — which can be found across all social media platforms — show Swift, 34, standing next to the Le Creuset Dutch oven, which, according to the official website, runs anywhere from $180 to $750 depending on the size and style.

YouTube channel Catfished.“I’m incredibly excited to connect with fellow filmmakers who share the same passion for the art of filmmaking. I’m currently seeking creative collaboration opportunities, and I believe that together, we can create something truly remarkable,” she wrote on the forum.She later received a message from a user named “DK MH,” saying he would like to chat and eventually claimed they were “well-known actor” Dacre Montgomery, who played Billy Hargrove on “Stranger Things.”“D K M H” is the title of Montgomery’s poetry book.“Me and him just really hit it off, but of course, I’m suspicious from the get-go until he starts doing things that make me believe that he is who he is,” McKayla said.“I’m obsessed with ‘Stranger Things,’ Billy is just this bully he kind of comes in tries to just dominate which is totally unlike his actual personality.

celebrity makeover artists aren’t the only ones cashing in on the success of the “Barbie” movie.Cybersecurity experts are warning of online scammers using the summer blockbuster’s cachet to steal bank info from legions of pink-pilled moviegoers.“Cybercriminals are always on the lookout for opportunities to make phishing and other scams more attractive and believable,” Steve Grobman, chief technology officer of software security firm McAfee, said on the company’s blog. “They often leverage popular and well-publicized events such as movie premieres, concerts, or sporting events to trick users into clicking on malicious links.”The cybersecurity company reports it has documented 100 new instances of malware with “Barbie-related filenames” in the last three weeks alone — with 37% of them occurring in the US.Scammers are purportedly looking to make big bucks off the Greta Gerwig-directed comedy, which landed at No.

Duped,” and a photo of Leonardo DiCaprio in full pilot regalia accompanied the piece. It was the famous still from “Catch Me if You Can,” Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film inspired by Abagnale’s best-selling memoir from 1980.Via email, the “reformed” con artist and author — who now advises businesses, banks, department stores and the FBI on fraud prevention and cybercrime — wanted me to know that it bothered him that “everyday someone writes an article about a bank robbery, forgery, con artist, or even cybercrime and they refer to me.“The crime I committed was writing bad checks,” he wrote.

posted to TikTok on Sunday and currently boasts nearly 2.4 million views, recalled how she and her mother were contacted by a “distant family relative,” who asked the then 14-year-old to come do a “meet and greet” with a “fan club from a small town in Mexico.”When Black and her mother — who immigrated to the US from Mexico — arrived at the event, they quickly realize they’d been set up. “They took us to this fancy house, and then ushered us into a room full of men in suits,” Black remembered.

a scathing New York magazine essay penned by her former best friend“My Insta Scammer Friend,” produced by British network BBC Three, went to air in the UK Thursday night, laying bare the impact of the glamorous grifter’s deceptions in interviews with the women who were duped. From the mid-2010s, Calloway, dubbed the “world’s worst influencer,” pulled off a series of schemes that might even make Anna Delvey blush: spending a six-figure advance for a book that never materialized, flogging tickets for writing seminars that didn’t exist and selling her own line of skincare shamelessly named “Snake Oil.”“It was this sickening feeling,” former follower Abigail Scott states in the new documentary, describing the moment she realized she had been duped by Calloway.

Helen Skelton, 39, is a mum to three young children: Ernie, seven, Louis, five, and seven-month-old Elsie. As the world becomes increasingly tech obsessed, Helen has shared her worries about the realities of gaming fraud and wants children to be equipped to spot a scam.The Summer On The Farm presenter’s concerns are particularly relatable as she confesses that she is not “massively tech-savvy" and gaming is not “her world”.She explained in an interview with Express.co.uk: “I am a parent of a seven-year-old who likes online gaming.

convicted of ripping off investors at her criminal trial, Netflix debuted two blockbuster shows about flagrant fraudsters.“The Tinder Swindler”, a documentary detailing the deceit of love rat Simon Leviev, hit the streaming platform on Feb. 2. “Inventing Anna,” a Shonda Rhimes miniseries based on notorious “Soho grifter” Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, landed on Feb 11.

Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler” — is allegedly eager to cash in on his newfound notoriety, setting his sights on Hollywood.According to TMZ, Leviev, 31, has signed with LA-based manager Gina Rodriguez, who reps a range of reality stars, including Mama June. The pair have purportedly discussed “a bunch of plans to parlay Leviev’s new Netflix fame into profit and an entertainment career.”The Post has reached out to Rodriguez for comment.

It’s not clear what the people received when they purchased an NFT — whether just an image of an album cover, or whether there was an audio file attached. Whatever it was, it wasn’t authorized by the artists, some of the artists are alleging.

was released from Albion Correction Facility early on Thursday on the basis of good behavior. The femme fatale spent just 21 months behind bars out of her full four- to 12-year sentence.Sorokin, who pretended to be the German heir to a 60 million Euro fortune, wasted no time on her splashy return to social media following her release.

At the height of Beatlemania in 1964, the Beetles arrived to screaming fans at the Buenos Aires airport. But the moptops weren’t the British pop group — just four guys from Florida.