Fyre Festival of 2017, promising an island paradise and world-class hospitality, while delivering cheese sandwiches in tents.
And then, of course, we have Anna Delvey, the fake German heiress who became headline news and provoked a global sensation.Delvey, now 29, was a petulant-looking tawny blonde with 40,000 Instagram followers and an exotic accent.
Using a combination of lies, loans and guile, she convinced the New York elite that she was a European trust-fund princess with $60 million to her name.
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