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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.

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.

pic.twitter.com/HMYqq8S3arPespas has struggled with heroin addiction in the past but said that he had stopped using the drug later in the docuseries. He relies on methadone to survive his past addiction, according to his wife.

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.

Taylor Swift concert at MetLife Stadium and confirming they were validated. “SeatGeek you are a f–kin a—hole because I emailed you to make sure my tickets were validated and you said they were validated and legitimate tickets and now we can’t get into MetLife Stadium,” Marisella LaFata, who goes by @marisellabella on TikTok, lamented yesterday to her nearly 900,000 TikTok followers.The scorned concertgoer flew to the New Jersey venue from her Florida home to see the pop star, and even brought her two young children, she said in the video.“I flew my 1-year-old and 2-year-old from Florida to New York … but I got scammed through SeatGeek,” she continued.

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.

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.

more than 464,000 followers on Instagram.Davis, 30, started selling online health and wellness packages back in 2014 after she became a popular social media influencer. The savvy star created the company Brittany Dawn Fitness LLC, which quickly garnered thousands of paying customers in plans ranging in price from $92 to $300 per month.According to the new lawsuit, obtained by the Dallas Morning News, Davis was contacted by at least 14 women suffering from eating disorders.

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.

“Squid Game” craze sweeping the globe, cyber criminals are scrambling to cash in on unsuspecting fans of Netflix’s hyper-violent hit Korean series.

detailing a $40 million counterfeit coupon scam three women had pulled off in 2012, inspiration struck.“We instantly saw a story where these women made millions on this counterfeit coupon scam and bought 21 vehicles, 22 guns, a speedboat, a luxury RV,” Gaudet told The Post.

@TheDanielAdair,” they wrote. “Look for the blue checkmark to know it’s the real deal on all social networks.

released photographs showing Miyagawa with many different women, including one that depicts a table with two cakes and a note saying “Happy Birthday.”All told, the catfish’s fauxmantic racket netted him a whopping JPY 100,000 (or $929.44) worth of presents, clothes and cash.Miyagawa had reportedly met the single women while selling them hydrogen shower heads and other products for an unnamed company, and began each relationship under the assumption that marriage was in the cards.

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.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” fans were shocked Friday to find contestant Sherry Pie had been disqualified — before she’d even debuted.

In 1987, McDonald’s launched an ingenious sweepstakes based on the game of Monopoly. Customers would purchase sandwiches, fries, drinks, etc., that included peel-off game pieces on the packaging — potentially rewarding them with anything from a Filet-O-Fish to a new car to $1 million. People went wild for it and business spiked by 40 percent for the fast-food giant, who kept it up for years.