High Profile Celebrities Embroiled in an Online Scam
A celebrity who has been in the news a lot lately and who has made countless appearances on our show over the past few weeks is now part of a scam.
Plus, someone who works at the Nova network is part of a scam! It's scam city!!
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Speaker 1: This.
Speaker 2: Here's a Fitzi Whipper in Hay podcast.
Speaker 1: Have you been or has someone tried to scam you
Speaker 1: as a fake celebrity?
Speaker 2: This happens quite a bit. Do you know what's happening
Speaker 2: at the moment.
Speaker 1: Obviously, with the resurgence of mj people are just they're
Speaker 1: going to see Michael the biopic. I think beat It
Speaker 1: went to number one or was it Billy Jean. I
Speaker 1: think Billy Jean went to number one on the Billboard charts.
Speaker 2: In the States.
Speaker 1: Guys, It's bamazing.
Speaker 2: This is the thing though.
Speaker 1: People are now putting up on social media that there's
Speaker 1: a few fake Michael's going around trying to get.
Speaker 2: Money out of people. And if this he's dead, he's dead.
Speaker 2: But well, this one says long time. This one it's got.
Speaker 1: The photo of Michael Jackson off the Bad album and it's.
Speaker 2: It's Michael Jackson seven o four eight point fifteen.
Speaker 1: So it's good to see that the seven hundred and
Speaker 1: four thousand people have already tried to scam other people
Speaker 1: using the line Michael Jackson says, Hey, it's Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1: I'm messaging you from a private account. I'm not really dead.
Speaker 1: Can you pay id me six hundred dollars so I
Speaker 1: can come back to the United States and put out
Speaker 1: more music.
Speaker 2: I lost six hundred bucks straight away on that and
Speaker 2: me for the chance, the off chance that could be real.
Speaker 3: But it's not real. Who's thinking that's real? Not that
Speaker 3: I want to shame people who get done by scammers,
Speaker 3: because it's very convincing.
Speaker 2: Kate.
Speaker 1: If I don't know, if they did release a new
Speaker 1: MJ song and you could show everyone that you donated
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars to that, it's worth it. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: I think Burly twenty fourteen has a celebrity try to
Speaker 1: get in contact you and try to get money off you.
Speaker 1: Do you know one of these stories, because I mean
Speaker 1: people do get sucked in.
Speaker 2: I can't believe Chris HEMSWITHT messaged me it's a believable well.
Speaker 3: I've sometimes received some messages saying, is this you like
Speaker 3: to my to my real account that's got the tick
Speaker 3: and things?
Speaker 2: Do you make from it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I don't, Oh, but I think I had my I
Speaker 3: was attached to some kind of some cult gummies or something,
Speaker 3: and then people will say weight loss gummies. Just know
Speaker 3: I will never endorse anything like that and so it's
Speaker 3: not me, but some poor people had already bought them.
Speaker 1: They check same as Blake Dr Rochford as well well.
Speaker 1: I put in one thousand dollars when Dickie got arrested.
Speaker 4: Did you see those fund you the AI shots of
Speaker 4: Dicky under our.
Speaker 2: Could not believe it, but it's yeah, it happens quite
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 1: People are I mean, we know schems are out of
Speaker 1: control at the moment, and old people get sucked in
Speaker 1: on this what's this Instagram thing that everybody's talking about.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, George Clooney's trying to hook up
Speaker 1: with you, and you've lost all your life savings and
Speaker 1: it happens.
Speaker 4: Mate undred thousand dollars to catch up with George Clooney
Speaker 4: on the weekend coming round, Mark's giving us a.
Speaker 1: Call Ah Luke high lo Hello Hale, who tried to
Speaker 1: scam you?
Speaker 4: You wouldn't believe it. It's Chrissy Swan Oh.
Speaker 1: No way, that might have been Swanny looking for extra cash?
Speaker 4: What Facebook marketplace?
Speaker 2: What was she asking? Luke?
Speaker 1: She had been inspired from Nova and that she needed
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars to get back on her feet.
Speaker 2: That is amazing, isn't it actually great. Who sits at.
Speaker 4: Home and decides we're going to choose Chrissy Swan. This
Speaker 4: is gonna be believable. Are they going to buy it?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 4: Swanny seems friendly.
Speaker 1: She has messaged me before like really, so I was like,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, but I literally listened to
Speaker 1: her two hours ago.
Speaker 4: So you think it possibly just picked up on someone
Speaker 4: who had been mess in conversation with, on message with
Speaker 4: and then ran with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's weird.
Speaker 1: It was so weird.
Speaker 2: I was like, Christy, oh, Chrissy, no please?
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think they go into who the followers are
Speaker 3: and target people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, must be something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I got one the other day, one of those
Speaker 4: messages that say, hey dad, it's me. I need two
Speaker 4: thousand dollars. I'm caught out at the moment I'm on
Speaker 4: a mate's phone. Oh jack, Jack, I sent the money straight. No,
Speaker 4: But how bad is that? So many people.
Speaker 2: Would fall for it? Oh, it's people get sucked in regularly.
Speaker 2: It's really really sad.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there is actual celebrities out there asking
Speaker 1: for coin though, because I suppose you could get it
Speaker 1: over the line and then and then just play the
Speaker 1: whole Ah that was that was obviously a scam.
Speaker 4: But do you know, I'm selling gummies.
Speaker 1: But actually the bank details that you did provide, Ah,
Speaker 1: your actual back you're talking
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