Craig Carton — half of the famous ‘Boomer and Carton’ sports talk show on WFAN — has been found guilty of running a massive concert ticket scam. The radio personality — who quit his job as Boomer Esiason’s cohost amid a federal investigation…
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Thursday, November 8, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled Sued Over Alleged Cryptocurrency Scam
Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled have been hit with a lawsuit from people who claim the stars participated in an illegal cryptocurrency scam that screwed investors out of millions of REAL dollars. The coin at the center of the scandal is called…
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Johnny Depp Changes Amber Heard Knuckle Tattoo Again, SCUM to SCAM
Johnny Depp is throwing out all the rules on exes and tattoos, ‘cause he’s changed his Amber Heard-inspired knuckle ink yet again … and added a dash of chaos. Fellow Hollywood Vampires bandmember Tommy Henriksen posted a photo of Depp’s…
Monday, July 9, 2018
Kermit Washington Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison For Charity Scam
Ex-NBA star Kermit Washington was just sentenced to 6 years in prison … and ordered to pay almost $ 1 MILLION in restitution for stealing money meant for charity … TMZ Sports has learned. Washington — a 66-year-old former NBA All-Star who played…
Kermit Washington Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison For Charity Scam
Ex-NBA star Kermit Washington was just sentenced to 6 years in prison … and ordered to pay almost $ 1 MILLION in restitution for stealing money meant for charity … TMZ Sports has learned. Washington — a 66-year-old former NBA All-Star who played…
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Josh Duggar: Using Fake Names to Scam Fans Out of Money?!
Back in 2015, news of the Josh Duggar sex scandals shook fans to their core and threatened to bring an end to the Duggar family’s media empire.
Remarkably, three years later, life has pretty much returned to normal for the Duggars — with the notable exception of Josh, of course.
While his parents and siblings made a rather smooth transition back to the spotlight, Josh remains exiled from both fans and his family.
Currently, Josh works on a used car lot owned by his father, and he lives several miles away from the neighborhood in Tontitown, Arkansas that most of them call home.
Of course, the clearest indicator of the rift between the former lobbyist and the rest of his family might be that Josh no longer worships at the Duggar family church.
Josh is reportedly in dire financial straits, as he attempts to raise five children on a car lot attendant’s salary and with little financial help from his wealthy family.
But that’s just one of the reasons that fans are wary of Josh’s latest “fundraising” efforts.
Josh returned to Facebook this week with little fanfare, and he’s apparently on a mission.
Thus far, Josh’s activity on the site has been extremely limited:
As In Touch Weekly points out, he changed his profile picture to a photo of his son Matthew — and he announced that he’ll be raising money for two family friends who were involved in a car accident.
Of course, this is Josh Duggar we’re talking about, so it wasn’t long before fans noticed something deeply suspicious about his philanthropic efforts.
As one Facebook user quickly pointed out, the fundraiser that Josh is encouraging fans to contribute to was apparently started by someone named Janie Williams.
The only problem there is the fact that Janie doesn’t appear to be a real person.
“Both names are listed on the GoFundMe as running the campaign,” the fan wrote on Facebook.
“When I click on Janie’s name, it led me to Josh’s profile,” she continued.
“I can see Josh using the common [names] Janie/Joe and common last [names] Williams/Smith to try [and] hide. I [don’t see] a Janie Williams listed as a friend on Josh’s page.”
Yes, it appears that Josh has constructed yet another alias for himself.
In the past, he’s been caught using the name Joe Smithson on social media.
And of course, there was the fake Ashley Madison profile that Josh used to try and cheat on his wife.
So what exactly is going on here?
Well, it’s tough to say, but the Duggars have a long history of begging fans for money under suspicious pretenses.
Now, it looks like Josh is attempting to supplement his meager income with a little light fraud.
All in a day’s work for one of the shadiest figures west of the Mississippi.
Watch Counting On online for more on reality TV’s most controversial family.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Drew Brees on Jewelry Lawsuit: "It Was All a Scam"
Drew Brees is speaking out on his lawsuit against a San Diego jeweler — saying he trusted the man with $ 15 million in diamonds … but “in the end it was all a scam.” TMZ Sports broke the story … Brees sued Vahid Moradi of CJ Charles jewelers…
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
"Gypsy Sisters" Star Arrested Again for Another Coupon Scam
“Gypsy Sisters” star Mellie Stanley got caught up in another alleged coupon scam — only this time it appears to have crossed state lines … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us Stanley was arrested Monday night in Indiana based on…
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard Find New Way to Scam Fans, Get So Much Hate for It
One of the big things people don’t like about Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard is that despite being on a big TV show for years, they still beg their fans for money.
That and all the bigotry, those are the two big things.
It’s just always been so bizarre, because you’d think that the money they made from the show would be more than enough to support them and all their endeavors, at least for a little while longer.
If nothing else, Jim Bob owns a fleet of private planes, it seems like he could give them a hand if they were struggling that much.
But regardless of what you’d think or how things seem, the fact remains that there have been several occasions when the Dillards reached out to their supporters for some cash assistance.
And that’s weird.
After getting lots and lots of criticism for all their GoFundMe stunts over the years, and after failing to convince people that they’re just regular missionaries and that’s how things are done, they’ve given up with the fundraisers, for now, anyway.
However, Derick did get the family fired from reality television, so you have to make ends somehow, you know?
Well, it looks like they’ve come up with a new plan!
There’s this foundation called The Tuttle Twins, and they release books for children about things like politics and history — books that the Duggars would enjoy.
As the foundation explains on its website, “Each year, hundreds of millions of children are spoon-fed false history, bad economics, and logical fallacies. Your child is not immune.”
They say their books are a way for parents to “inoculate their children against this trend to help them really grasp the importance of freedom and free markets.”
So we’re sure the books are fine and correct and not at all terrifying.
Anyway, The Tuttle Twins is holding this contest on their Facebook page where you share a picture of your kid with one of their books, and if your picture gets the most likes and shares, you win a cash prize of $ 350.
You can see where this is going, right?
Jill, who had to know that she has a massively unfair advantage with this kind of thing, entered the contest with this picture of Israel, and just to make sure she gets all those likes, she made sure she was in the photo, too.
So far, Jill has far more likes than anyone else in the contest, and there’s really no way that she won’t win.
It’s really a shame.
There are plenty of families who could legitimately use $ 350, and for Jill to take that opportunity away from those people is just sad.
And lots of people seem to agree.
“Completely unfair that this picture was allowed,” one person commented on the photo. “Until recently Jill Duggar Dillard has appeared on TLC for many years. Shame on her for using her celebrity to win a contest with money as a prize.”
Another person wrote that she shouldn’t be eligible for the contest because “no one stands a chance against her and that’s really not OK.”
“Jill Duggar is using her fame as a public figure to garner more votes for her son, which is NOT fair to all the other entrants who don’t have their names and faces plastered all over the place,” yet another Duggar critic wrote.
“Jill should withdraw her entry, and she should be disqualified.”
She should, but she won’t — instead, she’s been posting the link to the photo on her Twitter and Instagram accounts and asking everyone to “help Israel win!”
The foundation won’t intervene either, because as they explained to their many outraged followers, “We are not going to disqualify somebody merely because they have a larger social network.”
Subtext: “we are not going to disqualify somebody merely because they have a larger social network because this mess is getting us a whole lot attention and we are living for it.”
Hope Jill does something neat with that cash prize!
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Paris Hilton"s Teacup Dog Broker Accused Of Puppy Scam
Paris Hilton and Kelly Osbourne’s broker who specializes in tiny dogs has been accused in a police report of “fraud as result of a scam.” The customer who filed the report tells us she bought a teacup Maltese from Betty’s Teacup Puppies for…
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Ed Sheeran Used by "Manager" in Super Bowl Ticket Scam (DOCUMENT)
Ed Sheeran was the bait in a successful plot to swindle a charity out of 4 primo tickets to Super Bowl 51 … according to cops trying to track down the scammer. Marc Pollick — CEO of The Giving Back Fund — tells TMZ his charity got a call…
Monday, February 6, 2017
Epic Super Bowl Scam -- Fans Outwit Stadium Security ... With Ladder (VIDEOS)
Who needs tickets to get into the Super Bowl … when you have a ladder! Four creative young fans claim they snuck into NRG Stadium posing as stadium workers — with a ladder they found on the side of the road. The crazy part — IT…
Monday, January 30, 2017
Drake Home Sale is a Big Phony Scam
Drake got punked by an impostor who pretended to be his manager and put the word out the rapper was putting his incredible estate on the market … and the media took the bait. The L.A. Times reported Monday, Drake had listed his Hidden Hills…
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Little Girl Tries to Scam Mother Into Revealing Surprise Gift
Kids.
They’re the best, aren’t they?
Except for when they’re vomiting all over themselves in the backseat of your car, perhaps.
But Imgur user FunkyFunkyJones is here to remind us why kids can be so gosh darn adorable.
In the above example, FunkyFunkyJones gives us a look at how the daughter of his friend attempted to get to the bottom of a surprise present by impersonating her father via handwritten note.
How did the young girl’s mom know that it was her daughter, and not her husband, who wrote her the letter?
The opening of “Dear Wife” was a pretty clear giveaway.
The rest of the hilarious note reads as follows:
Dear Wife what Did you get Lily for a suprise again. I forgot. Love: Don.
Lily was apparently hoping that her mom would respond (via her own note? Just left out on the open?) with the answer of what surprise Lily was about to receive.
“Seems legit,” FunkyFunkyJones wrote of the picture.
We love it.
And we’ve gone ahead and added Lily’s precious note to the following examples of kids being too cute for words.
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