The woman who tried to secretly (and illegally) sell Graceland is going to jail.
There are all sorts of real estate scams out there, including title and identity theft. But this one will go down in history as one of the most audacious of
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Let’s unpack the TikTok ban scam. This is unbelievably dishonest and cynical.
By the time you read this, Donald Trump may have already issued an executive order pushing back the US ban on TikTok by 90 days. But what’s really been going
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Random music news for Wednesday, September 18, 2024
An electromagnetic vortex cannon? What’s that? Oh. Coooooool. (Via Larry) What’s music news for September 18, 2024? This. More music news? Go here. BONUS: What if Hamilton were repurposed to
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A music producer has been arrested for using AI to scam streaming royalties
Michael Cornelius of North Carolina appears to have believed that he could scoop up lot of royalties from the streaming music platforms by using hundreds of thousands of fake songs
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Pre-sale tickets for Fyre Festival II have sold out. For the love of God, WHY?
Billy McFarlane, the scam artist who was jailed and fined for the fraud (two convictions) that was the first Fyre Festival, is back. His new thing? Fyre Festival II. Details
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RIAA takes swift action against HitPiece and warns any potential copycats to reconsider
Rarely does anything within the music industry move fast. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, has a fire lit under it when it comes to addressing the NFT
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Are NFTs the internet’s biggest scam? Discuss.
NFTs–non-fungible tokens–have been all the rage over the last couple of years. But is this whole thing built on sand? Let’s take a look.
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Was the Fyre Festival the Biggest Scam of the Year? Looks Like It
The Fyre Festival was sold to Millennials as a luxury Coachella in the Bahamas. The final result was one of the great music debacles of all time. Vanity Fair takes
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Don’t Be Scammed by Fake Websites Claiming to Sell Tickets to Metallica’s Toronto Club Show
Metallica will be at the Opera House in Toronto on Tuesday night to play a benefit for the Daily Bread Food Bank. As you may have read yesterday, tickets are
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“I Fell Prey to a Tragic(ally) Hip Ticket Scam. Don’t Let This Happen to You.”
[Reader Steve Dool had an unfortunate experience that he’s brave enough to share with everyone. – AC] I want to start this by saying I never thought I would be
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The History of the White Van Speaker Scam
This has happened to me a couple of times. I’m heading back to my car in a shopping mall parking lot when a van pulls up next to me. A
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