In Great Britain arrested a criminal who was nicknamed “the queen of Hollywood scammers.” For years he pretended to be the bigwigs of Hollywood and thus stole millions of dollars, according to the Daily Mail.
The victims of 41-year-old Indonesian Hargobind Tahilramani were American actors, screenwriters, stuntmen, make-up artists and other specialists, one way or another connected with the film industry. As a rule, he called them, introduced himself as an influential producer and offered work on the set of the next blockbuster. Among others, he posed as the president of Lucasfilm Kathleen Kennedy in charge of filming ” Star Wars “, produced by Justice League and Wonder Woman Deborah Snyder a >, head of Universal Pictures Donna Langley , former head of Sony Pictures Entertainment Amy Pascal and director Doug Lyman, who directed The Edge of Tomorrow and The Bourne Identity. p >
The victims claim that the fraudster skillfully faked female voices and during one conversation could represent three people at once: a producer, an assistant and a lawyer. Sometimes he invited the actors to audition directly by phone, acting with him a bed scene from a nonexistent movie script. Many believed him and agreed to come to Jakarta. The victims did not immediately realize that they were being deceived, and managed to spend thousands of dollars on various services imposed by the dummy guides and other accomplices of Tahilramani. For six years, the scam brought the Indonesian from 1.5 to 2 million dollars (up to 150 million rubles)
In November 2020, Tahilramani was exposed in the podcast series “Chameleon: The Queen of Hollywood Scams”, the authors of which conducted their own investigative journalism. In late November, the Manchester police arrested the perpetrator at the request of the American authorities. They plan to extradite him to the United States.
In 2019 it was reported that the US sentenced a swindler who He posed as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, lived in luxury hotels, rode limousines with a personal driver, and took out multimillion-dollar loans. He was betrayed by his love of pork.