The internet is filled with people trying to scam you out of money. That's nothing new.
But one crafty con artist recently claimed to be Kelly Rowland and Beyoncé to get some money out of a fan.
Sounds bizarre? You're not kidding. Basically, a Twitter user named Chris recently posted that he'd been contacted via DM by a mystery account - which had no followers and didn't appear to be following anybody else - on Instagram.
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Claiming to be 'Kelly from Destiny's Child', the sender claimed to have lost 'her' credit card and asked for some money so 'she' could fly into Chris' city for a concert - adding that 'she' would bring Beyoncé along for the ride.
The message from 'iam.kellyrowland' read: "Hey this is Kelly from Destiny's Child, I lost my credit card and I need money for a plain ticket so I can fly to your city to perform. Can you send me some money? I'll bring Beyoncé."
If things weren't weird enough, this was then quickly followed up by another message, which read: "Hello this is Beyoncé."
Seems legit, right?
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Luckily, Chris didn't fall for the message. Posting a screenshot of it to his Twitter account, he just wrote: "HELP???"
As I said earlier, the internet is awash with crooks trying every angle to get your money. Sadly, however, not everyone is as savvy as Chris.
Recently a woman was 'scammed out of $100,000' after falling in love with a fake Bruno Mars account.
Chinwendu Azuonwu, of Houston, Texas, was charged with third-degree felony money laundering after it was alleged that he posed as the musician online.
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According to the documents relating to the charges, Azuonwu, 39, originally from Nigeria, was connected to a scheme between September and October 2018 that took thousands of dollars from a 63-year-old woman from north Texas.
The woman claims that she had created an Instagram account in the hope of finding some companionship and was contacted by a person pretending to be the 'Just the Way You Are' singer.
She told the authorities that she had fallen in love with the person running the account, believing that it was Mars as he had sent her a number of texts and photos of him while on tour.
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'Mars' then allegedly asked her to send him a $10,000 check to a 'friend of the band' to pay for 'tour expenses'. The money was later deposited into an account at JPMorgan Chase.
Two days later, the woman was asked to draw out more money, this time a cashier's check totalling an eye-watering $90,000 made out to a 'Chi Autos'.
The second amount was deposited on 14 September 2018 to a separate account with JPMorgan Chase.
According to reports, each of the accounts were traced back to Azuonwu and his alleged accomplice, Basil Amadi, 29.
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