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Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood: Who's the "Crazy Evil Genius" Behind a Global Racket?
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 7/11/2918 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 07/11/2018 3:44:30 PM PDT by Sontagged

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There is too much "intel" on the marks of this scam and too much intel on the persons they are impersonating for this to be about a few thousand bucks.

Methinks this is a Deep State A.I. test-run or war-game. What else would the NSA be using all of our voice recordings for, but something like this? They can already do this, live, with video. Audio is much easier.

1 posted on 07/11/2018 3:44:30 PM PDT by Sontagged
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Could be.

Might also be a DNC operation to replace all that lost union funding.


2 posted on 07/11/2018 3:52:39 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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Scary stuff. I would tend to agree with you too. That kind of knowledge on her subjects suggest access to more than what is found via Google.


3 posted on 07/11/2018 4:05:38 PM PDT by softengine
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DNC/Deep State/Uniparty/GOPE hates it when we put our thinking caps on.


4 posted on 07/11/2018 4:08:23 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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I think we will look back on the 2016 election of POTUS Trump as a modern day miracle, as in the days of Pentecost... Trump overcame and foiled this kind of Deep State apparatus. Lord bless and protect our President.


5 posted on 07/11/2018 4:13:48 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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I had to have missed something, but how did the “bad guys” profit? It sounds like people are putting up their own monies to buy plane tickets and do work, but how do the bad guys get money? They paid the airlines for their tickets and the hire their own taxis in foreign countries. For those doing Skype sex, no money is exchanged.
6 posted on 07/11/2018 4:21:59 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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I’m coming around to thinking of all those you listed as a single group titled MRE (Morally Reprehensible Elites).


7 posted on 07/11/2018 4:22:44 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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LOL, but isn’t that the acronym for Meals Read to Eat?

But I’ll use MRE if you do.


8 posted on 07/11/2018 4:36:28 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Right... that’s why I mused that perhaps this is a Deep State war game or test run to use A.I. audio in real world situations.

The technology to use a “video image” of a person but have this image of the person speak the words and use the gestures you want them to use, live and in real time, has been available for decades.

Is this caper crime just an excuse to see how audio AI could be used? Too much intel and information on the subjects involved for two-bit, 3rd world scamners.


9 posted on 07/11/2018 4:40:07 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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Yeah. I hated MRE food.

But, since some branches MRE are suspected of cannibal activities, it still works.


10 posted on 07/11/2018 4:42:45 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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: ) !


11 posted on 07/11/2018 4:53:20 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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I liked the spaghetti meal.


12 posted on 07/11/2018 4:56:26 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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I think it’s not a con, but an art project... yea that’s the concept! It’s all for art!


13 posted on 07/11/2018 5:12:20 PM PDT by Lockbox
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I like how you think! LOL
14 posted on 07/11/2018 5:15:14 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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The fact that the FBI wouldn’t touch it (if true) is a dead giveaway.


15 posted on 07/11/2018 5:17:24 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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“Among those who picked up checks thinking they were breaking bread with the Clockwork Orange auteur: the otherwise razor-sharp Frank Rich,...”

HA!

Otherwise razor sharp. I don’t think so.


16 posted on 07/11/2018 5:33:55 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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This is a bunch of crap and nonsense of some sort, I agree.

But what you’re saying makes no sense.


17 posted on 07/11/2018 5:36:23 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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This is A.I. video reenactment software. Been around for decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKkuWX406q4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvvHwFSZHs

To fake someone’s real voice, in this day and age of Siri/Alexa etc., is not that hard.

It’s not far fetched to think that all the intel put into this Hollywood con game came from a Deep State source, not some tiddly wink 3rd World Nigerian scammer.

There wasn’t enough money involved to pay for all the intel it took to do this con... that’s why I question who is actually “running” this con operation.


18 posted on 07/11/2018 6:46:19 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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LOL re: Frank Rich getting conned by a fake Kubrick.

But there is something weirder about all this than meets the eye (or ear).


19 posted on 07/11/2018 6:53:41 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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The article is a bit long-in-the-tooth and muddles the details. The mark would be required to pay up front for expenses to cover (for example) drivers to be on site, or rooms/sites to rent for the projected project, or even extra personnel to be there on site. HOWEVER, instead of himself paying directly to whatever person or facility is mentioned, he/she would be advised to pay someone who would show up and pick up the money. The mark was told the person picking up the money would then continue on to make all the details come together. Not an uncommon action, actually, in most lines of production. The mark however didn’t know this was a scam start to finish, with the finish being only when the mark has been drained of all the mark is willing to cough up. Hope my explanation makes sense.


20 posted on 07/11/2018 8:18:00 PM PDT by Notthereyet (Notthereyet)
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