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Dark Web Identity Thief Claims He Orchestrated Scheme to Sell Graceland
Rolling Stone link: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/graceland-auction-sale-scam-dark-web-identity-thief-credit-1235029287/
A DARK WEB scammer has taken credit for trying to sell Elvis Presley’s Graceland home, The New York Times reports.
The paper said it received two emails from a person who claimed to be the brains behind this scheme and other identity theft frauds. “We figure out how to steal. That’s what we do,” the scammer said, adding that he and his dark web network of “worms” often targeted elderly and unsuspecting people, often in California and Florida, using publicly available documents like birth certificates to procure crucial personal information.
Still, he acknowledged the Graceland grift had fallen short: “I had fun figuring this one out and it didn’t succeed very well.”
The Times said it received the messages after reaching out to an email address listed in court documents for Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC, the company that tried to sell Graceland at auction earlier this month. The writer said he was based in Nigeria, and his emails were written in Luganda. A translator who looked at the documents noted that the use of the Bantu language was sporadically clunky compared to the fluent English used in Naussany’s court filings.
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The paper said it received two emails from a person who claimed to be the brains behind this scheme and other identity theft frauds. “We figure out how to steal. That’s what we do,” the scammer said, adding that he and his dark web network of “worms” often targeted elderly and unsuspecting people, often in California and Florida, using publicly available documents like birth certificates to procure crucial personal information.
Still, he acknowledged the Graceland grift had fallen short: “I had fun figuring this one out and it didn’t succeed very well.”
The Times said it received the messages after reaching out to an email address listed in court documents for Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC, the company that tried to sell Graceland at auction earlier this month. The writer said he was based in Nigeria, and his emails were written in Luganda. A translator who looked at the documents noted that the use of the Bantu language was sporadically clunky compared to the fluent English used in Naussany’s court filings.
This is a pretty good story how the family was able to stop the sale of Graceland. Lawyers are on it now.
