In a twist-filled new book, writer Scott C Johnson tears back the layers of deception in a story of a scammer who wreaked havoc in the film industry
In hindsight, of course it was a set-up.
The voices were the invention of Hargobind “Harvey” Tahilramani, a man who was born in Indonesia, educated in the US, and lived in England, where he maintained a foodfluencer Instagram account while pursuing victims for his Hollywood dream scheme. The overall financial damages are estimated to be $1.5m, a relatively small figure considering that the number of people Harvey catfished is in the hundreds. “You can find any number of scams where the totals run up into the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars,” Johnson said. “In this case it was clear from the beginning that it wasn’t really about the money.
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