It sounds like an email proposal your spam filter would catch, but this scam really worked, for a time. “[Yalincak] and her son, Hakan, then a student at New York University, convinced investors to pour millions into a non-existent hedge fund, with Hakan posing as a wealthy Turkish heir to gain entrée to Greenwich’s monied circles.” The two Turkish nationals have been imprisoned and face deportation. Read more.
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