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Fake Spotify & Apple Music Profiles Used in ‘Verification Scam’
Photo Credit: Instagram A analyze finds that bogus Spotify and Apple Songs profiles were being leveraged for Instagram blue checks. According to an investigative research by ProPublica, Spotify and Apple Music’s artist profile techniques have been exploited to get Instagram confirmed profiles. This “quick and easy” approach involved the alleged scammers building fake artist profiles and uploading new music — “often nothing far more than simple looping beats.” The streaming quantities of those tracks are then boosted illicitly, in addition to purchasing posts advertising and marketing these artists on genuine internet websites. The result is plenty of “proof” in apps for an Instagram verification checkmark — in some cases, for accounts…
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Fake fires and greener grass: the real estate photo tricks that make a house feel like a home | Real estate
When a real estate advertisement came under fire this year for Photoshopping a “Chornobyl” green lawn out the front of an Adelaide property, the internet shared a bemused laugh. But according to real estate photographer Christine*, the mistake wasn’t Photoshopping the grass. It was the failure to suspend the viewers’ disbelief. Before and after images of lounge room which has been photoshoppedPhotographers add fires in fireplaces to make a room feel ‘warn and inviting’, but if the fireplace no longer functions it could be seen as misrepresentation. “We definitely add grass,” she says. “But it won’t look fake.” Christine has been in the business in Sydney for 13 years, and…
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Famed Churchill portrait stolen from hotel and replaced with fake | Canada
Law enforcement in Canada are investigating the “brazen” heist of a famed Sir Winston Churchill portrait following the primary photograph was mysteriously swapped for a bogus. Last 7 days, an employee at the Château Laurier lodge in Ottawa, discovered a little something amiss with a portrait known as the “Roaring Lion” which was taken right after the wartime leader resolved the Canadian parliament in 1941. The body on the photograph didn’t match the other five portraits in the space, all of which experienced been taken by the acclaimed Canadian-Armenian portraitist Yousuf Karsh, whose subjects integrated Martin Luther King Jr, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway and Queen Elizabeth II. The hotel contacted…
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B.C. artist Lucinda Turner, who helped expose fake Indigenous art, dies at 63
Indigenous artists and allies are mourning the dying of Lucinda Turner, a British Columbian artist who worked to expose fraudulent Indigenous artworks, and helped repatriate Indigenous artifacts to their rightful entrepreneurs. Turner died on Monday at the age of 63. Turner was born to British immigrants in 1958. Right after studying artwork at the Emily Carr College of Artwork and Structure in Vancouver, she started functioning as an apprentice for Nisga’a grasp sculptor and carver Norman Tait in 1991. In excess of 26 years, Turner and Tait created notable artworks, including eagle- and salmon-formed carvings commissioned by the former Vancouver Stock Exchange. Right after Tait passed absent in 2016, Turner retired. When she found copies of Tait’s operate becoming handed off as…
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Rocco Ritchie selling art for huge sums under the secret fake name ‘Rhed’
Rocco is of course the son of film director Guy Ritchie and music icon Madonna and he is now said to be secretly carving out a career for himself as a respected artist under a fake name Video Loading Video Unavailable The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Madonna talks about Rocco during show Rocco Ritchie has been unmasked as an exciting new British artist after being revealed as the mastermind behind a painter named Rhed. The 21-year-old is the son of 53-year-old film director Guy Ritchie and 63-year-old music superstar Madonna and had already been known to be entering the art world. Rocco has been studying fine art in…
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Entertainment News Roundup: Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of staging fake hate crime; ‘And Just Like That’: ‘Sex and the City’ characters return to the small screen and more
Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of staging fake hate crime Actor Jussie Smollett, one-time star of the TV drama “Empire,” was found guilty on Thursday of staging a hate crime against himself in what prosecutors said was a bid to gain sympathy and boost his career. Prosecutors said Smollett, who is Black and gay, lied to police when he told them that he was accosted on a dark Chicago street by two masked strangers in January 2019. ‘And Just Like That’: ‘Sex and the City’ characters return to the small screen Members of the original cast…
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