All posts containing the tag: "scam"
Posted Jun 23rd 2009 3:45PM by TMZ Staff
R. Kelly has been dragged into a massive investigation in South Africa -- but the singer claims he's the victim of a grifter gone mad.
It all started when a woman accused of scamming more than 50 people out of tons of money claimed Kelly played a part in the plot.
She allegedly conned her victims into investing money in an R. Kelly tour that never existed. The woman reportedly says she deposited the money into Kelly's bank account.
She's been charged with more than 60 counts of fraud -- and Kelly is wanted for questioning.
Kelly is vehemently denying involvement -- his publicist said:
"The woman has no connection at all with R. Kelly. This is just some con woman who swindled a bunch of people out of money. R. Kelly had no knowledge of this, he's just as upset as anyone."
Tags: popstar, R. Kelly, R.Kelly, scam, singer-songwriter, south africa, SouthAfrica
Posted May 26th 2009 12:57PM by TMZ Staff
"Turns out those dumb commercials, that sing 'bout credit reports for free,
Are really full of crap and charge a 15 dollar fee,
The government took notice, and just passed a brand new bill,
Which stops those lying companies from lying to you still."
"The only place to get free reports, so says the government,
Is to go to AnnualCreditReport.com, and to you they'll be sent.
Thanks a bunch to the FTC, but who we gotta thank the most...
Are the people who wrote about this first, over at the Huffington Post."
Tags: .com, Free credit report, FreeCreditReport, scam
Posted Apr 9th 2009 2:15AM by TMZ Staff
OctoMom Nadya Suleman is crying conspiracy on the subject of Angels in Waiting -- the org. that supplied nannies to take care of her kids -- saying it was all just an elaborate "scam" to "abduct" her kids.
But the best part of this video: Nadya asks a camera guy for a tape of TMZ-TV, because she heard it was funny when we ran a piece about her kid calling a group of photogs "bitch."
Oh, the memories.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Let's Get This Party Started, OctoMom
Tags: angels in waiting, AngelsInWaiting, bitch, nadya suleman, NadyaSuleman, octomom, scam, video
