Scammers and Celebrity Impostors Defraud Fans of Millions

Country superstar Blake Shelton is tall, tousle-haired and so ruggedly handsome that People magazine once proclaimed him the “Sexiest Man Alive.” When J.R., a woman in her 60s in Alabama, heard she could enter a $1 million contest to be chosen the Grammy-winning singer’s fan of the year a few years ago, she decided to enter. To do so, she was told, she needed to made three payments totaling $17,500 through wire transfers, which she did, court documents show. But it was all a scam. (Read More)