Just a few months ago, in the graduation season, a graduation work that "played a celebrity and lived in Beijing for 21 days without spending money" caused many netizens to talk about it, and the Central American student "white prostituted" for nearly a month with invisible privileges.
The graduation work of Zou Yaqi, a graduate of CAFA
This is reminiscent of The Saudi Prince Anthony Enrique Gignac, who entered high society with superb acting skills and deceived the simple rich for 27 consecutive years.
Compared with the "pseudonymous lady" who rubbed more than 10,000 yuan of resources, Geniac was involved in hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions.
Fake Saudi prince's ins show off
In the operation of impersonating a Saudi prince, the collection of expensive gifts in business negotiations is the most basic, and the five thousand dollars of diamond-encrusted dog collars and the fifty thousand dollars of Cartier bracelets are only the tip of the iceberg, and the amount he has defrauded has accumulated to more than $8 million.
After the case was referred to the FBI and the Bureau of Foreign Security, the trained agents said that the Saudi prince did a good job, the details were clear, and his teeth were very white and bright, which was a point that the Royal family in the Middle East, especially the Saudis, attached great importance to.
Anyway, brushing your teeth from now on may be the first step to becoming rich.
Fake Saudi Prince Gignac
But it was the details that finally exposed the fake Saudi prince, just days before the scam was uncovered, Geniac also took a private jet from billionaire Jeffrey Soffer on a ski resort and hoped to sell a 30 percent stake in Miami Beach's famous Fontainebleau Hotel for $440 million.
Of course, Sauer, who valued the deal, also dined with Geniac and his family, but just as he was ordering, he discovered that the Saudi prince had asked for a ham that could not be eaten because of his religious beliefs, which aroused Sauer's suspicions.
Geniac took a picture with the restaurant manager, who was trying to buy the restaurant for $200 million
Then his team informed him that the entire high-end apartment owned by the Saudi prince in Miami was also fake, and in fact only one of them was rented, but who was Geniac, who had been pretending to be a prince for more than 20 years, and had never seen any big storms.
The saudi prince, who had been exposed, of course, would not admit it directly, but violently protested the act and asked the broker-in-the-middle to tell the souffer team that the move had insulted the prince's reputation and that if he wanted to continue the deal, he would have to take some more gifts to please himself.
Souffer, who wanted to dig deeper, gave a Cartier bracelet worth fifty thousand dollars the next day to appease him, and The good drama of Geniac was staged.
Real estate tycoon Jeffrey Soffer
He took a phone call and reported a bunch of strange codes, then quietly told Sauer and his team that they were secretly communicating with people at the State Department, that they had a chip around their necks so they could get a spot, and that the business manager next to him, Geniac, also said he had a chip around his neck, and then pointed to a stranger at the other table that the person had been sent by the CIA.
At this point, if there was only suspicion of Anthony, here Saufer really felt that his intelligence was insulted, and after Geniac left, Souffer took the information and evidence collected by his team and sent Geniac to prison.
The 79-year-old Saudi prince who Guinyak impersonated was real
The mushroom-headed prince after being debunked
In short, by imitating the behavior habits of rich people, you can easily enjoy the privilege, which seems to have been used all over the world, and in 2016, there was an artist girl on ins who conducted a performance art experiment.
The artist's sister, Amalia Ulman, first posted a photo on the Instagram as an ordinary girl from a rural background who dreamed of becoming a model.
The photos produced by Amaria po attracted many fans
But her story is even more dramatic, and then develops into breaking up with her boyfriend, becoming rich by sugar daddy, breast augmentation, drug addiction, drug rehabilitation, pregnancy, interspersed with countless luxuries and selfies, and even dyeing her brown hair more suitable for the character.
Just after being surrounded by insults and discussion in the comments section, Amalia revealed the fact that it was a performance art experiment.
Amalia, who gradually became involved in Vanity Fair on Instagram
Even at the beginning of this year, there was a documentary called "False Name" that filmed the story of three small transparent packages into Internet celebrities.
But people who can play like this are not only in the 21st century, pretending to be royal aristocrats or something, and someone did this two hundred years ago!
The crew is filming the ins photos of the "Internet celebrities"
At the beginning of the 19th century, a woman dressed in a strange costume and speaking a language that the locals could not understand appeared in a small town in England, and the residents took her to the magistrate, but even the judge's wife from the United States could not understand what she said.
The woman, who identified herself as Caraboo and insisted on sleeping only on the floor, was unable to communicate, and the judge had no choice but to imprison her for vagrancy.
While incarcerated, a Portuguese sailor said he understood the language of Karabu, saying he was a princess from Java in the Indian Ocean.
Portrait of Princess Calab
Under the translator's translation, the truth about Princess Calab's arrival here surfaces, she escaped when she was captured by pirates and passed nearby, showing a scar on the back of her head.
The judge heard this and brought Princess Karabu home, because the judge was a government official at the highest level in the local administration and had close contacts with many powerful people, and the princess of the foreign royal family became famous in the circles of local dignitaries.
She uses bows and arrows, fencing, swimming naked or praying to the gods from time to time, is considered exotic, dressed in exotic costumes, and the portraits and adventure stories of Princess Calab are reprinted by local newspapers, and they have received countless praises.
Princess Calab became the focus of the circle for a while
However, because of the overly extensive "appearance", the photo of Princess Karabu was recognized by the landlord of the boarding house, who said that She had spent the night at her place a few months ago, and it turned out that she was not an Indian Ocean princess at all, but the daughter of a shoemaker in the next county, whose real name was Mary.
The language in Mary's mouth was adapted from fictional gypsies, and the scars on her head were left by improper cupping.
Mary made up the language
But with the sympathy of the judge's wife, she was not arrested, after all, this was also a very humiliating thing for the middle class, so she was sent to Philadelphia, USA.
Due to the media hype, Mary's reputation was even comparable to that of Napoleon, the model of the times, which also made her life in the United States not good.
In short, this farce has slowly ended with the passage of time, and the filter for rich people has existed in human society for a long time.
The story of Princess Calab was adapted into a film
Citation reference:
https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:46381930$6i
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Caraboo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_Ulman
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/10/how-the-fake-saudi-prince-anthony-gignac-was-exposed
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