Fake Bridal Show Rips Off Exhibitors
March 11, 2010
Unfortunate exhibitors were cruelly ripped off when it was exposed that a major bridal show in Boston, USA was in fact completely fake. Exhibitors were told on a Facebook page about the ‘biggest and most extragant’ of shows. More then 6000 vendors signed up and paid registration fees up front on Paypal. Suspicions were aroused when vendors began calling up the venue asking them when they can set up displays and stands. The conference centre could only say that no show had ever been planned.
One of the victims was a wedding photographer, Aram Orchanian, said he’d lost nearly $3000 in producing promotional items for the show. Other victims also spent thousands doing the same.
The scammers spent time making themselves appear as knowledge-able about the industry as possible. They set up a website and Facebook group page which all subsequently were taken down afterward.
Police authorities are currently investigating
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