The con would start with a phone call from a powerful Hollywood exec, with a life changing career making opportunity. Vague details are exchanged, and a trip to Jakarta, Indonesia to scout for locations and take meetings becomes necessary. The glamor and globality of it all feels flattering, and so victims were quick to take up the offer. Fast forward to Jakarta, and many requests for driver reimbursements, things start to get fishy. Victims would leave the country in frustration, without a job and with less money than when they arrived. The “Hollywood Con Queen”, who faked being Wendy Deng Murdoch to Kathleen Kennedy, ends up being a man called Hargobind Tahilramani, an Indian-Indonesian man, who often posed as a middle aged Chinese woman. Tahilramani is the son of a rich Indonesian film producer and was a food influencer before he scammed $2M dollars from victims. This month, he will be going to trial for several counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. If he loses, he will be extradited to a US prison.
The con would start with a phone call from a powerful Hollywood exec, with a life changing career making opportunity. Vague details are exchanged, and a trip to Jakarta, Indonesia to scout for locations and take meetings becomes necessary. The glamor and globality of it all feels flattering, and so victims were quick to take up the offer. Fast forward to Jakarta, and many requests for driver reimbursements, things start to get fishy. Victims would leave the country in frustration, without a job and with less money than when they arrived. The “Hollywood Con Queen”, who faked being Wendy Deng Murdoch to Kathleen Kennedy, ends up being a man called Hargobind Tahilramani, an Indian-Indonesian man, who often posed as a middle aged Chinese woman. Tahilramani is the son of a rich Indonesian film producer and was a food influencer before he scammed $2M dollars from victims. This month, he will be going to trial for several counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. If he loses, he will be extradited to a US prison.
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