Compass’ Shane Boyle is one of the dozens of real estate brokers who these imposters are pretending to be.
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Emily Lorsch,
NBC news,
6 Nov. 2025
McKelway, who wrote for the magazine from the nineteen-thirties to the sixties, specialized in true-crime stories, bringing to life a gallery of scamps and swindlers and impostors.
Satire is brilliant for exposing the folly of humans, especially those in power and those working in bad faith—the hypocrites and the frauds—and can be particularly potent when set in irrational or dystopic times.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Notice how these two Third World frauds are in federal custody, not state.
That became a clear problem for an identification credential that is expected to be universal in a world where fakes are commonplace.
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Elliot Mann,
Twin Cities,
27 Oct. 2025
Numerous fakes — most bearing watermarks for OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora — have appeared online showing fake scenarios like severe flooding, images of sharks and people partying.
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