Man Cons Newspaper Into Running Fake Gucci Ad
When you're a starving model and you're desperate to appear in a fashion ad, what do you do? You create a fake Gucci ad, get it placed in a newspaper and have the bill sent to Gucci, of course. An unknown man placed a call to Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung, the paper ran the ad and, yes, sent the $50,000 bill to Gucci. Oops. The paper claims the order "came in too late" to be checked to validity.
The man has previously attempted to dupe once pretending to be Puerto Rican singer Chayanne to book concert venues. Does this man need help or is he the industry's answer to guerrilla marketing? He might want to steer clear of Boston if it's the latter.
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That's great!!
That's pretty funny!! But wait--isn't that technically fraud??
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That's pretty funny!! But wait--isn't that technically fraud??
Sorry I posted twice--the page doesn't load for some reason on your site.
It does load, but, as it says in the info below the post button, it just takes forever.
Yes, he certainly was DESPERATE to appear in an ad. I don't think he was disparate though.
Desperate yes, fraud likely, but you have to be impressed with his guts. If I were Gucci I would send the guy a coupon book to McDonalds and a thank you note, and pay the advertising bill. Gucci likely made money on the AD and the design and photo shoot didn't cost them a dime.
Who said Disparate?
I saw in a news story this morning the newspaper told Gucci they were going to try to collect from the guy in the ad. Why?
I saw in a news story this morning the newspaper told Gucci they were going to try to collect from the guy in the ad. Why?
Why not? He's messing with their trademarks and comiting fraud. Really.
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