Stealing Graceland
Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, is fighting plans to publicly auction his Graceland estate in Memphis after a company tried to sell the property based on claims that a loan using the king of rock ’n’ roll’s former home as collateral was not repaid. A public auction for the estate had been scheduled for Thursday this week, but a Memphis judge blocked the sale after Keough sought a temporary restraining order and filed a lawsuit, court documents show.
(https://fortune.com/2024/05/21/elvis-granddaughter-riley-keough-graceland-foreclosure/)
When I read about this back in May, the first thought thru my mind was "FRAUD ALERT! FRAUD ALERT!"
And now the rest of the story:
It began with a brazen plot that made international headlines in May: Naussany Investments, a company that did not seem to exist, run by people who did not seem to exist, had filed a claim seeking control of Graceland over what they alleged was an unpaid debt. Naussany Investments said Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis’ only child, owed them millions of dollars in unpaid loans when she died a year earlier, and after failing to collect from the estate, the company would force the foreclosure sale of the historic Memphis, Tennessee, mansion as repayment.
The documents filed to support Naussany Investments’ case were clearly forged, and within days of the foreclosure sale being halted by a judge, the scammers admitted their plot.
Emails from a person calling himself Gregory Naussany said he was part of a ring of Nigerian identity thieves and boasted that even with the Graceland failure they would keep preying on people without fear of capture. “We sit back and laugh at you idiots and watch you make fools of yourselves,” read the email, written in clunky Spanish. “Come find us in Nigeria.”
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna157155)
Fraud abounds these days.
People without something deciding they will do something/anything to make that happen.
Taking material possessions...... thoughts/ideas...... innocence...... time.
Finding stealing more rewarding than respecting.
Thievery is the new norm.
We were warned about this. It made God's Top Ten:
Grace & Peace & Love to you all -
Matt
