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• Belle Gibson is one of Australia\\u2019s most prolific social scammers.\\xa0 She managed to deceive huge corporations.\\xa0 Apple planned to include her health and wellness app on all iPads and Apple Watches.\\xa0 She told lie after lie about her health \\u2013 she claimed to have terminal cancer that she cured by using holistic therapies.\\xa0 She also claimed that she underwent multiple heart operations and had endured strokes.\\xa0 None of this was true.\\xa0 When her deception was uncovered, she was dropped\\xa0 by Apple and Penguin Books.\\xa0 Belle has been ordered to repay hundreds of thousands of dollars \\u2013 so far, none of the repayments have materialised.
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• Coco Berthmann had a troubled start to life.\\xa0 She has claimed that she managed to escape Germany as a teenager and that she had been trafficked by her parents for years.\\xa0 She moved to America and became a human rights activist.\\xa0 She established the Coco Berthmann Scholarship Fund and spoke about her \\u2018experiences\\u2019 publicly.\\xa0 In early 2022, Coco told a friend that she had stage 3 mantle cell lymphoma cancer.\\xa0 A GoFundMe was started for Coco, and it raised thousands of dollars.\\xa0 In February 2022, Coco was arrested on suspicion of communications fraud.\\xa0 Police investigated her \\u2018cancer diagnosis\\u2019\\xa0 and found no evidence that Coco ever had the illness.\\xa0 Many of Coco\\u2019s other claims have now been questioned.\\xa0 There have been allegations that she was not actually a victim of child sex trafficking, said police, who could not verify her claims of working with the FBI.
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• Brittany Dawn has had a long, troubled run as an Influencer.\\xa0 She started out as a fitness influencer with her company BDawnFit.\\xa0 She got into trouble with her followers years ago after her \\u2018personalized\\u2019 eating plans, that people paid up to $500 for, turned out to not be so personal.\\xa0 She was also accused of triggering people with eating disorders by using tags such as #skipdinnerwakeupthinner.\\xa0 Brittany refused to refund most members and tried to move on with her life as a \\u2018Christian\\u2019 influencer.\\xa0 She married Jordan Nelson, a man who lost his job as a police officer after he used \\u2018excessive force\\u2019 during an arrest.\\xa0 She also faced much backlash after she released a tearful video, detailing how her husband shot her dog after it was hit by a car.\\xa0 The dog was still alive and breathing, but the couple decided to shoot it instead of taking it to a vet.\\xa0 In February 2022, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the state of Texas was suing Brittany for between $250,000 and $1 million in penalties and court fees for misleading customers.\\xa0
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