Two Men Try To Fake a Taylor Swift Concert

Taylor Swift is one of the biggest names in the music world right now (She was just named Billboard's top money making artists for 2012), and two guys from New York tried to cash in on her fame by faking a Taylor Swift concert.

No, they didn’t don blond wigs and glittery guitars to actually fake a show. But they did bilk investors out of over 200-thousand dollars with the planned "concert".

According to CBS News the two men stole nearly $225,000 from a California investor after claiming to be working for Taylor Swift. They claimed to be setting up a huge performance in Phoenix, Arizona and that they needed investors to back the project.

Trouble is, there was no Taylor Swift show coming, and the guys had no connection to Swift at all.

Once the investor felt things were a little fishy, it didn't take much looking to discover the scam.

Both men are charged with grand larceny and forgery.

The problem with trying to fake a concert, people start asking questions when it doesn’t happen.

You can see where Taylor Swift is really playing on her tour page.

And check out pictures and videos from her last tour stop here in Colorado.

[CBS News]

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Police, TSAs and drive-thru attendants are generally not the best people to try out practical jokes on. You can end up with spit in your food, miss your flight for a cavity search, or end up in prison. Fortunately for this 15-year-old girl her accidental prank just landed her a little bit of hot water with police.

Authorities in Arkansas tracked down the girl who had sent a text message to an officer the read, “I hid the body ... now what?” It was a prank test gone horribly wrong.

According to CNET the girl said she had been inspired by a photo on Pinterest that said,

“When I’m bored, I send a text to a random number saying ‘I hid the body ... now what?’

She was bored. She had a cell phone. You can guess what she did.

She dialed in a random number from to 479-area code and sent the ‘body’ message. Her prank took a turn for the worse because the number she’d picked turned out to be a police detective. When you work on homicide cases, text messages about dead bodies are no laughing matter.

Police traced the text back to the girl’s phone and showed up to question her and her father. They let her off with a warning, but told her she could have been charged with initiating or circulating a false emergency report.

Guess who won’t be sending any text messages for awhile.