Organisers of the ‘Dream Wedding Bridal Expo’ claimed it as the bridal show of the year to be held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Centre in Grapevine this December, however the bridal show was actually never really scheduled.
A Pittsburgh woman was formally arrested at her home and was the mastermind behind the whole fake Dallas-area expo, as well as bogus expo shows in other cities, including Boston. Authorities had said that the 47-year-old Karen Tucker posed as a magazine publisher to try and attract guests to the event.
“Technology and the Internet allowed her to commit this crime,” said Boston Police Detective Steven Blair, who worked the case with an FBI Cyber Crime Squad. “Technology and the Internet allowed us to catch her.”
Tucker will be transferrred to Boston and will face one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Authorities tracked her through an IP address and phone numbers that could be traced to her or her husband.
Nearly $20,000 of ads were sold for a phony magazine, authorities allege. And in Las Vegas, Tucker tried to sell the ads in Modern Vegas Bride to rent booths for a sham bridal show in early 2009, authorities said.
And a few months later, she was further selling ads to South Beach Bride magazine court records can state. When in fact no magazine was ever printed.
In March this year a scam bridal show was scheduled for March. Donation tickets were sold and were supposedly to send relief onto the victimes of the Haiti earthquake, police said.
The fake bridal show in the Dallas area was meant to be held in December 11 and 12 and a Pay Pal account connected to the event took in more than $12,000.
Martha Neibling, a Gaylord spokeswoman, said a client forwarded a July 12 e-blast about the event from a “Jennifer Smith.” Gaylord officials checked and found no such event. The e-mail listed several media outlets, including The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV (Channel 8), as being part of a marketing plan. None of them knew anything about it, either.
“There were definitely several red flags,” Neibling said.
A wedding planner, Rhonda Baker with Precisely as Planned forwarded the e-blast to Gaylord officials, Smith said.
“Had she just been a little bit more savvy – like had better diagrams and better information and a better looking website – I think she would have scammed a whole lot more people,” Baker said.
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