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Dark Web Identity Thief Claims He Orchestrated Scheme to Sell Graceland

The purported leader of a dark web identity theft ring claimed credit for trying to auction off Elvis' Graceland in emails sent to The New York Times.

That’s what we do,” the scammer said, adding that he and his dark web network of “worms” often targeted elderly and unsuspecting people, often in California and Florida, using publicly available documents like birth certificates to procure crucial personal information. The Times said it received the messages after reaching out to an email address listed in court documents for Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC, the company that tried to sell Graceland at auction earlier this month. Keough then successfully sued to stop the sale, claiming that her mother’s signatures had been forged and that Naussany was “a false entity created for the purpose of defrauding” the Presley trust.

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