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Saturday, July 8th, 2023 9:53 PM

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Another faker

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14944334/

Has credits going back to the early 90's but the name page is three weeks old.

Has won best supporting actor for a film that came out two weeks ago, that must be a record.

Has awards for a film he directed that isn't mentioned on the awards website with the other winners nor can I find any existence of it, it's website link goes to a random movie trailer.

He stars in many popular films filming in multitudes of countries all around the same time, must be a day player with a private jet I guess.

Won best actor award for a recent YouTube short with zero budget starring a bunch of teens, on which he was not credited, because of course he did.

Plays parts in TV shows and movies I know like back of my hand, these characters don't exist.

Cannot verify a single credit I looked at, I invite others to look if they wish to.

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1 year ago

Hi @VonPunk & @mbmb -

Thanks for reporting, these pages have now been removed and the changes should be live on the site shortly.  I have also taken measures to help prevent further invalid data additions from the offending accounts.

@VonPunk - hope your mother has a Happy Birthday!

Cheers!

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@Michelle​ Thank you kindly, I'll pass that along to her. :)

And thanks for taking care of this.

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1 year ago

It looks like this is also all fake and coming from same user: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14979815/

and this: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15003924/

To summarize things to do for staff:

In addition to credits and/or name page deletions,

- This title page should be deleted: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28267522/

- This fake award entry should be deleted: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28267522/awards/

- This event page should be deleted: https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0004769/

(because it only has his fake award entry and also a duplicate of this proper event page anyway: https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0003243/)

- This fake award entry should be deleted: https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0050129/2022/1/ (or event page could be deleted entirely as it will become empty and nobody seems to be adding anything to it anyway)

I didn't miss anything, right?

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@mbmb​ Pretty much perfect, I'd just add this company too - https://pro.imdb.com/company/co1006363/

I ran out of time last night to look deeper and it was my mother's birthday today so I had little free time, so very grateful for the always reliable assist and 2nd set of eyes on research. So thank you.

I did do a deeper dive on the 3 names, short film and company we've highlighted in last hour and I cannot find evidence any of them exist, so likely not even real people, just a rogue contributor making stuff up, most of which was created in last week.

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