Australian satirist, comedian, writer, and artist Bryan Dawe found himself in the middle of a scam that sounds too terrible to be true. In spring last year, he stumbled upon a Facebook post from a “photographer” who was collecting money for her “broken camera.” Dawe wanted to land a hand, organizing a fundraiser for the woman who posed as the photographer who had her camera destroyed.

The whole thing turned out to be a scam. And it escalated so badly that Dawe was forced to close all his social media accounts and he has been receiving extortion threats from the scammers  ever since.

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