Victim Location 90010
Total money lost $1,500
Type of a scam Employment
CELEBRITY CANDIE CHARGES CHILDREN TO WORK IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. Celebrity Candie seeks out "volunteers", youth who work in the entertainment industry to exploit them for labor. They approach you, agents, casting offices, new-to-the-field, out-of-towners, and more looking to break into the entertainment industry under the guise of ‘selecting’ hardworking, goal-oriented, children who are volunteers in their community to ‘escort’ celebrities through a gifting suite. They promise fun and networking, however, they don’t say they are using children to carry 40-50lb bags of gifts around the venue and to the valet. At every event, they’ve asked the children and families to bring food and snacks to feed themselves and 4-6 other people. They yell at children. They have no one supervising them, but they ask parents to leave their minor children and go. There have been children as young as 8 years old there.