2023-09-23 15:38:40
Quebecers lost hundreds of dollars in a fraud involving host Marie-Claude Barrette who extols the virtues of cryptocurrency in an alleged never-broadcast segment of Everybody talks regarding it.
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Scammers used an interview the host gave on the show Everybody talks regarding itbroadcast on Radio-Canada, to promote their financial products.
During an alleged segment of the show that was not broadcast due to “technical problems”, Marie-Claude Barrette allegedly announced how she became rich.
“I would have supposedly said that I was able to find a loophole in a system and that you can now get rich with cryptocurrency, and I would have become aggressive, because no one believed me on set,” a- she explained in an interview with LCN.
This is a fraud and this conversation never happened, said Marie-Claude Barrette.
Joined by The newspaperGuy A. Lepage, at the helm of Everybody talks regarding itclaimed to have discussed this situation with his legal team.
“It’s a bit of an interview on a subject that we would never talk regarding on the show, it’s like a bit impossible,” he explained.
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These misleading ads featuring Quebecers’ favorite personalities lead to all kinds of transactional websites. Far from being innocuous, these advertisements are orchestrated by a structured organization which operates internationally, the show revealed IS.
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Several Internet users even wrote to Marie-Claude Barrette to ask her for advice on cryptocurrency investments.
“On my public Facebook page, I put a warning, but over the weeks there was a second wave,” Marie-Claude Barrette said in an interview. What worried me was that people started putting money into it. »
A user wrote to the host to tell her that he had invested 500 US dollars and asked if she advised him to invest up to 5,000 US dollars in the fraudulent company which used his image.
“There, I started to panic,” said Marie-Claude Barrette.
“There was even a lady who was stubborn with me who didn’t believe me when I told her it was a scam. She thought I wanted to keep my method of making money a secret,” she illustrated.
“It’s a shame for Marie-Claude, her audience loves her a lot. I can understand that some ladies have fallen into this trap, but it smacks of a scam from the beginning of the premise of this explanation,” explained Guy A. Lepage.
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