Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 292 Famous Director Tang De
Indian scams are notorious all over the world.

Since 2013, a professional telecommunications fraud group has been established to specifically target the wealthy and arrogant people in the United States. Every fraud is extremely accurate, and they have swindled hundreds of millions of dollars from the retirement funds of old men and women in their sixties and seventies.

For this reason, the US Department of Justice listed India as a "key prevention country" for telecommunications fraud in 2016.

But even so, electronic fraud in India is pervasive and difficult to guard against. They disguise themselves as tax bureau officials, police officers, and even land bureau personnel, and use forged arrest warrants, deportation orders, tax payment slips and other "evidence" to intimidate victims into transferring cash to designated accounts.

In addition to telecommunications fraud, Indian fraud gangs have also introduced other means such as sending text messages and web pages. As long as you click on the web page, a Trojan virus will be implanted. Then, the Indian fraud gang will come to the victim openly and ask for money from the victims in the image of a "virus-killing" technical team.

This time, the Lucy filming team encountered a similar situation. Someone claiming to be from the Indian Visa Office called and said that their visas did not meet the requirements and asked them to contact the nearby police station to reapply.

The team from America had no idea how powerful Indian scams were, and they believed them at the time.

As a result, as soon as the producer called the police station, two police officers arrived. After checking their visas, they seized their filming equipment, believing that some of them were not legal to enter India.

This made the producers and their colleagues extremely anxious, and they quickly spent money to bribe the police officers. However, they did not expect that the two police officers took the money and did not do anything, but just drove away.

They waited for a long time in India but received no news, so they had to go to the police station for help.

It turned out that there was no such thing as a visa agency in India and they had been defrauded.

So they quickly contacted the executive producer and Tang De.

Tang De was a little amused when he learned about this. In order to avoid a lot of trouble, he had made a lot of preparations. For example, there were no women, lizards or female gorillas in the filming team going to India.

For example, we specially hired a security team and a driver for the filming team to prevent accidents.

But unexpectedly, the accident still happened.

After learning about this, Tang De immediately reassigned a batch of filming equipment. Fortunately, not much equipment was stolen from them this time, because many large equipment were still being cleared by customs and had not yet reached the team.

But according to price estimates, their losses this time were around $150,000.

The money was not much, but Tang De certainly would not sit still and wait for death. He immediately arranged for reporters to publish a news report to announce that "Lucy" was defrauded by India.

At the same time, we also asked some experts to investigate the relevant records of Americans being defrauded by Indians through telephone scams and publish articles.

In the article, the reporter interviewed several middle-aged and elderly people who were defrauded, learned about the process of their being defrauded, and also learned about their lives after being defrauded.

"It's all the Indians' fault. They ruined my life."

“God should punish the Indians for taking all my savings!”

"I used to be a university professor, but now I have to be a homeless person. The government should take some measures to prevent people from being defrauded!"

Although these three people have different identities, they all suffered from telecommunications fraud and lost all their savings.

Especially university professors, when people see that professors are easily defrauded, in addition to ridicule and sympathy, they are more worried.

For a time, Indian fraud immediately became a hot topic among ordinary Americans, and even the New York Times reported on the rampant online fraud from India.

After all, this news involves the politics of other countries and is related to the lives of ordinary people. It is simply an excellent news topic.

Soon, the U.S. Department of Justice came forward to communicate with India.
Soon, the Indian police announced that they would crack down on the increasingly rampant telecom fraud and set up a special team to combat it. Not long after, when Tang De and his team were preparing to shoot the last part in Tokyo, the Indian police announced that the equipment that had been defrauded by the crew had been recovered and three suspects had been arrested.

Although Tang De knew that these three suspects were definitely not the masterminds behind the entire incident, as for the Indian police, expecting them to do their best to solve the case is like expecting a chicken to dance.

Therefore, Norton's Eye did not delve into the matter further.

As for Tang De, he is now at the Tokyo Dome, preparing to shoot his last scene.

"Wow, Yuki, it's so spectacular here." Mayu Watanabe walked into the Tokyo Dome for the first time. Looking at the empty stage, she was immediately attracted and couldn't take her eyes off.

"Yes, Mayu, we will be able to stand on that stage and sing later. It's so exciting." Kashiwagi Yuki nodded, with excitement written all over her face.

Oshima Yuko turned around and looked around. After discovering the filming equipment and the huge prop robotic arm, she exclaimed: "It's worthy of Hollywood. There are so many equipments, so luxurious!"

Several girls present who had participated in the filming of movies and TV series nodded in unison.

Most of the TV dramas shot in Japan are model rooms that have already been arranged by the TV station. Even some scenes about ancient times have corresponding scenes that look quite cheap.

Only in modern urban scenes can the actors travel back and forth between cities, but don’t even think about large-scale scenes, as they are basically non-existent.

So after seeing Hollywood renting the entire Tokyo Dome for filming, everyone couldn't help but sigh at the gap.

Not to mention the foreigners that can be seen everywhere around the stage, with blond hair, blue eyes, and an authentic New York accent. As soon as they open their mouths, these girls from ordinary backgrounds feel a little inferior.

After seeing Scarlett Johansson and other actors, Mayu Watanabe and others showed even more excitement.

"It's Scarlett! Oh my god!"

"She's so beautiful! Her skin is so white!"

"Can I ask her for an autograph?"

"Mr. Akimoto, can you help us get it?"

The girls chattered, unable to suppress their inner impulse.

However, at this time, Yasushi Akimoto suddenly appeared. After calming the girls' emotions, he brought the girls to the stage.

There, they met the film's director, Tang De.

"It's Director Norton! So handsome! I've watched his Inception three times!" As soon as Oshima Yuko saw Tang De, her eyes immediately became stars, and she wanted to run over and ask him to sign her clothes.

"So he is Director Norton! He looks so young."

"Yes, although he is young, he has won an Oscar! He is the best director in the world." Oshima Yuko worked hard to recommend him to the other girls.

When the other girls heard about this for the first time, they were so surprised that their mouths widened.

And then they saw Akimoto Yasushi respectfully talking to Tang De for a few words, and then he actually brought this top director over!

(End of this chapter)