Woman who sold fake Facebook stock is unliked and in jail
WHAT A HEEL: Marianne Oleson of Oshkosh, WI, has been charged with 31 counts of theft, forgery and making misleading statements for (allegedly) selling fake stock in Facebook to five or more people, Reuters reports:
Oleson told acquaintances she obtained $1 million in stock because her daughter was an acquaintance of Facebook's founder, and persuaded several people to buy fictitious Facebook stock over a four-month period. …
The complaint against Oleson said one of the people to whom she was accused of selling fake stock was a contractor who did work at her house in September. Oleson paid the contractor for the work with $13,980 worth of fake Facebook stock, the complaint alleged.
The contractor, who also paid $10,000 in cash to the woman for additional stock, grew suspicious when he found she lied about her name and various oddities on documents referring to the transaction, the complaint said.
Oleson is in custody on a $50,000 cash bond.
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