Pharrell Scammer To Plead Guilty

A man charged in scamming a South Korean steel company out of $375,000 to book a fake Pharrell concert was scheduled to plead guilty in court at press time.

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iTunes Festival, Roundhouse, London, UK

Sigismond Segbefia was arrested on charges of fraud and identity theft in April. According to the FBI, the Maryland man, who is a native of Ghana, used a shell company dubbed Eastern Stars to legitimize his concert industry claims.

Segbefia has also been charged with stealing a Pennsylvania postal worker’s identity to scam women he met online out of more than $445,000.