Brazen scam
Bridal model suddenly married after photo shoot
What started out as harmless social media fun ended up as a legally binding marriage for a woman in Australia - and an unbelievable scam!
What began as a harmless fun video for social media turned out to be a bitter reality for an Australian woman: her supposedly staged wedding party was actually real. The "groom", an ambitious influencer, had allegedly only planned the ceremony to increase his reach with photos and videos. But there was a much more perfidious plan behind the alleged gag: a residence permit.
The couple had met on a dating platform in September 2023. Meetings in Melbourne quickly followed, and in December the influencer proposed to his new girlfriend in what appeared to be a romantic proposal. Two days later, he invited her to a "white party" in Sydney, where all the guests were supposed to wear white. When the woman arrived, however, she was alone in white - and suddenly the lead actress in a supposed wedding video.
"He told me it was just for Instagram," the woman later reported in court. Believing it was all just a joke, she said her vows, kissed him and posed for the camera. But the truth came out two months later when the man demanded that she register him as her husband on her visa application. The woman found out that the wedding was real: he had even forged her signature beforehand.
She thought it was just a prank and played a convincing bride to make the video of a supposedly real wedding look more credible.
Der Richter im Annullierungsverfahren
The woman has since been able to prove in court that she never consciously agreed to it. Her religious family, who would certainly have been invited to a real wedding, had been completely excluded - striking proof of the deception. She also uncovered forged signatures and documents that the man had already submitted before the "proposal". The judge annulled the marriage!
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