{"id":1400,"date":"2026-06-08T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:07:06","slug":"youd-be-perfect-for-this-inside-the-devious-casting-scam-sweeping-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou\u2019d Be Perfect for This!\u201d Inside the Devious Casting Scam Sweeping Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tLike so many others, Isabella Schaub moved to New York with a dream. With ambitions to act, the recent college grad, a 24-year-old with a pale, heart-shaped face and curly auburn hair, started doing background work on film and TV in between barista shifts and coaching soccer, among other gigs. And in February, she got a massive break, especially for one so young and new to the game: A major Hollywood casting director got in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1398\">Outkick Integrated Into Fox News Digital, Clay Travis Moves to Fox Contributor Role (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tLinda Lowy, whose keen eye for talent was apparent on <em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>, <em>Friday Night Lights <\/em>and <em>Scandal<\/em>, had alighted on Schaub after a review of casting platforms and professional databases. Over email, she first invited Schaub to submit a headshot for an undisclosed HBO Max series and then, after one thing led to another, a monologue.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSchaub taped Robin\u2019s (Maya Hawke\u2019s) coming-out speech in <em>Stranger Things <\/em>and killed it. Her performance, Lowy wrote to her, was \u201ccompelling and assured.\u201d Her line delivery needed a little work, but it wasn\u2019t anything some training couldn\u2019t fix, and a day later, Lowy offered her the opportunity of a lifetime: a role on <em>Hacks<\/em>. Given the project, Schaub was required to sign an NDA, which was no issue. There was only one hitch: She needed to become a member of the performers union, SAG-AFTRA, to play the role.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFortunately, Lowy was able to connect Schaub with a union contract administrator. But that admin didn\u2019t have an official SAG-AFTRA email address (his was \u201cSAG-AFTRA@contractor.net\u201d). When Schaub Googled him, she couldn\u2019t find someone with that name at the union. Finally, Schaub contacted the union through official channels. \u201cYeah, that\u2019s fake,\u201d she remembers a real SAG-AFTRA rep telling her. After that, she heard back from the supposed union admin: Initiation fees of $3,000 could be paid through bank transfer, PayPal or CashApp.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt feels awful to be duped. And it\u2019s even worse when someone is taking advantage of a deeply held wish.  \u201cIt just felt like all the wind came out of me. I was like, \u2018Of course it\u2019s a scam,\u2019\u201d Schaub remembers now. She felt so na\u00efve. But, as she later told her Instagram followers, taking them through the NDA, the union information she received, the invitation to a future Zoom meeting with show creatives, \u201cThis is so much effort to be a scam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt was, and yet Schaub\u2019s experience with Fake Linda was just the tip of a larger shady\u00a0iceberg. Over the course of at least half a year, one or multiple scammers have been impersonating some of Hollywood\u2019s most prominent casting directors among an especially vulnerable population of actors, many of them early in their career. A fake Carmen Cuba, who cast <em>Stranger Things<\/em>, is out there raising hopes. There\u2019s an imposter version of <em>Avatar<\/em> casting director Margery Simkin and a simulated J.J. Ogilvy, who cast <em>Riverdale<\/em> and <em>The Good Doctor<\/em>. The fakes are contacting performers in the hope of extracting money through different methods, but often in the form of union fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTheirs is an old-school social engineering scam, and not even an especially sophisticated one, but it\u2019s nevertheless initially fooled some actors with polished emails and a general grasp of how the casting process can work. And it may be a sign of things to come as the timeless phenomenon of hucksters selling false Hollywood dreams enters the AI age.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t***<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHere\u2019s how the scheme has recently worked, according to correspondence provided to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> and those who have experienced it. A big name in casting reaches out to a performer over email or social media, inviting them to submit materials to be considered for an upcoming role. If the actor responds with some requested information, such as their headshot, the scammer may ask for a self-tape or a performance reel. The actor might receive some feedback then eventually learns they have been chosen for the part \u2014 pop the champagne! Except, wait, here come the fake fees.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLiz Weinstein, a model and actress, has in the past few months received emails from people claiming to be Avy Kaufman (<em>Sentimental Value<\/em>, <em>Train Dreams<\/em>), Rachel Tenner (<em>Fargo<\/em>, <em>Severance<\/em>), Ogilvy and \u201cMindy May,\u201d a supposed casting director for a John Ridley (<em>Shirley, Godfather of Harlem<\/em>) project. While she spotted warning signs in all of these communications and stopped engaging with the senders, she notes how difficult it can be broadly for actors to separate the spam from the opportunities in the rough. \u201cA lot of the legitimate jobs do come off as scammy,\u201d she says, explaining that some projects require actors to sign an NDA before they can get more information, and don\u2019t provide many details upfront.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMany of the fake casting directors are using Gmail addresses, which isn\u2019t as sketchy as it might sound. Plenty of casting directors are freelancers and not employees of a studio, so they have their own email addresses (and some, indeed, use Gmail).<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEven so, the impersonators are fumbling some key details. For those fakes asking for a \u201cfee\u201d as they\u2019re onboarding an actor to a bogus project, that\u2019s not only shady, in California it\u2019s illegal, breaching the state\u2019s Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act, says Doll Amir &amp; Eley founding partner Gregory Doll. The fraudulent union reps also aren\u2019t playing by the rules. An actor can\u2019t just join SAG-AFTRA by paying a lump sum; they have to work on a union-covered project or be a qualified member of an affiliated union for at least a year first.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThen there are the occasional glaring red flags. In one email, a fake SAG-AFTRA representative named William Parker directed an actor to pay a SAG-AFTRA initiation fee to the personal checking account of one \u201cAdeleye Ayobami\u201d in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEven so, the more plausible language in the scammers\u2019 messages begs the question of whether the person or people behind this scheme actually know a little something about the industry. Sarah Pribis is a working actor who received an impersonator email and made a video warning fellow actors about it. She doesn\u2019t think the perpetrators have much inside knowledge. \u201cIt\u2019s so obviously not legit to me and anybody in the business \u2026 that there\u2019s no way,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut others aren\u2019t so sure. \u201cIt feels like whoever\u2019s doing it has a strong understanding of the casting process because they\u2019re actually asking for auditions now and sometimes even giving feedback and really leading you down the merry path,\u201d says Tiffany Little Canfield, the <em>Wicked<\/em> casting director who is also Casting Society\u2019s vp of communications. \u201cThey\u2019re imitating a casting process rather than just saying, \u2018Oh, I saw a picture of you. You\u2019d be perfect for this part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tReal casting director Kaufman first learned that she was being impersonated months ago. She began receiving emails from actors asking, \u201cIs this you?\u201d or alerting her to sketchy-sounding messages purporting to be from her. Even more disturbing, some asked follow-up questions about fake projects she allegedly was casting. \u201cSome of them were told to send a monologue for money, and then some of them would ask, \u2018What kind of monologue?\u2019\u202f\u201d she recalls. \u201cAnd we would write back, \u2018We don\u2019t want anything from you. This is a scam.\u2019\u202f\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tToday, Kaufman is an apparent favorite of the scammers, as five sources for this story reported outreach from her digital doppelg\u00e4nger. The prolific casting director personally receives at least a couple of emails about these schemes a day, she says. As of May 7, Casting Society had identified 13 fake email addresses, all using Gmail accounts, for Kaufman. (And <em>THR<\/em> found three more.)<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShe\u2019s horrified by this attempt to rip off actors, and she isn\u2019t the only one. \u201cThe idea that they\u2019re given this false hope when hope is such a part of being an actor, hope and passion and the desire to be seen for their craft\u2026 it\u2019s so distressing,\u201d says <em>Stranger Things <\/em>casting director Cuba. Cuba\u2019s office has identified eight fake email addresses for her.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1396\">Louis C.K., Jay Leno and Stephen A. Smith Among Big Names Set for Bill Maher\u2019s Mark Twain Prize Ceremony (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAmanda Lenker Doyle, who worked on <em>Murdaugh: Death in the Family<\/em> and <em>Chad Powers<\/em>, has been impersonated on Facebook, Instagram and over email. \u201cI am an incredibly somatic empath. And so when these things happen to other people, I feel them so deeply and I feel so horrible about it. And my physical response is like, \u2018Let\u2019s call the FBI. I\u2019m going to get them. How dare you try to hurt somebody in my name?\u2019\u202f\u201d she says. (She did try to contact the FBI but says she got no reply.) <\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the case of the <em>Avatar<\/em> casting director, Simkin, the scam has gone a level deeper: Her voice has been impersonated. In a voice memo sent to her by an actor, and shared with <em>THR<\/em>, a scammer pretending to be Simkin tells the mark, \u201cI am sending this voice note to clear the air and let you know this is truly me and not a damn scam from, from Africa.\u201d The voice on the audio is somewhat halting, its choice of words strange, but it undeniably sounds like Simkin\u2019s. Listen: <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThere are no words for how creepy it was to hear my voice,\u201d Simkin says.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCasting Society has fought back against the onslaught, setting up an anti-scam committee and creating a web page to help casting directors report scams. Next, the society wants to create webinars for SAG-AFTRA actors and college programs. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt seems to be growing, definitely,\u201d Little Canfield, one of three leaders of the anti-scam committee, says of the scheme. \u201cThe only thing I believe that we\u2019ve really found as a pattern is they often [pretend to be] someone who does not have an online presence themselves.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo be clear, it\u2019s not apparent yet how successful this scam is. No performer that <em>THR <\/em>spoke with for this story actually ended up shelling out, having gotten suspicious before money could change hands. (This is clearly no Hollywood Con Queen.) A few people have gotten close, though. \u201cI was very excited,\u201d one person who commented on an Instagram post about the scam wrote. \u201cI was going to to [sic] give the them[sic] all my pay check and was going to get a second job to pay that 1,000 fee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd with the scam having gone on for months, it wouldn\u2019t be unreasonable to suspect that someone\u2019s fallen for it. \u201cI think it\u2019s successful,\u201d says Peter Warmka, an ex-CIA senior intelligence officer and founder of the Counterintelligence Institute, which performs security audits and assessments for businesses. \u201cAnd I think there\u2019s also a pretty good percentage of people that have been scammed and don\u2019t report it.\u201d In 2025, a Pew Research Center survey found that about \u00be of adults who had been scammed online and lost money never reported it to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile it\u2019s easy to dismiss these messages as clearly too good to be true, the ruse seems to be exploiting some realities of the casting process in 2026. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, casting has gone increasingly online, with self-tapes and virtual auditions becoming the new norm. While it\u2019s still rare for casting directors to solicit materials from an experienced actor directly, finding non-professional actors who can bring greater realism to a project is in vogue. As a result, stories abound of casting directors contacting potential stars directly on social media or on the street, rather than going through more traditional channels like agents or Actors Access.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t***<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe entertainment industry has long been a magnet for fraudsters, from the contemporary romance scammers pretending to be Keanu Reeves or Kevin Costner to the age-old phenomenon of phony talent agents charging for classes or photo shoots. In the early \u201890s, a scam similar to today\u2019s flourished over landlines. \u201cNon-union performers are contacted by telephone by a con artist claiming to be a casting director,\u201d reported <em>Backstage <\/em>at the time. \u201cThey are told they have been cast in a SAG commercial to be shot in Canada and need to immediately wire money (usually $93) or deliver the sum to a hotel to obtain a union \u2018waiver.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut fraud experts say this latest scheme may be a sign of things to come for Hollywood as generative AI accelerates the volume and sophistication of consumer fraud. \u201cUnfortunately this kind of victim profile and this particular industry are pretty much an ideal match for these types of impersonation schemes,\u201d says Mason Wilder, the research director at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The industry\u2019s volume of high-profile people, with their voices and images widely available on the Internet, is catnip for an impersonator with AI tools at their fingertips.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFraudsters also love to exploit desperation and dreams \u2014 like an actor\u2019s burning desire to land a film or TV role \u2014 which pave the way for victims to overlook red flags. \u201cYour big break, that big opportunity, you want it so badly that you want it to be true. The first place your head does not go to is, \u2018This must be a fraud\u2019 or \u2018This could be a fraud,\u2019\u201d says John Jay College of Criminal Justice associate professor Chelsea Binns.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith an assist from AI, suspending disbelief is easier than ever. Some messages associated with this fraud have used generic corporate language with no spelling errors, deployed company logos and added \u201cterms of use\u201d and \u201cprivacy\u201d links in their footers. A fake SAG-AFTRA membership application asked which other performing unions an actor belongs to (Actors\u2019 Equity Association? The American Guild of Musical Artists?). Phony casting directors offered semi-critical feedback on self-tapes, which added just a touch of real grit.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tActor Katy Milewski had previously auditioned for a small role in one of Kaufman\u2019s projects, on HBO\u2019s <em>Task<\/em>, when she got an email from \u201cKaufman\u201d in November. So it didn\u2019t seem preposterous that \u201cavy.kaufmanscasting@gmail.com\u201d would reach out for a potential role in an upcoming Apple TV+ series. The alarm bells didn\u2019t start to ring until \u201cKaufman\u201d asked for a reel or a monologue; if Kaufman knew who she was, surely she would have seen her acting reel by now, Milewski thought.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMilewski found Kaufman\u2019s direct email online and tried to verify the exchange, but didn\u2019t receive a response. Still, she was suspicious enough that she didn\u2019t engage with the message again.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut she wasn\u2019t totally sure she had made the right choice until she saw Pribis\u2019 post on Instagram about her own email from \u201cKaufman\u201d in March. Until then, Milewski says, \u201cIn the back of my head, I always kind of wondered, could this have actually been real?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>This story appeared in the June 3 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.\u00a0Click here to subscribe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1394\">Pink Kicks Off 2026 Tonys With \u201cLady Marmalade\u201d Parody Boasting Megan Thee Stallion, Neil Patrick Harris and Dylan Mulvaney<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are using AI to impersonate top Hollywood casting directors \u2014 targeting aspiring actors looking for their big break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1059,1060],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-business-features","tag-thr-investigates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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