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Reporter Krystin Wiggs, acknowledged she had been deceived by an elaborate hoax.
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August 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM
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A biweekly community newspaper in suburban Phoenix has admitted it was duped by 21-year-old Vinayak Gorur into running a raving article about his culinary skills.
Gorur’s ruse apparently also duped his mother, who had participated in the Ahwatukee Foothills News interviews with her son. The fraud was exposed by two of Gorur’s friends who say he has a history of fibbing. “I don’t think he’s malicious, but he exhibits times of total immaturity,” his father Ravi Gorur was quoted by the newspaper. “He has told small lies in the past, and he has been punished, but he is a mystery.” In her apology to readers, the reporter Krystin Wiggs, acknowledged she had been deceived by an elaborate hoax in which Gorur even had someone pose as a chef at a famous restaurant, admitting, “You can’t outsmart every con-man.” |
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