Nebraska beauty queen Liz Friesen caught in $3million get-rich-quick scheme to fool admiring followers

A Nebraska quality queen has been accused of conning admiring fans retired of $3 cardinal arsenic portion of a bogus get-rich-quick scam.

Liz Friesen, who is the existent Mrs Nebraska, is being sued by the authorities for allegedly conducting a 'highly deceptive' passive income scheme.

The 34-year-old is accused of 'flaunting a high-end and affluent persona online to mislead consumers into believing [she] would springiness consumers entree to akin levels of wealthiness and success'.

Friesen past utilized the victims' investments to money a manner filled with, 'luxury vacations successful exotic locales, Lamborghinis, Cadillac Escalades, and different high-end vehicles, multimillion-dollar mansions, jewelry, decorator clothing, backstage airplanes, a water house, and countless different extravagances,' the suit states.

It alleges that Friesen enticed consumers to acquisition 'automated' e-commerce stores that would beryllium tally by 'dropshipping gurus' connected Amazon and Walmart, done a shadowy institution called WiFi Money.

Dropshipping is erstwhile a seller doesn't support immoderate inventory oregon woody with shipping, alternatively forwarding to a 3rd party, meaning they don't wage for the point until it has been purchased.

The strategy began during Covid and sought to capitalize connected the roar successful online shopping, the suit states.

Each unfortunate paid betwixt $15,000 to $100,000 to acceptable up their accounts and were promised an income of up to $100,000 a month, according to the filing. 

But Attorney General Mike Hilgers' bureau said successful a connection that Friesen and her co-defendants, who are besides influencers, pocketed the victim's currency and utilized it to money their jet-set lifestyles.

The victims successful crook saw either minimal profits oregon immense losses connected their investments, according to Hilgers. 

Friesen's societal media leafage features respective snaps of her enjoying the precocious life, including vacations overseas and photos taken connected a backstage jet.

However, the gurus often violated the online marketplaces' policies, starring to wide suspensions and deactivations of the consumers' accounts, the suit states.

It added that the defendants, which see different influencers, continued to beforehand the strategy for 2 and a fractional years, adjacent arsenic it failed.

'Defendants continued promoting the strategy to consumers via societal media and elsewhere, unfairly inducing galore consumers to wage tens of thousands of dollars into a strategy that was doomed to fail,' the suit states. 

The ailment contains an illustration of a station allegedly written by Friesen successful which she makes outlandish claims astir the expected returns. 

'[W]ork alongside maine and my WiFi Money squad and marque $5,000 other a month, $10,000 other a month, $100,000 other a month,' Friesen wrote connected Instagram. 'Whatever it is that your bosom desires, let's marque it happen.' 

'This radical of influencers manufactured lavish lifestyles connected Instagram to lure consumers into a watercourse of 'passive income' schemes that were doomed to fail, past divvied up the wealth they took amongst themselves contempt the schemes' full failures,' explains Attorney General Hilgers.

'These highly deceptive 'passive income' schemes volition not beryllium tolerated successful Nebraska nether my watch. 

'Our Office volition combat hard to get Nebraskans' hard-earned wealth backmost and clasp atrocious actors to account.' 

The suit was filed successful the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska. The ailment alleges violations of the Consumer Protection Act and Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, among different laws.

Friesen and her co-defendants are being asked to refund consumers, 'stop their schemes and refrain from them successful the future' and reimburse the authorities for its ineligible fees. The authorities is besides seeking a civilian penalty.

Friesen, of Lincoln, is simply a joined mother-of-two who describes herself arsenic a 'mompreneur'. 

She was crowned Mrs Nebraska successful June, 10 years aft she won the Miss Nebraska pageant. 

Since quality of the suit broke, the Mrs Nebraska Organization announced that Friesen would beryllium taking a measurement backmost from duties.

'At this time, we person nary crushed to judge immoderate of the existent allegations progressive authoritative Mrs Nebraska Organization societal media accounts,' the pageant said successful a statement.

DailyMail.com has contacted Friesen for comment.