Anderson scandal

The Anderson scandal, also known as Andersongate, was a celebrity controversy involving the misuse of crowdfunding money by Guianese far-right politician Daniel O'Brien. Various celebrities, including rapper Remy Saint-Denis and Roblox gaming YouTuber Daniel Brook, admitted to unwillingly diverting 382 million GY$ in crowdfunding money to O'Brien.

A video by Brook, uploaded to YouTube, first exposed the scam on November 21st 2019, with the exposé pointing to O'Brien as the scam's mastermind after Charles Callaghan, nephew of former president Steven Callaghan, was rescued by Guianese Investigative Directorate agents on September 17th 2019, a month after his detainment by O'Brien at his hotel room at the Hotel Kensington.

It was claimed that all persons involved in the scam were defrauded of a total 185 million Guyanese dollars. Around $10 million that could have been used for the production of The Super Gamer Bros. Super Movie was alleged to have been lost to the scam.

Modus operandi
In the scam, Rizwan bin Soewarno, advisor to O'Brien and Governor of Bolivar, posed as Afro-Guianese rapper Marcus Anderson, claiming to create projects based on his songs. Soewarno was instructed to video-chat various celebrities to promote various crowdfunded ghost projects such as TV series or films. These projects were in turn "implemented" through O'Brien's companies, with the projects producing no tangible output whatsoever.

According to Brook's testimony at O'Brien's trial, such funds would be processed through bank accounts, which were later wired to a "doppelganger" of Anderson's bank account forcibly created by Callaghan as part of the scam.

For the "Anderson" disguise, Rizwan was given an SPFX "Player" mask and gloves to wear. Matching clothes included black Under Armour base layer gear, black socks and a black do-rag. Accessories included a chain pendant and shades, and to match Anderson's slightly-muscular physique, a muscle suit was worn underneath. A voice changer module, which would mask his voice by making it sound slightly deeper, was used.

O'Brien hired a dialect teacher in order to mask Rizwan's Malaysian accent with an African-American one. Karen Reed, the dialect teacher O'Brien hired for the project, stated that she was not prepared for realizing that she was about to be used as part of a scam.

It took 3 months for Rizwan to master his accent. At the trial, Rizwan admitted that he enjoyed being trained.

The planning took half a year - the accent training, the creation of the masks and the buying of materials.

Scam organizers

 * Daniel O'Brien (mastermind)
 * Charles Callaghan (creator of the fake bank account)
 * Rizwan bin Suwarno (impersonator)

Modus operandi helpers

 * Karen Reed, dialect teacher (dialect teacher hired by Daniel for Rizwan)
 * Marco Anderson, rapper and DJ (victim impersonated)

Victims of the scam

 * Remy Saint-Denis, rapper
 * Daniel Brook, gaming YouTuber
 * Brock Delgado and Julian Windsor, EDM producers
 * Janet O'Donnell, singer
 * Carlos Fidel, film director
 * Andre Woods, jazz singer
 * Jennifer Lyons, gaming streamer
 * Rizky bin Laden, hip-hop producer
 * Joel Harding, football player and rapper
 * Frederick Stansfield, gaming YouTuber