Design Scheme Sabotage
After investing $85,000 in a luxury home renovation, you discover your designer has vanished, leaving behind a house full of convincing counterfeits. Your home insurance is threatening to void your policy, and a major house-warming party for your career network is just 48 hours away.
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Survivors
0
Popularity
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Difficulty
B1-B2
Scenario Overview
Your Role
Homeowner and rising tech executive
Conversation Partner
Detective Sarah Chen, Luxury Goods Fraud Division
Setting
Your extensively renovated living room, now bathed in harsh police flashlights that expose subtle flaws in the 'designer' pieces
Location
Your penthouse apartment, Downtown Financial District
Learning Objectives
Prove your innocence by maintaining a consistent story about the designer's deception
Locate and present documentation of all financial transactions and communications
Develop a contingency plan for the upcoming networking event that satisfies the detective
About This Scenario
After investing $85,000 in a luxury home renovation, you discover your designer has vanished, leaving behind a house full of convincing counterfeits. Your home insurance is threatening to void your policy, and a major house-warming party for your career network is just 48 hours away.
How It Starts
“Mr./Ms., our forensics team has identified at least twelve counterfeit pieces in your living room alone. The 'Cassina' sofa's authentication numbers don't exist, and that 'vintage' Eames lounge chair? The wood grain's printed on. Want to tell me what's really going on here?”
This is how Detective Sarah Chen, Luxury Goods Fraud Division's greeting will start.
Practice Details
Scenario ID
#977
Category
General
Location Tag
Your penthouse apartment, Downtown Financial District
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