A con artist has cashed in on Ellen DeGeneres’ recent announcement that she intends to wed her long time girlfriend Portia De Rossi by setting up a hoax gift registry at Crate + Barrel, according to Contact Music.

When DeGeneres announced her engagement on last Friday’s show, the day after California’s Supreme Court declared the ban on same sex marriage unconstitutional, the comic joked that the couple’s gift list would be with Crate + Barrel.

According to Ellen, ”I was joking when I released a statement saying we registered at Crate + Barrel. Some scam artist tried to take advantage of that and register and said the gifts are going to be sent to me and some people started already buying gifts… and sending (them to) this person.”

DeGeneres insists she and De Rossi do not want wedding gifts.