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Apollo Nida: It’s Too Late to Apollo-gize | 141

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.17K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When Apollo Nida joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2009, he’d recently been released from prison and was expecting a child with his superstar lawyer wife, Phaedra Parks. Apollo had every reason to stay on the straight-and-narrow, but he immediately went back to scamming. His identity theft ring, feuds with castmates, and eventually threatening behavior to Phaedra herself add up to a twisted tale that’s scandalous even by Housewife standards.

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0:00.0

Hey there, scamfluencers fans. Want to be the first to know how these wild scams unfold.

0:05.0

Join us on Patreon to get early access to episodes, add free listening, and exclusive content that reveals even more of the drama. Just search for scamfluencers on Patreon and dive deeper into the scandal.

0:23.7

Sachi, we often cover stories where these scammers have a big TV presence.

0:28.9

Do you ever wonder how they're able to keep up being on reality TV and scamming at the

0:33.1

same time?

0:33.7

Because I do.

0:34.8

Yeah, who has the time?

0:36.5

But also, they are public figures. Like, aren't they

0:39.5

worried about somebody looking into them? Everything they do can be considered evidence. Yes,

0:44.6

it's all public record. Well, today, we're covering a house husband, that's the husband of a real

0:51.6

housewife, who had so many chances to stop scamming but kept going for years,

0:57.3

even as a camera's continued rolling.

1:03.2

It's the fall of 2013, and Special Agent Alexandra Herrera is standing outside an interrogation room in Atlanta.

1:11.2

He works for the Secret Service in the Counterfeit Division,

1:14.4

and he's about to come face to face with the woman he's been desperately trying to track down.

1:19.8

In early 2012, a fraud investigator at J.P. Morgan Chase flagged a mysterious woman for possible bank fraud.

1:27.3

They had surveillance footage of this woman opening and accessing multiple accounts in Atlanta

1:32.1

and Orlando, all while using stolen identities and fake IDs.

1:37.1

They were able to identify her as a middle-aged black woman, but they didn't know her

1:41.4

real name, so they brought in Alexandra to help.

1:46.0

Alexandra went to one of the addresses the woman used on the fraudulent accounts.

1:50.0

But it wasn't actually a house. It was a UPS store.

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