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Scamfluencers

ENCORE: Brazil's Supermom | Part I

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.17K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In honor of Scamfluencers’ one-year anniversary, we’re revisiting one of the most unforgettable stories from our first season. In the first of this two-part series, which originally aired in May 2022, Flordelis dos Santos de Souza gains a saintly reputation in Brazil after she adopts 55 children. But when her husband is killed during an armed robbery, everyone in the family becomes a potential suspect. The investigation unravels a deception so twisted it shocks the nation. Is Flordelis a superstar or super-criminal?

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0:00.0

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0:06.3

Hi, Sarah. Hey, Sachi.

0:08.3

Can you believe we put on an entire award show last week?

0:12.6

You know, I can and it was

0:15.4

magnificent. We did an amazing job in my opinion. We did a great job. They should let us host the Oscars.

0:20.9

Well, we gave out a lot of awards and we were visited some of our absolute favorite scammers,

0:26.3

but there's one thing that's bothering me, which is that we just didn't have time to honor one of the biggest,

0:31.8

loudest, most outrageous names in the game,

0:34.9

floteles. I want to take this moment to honor floteles' immense talents and contributions to the field.

0:41.3

Because who else do you know that fostered 37 kids became a gospel superstar and even won a seat in Congress?

0:48.8

She's a legend. So to continue celebrating our one-year anniversary of the show,

0:53.3

we're going to rerun Brazil's Super Mom Parts 1 and 2. We'll be back with brand new episodes starting April 17th on

1:00.6

Wondering Plus in April 24th on the public feed.

1:10.4

Sarah, do you remember Octamom?

1:14.0

How could I forget about Octamom? Okay, remind us who Octamom is.

1:20.0

She's a woman who made the bold choice to have a bunch of kids at once. Right. She was pregnant with eight children at the same time.

1:27.5

Well, I'm about to tell you a story about a mom with 55 kids.

1:33.0

Her name is Floteles de Susa and she's got this saintly reputation in Brazil. In fact, she's known as the mother of the nation.

1:42.0

Because she's not just a Super Mom, she's also a pastor, a gospel star, and a member of Congress.

1:49.5

Results a big country. There's a lot of people there. Yeah. And she populates a third of it. Yeah.

1:56.2

Well, you know, listen, it's obviously not easy, especially after her husband dies.

2:01.8

He was also a famous evangelical pastor, Anderson Do Carmo, and he was only 42.

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