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🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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With the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on the horizon, we’re revisiting an epic Coachella scam. This encore episode follows a wealthy, glamorous and mysterious business woman looking to cash in on the California dream. When she announces her latest project — a luxury resort she plans to build in the desert — she quickly nets millions of dollars. There’s just one problem: Her dazzling property is nothing more than a mirage.
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0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to scam |
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0:08.1 | Satchi, your favorite time of years upon us. |
0:12.2 | Can you guess what it is? I assume you're talking about Ramadan because you know I'm a woman of God. |
0:16.8 | No, but thank you for being inclusive. Actually I'm talking about Coachella season, which somehow keeps coming back every single year. |
0:25.8 | I for one am not going. I cannot stand that long, but it does remind me of one of the greatest |
0:31.7 | scammers we've covered on this show, Serena Shee. |
0:35.1 | Do you remember her? |
0:36.1 | Yes, impossible to forget. |
0:38.6 | Legend. |
0:39.6 | Well, put on your |
0:43.9 | head and sunglasses because we're headed to the desert. |
0:43.4 | Here's our encore of Coachella Khan artist. |
0:46.4 | We'll be back with all new episodes on March 18th on |
0:49.2 | on Wondery Plus and March 25th everywhere else. |
1:06.0 | and March 25th everywhere else. Satchi, is there one celebrity where, like if they were endorsing something you'd absolutely buy it. I mean like who's your group basically? Wilford Brimley. I don't know who that is. He's the guy who used to do those ads. He had like a mustache and he'd be like, I'm Wilford Brimley and I diabetes. |
1:17.0 | Okay, well, I'm going to tell you about the first scam we've done for this show that honestly I know I've said this before but it is the easiest |
1:26.2 | to fall for scam I would fall for it and I do think you would too |
1:38.0 | It's February 2017 and it's a scorching hot day in California's Coachella Valley. A crew of four construction workers stand in front of an empty landscape except for |
1:44.1 | some yucca, some brittle bush, and two giant bulldozers. The four men look like |
1:50.0 | they're ready to get to work. They're holding shovels, wearing hard hats, |
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