ENCORE: Prep School Perpetrator
Scamfluencers
Wondery
4.1 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We’re revisiting the story of prep-girl-gone-bad Danielle Miller now that her jet-setting scamming has landed her in prison. After being humiliated and exploited at her elite New York City prep school, Danielle sets out to reinvent herself. She ends up befriending a group of young socialites in Los Angeles, and before long, she’s flying on private jets, picking up pricey dinner tabs, and running her own P.R. firm. But when Danielle is arrested crossing into the U.S. border from Mexico, the source of her money comes into question — and her life slowly begins to unravel.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to scam influencers early and ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.4 | Sarah, one thing I still can't get over is how much scamming happened during the pandemic. Like why did Tom Brady's |
| 0:14.6 | company TB 12 get almost a million dollars from PPP loans which were meant |
| 0:19.6 | for small businesses don't forget? I think about that all the time. I think a lot of people |
| 0:23.5 | regret not getting PPP loans when they could have. Well this isn't an update on |
| 0:28.6 | our favorite very divorce quarterback. We're actually going way back to one of our earliest scam |
| 0:33.4 | influencers. Danielle Miller, she was a private school socialite who was the victim of an |
| 0:37.8 | early internet revenge porn scandal and then she turned to a life of crime. |
| 0:41.6 | In July 2020 she got more than $1 million And then she turned to a life of crime. |
| 0:42.5 | In July 2020, she got more than $1 million in pandemic-related loans by stealing people's |
| 0:47.6 | identities. |
| 0:49.0 | She used the money meant for those hit hardest by the pandemic to charter private jets and pay for luxury |
| 0:53.8 | apartments and of course she posted all about it on social media. An update for |
| 0:58.8 | our listeners in the fall of 2023 Danielle was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay restitution. |
| 1:05.2 | Wow, I did not know that. She's in prison right now. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.3 | Well, Sarah, we have new episodes of Scamplains are starting in August, and we kick it off with Dance Mom's very own Abby Lee Miller. |
| 1:16.4 | Will I learn the Jojo Seawha dance by then? |
| 1:19.4 | Probably. |
| 1:20.4 | For now, here's our encore of Prep School perpetrator. |
| 1:23.4 | Haggi, are there any people you remember from like the heyday of viral internet culture who were never able to escape what made them famous in the first place? |
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