ENCORE: The Hollywood Ponzi Scheme | To Live and Lie in LA | Part III | 11

Scamfluencers

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Zach's fake business deals and lies are starting to catch up with him. The money has stopped flowing, and entertainment bigwigs are hounding him for answers. But like everyone else in Hollywood, Zach thinks he's just one box-office smash away from solving all his problems.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to scam influencers add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:06.7	Also, if you haven't listened to episode one and two yet, go back and listen to them. All of this will make much more sense.
0:19.2	Sarah, Saty, have you ever impersonated someone or has anyone ever impersonated you?
0:25.8	Um, no, not necessarily in my youth, I did get catfished on Neopets.com by someone pretending to be Hilary Duff.
0:36.6	And it worked. I thought I was friends with Hilary Duff. It was a first time I realized like,
0:41.4	oh, people actually do lie all the time on the internet.
0:45.8	Yes, they do. And they'll do it with real gusto because the key to a good impersonation is total commitment.
0:52.4	Well, for Zach impersonating others is basically his art. He works in assumed identities the way some
0:58.2	people work in water colors or in clay. And in our final episode, he really pushes the form to its
1:05.7	limits. In January 2020, Zach sits in his home office. It's the one with the framed print of his
1:13.0	company motto. Sarah, do you remember it? Uh, unfortunately, yes. When the odds are one in a million,
1:19.8	be that one. Aren't you happy to have that information rattling around in your brain?
1:24.0	Yeah, and it'll be there forever for the rest of your life. Well, now the odds are stacked against
1:28.8	Zach. He stopped paying his investors back a few weeks ago. And since then, he's been stalling
1:34.0	with excuses. Zach told them HBO and Netflix are late paying him. And that's why he can't pay his
1:40.4	investors back. But the investors are losing patience. They want answers. More than that,
1:46.3	they want their money. Zach needs someone to vouch for his lies. Someone on the inside. A lawyer.
1:53.5	But not a criminal lawyer, at least not yet. He needs an entertainment lawyer, one who works for
2:00.3	Netflix to find the perfect guy. Zach heads to where else linked in. But Netflix has a lot of lawyers.
2:09.6	Zach scrolls through profiles until he finds the person he needs. Joel Goldberg, title,
2:16.1	senior counsel, content acquisition. And then Zach fires up his trusty old fake email app.
2:23.5	Oh my god, the email scheduling app that literally all scammers somehow have access to,
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