Fine Art Fugitive

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When Inigo Philbrick opens his own art gallery in London, he’s immediately seen as someone to watch. He’s well connected and has a knack for “flipping” art, or buying influential pieces only to turn around and sell them for a handsome profit. Before long, he’s selling shares of paintings and raking in money from investors all over the globe, all while becoming known for his jet-setting and expensive taste. But when he makes too many promises he can’t keep, this notorious art dealer will lose it all.

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0:07.0	Hi, Haggy.
0:11.0	Hey, Sachi.
0:15.0	Okay, so what comes to your mind when you hear the words art scam?
0:20.7	I think about a lot of art I have seen in my life that I'm definitely like, this is
0:26.9	not real art.
0:28.8	This has to be a scam.
0:30.6	And I think about forgery, you know, people who are really, really good at forging art
0:35.0	and fooling people for decades.
0:37.4	Yeah.
0:38.4	This week, the scam I'm going to tell you about actually has nothing to do with forgery.
0:43.4	It's a surprisingly complicated story and it reminds us that it's actually a lot harder
0:48.2	to pull off an art scam than you would think.
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