4.4 • 820 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Netflix’s Inventing Anna presents a flashy version of fake German heiress Anna Delvey’s scams.
Rachel Deloache Williams was scammed out of $62,000 by Anna on a disastrous trip to Morocco.
Rachel discusses true crime shows like Inventing Anna and Hulu’s The Dropout and what it means for all of us when liars and scammers are elevated and amplified.
Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin Almost Ruined My Life. Now She’s Being Rewarded for Her Crimes: https://time.com/6146419/inventing-anna-rachel-williams-anna-delvey/
Check out Rachel’s book My Friend Anna: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/My-Friend-Anna/Rachel-DeLoache-Williams/9781982114107
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0:00.0 | George Santos, disgraced former congressional representative and professional scammer, was voted out of Congress. |
0:07.3 | And rather than slinking into the shadows, he's doing sit-down interviews and allegedly making bank on cameo. |
0:14.0 | Now, if you believe him, he says that he's already made more money since being kicked out of Congress than he ever would have as an elected |
0:21.2 | official. When asked during an interview by Zeeway, what it would take for him to just go away, |
0:26.2 | he said, stop inviting me to events, but you'll never do that because you want the content. |
0:31.2 | And honestly, he's kind of right. So does crime pay? That's the question that Rachel Deloise Williams asked when we sat down |
0:39.4 | together last year. Rachel was scammed out of thousands of dollars by notorious fake German heiress |
0:44.4 | Anna Delvey. And she asks, are we incentivizing scamming as a culture? Listen to our episode from |
0:50.4 | 2022 and find out. She definitely committed so many offenses that harmed real life people. |
0:59.0 | So I think to flatten something like that into this very frivolous, like, fun, glossy slog of a TV show, full stop, I don't know, dot, dot, dot. |
1:13.8 | There are no girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed |
1:17.3 | Creative. |
1:21.9 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
1:27.1 | We spend a lot of time on this show talking about lies and the internet. |
1:31.5 | And I have to say that part of the reason why I personally work on disinformation issues |
1:35.3 | is because of my intense fascination in things that are not true. |
1:39.8 | How do lies function? |
1:41.6 | Why do we believe them? |
1:43.2 | Who profits off of them? |
1:45.0 | And how do they shape our world? |
1:47.0 | So in 2018, when the story first broke about the fake German heiress, Anna Delvey, |
1:51.9 | I was, of course, fascinated. |
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