Hi, I'm Melanie Pompeo, and welcome to Tell Me.

On today's episode of Tell Me, I am going to speak to Gabrielle Bluestone.

She wrote a book called Hype about how scammers, grifters, and con artists are taking over

the internet and why we're following them.

She also executive produced the Fire Festival documentary on Netflix, which was, you know,

a huge internet scam.

And I really can't wait to hear Gabrielle tell me how people are able to get over so easily.

I hope you all enjoy the conversation.

Congratulations on the book.

Has it been fun?

It's been incredible, really cool just to be able to like talk about a lot of this stuff too.

I'm an avid social media user and so kind of confronting my own relationship with it

and how like sucked into the hype we all are.

I don't know, it's been kind of wild.

So it's really super fun reading it.

Okay, so I have so many things to talk to you about.

So first, let me start with, I love a good con story.

I did a movie once about this guy, Frank Abeniel.

The movie was called Catch Me If You Can.

Super small part, but so fun and like a really pivotal moment in my life,

because of who was in the movie and who directed it and all that.

Anyway, I love a good con story, right?

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