Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too | 100

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sandy Jenkins moves to the gossipy, small town of Corsicana, Texas to work in the town’s world-famous fruitcake factory. Desperate to keep up with his cliquey neighbors, Sandy starts cutting fruitcake factory checks to pay for jewelry, cars, a second home and private jet trips. But this half-baked scheme starts to crumble when a new employee takes a closer look at how Sandy cooks the books.

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0:00.0	Hey, Scam Fluencers fans, Sarah here.
0:02.8	If you love the drama, deception, and mind-blowing reveals,
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0:25.2	Thank you. experience, sign up today. Sachi, I am so curious.
0:27.5	What is the craziest thing you've done to fit in?
0:31.0	Honestly, I probably just let people say my name wrong a lot.
0:34.6	Other than that, it wasn't really going to happen for me, so I didn't do a lot.
0:39.8	Thank you for your answer, Scotchy.
0:42.5	When I was a kid, my sister worked at Walmart. She's about 10 years older than me. And I lied,
0:49.3	and I said I could get everyone free Pokemon cards. Obviously, I did not do that.
0:54.1	That's a perfectly good lie.
0:55.7	Yeah, I mean, in retrospect, it was embarrassing, but I was a kid.
0:59.6	And today's story is all about a very unremarkable and unpopular guy who wants to be the big
1:05.8	dog of his small town so badly, he almost convincingly scammed his way to the top.
1:14.2	It's a July morning in 2013, and it's already a scorcher in Corsicana, Texas, a small town about 50
1:21.7	miles south of Dallas. Jim Polk is mowing his lawn. He probably pauses to wave to a neighbor grabbing his paper and says howdy to a young couple walking their dog.
1:32.0	Everyone here seems to know each other, which means gossip is the town's unofficial currency.
1:37.6	People here are known to pass judgment if someone doesn't have plastic surgery or wear designer shoes.
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