Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too

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 Prime members, you can listen to scam influencers early and ad free on Amazon Music.
0:04.8	Download the app today. Sache, I am so curious, what is the craziest thing you've done to fit in?
0:18.6	Honestly, I probably just let people say my name wrong a lot.
0:22.2	Other than that, it wasn't really going to happen for me so I didn't do a lot.
0:27.9	Thank you for your answer, Scotchy. When I was a kid my sister worked at Walmart she's about 10 years older than me and I
0:36.6	lied and I said I could get everyone free Pokemon cards obviously I did not do that
0:41.8	that's a perfectly good lie.
0:44.0	Yeah, I mean in retrospect it was embarrassing,
0:46.0	but I was a kid.
0:48.0	And today's story is all about a very unremarkable and unpopular guy
0:52.0	who wants to be the big dog of his small town so
0:55.4	badly he almost convincingly scammed his way to the top.
1:00.1	It's a July morning in 2013 and it's already a scorcher in Corsicana, Texas, a small town about 50 miles south of Dallas.
1:11.0	Jim Polk is mowing his lawn. He probably pauses to wave to a
1:15.1	neighbor grabbing his paper and says howdy to a young couple walking their
1:18.9	dog. Everyone here seems to know each other, which means gossip is the town's unofficial currency.
1:25.2	People here are known to pass judgment if someone doesn't have plastic surgery or wear designer shoes.
1:31.0	Saatchi, do you want to read how one resident described Corsicana to Texas monthly?
1:36.0	Why yes, I would.
1:37.4	They said, the Housewives of Beverly Hills, we'd blow that shit out of the water.
1:42.3	Okay, I need Andy Cohen and four cameras.
1:45.1	Yeah, I do feel like this would be an amazing housewives town.
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