Hollywood Con Queen | 1. The Hook

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Eddie, an aspiring film industry trainer, gets a call from a powerful producer offering him the opportunity of a lifetime -- a major film project, in Indonesia. But when Eddie gets to Jakarta, there is no movie. And after some friends back home do a little sleuthing, Eddie realizes that he's been pulled into something far bigger than just a little scam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Camside media.
0:05.0	Hello?
0:06.0	What is this?
0:07.0	What do you want me to do?
0:08.0	Oh, it's just a...
0:10.0	Camelia.
0:11.0	Camelia.
0:12.0	Okay, you're listening to Camelia.
0:14.0	A production of Camside Media.
0:16.0	Oh.
0:18.0	Hi, I'm Josh Dean.
0:20.0	I'm a journalist, author, and more recently, a podcaster.
0:25.0	And I want to tell you a story.
0:27.0	The story of this really bizarre scam.
0:30.0	It's a scam that's been eating away at the movie industry
0:33.0	for years now, crushing dreams and draining bank accounts.
0:37.0	And I've been obsessing over it for a while, too.
0:40.0	Since I got a tip last year,
0:42.0	from someone who got caught up in the middle of it,
0:45.0	this con was basically set up to target some of the most vulnerable people in the business.
0:49.0	The men and women on the lowest rungs of the Hollywood hierarchy,
0:53.0	the ones who aren't sure where their next job is coming from.
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