Influencer who blogged her fake cancer story busted after getting over $100k in donations

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

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This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A woman who faked her own cancer survival story to exploit the sympathy of strangers for her own gain. After getting over $100k in donations, Amanda C. Riley’s story began to unravel.

Charlie Webster, host and producer of “Scamanda,” and investigative journalist Nancy Moscatiello join host Ana Garcia.

Check out “Scamanda” the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/scamanda/id1685691481?ign-itscg=80085&ign-itsct=pod_show_lionsgate_scamanda

Official show page: https://www.lionsgatesound.com/shows/scamanda

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0:00.0	A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some
0:05.3	strong language. It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who
0:10.9	may find it disturbing. Hello and welcome to a special edition of True Crime Daily, the podcast.
0:16.2	I'm your host Anna Garcia. Everyone in the world of True Crime has a story to tell about a case they
0:21.3	worked on or that they live through. Summer high profile, some you have never heard of, but they are
0:26.3	all fascinating. Today's case is about how a young mother of two with a cute little pixie haircut
0:32.5	managed to fool the world into believing that she was dying of cancer in order to con people
0:37.3	into giving her money. This went on for years. Prosecutors say that her blog and her social media were
0:44.0	filled with fake photos of her pretending to be sick and getting treatments. She even shaved her
0:49.6	head to make it look like chemo had taken her hair. The woman was ultimately busted by the IRS in 2019
0:56.1	and charged with wire fraud. This case is the subject of a new podcast called Scamanda, the story of
1:03.4	Amanda C. Riley and how she used social media to commit this fraud unkind, giving people many of whom
1:11.6	had lost loved ones to cancer themselves. Here's a clip from the podcast.
1:16.2	She was putting out this blog like a weekly couple times a week and it was really like a soap opera.
1:30.1	It was very easy to get sucked into the writing of it. Most stage 4 refractory blood cancer patient.
1:35.9	She had very little time to live to beautiful young boys, very undeserving. It was so much back and
1:42.9	forth that you're healed, you're back and you're healed and you're back. Terminal miracle, terminal miracle.
1:51.3	So a lot of us did donate money. I prayed for every single night. I thought good intentions could
1:58.0	save her. I received an anonymous email. They basically said there's somewhere out there you
2:03.7	need to know about and if you could do anything about it you should. They served a search warrant on
2:09.0	House. They have guns, they have swung. I received a notification from the Department of Justice.
2:18.4	It was shocking to say the least.
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