"Instagram star to accused con artist"

The Daily Crime

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True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Brittany Dawn Davis, a social media influencer in Dallas-Fort Worth, scammed thousands of clients whom she sold fitness and nutrition plans to, according to a new lawsuit from the Texas Attorney General’s office. WFAA Reporter William Joy has been covering the story. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.2	And she reached out before she paid, and she was like, hey, no, how legit is this?
0:05.3	Are you real?
0:06.3	And she says that Brittany emailed back, yes, that she basically told her everything she wanted to hear, right?
0:11.2	Which is how all these always begin.
0:13.1	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:15.4	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:30.1	If you're on Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok, you might have come across content posted by Britney Don Davis.
0:31.5	Yeah, yeah, we're talking about Brittany Don Davis.
0:33.9	And if you don't know her, she is a big-time social media influencer here in
0:38.0	North Texas. She's got about a million followers on TikTok, 250,000 YouTube subscribers. This is
0:44.3	something from her YouTube page and nearly half a million on her Instagram page. Davis started
0:49.7	out as a fitness influencer, posting exercise videos and nutrition tips.
0:54.7	And after gaining popularity, she began selling fitness and nutrition plans.
0:59.0	But now, the Texas Attorney General's office says those services were a scam.
1:03.6	Now, the AG's office is asking for anything between $250,000 to a million dollars in damages.
1:15.3	William Joy has been covering this story for WFA in Dallas.
1:19.0	William, can I have you start by telling me about Brittany Don Davis?
1:22.6	Who is she?
1:23.3	Yeah, so Brittany Dawn Davis is, I mean, a lot of people, if you, so let me take a step back.
1:28.3	If you have an Instagram account, you've probably at some point seen, you know, these,
1:32.2	these fitness people or gurus or trainers or nutritionists. And she's kind of all of that
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