Intercontinental Con Man

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When a Colombian teenager survives an hours-long trip inside the wheel well of a plane, he becomes an instant celebrity. A local family in Miami decides to adopt him, in the hopes of giving him a better life in America. But they quickly realize he’s not who he says he is, and he’s not even a teenager at all. In fact, this is just the start of his journey into becoming one of the world’s most charming, cunning, and completely untraceable identity thieves. His speciality? Sophisticated hotel heists all over the globe.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to scam influencers add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:14.1	Haggy is there?
0:15.5	Anyone in the world who you would like to pull a talent in Mr. Ripley on and a follow-up question is that person me?
0:23.0	I would never want to steal your identity.
0:26.0	Oh, you have too much baggage.
0:27.6	Hey!
0:30.4	You know what though? Fair and true.
0:32.4	There actually isn't anyone whose identity I'd want to steal.
0:35.8	My life is boring and nice.
0:38.2	Oh, God, that is true. Actually, you know what? I was gonna say I don't think there's a lot of people whose identity I would steal
0:44.2	because I know with my own life what I'm getting into, but I might steal yours actually.
0:48.6	Boring and nice sounds good.
0:50.3	Hey, what's mine as yours, baby?
0:52.6	Oh.
0:53.6	Well, you know how scammers are? Or at least the ones we talk about?
0:57.2	They sure do love to live in another life, even if just for a little while.
1:06.4	It's around 3 a.m. on a muggy June night in 1993.
1:10.4	A mechanic at Miami International Airport walks around a cargo plane and conducts a routine security check.
1:17.4	He opens the wheel well.
1:19.4	And when the hatch opens, the body of a teenage boy rolls out onto the runway.
1:24.2	He has shaggy brown hair and he's wearing cut off shorts, a t-shirt, and no shoes.
1:29.4	He's covered in frost.
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