Introducing “Love, Janessa”

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CBC + BBC World Service

True Crime

4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

“I love her. I just love her!” You meet someone online. It turns out many others think they have fallen for the same person. Introducing the search for the unwitting face of a digital con. With host, Hannah Ajala. Launching 23 January 2023. Audio for this trailer was updated on February 8, 2023.

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0:00.0	A BBC World Service and CBC podcast production.
0:04.3	So you meet a woman online.
0:06.7	You fall for her.
0:08.4	Hard.
0:09.4	I love it.
0:10.4	I just love it.
0:11.5	But it turns out, thousands of other people are in love with her too.
0:16.4	Or at least they think they are.
0:18.9	Every single conversation started off with,
0:21.6	How are you, my darling?
0:23.6	Have you cleaned your teeth today?
0:25.6	Have you had a shower yet?
0:26.6	Are you warm enough?
0:28.6	Her picture is the bait used in criminal schemes around the world.
0:32.6	But she's also a real person.
0:35.6	Janessa Brazil. Genessa person. Genesea Brazil.
0:39.1	Genessa Brazil.
0:43.4	Adult entertainment star, Janessa Brazil.
0:46.8	The face that's launched a thousand romance scams.
0:55.1	She said, if you really loved me, you do what I asked you to do. And then you responded.
0:56.9	You used a fake identity, a false story and stolen photographs.
1:02.3	Why should I give you anything at all?
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