Jobfished
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It is 2020. Covid Britain is in lockdown and the world is working from home. In the depths of the deadly pandemic and when people were at their lowest, someone spots an opportunity. This is the story of how people from all over the world were hired to work for a seemingly glamorous and successful design agency - but the whole thing was fake. Who was behind the con? And what on earth were they trying to achieve? Investigative journalist Catrin Nye and her team expose a tangled web of lies, confronting the boss to get to the truth of what really happened.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Catherine Ney and I'm an investigative journalist. |
| 0:07.4 | For the past year I've been unraveling one of the weirdest stories I've ever come across. |
| 0:13.8 | It's a tale that has taken me across the world as I investigate the glamorous global |
| 0:18.8 | life of one digital entrepreneur. |
| 0:22.1 | He's engaging, he's charismatic, he's larger than life, he's passionate, he's enthusiastic. |
| 0:27.8 | It's a story that could only have happened during a global pandemic when our normal lives |
| 0:33.0 | were completely put on hold. |
| 0:35.9 | And then you have the fear of the unknown of everything that's going on with COVID, not |
| 0:39.8 | knowing what the future holds which is scary. |
| 0:43.9 | Left with only Zoom and social media to connect with the outside world, millions were left |
| 0:48.7 | isolated, unvulnerable. |
| 0:51.8 | I was basically stuck, financially broke, no visa, no hope at all. |
| 0:57.4 | I would have probably ended up on the streets. |
| 1:00.0 | It's also a story about when hustle culture, that determination to succeed above all else, |
| 1:05.9 | goes way too far. |
| 1:08.9 | At the heart of this story is a group of people, some who lived thousands of miles apart, |
| 1:17.6 | but were all united virtually by one man. |
| 1:21.2 | Hey guys, good morning. |
| 1:23.5 | I just wanted to share the view with you. |
| 1:26.4 | It's awesomely beautiful. |
| 1:28.5 | Enter Ali Ayat. |
| 1:31.0 | Ali is a bit of an influencer on Instagram with more than 90,000 followers. |
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