Listen Now: Scamfluencers "Pharmacist Femme Fatale"

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

You never really know someone…especially online. In today's world, the power of influence can be the quickest path to money and fame, and it often ends in ruin. These are the stories of the world's most insidious Scamfluencers. And we are their prey.

On Wondery's new weekly series, join co-hosts Scaachi Koul and Sarah Hagi as they unpack epic stories of deception from the worlds of social media, fashion, finance, health, and wellness. These influencers claim to be everything from charismatic healers to trusted financial insiders to experts in dating. They cast spells over millions. Why do we believe them, and how does our culture allow them to thrive?

From Black Swan Murder to a fake social media influencer to an audacious Hollywood Ponzi schemer, each season will take the listener along the twists and turns, the impact on victims, and what's left when the facade falls away.

Listen to Scamfluencers: https://Wondery.fm/Scam_AG

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0:00.0	Scams are everywhere. They're on your phone, in your inbox, even on your television screen.
0:07.3	Looking at you, Tinder, Swindler. What is it about scams that has pop culture so obsessed?
0:13.8	Maybe it's because it can happen to anyone. Or maybe? It's because we're all deeply fascinated by the psyche of someone who can lie with
0:23.3	ease, cheat with no guilt, and convince the world they are who they say they are, even when
0:29.6	they're not. Scam Fluencers is a weekly podcast that takes you into the world of deception,
0:36.9	sharing the stories of today's most notorious scams.
0:41.1	Like the recent episode of Natalie Cochran, the pharmacist Femfital, it seemed like she had it all
0:47.5	a good job, a loving husband, and two kids. But behind the scenes, Natalie was scamming friends
0:54.1	and family using fake contracts, fake government
0:57.7	emails, she even faked cancer. But when the walls start closing in, she'll do anything to keep the
1:05.3	lie alive until someone ends up dead. You can listen to scam fluencers now, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.5	I'm about to play a clip from scam influencers. Follow scamfluencers wherever you get your podcasts.
1:27.4	Sachi, have you ever watched a movie and just been like so inspired? It changed your life.
1:33.8	Oh, for sure. What was it? Probably that Helen Keller movie they kept making us watch on junior high.
1:41.0	How did it change your life? Learned a lot. Okay. We'll talk about that later. I mean, the real answer is not better. It's probably Robocop. Yeah. Okay, that makes all more sense. Robocop makes sense. For me, it was like Harriet the Spy, maybe. Oh, yeah. Because I was like, okay, that's me. I need to be meddling in writing.
2:01.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:03.1	A Lizzie McGuire movie, maybe.
2:04.9	True.
2:05.4	Swan Princess.
2:06.5	That was profound.
2:07.5	She rejects him.
2:08.5	It's a great movie.
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