I'm Rebecca Levoy, and this is You Can't Make This Up.

You Can't Make This Up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary series, Love, Khan, Revenge.

Frosters have the ability to go underground for a very long time. This is their job, and they're damn good at their job. Today we're talking to host Cecilia Fjellhoi.

After her story of falling prey to the so-called Tinder swindler,

Cecilia Fjelhoi became an advocate for those taken in by romance cons.

Now, she returns to expose those targeting unsuspecting victims

and seek justice for those deceived by them. In the Netflix

series Love Con Revenge, Cecilia teams up with a private investigator to track down other swindlers

and tell the stories of those left both broke and heartbroken. Faced with limited legal options,

the team goes to bat for a group of victims who were ripped off in different ways,

but were all victims in elaborate romantic long cons.

But the thing is, the ones you realize what they've done and how many lives they're wrecked, you don't stop.

Yeah. And I'm joined now by Cecilia Fielhoi.

Cecilia, welcome to You Can't Make This Up.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

The world met you, and I met you, in Netflix's The Tinder Swindler.

Can you remind listeners of your own story of love, con, revenge?

Yeah, like, I asked a lot of other people.

I was online dating and I right swiped on a guy I shouldn't have.

And exactly when the door closes, he just takes me around the waist and he just looks at me and he just draws me in and just give me this kiss. And I was like, oh shit, you know,

the kind of butterflies. It was passionate and was just the perfect first kiss that you could have,

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