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Hello and welcome to Web Crawlers, the podcast where we do a deep dive into some of our

favorite mysteries. Each week we will introduce our topic, lay out our research and findings, reveal some

conspiracy theories, and conclude with our own hypothesis. I'm Ali Siegel. I'm Melissa Stettin

and I produce her Maria. Melissa, who are our patrons for today? We've got Fox Trot Fanable.

Real name. I would assume. Penelope and Tracy. I wonder if Fox Trot Fanable is a huge fan of the

Fox Trot Dance and is a professional dancer. Or they're a cannibal. Yes, that could also be it.

Well, guys, welcome to the team. Thank you for joining us. Melissa,

yes. Great epitone top epitone top epitone. What is our epitone on? Our epitone today is on

Anna Delvie aka Anna Sorakin, who is this Russian-born scam queen girl boss, who posed as a

wealthy German aress in New York to con rich people, hotels, and even banks out of money. How did

she do it? Let's get it. Okay, so Anna Delvie was originally born Anna Sorakin on January

23rd, 1991 in DoMo De Dovo, which is a town south of Moscow. Her father worked as a truck driver,

her mom owned small convenience stores. Anna was later described by a Russian classmate as an

excellent student and a strong and character, but she could easily offend. So she was like smart

and sassy is what I what I gathered from that. Interesting. So then the family moved to Germany in 2007

when Anna was 16 and she graduated from high school 2011. She worked as an intern at a PR company

and then she moved to Paris to have an internship at the French fashion magazine purple.

And at the time she started calling herself Anna Delvie, but her parents are like we don't know

where that name came because some people thought it was her mother's maiden name, but her parents are

like we have no idea. She just kind of made that name up. I wonder if there was like someone she met

when she was little with the last Delvie, who she really admired or so that's actress. So then

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