S4 Ep16: Britain's Biggest Female Fraudster

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

You've heard of the man with no name, right? Well, this week, Bethan tells us about the woman with four names! Maria Michaela committed mortgage fraud on a grand scale. Taking advantage of a corrupt surveyor and a couple of useless banks, she was able to get away with £13million. Join us as we tell you how she did it! Show Sponsor: The mobile puzzle game EVERYONE'S talking about... Best Fiends! Download from the Apple App Store or from Google Play. Support us and the show through Patreon: Patreon is a platform that allows supporters of shows like ours (you guys!) to pay a little each month towards our running costs. In return for your generosity, you get loads of added extras! Check our page out at www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast Show theme music thanks to www.bensound.com and mixed by Wiltshire's finest DJ's www.djsuperstars.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One two three shake your body down.
0:03.0	Shig your own name.
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0:21.4	as simple as just three steps new cocktail mixes from Fever Tree as easy as one two three.
0:29.0	Please enjoy responsibly. Hello. Hello and welcome to seeing Red I'm Bethin and I'm Mark hello guys thank you for
0:49.6	joining us once again yeah thank you so. Thank you very much for bearing with us
0:54.4	last week when it was a solo Mark episode. Mark I thought it was a really great
0:59.0	episode. I listened to you on my lunch breaks at work a couple of days in a row?
1:03.3	That's nice to hear. Yeah, it was an episode that we've been wanting to do for a long time and I know that
1:09.2	we talked about it before it was Shannon Matthews for anybody that doesn't know. We talked about it for a shame
1:13.2	we talked about it for a while and we um it was a shame really because we
1:16.7	would have liked to have discussed that together wouldn't we but I think you
1:21.2	said you would have liked to have discussed Karen Matthews the
1:24.5	slag I think were your exact words when you texted me about it. I mean that sounds
1:28.7	more like something you would say I'm not gonna lie. That is true to be fair. Yeah, so yeah I had some really good
1:35.6	feedback so far so thank you to everybody who listened to that one. Quite a sad
1:40.5	episode again but actually it does have a happy ending which is
1:45.2	shall we shall we thank the latest patron supporters I think that might be good idea
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