The Billionaire Gucci Master | Part One | 14

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On Instagram, Hushpuppi flaunts an extravagant international lifestyle. He wears head-to-toe Fendi and poses next to Bentleys and private jets. His millions of followers know him as the former “Yahoo boy” — a Nigerian email scammer — who transcended poverty and now calls himself the Billionaire Gucci Master. But his haters, including more than a few rappers, all want to know: Where is his money coming from?

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0:00.0	Hey, Scam Fluencers fans, Sarah here.
0:02.8	If you love the drama, deception, and mind-blowing reveals, Wondery Plus is your VIP ticket to more.
0:09.2	Add free episodes, early access to the juiciest scandals, and deep dives you won't find anywhere else.
0:15.1	Get the full Scampluencers experience. Sign up today.
0:24.4	Satchy. experience, sign up today. Sachi, I have a question for you, and I'm scared to hear the answer.
0:28.7	Oh, boy.
0:29.2	Have you ever been hacked?
0:31.2	No, I've never been hacked.
0:32.6	I'm very careful about my online security.
0:35.5	And I would say to anybody listening this, don't try.
0:38.2	Don't try it.
0:39.2	Also, you're not even going to like what you see.
0:41.1	It's dark in here.
0:43.3	Do you know how, like, in the movies they make it seem like you have to be this extreme coder,
0:49.4	super computer genius, and that's how you hack?
0:52.1	Yeah, like Sandra Bullock and The Net.
0:54.6	She's like, I'm in.
0:56.0	Yes, or Angelina Jolie and Hackers.
1:00.5	Well, that's actually not true.
1:03.6	And the scam we're going to talk about proves that all of these movies are kind of wrong.
1:08.3	So I'm going to tell you a story about a guy who took a very basic email
1:12.8	scam and wrote it to fame, fortune, and infamy. Okay, Satji, I want to start by showing you a video
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