The "Scamanda" Podcast, Journalist Charlie Webster & NON Creepy Cancer Charities
What a Creep
Sonia Mansfield
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Season 20, Episode 6
The Tale of “Scamanda” with Guest Charlie Webster!
In this episode, we cover a scam artist who was young, pretty, Christian, and a mother claiming to have cancer several times while keeping her followers engaged through her Blog “Lymphoma Can Suck It.” Amanda Christine Riley, who lived in San Jose, spent years telling her audience, friends, and family she was undergoing expensive treatments. She actively accepted financial help and free perks while supposedly fighting the biggest threat to her life.
It turns out Riley was a lying creep who took advantage of the goodwill of others. Why did she do it, and what happened after her lies were exposed? We talk with acclaimed presenter Charlie Webster who hosts the podcast Scamanda, which is currently available everywhere you get your podcasts.
Trigger Warning: Scam Artists
Sources for this episode:
- Scamanda audio trailer from Lionsgate
- Instagram trailer
- True Crime Daily The Podcast: Special Guest Charlie Webster
- Nancy Moscatiello, investigative journalist
- Department of Justice.gov
- Daily Mail
- People magazine
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Gilroy Dispatch
Cancer charities that actually help people:
- CancerCare https://www.cancercare.org/
- Pink Fund https://pinkfund.org
- The DONNA Foundation https://thedonnafoundation.org
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margaret Donio and Sonia Mansfield |
| 0:35.0 | talking about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:38.0 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, but best of the worst. |
| 0:44.0 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome back to What a Creep, this is Margot Donio and my cohort in creepitude as always |
| 1:02.0 | is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 1:04.0 | Hey Sonia. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello my friend. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello my friend. |
| 1:07.0 | We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 1:11.0 | What we do every week is we pick a creep and then the other person is challenged to come up with a non-creep |
| 1:16.0 | that we don't leave feeling terrible about the world. |
| 1:19.0 | Today is extra super special because we have a fellow podcaster on the show |
| 1:24.0 | who has the number one true crime podcast right now on iTunes. |
| 1:28.0 | How did we get this lucky to get her on our show? |
| 1:32.0 | Yay. |
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