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True Crime with Kendall Rae

This Woman “Scamanda” Faked Cancer & Stole Over $400K From People: The Amanda Riley Story

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Riley was an ordinary girl living in Northern California until she wasn't. She was a teenager when she was introduced to the Riley family and, within a matter of years, started a relationship with and got married to Cory Riley. Then, a few years into the marriage, Amanda shared that she had cancer. For the next several years, she would use her blog to describe her journey with the disease and garner sympathy from people in her community and beyond. But the truth? Amanda wasn't sick. She never had cancer and never needed the THOUSANDS of dollars that people sent her for treatment. Thanks to Nancy Moscatiello, Amanda was exposed and eventually prosecuted for her crimes.

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0:00.0

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Ask Alexa and start learning a new language today. Hello everyone and welcome back to true crime with Kendall Ray. I am so happy to have you here

0:36.2

with me today as we discuss another case. So today we're going to be looking at a case that has

0:41.5

been so so requested by all of you after I covered the case of

0:46.4

Elizabeth Finch the Gray's anatomy writer who lied about having cancer. It's one of the craziest stories that I had ever heard,

0:54.4

and so many of you commented,

0:56.2

you've got to talk about Scamanda.

0:58.0

Scamanda, Scamanda, Amanda C Riley.

1:00.4

And I had never heard of this case,

1:02.0

but when I started looking into this, oh my God, I am shook.

1:06.0

I will link my episode below on Elizabeth Finch if you haven't seen that one, because there are a lot of similarities between these two cases and these two people,

1:15.0

Elizabeth Finch and Amanda C Riley.

1:18.0

But the biggest difference here is when it came to Elizabeth Finch, she told a bunch of lies and she hurt a lot of people and it went on a long time but at the end of the day she didn't do anything illegal.

1:30.6

It's not illegal to lie. It's shitty. It's bad morally, but there was nothing that could be done to hold her accountable.

1:38.6

However, today we're going to be talking about Amanda or Skamanda as she is called who conned people out of a lot of money and therefore was able to be held accountable.

1:50.6

Again it is just so fascinating to me when people, grown-ass adults, make up lies like the ones we're going to talk about today.

1:59.4

It is mind-blowing.

2:01.6

And there is so much to this story that is going to take a long time for us to get through it, so buckle in. So I'll be honest, it is really hard to even know where to start when it comes to the deception and lies and manipulation of

2:15.9

Amanda Riley because there is no clear start date.

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