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Two Swindlers, Two Narratives
As a general rule, let’s try not to blame the victim, okay?
High-class fraudsters are the new thing we’re apparently now obsessed with, at least if you check out the offering on your streaming platform of choice.
I guess it’s the next stage of the influencer culture we’re living in. You need a way to pay for the lifestyle you want to show online, so what’s the harm in lying to get what you want?
Whatever way you want to con people out of their money, be it through a supposedly revolutionary health care app, a luxury festival in the Caribbean or a dating app, you can do it. And when the shit hits the fan, do your time in jail and then just wait for some genius producer to adapt your story to Netflix, Hulu or HBO Max.
And boom, you’re famous. One step closer to that ultimate goal of jet-set living. Who cares if you hurt some people along the way, as long as there’s money to be made?
I just wasted ten hours of my life watching Inventing Anna about the Soho Grifter Anna Delvey, in reality Anna Sorokin, a middle-class Russian woman who managed to con New York’s elite by pretending to be a German heiress.
To be honest, it not only felt like a waste of time, but disappointing in its message.
