You expose Simon LeVive and you make it, I hope, impossible for normal people to ever be victims of him again but still you end up seeing him as a social media star. So that's also, you know, a paradox and a complex dynamic between social media and the scam. The good forces are winning through here. You'll always have those two of you either Anna or Simon Levive as sort of anti-heroes and that's the paradox.
Anna Delvey and Simon Leviev, now infamously known as The Fake Heiress and The Tinder Swindler, are two characters who have infiltrated pop culture and gripped Netflix viewers over recent months. Their joint claim to fame? They're both notorious con artists. So why are viewers and listeners so drawn to these stories of true crime? Writer and author Rachel Williams and journalist Erlend Ofte Arntsen were closely involved in the real-life stories that shaped Netflix's The Tinder Swindler and Inventing Anna. They join journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana to help provide some answers.
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