"My particular situation today feels a lot like an episode of Black Mirror it's very surreal to me but I think with this kind of a crime people have seemed to have this idea of what a victim is supposed to look like. Initially back in 2017 when Anna owed me it was $62,000 which was more than I met annually at the time and it was paralyzing," she said. "I could barely get through a day let alone pause to explain every step I was trying and everything I'd already tried."
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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