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The Arts Intel Report

Scamfluencers

Streaming on Spotify

Each week, Scamfluencers hosts Scaachi Koul and Sarah Hagi take on a new scam, plot, hoax, or ploy, each one juicier than the last. Their focus is grifters with a digital platform who, in one way or another, have used their position to get up to no good. Well paced, well researched, and not overly gimmicky (listeners are spared obnoxious sound effects and re-enactments), Koul and Hagi’s investigations make even the more well-known scammer stories (think Inigo Philbrick and George Santos) fascinating and fresh. Avoiding the frippery of pop culture and the grisliness of true crime, Scamfluencers finds the sweet spot between the two genres. The result is an intelligent and lighthearted listen with just the right amount of scandal. —Paulina Prosnitz

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