![]() ![]() The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than 2.8m reports of fraud in 2021, with a loss of $5.8bn (£4.4bn) to American consumers – an increase of more than 70% over 2020. Today, online fraud is the most common type perpetrated worldwide, and it has risen sharply during the pandemic. Essentially, we live in the age of the scam. They promise they will connect us to the world – but their core profit-making plan is actually the tracking and selling of our data. I think so far we’ve missed the actual heart of the matter: whether we like it or not, social media has turned us all into scammers of varying degrees, as well as victims of the constant scam being perpetrated on us by tech companies. Why two shows about con artists – one a fake German heiress and the other the fake scion of an Israeli diamond business – have so captured the world’s attention has spawned a slew of think pieces asking: why do we love – or love to hate – scammers so much? And why now, especially? The streamer’s other top February hit was The Tinder Swindler, which attracted more than 45m views in its first week of release, and hit Netflix’s Top 10 list in 92 countries. Vanity fair anna delvey series#Inventing Anna has some of the highest ratings in Netflix’s history, with over 400m hours’ worth of views in February and the real-life Delvey – who goes by her faux-heiress, conwoman name rather than her actual surname, Sorokin – has seen her number of followers on Instagram alone soar from 150,000 to over 800,000 since the series premiered. ![]() The implication is that Delvey, a con artist and convicted felon, is special – and millions of people seem to agree. “Y ou’re not special,” Anna Delvey sneers at the reporter covering her story in the Netflix drama series Inventing Anna. ![]()
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