Back in 2022, the world was shocked by the story of Simon Leviev, a con artist who manipulated the women he met through the dating application Tinder into financially supporting him while pretending to be in danger. Titled Tinder Swindler, this true crime movie became the most-watched documentary on Netflix at the time.
People's interest in true-crime stories, interwined with the personal dramas of the victims, doesn’t need to be rekindled. Thus, Netflix is preparing us for another docuseries, exploring the topics of the dating sites, love and, of course, lies.
It will center on the creators and users of quite a rare dating service, The Ashley Madison Agency, that has a bold slogan: "Life is short. Have an affair." You may guess it was launched specifically for married people curious about the possibility of adultery.
A Flashback Into Tinder Swindler Obsession
It was so successful a few years after it started working,...
People's interest in true-crime stories, interwined with the personal dramas of the victims, doesn’t need to be rekindled. Thus, Netflix is preparing us for another docuseries, exploring the topics of the dating sites, love and, of course, lies.
It will center on the creators and users of quite a rare dating service, The Ashley Madison Agency, that has a bold slogan: "Life is short. Have an affair." You may guess it was launched specifically for married people curious about the possibility of adultery.
A Flashback Into Tinder Swindler Obsession
It was so successful a few years after it started working,...
- 5/11/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Ava Raxa)
- STartefacts.com
Are people really so trusting? I consider myself skeptical by nature, and social anxiety keeps me from genuinely opening up to folks. But if there's one thing I've learned from watching a series of recent Netflix true crime documentaries, it's that some people are very trusting. "The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman," "The Tinder Swindler," and now "Bad Vegan" are three Netflix docs that are eerily similar. All involve a central con artist figure who lures others into his web of deceit by posing as an undercover agent of some kind. This, apparently, is the secret ingredient to getting people to buy into your nonsense: tell them...
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- 3/14/2022
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
In January, Netflix dropped a docuseries called "The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman." The series told the unbelievable true story of a man who posed as an MI5 agent for years in an attempt to make his romantic partners relinquish their money and power to him. Two weeks later, "The Tinder Swindler" debuted on the streamer, and debate about its testimonies by love-struck women conned out of hundreds of thousands of dollars briefly took over social media.
Two stories of swindlers is a coincidence, but three is a pattern. Just a week after "The Tinder Swindler," Netflix released "Inventing Anna," Shonda Rhimes' limited series about...
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Two stories of swindlers is a coincidence, but three is a pattern. Just a week after "The Tinder Swindler," Netflix released "Inventing Anna," Shonda Rhimes' limited series about...
The post Why Is Every New TV Show About Scammers? appeared first on /Film.
- 3/7/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
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