Four documentaries about scammers to watch on Netflix

Due to the rise of a couple of documentary series on this well-known streaming platform such as The Tinder Scammer and Inventing Anna, at Infobae we come to crave more, so that you can follow the thread of this entertaining and mind-blowing topic of scams. Below are the following recommended for you:

Don't trust anyone

British feature film that exposes the story of deception and greed that became known after the sudden death of Gerald Cotten, one of the figures in the cryptocurrency world in Canada. This is a real-life story marked by financial fraud, which began to be revealed after a dark move of fate.

Gerald Cotten was the founder and CEO of QuadrigaCX, Canada's first largest cryptocurrency exchange, which died unexpectedly in the middle of its Honeymoon in India in 2018. This brought serious consequences to the clients of his investment platform, since, he was the only one who knew the passwords to access digital wallets with more than $250 million in cryptocurrencies.

Bad Vegan

Miniseries that tells the extraordinary true story of Sarma Melngailis, the “queen of vegan food in New York”. A cunning and famous restorer who builds a raw food empire. His restaurant Pure Food and Wine was one of the most influential and famous in the city, so much so that people from public life such as Bill Clinton, Woody Harrelson, Anne Hathaway and Boy George were frequent in it.

How did your story begin? At the beginning of this millennium, Sarma was an economist who abandoned her profession to dedicate herself to the world of gastronomy, which led her to become one of the most prominent personalities in the big apple; but her path to success turns upside down when she falls in love with a mysterious man.

Dirty Money

It could be said that in the mind of the ordinary human being there is always the lie, and not the whip, which has come to take the place of the perverse. That is what the documentary series Dirty Money talks about in depth. It starts with the director of the series, Alex Gibney. The production consists of six one-hour episodes, which were released simultaneously on January 26, 2018.

Each episode tells the story of a corporate fraud, which has submitted to an investigation to verify its guilt and, subsequently, has been transferred to this report; including the witnesses, the injured and the creators of the fraud themselves. This documentary does not have actors, since they preferred to have the people really affected.

Who pulls the strings: on the trail of the greatest impostors

On January 18, Netflix released the new three-episode docuseries Who manages the strings: on the trail of the greatest impostors. It tells the unique story of Robert Hendy-Freegard, a skilled swindler who posed as a British spy to deceive his victims and their families in order to extract money from them. The production features the first-person testimonies of those who fell into their networks, who tell the story of the tricks of this criminal.

The platform presented the series as “the amazing story of Robert Hendy-Freegard, one of the most daring impostors in the world”, which invites us to dive deep into a story marked by the drama and movements of a mastermind used to deceive.

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