WTF is Going On?

We're streaming up swindle stories, confident we'll never fall ourselves

The No 1 and No 2 hits on Netflix — 'The Tinder Swindler' and 'Creating Anna' — are fascinating because of the complex lies, and that people fell for them

27 February 2022 - 00:02

This morning I received a lovely letter in my inbox from one Mrs Elizabeth Hillarry Jaftha. Sadly, she wasn't writing to compliment me on my column. She was, instead, informing me that she was on her last legs — lung cancer...

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