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People who faked their way to a fortune (copy)

Anna Sorokin (AKA Anna Delvey) is now free
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Did her crime pay?
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Frank William Abagnale Jr: Pilot, doctor, lawyer, con man
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Catch him if you can
Anthony Gignac or Prince of Saudi Arabia?
A fake Saudi royal from Colombia
Fake heiress Cassie Chadwick
Fortune telling and conning
Cassie Chadwick is finally jailed
Fake footballer Carlos Kaiser
The footballer who didn't play
Anne and John Darwin's life insurance scam
A canoe and a case of amnesia
John and Anne Darwin sentenced in the UK
Fake French minister
Ransom attack
Fake French minister even conned royalty
Edward Putman's fake lottery ticket
Fraudulent winning ticket
Life of luxury
Mark Acklom's romance scam
Scammed his own parents
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The 'fake heiress' is now free

Russian-born German twentysomething Anna Sorokin fooled New York's elite when she posed as a German heiress called Anna Delvey, who supposedly had a $66 million (£48m) trust fund. Living a jet-set lifestyle, Sorokin stayed at top hotels for months on end, partied with the rich and famous, and took extravagant holidays, documenting her high life on Instagram as @theannadelvey. But in 2017 her ruse unravelled, and Sorokin was finally arrested. After scamming banks, luxury hotels and individuals out of more than $200,000 (£145k), she was convicted of theft of services and grand larceny in 2019 and sentenced to 12 years in jail. But this February Sorokin was released from prison early, and her scam story is being turned into a Netflix series. While Sorokin has now said she is "ashamed" of what she did, how did she get away with it for so long? Click or scroll on to find out.

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Natalie Marchant

10 March 2021

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