The con is on.
In this, the Year of the Scammer, grift is king. Just weeks after America’s most captivating con artist Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of ripping off investors at her criminal trial, Netflix debuted two blockbuster shows about flagrant fraudsters.
“The Tinder Swindler,” a documentary detailing the deceit of love rat Simon Leviev, hit the streaming platform on Feb. 2. “Inventing Anna,” a Shonda Rhimes miniseries based on notorious “Soho grifter” Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, landed on Feb 11.
Watching along as the two schemers rip off their wealthy victims has become downright pleasurable — for reasons that may have more to do with our own deeply disturbed psyche, experts told The Post.
And these Netflix successes are only the tip of the iceberg in the genre we now hate to love.
In the coming months, both Hulu and Apple+ will release their own films about Holmes, while Netflix will drop “Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives” and “Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King” — documentaries revolving around notorious swindlers.
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