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Early this year, millions were gogsmaced by ScamandaTrue Hulu Crime Docuses based on the extremely popular 2023 podcast of the same name. He revealed a mother in the bay area, Amanda Riley.
While Riley has served her prison season on fraud conviction, Charlie Websterthe journalist and producer behind the Scamanda Phenomenon, another conwoman discovered, much more powerful whose scale of fraud is dwarf Riley’s by several sizes: Candace riveraSingle Utah Mum and Webster’s stunning new podcast topic, “Unicorn Girl,” is currently breaking records On apple podcasts. .
WARNING: DEFAULTS BEFORE.
Like Riley, Rivera lied to a stomach and then breast cancer, but that was only one of many iniquities. Persuing as a self-making entrepreneur with multiple businesses and a global philanthropist/philanthropist, Rivera treated not only Salt Lake City’s friends and elite, but international aid workers, the Homeland Security Department, even an elite Black Ops team. She claimed that her ex-husband was now aggressive, and had lost two twins in a car accident. Claiming to be a licensed nurse, she performed procedures and donated drugs to hundreds of sick, injured children in Ukraine and Uganda – all without any medical license of any kind. She lied and exaggerated wildly for rescuing orphans, refugees and victims of sex trading worldwide. She wrongly claimed she had a clearance with the Department of Defense, communicated with her Hillary Clinton About international operation, he was an FBI agent, a member of the UN task force and had spent time in a Turkish prison.
Amanda Riley may be out of sight and serving time, but the cancer fraudster is more talkative than ever. After asking over $ 100,000 to cover cancer costs she did not have, the Perky Christian mother from California, now 39, was convicted in 2021 and has since gained national fame – first with the hit (…)
Secretly abolishing her husband’s 401k during their uninformed marriage to pay her own debt, Rivera Embezled later made a silver charity to live luxurious, with a luxury home, expensive cars and a luxury hotel staying abroad during philanthropic missions – all without paying rent or mortgage checks.
At a closer level, Rivera forced her female friends, most of whom were conservative or Christians, to take part in “boudoir shoots” in her home – harassing them to put underwear or draw naked for sexual photo sessions that the women left feeling broken. This was “about power, control, acting himself as this person who pushed boundaries all the time,” Charlie Webster have said Weekly US In a recent interview. Rivera was convicted of nine felony charges last October for fraud, faking and stealing at least $ 2 million involving his anti-traditional ORG, Exitus. (She was initially charged with 42 whopping felonies.)
Webster was first dip for Rivera through, of all things, Women’s Fan / Book Group Club on Facebook for the Christian author Just a hatmaker.
“After ScamandaI was so interested in complex, complex female friendships. I really wanted to explore that, and then someone told me about this woman, ”Webster remembered.” She was part of this book group, and said ‘There’s a woman in our book group, and I don’t think she’s right. I think she misleads people. I think she is lying. ”Like Riley, Rivera tended to overrun her challenging personal life, and“ she used this book group as a personal diary. ”
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Laura RibatalladaBefore she knew it, webster spent a “holiday weekend” piercing through the bulky positions of Rivera “so charming and taking part in everything she was writing about. It seemed so extreme and so great … I felt so much more.”
Sensing another flowering podcast while doing it, a Webster of her native in the UK flew to Utah “on whim,” and discovered a completely different perspective of Rivera by women who didn’t even know about the book group, but were even more enchanted by her – some of them helping her to launch and run Exitus.
From there, Webster went to work to unpack Rivera’s elaborate fabrications – of her alleged trauma to what she had actually taken away as a presumed business woman, activist and humanitarian who was “busy saving the world.” One example: A free private plane charter secured, transporting the Black Ops team to help remove refugees from Afghanistan… but she never came closer to the war zone than her luxury hotel room in Dubai, despite claiming otherwise.
“Much of her lies are actually based, but it was never enough,” said Webster Us. “She could never say ‘I helped save one child’ … it’s not enough for her.” (Rivera claimed once she saved 1,000 children from Afghanistan.) “One was not sufficient, so everything had to be on a huge scale. She lied on such a self-mocking scale.”
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While Rivera managed to dop people and rich, powerful organizations, her main targets were vulnerable, many of whom unconsciously helped her to pull her scams. “Candace prey to people who were going through something, going through trauma … this woman was divorced, this man was divorced, this is going through a battle in custody,” said Webster. Rivera also employed, housed, and later deceived a woman who had survived penetrating childhood sexual abuse.
“So many victims were actually traumatized and hurt,” said Webster, who bonded with these women during the investigation and followed the trial. “Some people I met couldn’t quite understand what was happening, (they couldn’t) find out what was real and what wasn’t.”
So, is it a sociopath? Rivera has never been diagnosed with any mental disorder. “Mental health was not part of the case,” said Webster. “Her uncle said she was a pathological liar, and there have been conversations around her pathology. She definitely doesn’t have empathy, she definitely has narcissist features. There’s a disconnect. I think she thinks her own lie is very much.”
“Everything he did because (from) a rescuer complex – it was more important than anyone, she was special, he could do anything. He said it was unprofitable, that he could go in any door.”
And, as a bondage, the more epic Rivera fake stunts came, the more attention and look he sought. “She said she was like Jesus with these people. She compared herself with the mother Teresa. She thought she was better than everyone else.”
Behind bars for nearly a year now since her conviction, Rivera, who refused to speak to Webster, will find the full length of her prison sentence this November. But she has remained busy in the meantime: during her confinement, she married another man she met by correspondence called Brad, and maintains her innocence firmly.
“Candace has not taken accountability for what she has done. She tells some people that it is a conspiracy theory,” Webster warns. “She is still lying in prison… she is responsible and very clever.”
