The Fake Socialite Who Scammed New York's Elite - The Vault 

Lol. All I need is to borrow 1grand to fix my car so I can work harder and I'll be happy

She was born in Russia ladies ... nuff said.

More like her brain

@@isnainkhan7071 it was her jawls

being super dumb and having confidence are two different things

I would love to read it

What's funny is one of her victims will probably get a little rich off this since a publisher wants that victim to write a book about the whole scandal...

@Angry it's a gift probably not

RLach o she won’t she owes hella ppl

I think there's some law that keeps people from profiting from their crimes like that.

@1% Evan Ł yeah but people love rich dudes getting scammed

@1% Evan Ł ...................what if I told you the rich people you're bootlicking are scamming you. You still wanna go down on em?

@@RNFLACKOratshobo Stay mad and broke. Your anger gains you nothing.

@@flightevolution8132 wow we have a saint here

@@flightevolution8132 not like you’re doing anything better than them by commenting lol

It’s called an anti social personality disorder and it’s terrifying

The only skill involved is having zero empathy, period. Anyone without empathy can pull that off. Its called being a psychopath.

@@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288 psychopaths are charming….That’s why they are so terrifying.

Have you watched the show? Or any of her interviews? There's not one ounce of charm in that idiot. It's all just arrogance and delusion. Can't believe people were swept away by that. How tragic.

@@nomenome856 more delusion tbh. she would just laugh and deny she did it.

Probably less considering the social conventions women were expected to adhere to

The exact same things she did in the 2010s.

Frank Abagnale

Carrot Cake YESSS MY FIRST THOUGHT

Imagine what she could have pulled off if her parents were actually rich

if you’re a pathological liar/psychopath sure!

Yeah it's kind of sad that they actually believe their own lies.

well, not for Anna...she was arrested.

Kurt Pablo if you're a rapper it does

TRUMP is a great example of a very successful con artist

Sociopath you mean?

Anna seems like the type of person to end up ruining people's lives for her own benefit and absolutely nothing else. She stole other people's money (some just average folk living pay check to pay check, like wtf?), and yet money has no real meaning to her? It ONLY does. She's willing to sin for it. The social status was second. She cared more about being pampered than popular.

so a real not brainwashed human?

Apparently someone she stole from also wrote a book and HBO has filming rights on it so not exactly. She's gonna be broke still.

Ivy Dickens 2.0

that would Poppy. She was also a socialite that scammed NY elite in the series

my first thought when I saw the title!

@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult truth!

Poppy!

Bernie Madoff

@@buyerbware25 There's a whole nation of Bernie Madoffs.

Preach!

E. Artan You’re an idiot

Right? She scammed a fraction of a percentage of their money out of them.

Plot twist that was her plan all along

@@habib6499 she a genius

Not really. There is a law in new york that doesnt let you monetize 100% if you are in prison, so a big part of what she earns will remain to ny city taxes. And dont forget she can return to germany in any minute...

@@SimplyBico So she releases a book after she gets out of prison. She was released in February. But the journalist she stole the 62k already wrote a book and HBO purchased the filming rights.

Google 'Son of Sam Law'

I swear tho

well it depend who you are....

Yo gotta dress rich though like Armani suits and Michael kors bags

Wayne Hayes Michael kors bags? 😟😭🤣 lv bags only broke boy

@@waynehayes912 If you dressed in those... people are going to think you are poor. Get a hermes berkin bag and dress in exclusive branded clothe, not the cheap LV, gucci, those are for people who are poor pretending to be rich.

She said on her insta that she wanted to be a different kind of a star.

@@radstartrek I mean if she's stuck to her plan of buying that old church and converting it into a business she could have easily paid back the bank with the money she would have got from it.

She got mad distracted and played herself smdh.

Sierra check me out! I’m a black violinist

That was what I was thinking as well! Had she been able to acquire that church and make money from it, she could've paid back all of those.

how do you know that?

Good.

That’s so sad she didn’t profit from the Netflix show the journalist did and she even wrote a book about it

@@mohamedahmedyassinhussein6856 she’s a scammer and criminal, she isn’t who you should feel sorry for

Well yeah, she's a young woman and not terrible looking. Men will pay for her either way. Nothing as impressive as Catch Me If You Can. Hookers con men everyday.

😂

hahaha

LMAO

Same

True story

Literally fake it till you make it mentality nothing’s ever really real

I feel like the majority of super rich people lol

99% of people are this way

@Jr Rose Trump is from a dynasty and not rags so,technically no,Enron however is a more suitable example

All she needed to "get away with it" was some starting capital. There is a whole world in which it is incredibly easy to make money - provided you have the buy-in fee, which is out of reach and out of sight for most people. Anna could see it, but she couldn't reach it.

i just came from watching that as well.

@@yshakhrylle can you please share the link

@@theaaravaanyachannel5493 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLdJMOA8x7Q.html

@@theaaravaanyachannel5493 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLdJMOA8x7Q.html

Yep! Look at celebs they get free clothes, jewelry, vacations, hotels all of it just so people with buy the brands! It’s crazy!

Poor are just labor for rich..we are meat

Exactly!! She did some really dumb things, i don't even know what she was thinking.

Not to give her credit or anything, but she could've been building up her clout to make her persona seem more believable. She certainly seemed to have had a targeted goal she was working towards.

Well that commonly happens for people who didn't earn their riches through hardwork and labor. Just looks at the rich kids of today.

You actually think she wanted to buy that property had the loan come through? She would scam you too then. She had no interest to buy any property, she would take that 22m and blow it.

Is this the great gatsby or something lol....

Khalid AlAli right what

Like the movie catch me if you can ain't that similar?

but she did thought ;)

"The Way We Live Now"

I didnt have my ID to get a ticket so the woman asked if I had facebook and if I could show her my page to prove how I was. My point is people's lives are so fake if your facebook shows you standing next to a new car people assembly you are rich.

Lmao

Hecc if she is even referenced in that anime, I'd go wild 😂 But having Abby, Laurent and *I forgot Protag-kun's name* is enough, I guess.

"catch me if you can"

you're right, sounds just like Netflix. They'd want to turn it into some female empowerment movie. "Gettin' one over on the man" and overlooking the real story. The woman she defrauded for a years' salary, the people fired from their jobs because this girl defrauded their businesses. She doesn't deserve a movie deal. She deserves to grow old, a nobody, and die in obscurity as a punishment for the harm she did to so many people. Not be glorified by Netflix and the NPCs who watch this type of movie they produce about worthless people, glorifying them just because they happen to be female. There are MANY MANY women who did great things that have been all but forgotten that Netflix can make movies about, to inspire great things in young women. I support that with all my heart, we need that. But not this convict, I say let her serve her time and deport her, bar her from speaking with Netflix's writers and representatives.

This girl I like...

She's not big enough. Hundreds of thousands isn't enough for a movie

@@Afflictamine ?

You can be aggressive so long as your clients dont think you're being aggressive.

That shows how pathetic people are then. You shouldn't judge or treat people differently based on how wealthy you perceive them to be.

Uranus it’s still true, i visit dubai a lot with my family and there’s a huge difference in the way they treat us if we are dressed well and my parents are decked out in brands vs if we come in looking homeless LOL they usually almost always give us a hard time if we’re all just wearing t-shirt’s and sweatpants. its bullocks but its inevitable.

@@heist4420 I don't doubt that at all. Been on this planet for 27 years and I see so much judgement. I find most people (95%+) judge people strongly on what they look and sound like, and fail to see things for what they are or for what people have to offer.

Absolutely

No she is a thief.

You do realise she’s a scammer like everyone else? Just because she’s a girl doesn’t change shit. She deserves to be deported

You definitely do not know what an EQ is

Talon Du Couteau *she will

@Theme Fresh Don't worry hun I believe in hard work

@Talon Du Couteau but the main point of what she said is not race. It's about ethics.

Talon Du Couteau But it is real and the reason why BOTH cases went their way was because they USED racial tensions during their time for the advantage. So it was because of the legitimate inequality of black people in the judicial system, they exploited it and tricked mindless black people into thinking they’re being charged racially. Check ya self 🙈🙈🙈the clownery jumped OUT

Talon Du Couteau *also we don’t get blamed on by White people for their faults because they’re not oppressed. We can blame white people of the past for institutional racism, slavery, segregation and apartheid. Personally I don’t feel like playing the victim because at the end of the day I’m going to make it to the top whether or not if I am black, but you can’t deny the history of white people. If racism were never introduced there never would’ve been an issue with inequalities but here we are. We’re making progress but there is still a few more baby steps.*

She's smart. What she lacks is wisdom and moral character.

Yep, real player in the game of life.

she'll make millions when she gets a book deal

The exact opposite of me.

Rolls high on deceive, but rolls ones on intuition checks.

And she has the worst squeaky voice.

she gave her an IUO

Having sex with rich men will get you a lot of things especially when you're 'good looking'.

She's not good looking though

@@selfmadeselfpaid13 I agree, she must be extremely charming in that case.

@@TheBruceKeller yeah this girl knows how to win friends and influence people to the max.

Netflix hired Jennifer Lawrence. I mean if u had the choice, u go with the superstar over the unstable coke-head (and I say this as someone whose childhood was all about "Mean Girls").

Jamie1200 Jennifer Lawrence is so overrated. To ME she’s not a good actress, her acting skills are meh. And Lindsay’s been sober for quite sometime now and she was basically the party angel in Hollywood, so she know the deal.

@@ford2219 Have you seen Jlaw in Mother?

Film Buff yeah, I’ve seen her movies. I simply don’t find her to be good 🤷

@@ford2219 Sure she may not be the best but imo Mother proved her great acting abilities she really excelled in it emotionally and physically I mean that end was so rough it's crazy what she had to go thru

Word, people are so naive

Ikr so fricking annoying

hahah exactly!

Sociopaths lack empathy and emotions. The fact that there are people cheering her is beyond me. I totally understand why her parents wanted nothing to do with her. Those kind of people can hardly be redeemed.

Bingo!!🎯🎯

Legend

@Stxr KillerX they are everybody's enemy, not just americans.

She was a clever girl indeed.

*Some people said something similar for Bernie Madoff!*

@Brandy McNamee Something doesn’t add up.

@thanksgiving bruh I'm a girl and no one trusts my ass

She didn’t just “walk away” with 100 grand. She provided fake proof that she had accounts worth millions overseas, and because she’s a German native it was probably more difficult to fact check her background since she was only in the US for a short period. And besides being a great liar she was actually well educated about finances which convinced bank officials

Brandy McNamee are you white? with an interesting lastname? If yes then u failed at life

White privilege gone wrong i wonder if she was black could she pull it off hell no she get prison time

Nasiputut: Fuck, it’s already green lit.

😂😂😂

Nasiputut 😂😂😂

Yes

Uuuha ha ha 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Your profile pic though

Yes

@@blankb01-_-3 I was about to say

@@jessicasarahliddell8883 Respect?? She was a fraudster, a thief. You respect that over a golddigger? Wow lmao some morals

She prolly should’ve

She also got $320k for selling the rights on that Netflix movie adaptation, so if you account for all she has to pay in fines and restitution, she actually made $95k out of this

@@rustictango6933 if she can invest, I'd say it was worth the while

Poor Rachel .........

Its because she is a sociopath, she doesnt give a shit.

Screw the Focus Morals only Choke Us It's a Mantra Say Hocus pocus The Mantra is to Take It FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT

Yeah it’s just like the Frye festival real people of the island lost a lot more than plane far and a three day weekend do ya shit but leave poor people who just want to work out of it

@@angelicalaw4554 indeed The people of Bahamas lost everything The poor lady of a cafe lost it all

Only in America

Not if what she did is considered a crime. You can't profit from book and movie deals in America if the book and movie is based on a crime you committed.

@@vanessal7291 source ???

+she is not american so

@@ameylia7618 It doesn't matter if she is not american, the crime was in America, so the "Son of Sam law" applies.

It's just custom with wealthy customers. If you assume they're good for it, it's much more profitable to be overly nice to them than to be pushy. That way they'll tell all their rich friends about your establishment.

Exactly

World of the ultra-rich. Liars such as hers, with the skills to pull it off, is almost non-existent. Higher class services prioritize comfort. They don't want to discomfort the ultra-wealthy, and issues tend to be resolved more subtly, at their comfort. Last thing you want to do is to pester a VIP for issues, especially on their vacation, and they pay the money for such service. Supposedly, private yachts have an insane amount of engineering to make sure staff almost never comes into contact with the owner. All their needs taken care off, behind their back. So, potentially making a VIP angry on their vacation vs exceptionally low risk of an elaborated scammer.

yeah and how do u rent a plane for free?

@@alisonmadell2934 she also have tons of cash from check fraud?

imagine going to a third world country where youre mediocre/poor in a first world nation, but ultra rich in a 3rd world country. youll know how it feels liek to be rich for a second when u check in a cheap hotel in a 3rd world country. you're treated like royalty.

TruthNoLie check me out! I’m a black violinist

Blount Juice random flex there , but still pretty cool 😎

@@whathappenedwas7083 it is not random.she spams the heck out of bigger youtube channels posting that comment tons of times throughout each comment feed. If you see those report them. She is a spammer

Blount Juice We don’t care that your black. iM a wHitE vIolizniSt

Same!!!

SCAMMERS NEVER DIE

She literally said at her trial "I'm not sorry. This is just more fuel for my book".

@@cutienerdgirl In the live action netflix adaptation of her life, she should be played by Joanne the Scammer, not Jennifer Lawrence

@@leiram8833 Joanne also said that. It's true because true scammers never die.

Night Shade 😂😂

I love bacon Yes!

The animations are shit

@@crystalchau5305 hire a vox animator, and done

@@crystalchau5305 would it matter if he could do the same? Wouldn't change the fact that it doesn't look good to some people

Bigot this animation is good what’s wrong about it? It’s just a cartoon and the script was funny and the aesthetic

Going to jail is more detrimental to your life than just jail time (which is pretty horrible in its own right). You basically kill most career and financial opportunity options as most companies won't hire and banks may not loan to ex convicts

Ikr. Especially since she isn't even repentant. The justice-system is a mess. ¬_¬

@@Crazelord91 "You basically kill most career and financial opportunity options" Right....like the Netflix series being done about her and the worldwide publicity she got? Just like Jordan Belfort and Frank Abagnale didn't turn their scams into successful careers? Just like every celebrity that gets arrested doesn't become 1000 times more popular due to the publicity?

@@johnanthony9923 Jordan Belfort tried to commit suicide more than once and lost everything. Over a decade he managed to make a career out of his story but he hit rock bottom first. He's is a piece of shit though. And we'll see how well her Netflix series does. It really is the only option. I'm not saying she won't make money or a career from it but it's a risk

Crazelord91 absolute nonsense

Nah this is totally gossip girl. Dan Humphrey he like :

Ya'll realize that movie is based on the true life story of Frank Abagnale Jr.

That would make this more impressive, because she did this in a post-Frank Abagnale Jr. world.

I agree!

thousandth like

you can pay cash in lots of hotels

Apparently, those hotels mentioned above.

I think, the question is wrong. Every hotel I've been to, they have given me the room without any credit card, but paying in cash (in advance). So if you pay in advance there's no problem. But if you don't, and still get the room without giving a credit card, that's the thing.

I am still a student and I travel to many countries. I don’t have credit card so I pay in cash in all of them.

@@AngelVazquez-xh1dh I dunno, many hotels I've been to have signage saying you must have a credit card on file to check into a room, probably to prevent situations like this.

beverly ledbetter wow 😯 🤦🏾‍♀️

Yeah, spending money she don't have. Let me do that I'll get the chair.

@xX Egyptian Flower Xx her clothing, accessories etc; an illusion!!!

You're right !

Fake it til you make it 🤷

Or weed. C'mon

White privilege

@Hello Yes, in most states however dealing it is worse and you can get murder charges if one of your patrons die from an overdose on your side

They don't even get a documentary or biopic

Aishya476 yeah like the tax fraud lady in florida got life for her crimes but she’s also black sooooo

Rachel failed her self.

@@dam11232 Because victims of cons are always at fault. Hell, we should prosecute THEM!

Well, she did enjoy the trip as well so technically she just paid for the trip in its entirety. Why would it have been ok for Anna to pay for the entire trip but it’s a travesty when Rachel pays. She shouldn’t have paid, simply put

@@danielflipsvegas1949 Because Rachel was lied to? Lmao imagine being asked to go on a the dream vacation with someone you believe has a vast amount of wealth that you've seen with your own eyes, only to come to find out that there was a "mix up." She was under the impression that she would get paid back because, as Rachel saw, Anna had A LOT of money. Also considering that Rachel was in a foreign country and was most likely put under a lot of pressure from the hotel that SOMEONE needed to pay. Quite honestly, probably most people would have done the same thing.

Rachel was stupid enough to fall for it.

fur king el white privilege

@@jaylynbrielle3807 shut the fuck up and crawl back in to 1700's where you belong

fur king el it’s true though lol imagine if she wasn’t a white girl... you can’t deny that if she was black, Hispanic, or Asian she wouldn’t get that loan.

fur king el Foh! Only you wight privileged fckers mention the past while us underpaid and overworked Niggas sit back and watch wight bitches bein’ handed hundreds of thousands of dollars for breathin’ air! On top of that CURRENTLY affirmative action benefits wight women the fckn most in 2019. 🙄

Amina The “model minority” Asians wld get the loan, and so wld hispanics 🙄

Netflix has already bought licenses for this story

Doesn't sound like something that would be very interesting to watch.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt

Samwee

"we live in a society"

this

She scammed him too

please he aint on her level

She's pretty

I looked for this comment

😂😂😂😂

U think ur funny eh?

The only one worth it in my view is Kyle. She built a makeup empire even though she had millions to begin with. She literally has more money then everyone in her family combined now lol.

@@TheLadyPlantagenet Its hilarious

the rich get richer. if they were even middle class who would even know them

But the people she scammed dont feel much guilt either -she read the people she scammed , and their goals . There are worse people than some one that want to famous -there is one just now on the world scene that lied and trixed to the top of the worlds and all "riches" "belived" him

audiopendent everything she did was little leagues , only 200 k in debt is nothing

Real impressive until you start to wonder how toxic of a friend she would be.

I remember reading that too. Where she learned from people how simple and easy it is to assume a dead person’s identity, clean a bank account and all that. I’ll be surprised if she’s not in the news a decade from now for stealing millions from the richest people alive.

@@likira111 Actually, if you read her story on "The Cut" she wasn't a toxic friend at all. She only stole from greedy rich people and would give her friends and the poor some of the money. She became best friends with a hotel receptionist named Nef and promised to take care of her if she dumped her toxic boyfriend.

@@cutienerdgirl According to... herself?

agt24 Yup. Blinded by the cash. 💰

She should win an Oscar, really for all her performing.

personality

I personally think that many men would find her attractive but I think you can be a scammer without being attractive

I assume she was just really charismatic and always knew just what to say. and who says you have to be super attractive to be a good scammer.

She got too caught up in the "rich life" throwing parties and flexing at expensive hotels. Should've just focused on getting that loan and buying and turning that property into mad profit then enjoyed the fruits of her "labor". She did it backwards.

She didn’t have much time though

She never had any money though... she got everything for free, or by having a "friend" pay for it. It's not like she had a stash and just kept blowing it on private jets instead of investing... she had nothing, so she was never gonna be able to pay for that property. Maybe if she managed to get a bank or investor to give her a couple million upfront, but they were smart enough not to trust her... unlike the various hotels, restaurants and "friends" who were willing to spot her a few thousand here and there, but obviously not enough to buy a property in NYC.

FiendGuy she got greeady

@@TheMistyBlueLounge She had money from loans, which she could have brought property with, then use her social skills to generate business and more money.

IMO if she wasn't a woman she would not have gotten away with it for so long. Even today women are generally given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to not be engaging in criminal activity, as women generally do not deceive and defraud at such levels of risk of prison but that is changing rapidly especially with high profile cases like this. It's also very common for girlfriends/daughters who have rich partners or families to be very blase about paying for goods and services, the assumption always being that there will always be a rich partner or family member who deals with their financials to pick up the bill later.

@@cattysplat I dunno, there were some pretty good male frauds over the years

@@cattysplat Look into the name "Clark Rockefeller", he has a number of productions made about all his shenanigans lol

@@cattysplat trust me, it doesn't matter whi you are, it's easy to control people

@@lessemo Frank Abagnale (Not Abagnalee not Abagnaylee but Abagnale!) comes to mind. Someone does not need a vagina to make fool of people. What you need is the confidence to pass as whoever you want to and be a freaking good liar.

Yup

Pink plant but the cash should have been a dead give away something was a miss 💀 that’s fine if you’re from Africa, Asia, Southern America. They tend to use cash when they come to the states. But Europeans and American we are a strictly card using people, in that stratosphere it’s Amex Platinum, Centurion, etc

@@Robertking1996 i bet that bank learned a hard lesson 😂

Take you to prision?

@@Robertking1996 you'd be surprised. Most "new money" tend to carry around thousands in "walking change" it sounds ridiculous but tends to happen a lot. 😂I worked a register at a mall when I was in school and it seemed like everyone that had something to prove would carry their month's rent in their pockets.

She's getting a show? I want it

I wonder. I recently saw a Frank A. speak and saying that he did not get any money from the movies, plays and all of the commercial stuff they did about his life. Of course, he made a deal with the FBI, so maybe that is why.

jennifer lawrence is going to make the money, not her ahahahah yeah right, as if that anna would suddently become an actress after all her bullshit... hahahahaha

@@BrimstoneMoth Not as an actress, but I have a feeling she has to consent to using her name, life's story and plus, I'm sure she can provide a lot of insight, which would be valuable for Netflix.. $$$ And I'm not even talking about the book deal... ;)

hmmm no, it doesn't work that way. She isn't something like ''copyright'' that you have first to buy or ask for

This literally happens..but their goals materialise in the end so they can settle their liabilities ultimately

I feel like... most of them 😂

Our former president, for one

Trump

This happened all the time, but they are smart enough to pay some “people” for protection ... anna did not do this

It's all sorts of adjectives like "interesting", "fascinating", "powerful", "confident" etc. Rooting for a sociopath till they're the victim and all of a sudden, she's no longer fascinating or interesting.

And integrity!!!

@@notsomuchhere1387 Yes. Integrity is a part of one's behavior. And as we have seen, it is not the case here as this woman had zero integrity; which was why she got busted. Then again she wasn't true upper class anyway.

The class system is bullshit anyway

Gamer Guru no it’s dictated by white supremacy

My friends tell me that I had a good TASTE and well BEHAVE but no MONEY, that's why none took a serious for. So I had a revelation : in this society is how much money you had that build your good taste and behavior in front of the other 😉

just be born a female bro

and white

The idea is that they (the prosecuting party) can avoid the trial taking far longer than it should (since Anna is apparently a very persuasive person) in exchange for letting her off easier. The lengths to which they go to get that plea deal definitely don't seem right, though. What I'm most confused about is why Anna seemed to gain a conscience and not accept the plea deal...or, maybe she was just continuing to talk out her ass and essentially lost the opportunity.

@@zainal-ziyara260 *female* fixed it for you

Im pretty sure her penalty for her crime is 4-12 years....

She still had the cash

As a man, I can give you at least Two good reasons.

@Carpee Cat Because as a man, I like boobs. It's not to the exclusion of anyone else if you read carefully. But don't look too far into it - you might hurt yourself.

She apparently borrowed money from her rich friends saying shed pay them back

@Sunny Delight lol "oik oik?" If I'm a pig, you're a fucking moron lol.

THATS THE FIRST THING INTHOUGHT ESPECIALLY WITH THE FAKE CHECK PART

Was thinking the same thing, excellent movie too

Oceans 8 did it.

probably her inspiration for it.

I think that was a realy story aswell