This guy took some notes from The Tinder Swindler playbook, too! Always some immediate danger that he (a self-proclaimed rich guy with power and connections) could only get out of with hundreds of thousands of someone else's money! Unreal. 

Did Jen Shah ever say she was a spy? She should try that. 

Okay now I think she's in on the grift! This show is nuts. 

If someone in real life told you they were a spy... you would assume they were lying, right? Like, I feel like I've heard of real-life CIA agents whose own spouses didn't even know what they really did for a living. Why would you tell a complete stranger you were a spy?

Like so many other people, I'm currently immersed in the Netflix docu-series Bad Vegan and of the countless head-spinning reveals in the first episode (move over, Alec and Hilaria) is when Shane/Anthony claims he was a black ops super spy. My first thought besides "People actually believed this crap?" was, wait, this is not the only time I've heard such obvious BS in a Netflix docu-series JUST THIS MONTH ALONE. This was also the lie from the grifter at the center of The Puppet Master!!! 

The Puppet Master guy was a car salesman/MI5 agent (sure, Jan) and this Bad Vegan guy was a black-ops agent who also liked to play Words with Friends.  And yet they both ruined so many lives! Wild! 

Let this be a warning: if someone tells you they are a spy, ASSUME YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE GRIFTED! RUN FOR IT! 

This is the wildest trend in true crime/grifter documentary shows right now