Chameleon

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Who is Swagg Man? The Rapper Scamming His Fans Nov 05, 2026

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Swagg Man wanted you to know he was rich. He drove Lamborghinis through Miami, covered himself in designer logos, and told his millions of followers that he’d made it from nothing. But Swagg Man was just a character. A character that became hard to separate from reality — and one with an agenda that went beyond being a pop star.

Read Marc Wortman's article The Fast Times and High Crimes of a Hip-Hop Grifter.
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Queen of Her Own Mind: A QAon Cult Takes Over a Tiny Canadian Town Oct 29, 2026

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Romana Didulo emerged from the chaos of the pandemic as a QAnon conspiracy influencer, building a devoted following with promises of a new vision for Canada where taxes, mortgages and government no longer existed. She declared herself Queen of the country and in 2023, with her followers, moved into an abandoned school in a tiny Saskatchewan town and refused to leave.

Read Rachel Browne’s article How the Queen of Canada and Conspiracy Theorists Splintered a Small Town on The Walrus.

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Defrocked: There’s a Plagiarizing Pretend Parson on the Run Oct 22, 2026

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Robert Peters was almost none of the things he claimed to be. For decades, Peters moved all over the world, talking his way into universities, teaching jobs and churches with forged references and invented qualifications. He married at least eight women, and even after being exposed he would simply disappear and start again somewhere else. This is the story of a historian who became obsessed with Peters, told by another historian who picked up the chase.

Read Adam Sisman’s book The Professor & The Parson
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The Rise and Fall of Michael Avenatti: An Anti-Trump Hero Who Flew Too Close to the Sun Oct 15, 2026

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In 2018, Michael Avenatti seemed to appear out of nowhere. A brash, flashy lawyer riding shotgun with the porn star Stormy Daniels as her allegations against Donald Trump exploded into a national scandal. Avenatti was everywhere and was even — briefly — considered to be a presidential contender. Then the mask slipped to reveal a man clinging to his own myth.

Read Matthew Shear’s 2018 New York Times profile of Avenatti

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Program Pusher: A Trojan Horse Cult For Troubled Teens Oct 08, 2026

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When Esther was a teenager, her parents supported her in joining a group that promised to help her with her drug problem. She found a world of secret rituals, forced confessions, endless meetings — and a community that for a while at least, seemed to be exactly what she felt she had been missing her whole life.

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The Problem Dog Whisperer: Too Good To Be True Oct 01, 2026

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Steffen Baldwin was a tattooed dog whisperer with an apparent gift for rehabilitating dangerous animals. He was a beloved local celebrity with a reputation for saving the most difficult dogs from being put down. But after one pit bull named Remy vanished, a determined owner, a vet and a local detective began to piece together a pattern of deception that revealed a far more sinister character than anyone ever suspected.

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Jacob and the Lion: A Cult, A Gangster And A Billion Dollar Tax Fraud Sep 24, 2026

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Jacob Kingston wanted money, status and the approval of his family. Then he met a charismatic Armenian oil tycoon called The Lion. What began with a deal over a shipment of stranded biofuel turned into a sprawling billion dollar scam where religious extremism, organized crime and green-energy policy collide.
Listen to Michele’s podcast Kingdom of Fraud

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The Four Mrs Wilsons: The Spy Thriller Author with a Real Life to Match Sep 17, 2026

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When Mike Shannon was nine years old, he was told that his father had died fighting the Germans at the Battle of El Alamein. Michael’s father hadn’t died at all. He’d been a successful novelist and, quite possibly, a spy. We follow one journalist down a rabbit hole into the astonishing hidden lives of Alexander Wilson.

Read Tim Crook's book The Secret Lives Of A Secret Agent

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REVISITED: The Undead Tour: How The Fake Zombies Fooled America Sep 10, 2026

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A British band called The Zombies had a smash hit single in America with ‘Time of the Season’ in the late 60s. Shortly afterwards, four handsome Texans hit the road pretending to be the Zombies. This is the unbelievable true story of rock’s most brazen imposters… two of whom went on to form ZZ Top.

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A View To Deceive: An Artist Goes Undercover To Expose The Uber Rich Sep 03, 2026

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The views from New York's luxury high-rise apartments can be spectacular. And the higher up you go, the more exclusive, and expensive the properties become. An artist became obsessed with those views, and the hidden world hiding behind them. She just needed to find a way in.
Discover more about the Andi Schmied and her book “Private Views A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan”

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