From The Mother of All Cons to Scamanda, what is the real lesson of these true crime documentaries on deception?

From The Mother of All Cons to Scamanda, what is the real lesson of these true crime documentaries on deception?

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.Every September, one of my friends from school used to appear, detailing how she’d spent the summer holiday partying with Duran Duran and, slightly more believably, “hanging out with Nik Kershaw”.It was great fun listening to her tales and, even better, debunking them all on the bus home afterwards. Even then, we saw it for what it was; she was our very own Jay Cartwright from The Inbetweeners,…