Alan Bradley

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704 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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The Pat Kenny Show · Unmasking Samantha Cookes: The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster · 24 May 2026 podcast

And she saw opportunities where others might not see them, for example, trying to get housing in Kerry, those kind of things.

There was nothing that she wouldn't try on.

It's extraordinary that she would do this with impunity, knowing that the whole thing was a fabrication, and yet she'd write to someone as powerful as the Taoiseach, wanting him to be some sort of ambassador for her case to the authorities.

Now, how did it all fall apart?

I mean, it's down to really how public people can be and how social media can allow networks to develop that undid her.

And it all began to unravel.

I remember hearing it on Liveline, for example, the unraveling of the story.

So this is the same woman again, different name, doing whatever.

She became basically public, publicly outed, I suppose.

She fled.

Now, she is serving time for the social welfare fraud, but for the rest of the people that she victimized, is there any justice for them, or do they have to go about taking civil cases in order to get any kind of retribution?

So the question is, could she start all over again?

I mean, there's nothing there except this social media network now that might out her.

But to those who are not connected into that world, they could fall prey to her again.

So she could

Make her fortune as a novelist if she left the lies behind and just confined them to the pages of fiction.

All right.

Well, the book is a fascinating book.

I mean, it's an extraordinary story.

Unmasking Samantha Cook's, it's called, The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster.

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