Vanessa Rigoriadis

How did the dropshipping, affiliate marketing, influencer economy factor into her scam?

And what is it about our culture that makes so many of us so willing to scam and so vulnerable to being scammed?

From Sony Music Entertainment and Campside Media, this is Infamous.

I'm Vanessa Rigoriadis.

This is The Rich Utah Wives and Their Scams, Part 1.

In order to understand what Jen Shah was doing, we think we need to start way on the opposite end of the story.

Not with Jen, the dominant one, the overdog, but with one of the people who was harmed by her.

This victim's name is Bridget Knight, and she's a little understated.

But in some ways, that makes her the perfect place to begin.

Because the scam Jen has been accused of running was almost a little boring.

And that's part of what made it so diabolically perfect.

And Bridget could be one of them.

All she has to do is build a website, but it'll cost her.

And the thing is, this is just the beginning of the grift.

As Bridget writes in a self-published book she wrote about this story, a grifter has a powerful grip.

They will instantly take hold of you and they won't let go.

Vulnerability soon sets in.

All reasoning and understanding go right out the window.

And that's what she believes happened to her.

Infamous is the gossip show that's smart.