Apollo Nida: It’s Too Late to Apollo-gize | 141

Scamfluencers

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Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When Apollo Nida joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2009, he’d recently been released from prison and was expecting a child with his superstar lawyer wife, Phaedra Parks. Apollo had every reason to stay on the straight-and-narrow, but he immediately went back to scamming. His identity theft ring, feuds with castmates, and eventually threatening behavior to Phaedra herself add up to a twisted tale that’s scandalous even by Housewife standards.

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0:00.0	Hey, Scam Fluencers fans, Sarah here.
0:02.8	If you love the drama, deception, and mind-blowing reveals,
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0:25.2	Thank you. experience, sign up today. Sachi, we often cover stories where these scammers have a big TV presence.
0:30.5	Do you ever wonder how they're able to keep up being on reality TV and scamming at the same
0:34.8	time? Because I do. Yeah, who has the time?
0:38.0	But also, they are public figures.
0:40.5	Like, aren't they worried about somebody looking into them?
0:43.2	Everything they do can be considered evidence.
0:45.6	Yes, it's all public record.
0:49.3	Well, today, we're covering a house husband, that's the husband of a real housewife,
0:53.7	who had so many chances
0:55.4	to stop scamming but kept going for years, even as a camera's continued rolling.
1:04.7	It's the fall of 2013, and special agent Alexandra Herrera is standing outside an interrogation room in Atlanta.
1:12.7	He works for the Secret Service in the Counterfeit Division,
1:15.9	and he's about to come face to face with the woman he's been desperately trying to track down.
1:21.3	In early 2012, a fraud investigator at J.P. Morgan Chase flagged a mysterious woman for possible bank fraud. They had
1:29.1	surveillance footage of this woman opening and accessing multiple accounts in Atlanta and Orlando,
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