Frédéric Bourdin: No Country For Old Men
Scamfluencers
Wondery
4.1 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In 1997 Beverly Dollarhide hears miraculous news: her missing son, Nicholas, has been found in Spain. But the person she thinks is her teenage son is actually a grown man, a well known French identity scammer named Frederic Bourdin. And, after Frederic is brought back to the United States to be with his pretend family, the mystery of the real Nicholas Barclay’s disappearance grows deeper.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can listen to scam fluencers early and ad-free right now. |
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| 0:08.1 | A listener note, the following episode contains depictions of drug use and self-harm and mention of suicide. |
| 0:14.9 | Please listen with care. |
| 0:27.9 | Sachi, are people ever shocked by your age and do they think you're older than you are or younger? |
| 0:43.0 | I feel like they probably think you're younger. Good save. Uh, it's funny you ask. Because the other day, a man told me that he thought I was 26, and I laughed in his face. |
| 0:44.9 | I mean, hey, that's awesome. |
| 0:45.8 | I'll take it. |
| 0:50.6 | Honestly, I did ask you this to brag a little because everyone thinks I'm a whittle baby. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | But I do think it's probably really hard to lie about age now that everyone's so online versus back when no one had to know if it was your birthday. Yeah, I guess I've |
| 1:01.7 | never thought about that. But yeah, it's really hard to lie about your age now. Yeah, like I get |
| 1:06.6 | maybe shaving off a year or two to seem slightly more youthful. But I'm going to tell you today about someone who was so brazen when it came to lying about |
| 1:15.8 | their age, they never had to grow up. |
| 1:21.0 | It's mid-October, please be seated. |
| 1:23.4 | It's mid-October 1997, and a plane is getting ready to land at the San Antonio Airport. |
| 1:29.3 | One of its passengers, Frederique Bauden, stares anxiously out of the window. |
| 1:34.3 | It's hot in Texas this time of year, but you wouldn't know it from his outfit. |
| 1:38.3 | He's wearing a thick jacket, gloves, and a scarf that covers the bottom half of his face. |
| 1:43.3 | His eyes are hidden behind big sunglasses and a hat covers his head. |
| 1:48.0 | Frederique is flying from Spain and has felt nervous the entire flight. |
| 1:52.0 | And now, as people start to disembark, he's downright panicked. |
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