to take even more risk and i'm going to do even more because no one is going to see me coming and someone like melissa you become enamored of the lifestyle you start wanting to spend the money and have those trappings of of wealth how much work is involved in keeping the story going the false narrative it must have been exhausting for her yeah it's a full-time job i mean it's basically being a spy except not doing it for your country but doing it for yourself you have two lives you have your cover which is something that you have to keep going NUMBER_TOKEN of the time and then there's who you actually are i mean there's that real you inside there somewhere and there's always the risk that the real you is going to get lost because it's really exhausting to constantly be someone else and inhabit that in melissa kaddick's case i just find it hard to believe that NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN million dollars goes through the books and no one else knows about the con yeah i think you're right to have a level of disbelief about that i mean we we obviously don't have any way of knowing what was happening and we can't ask her but yes it does it does feel like with those amounts of cash somebody should have known also isn't there something about the con artist psychology where they would like to share their success their wins i mean they'd like to you know prove how smart they are right this is true i mean there is that element of narcissism that wants the spotlight that wants the recognition it was funny when um when i was working on my book about con artists people ask how did you get con artists to talk to you i would just start laughing because they can't shut up they want everyone to know how smart and how brilliant they are and even the ones who haven't gotten caught will some often happily talk and they're so grateful that they can finally talk to someone and talk about how smart they are as long as they remain anonymous and are able to keep doing what they're doing yeah they're proud of it they think that it's a pretty great thing that they've done hello i'm tara brown thanks for watching NUMBER_TOKEN minutes australia subscribe to our channel now for brand new stories and exclusive clips every week and don't miss out on our extra minutes segments and full episodes of NUMBER_TOKEN minutes on nine now dot com dot a u and the nine now app
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