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I thought I was on trip of a lifetime with my best pal but it was all a web of lies – the truth left me scarred for life | The Sun
LANGUISHING in a jail cell thousands of miles from home, Emmy Bamberger couldn't help but think: "How the f*** did I get here?"
But that still wasn't enough to wake her up to the sinister reality of her situation – that she had fallen into an elaborate web of lies spun by a serial con artist.
Emmy had become best pals with Annika Dekker, a 'Swedish' woman she met while travelling the world after high school.
The pair were inseparable, but unbeknown to the American, Annika was actually Aussie Samantha Azzorpadi, a pathological liar who went by 40 aliases and had duped dozens of people.
Her four-month ordeal has now been told in a new Paramount+ documentary, Con Girl, which explores how the scammer, 34, schemed her way into the lives of unsuspecting victims – for no apparent reason or monetary gain.
Traumatised Emmy tells the documentary: "Knowing what I know now about her and the multiple victims that she has flipped their lives upside down and has caused years of trauma and pain… yes, she's the devil."
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Web of lies
Graduating from her California high school in 2014, Emmy – then aged 18 – decided to travel the world in search of inspiration for her writing career.
Shortly after landing in Sydney, Australia, she met a Swedish woman who claimed to be of the same age called Annika while staying at a hostel.
"I do remember people not liking her in our little group and thinking she was a little weird and strange – I didn't quite catch the weirdness," Emmy says.
The pair eventually grew close and Anniker – who was actually Samantha – wasted no time feeding her a series of untruths.
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