a scathing New York magazine essay penned by her former best friend“My Insta Scammer Friend,” produced by British network BBC Three, went to air in the UK Thursday night, laying bare the impact of the glamorous grifter’s deceptions in interviews with the women who were duped.
From the mid-2010s, Calloway, dubbed the “world’s worst influencer,” pulled off a series of schemes that might even make Anna Delvey blush: spending a six-figure advance for a book that never materialized, flogging tickets for writing seminars that didn’t exist and selling her own line of skincare shamelessly named “Snake Oil.”“It was this sickening feeling,” former follower Abigail Scott states in the new documentary, describing the moment she realized she had been duped by Calloway. “A lightbulb went off… she was just looking at her fans as a way to make money.”American-born Calloway first became an internet sensation back in the early 2010s while studying at England’s Cambridge University.
The pretty blonde — who hails from a wealthy Virginia family — garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram, where she shared detailed posts about her majestic life abroad at the historic sandstone college.
Young and impressionable fans fawned over Calloway’s aesthetically-pleasing pictures and diarized posts about her fairytale romance with a fellow student.
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