It was watching Inventing Anna and The Tinder Swindler that reminded me of George.
George – not his real name – was the first grifter that I met and was still in his teens, although he had already amassed a criminal record that would make a much older confidence trickster proud.
When we met, he was just starting his sentence at an open young offender institution, and as I read through his file I couldn't quite see how the slight, stammeringly polite young man standing before me had been able to cheat so many people out of so much money.
