If you’ve worn out LuLaRich, try these 7 documentaries about grifters, scammers, and Fyre fraudsters

Is all the murder and mayhem of true-crime weighing on you? There’s a whole subgenre of fraud docs to take the edge off

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If you’ve worn out LuLaRich, try these 7 documentaries about grifters, scammers, and Fyre fraudsters
Left to right: Billy McFarland in Fyre (Photo: Netflix); Matthew Modine as William ‘Rick’ Singer in Operation Varsity Blues (Photo: Adam Rose/Netflix); Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Devereaux in McMillion$ (Photo: HBO)

Our collective true-crime obsession has led to binges of breakout series like The Keepers, Tiger King, Wild Wild Country, and I’ll Be Gone In The Dark; multiple NXIVM docuseries; dozens of podcasts; and countless reexaminations of infamous serial killers. But if watching all of that murder and mayhem is starting to weigh on you (it’s definitely gotten to us), there’s a whole subgenre of fraud docs to take the edge off. Amazon Prime Video’s LuLaRich recently captivated audiences with its exploration of the MLM machinations at clothing company LuLaRoe, whose reputation is now threadbare. The A.V. Club has put together this list of seven additional docuseries about grifters, scammers, and outright thieves, and how they evaded justice or got their just deserts.

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Left to right: Billy McFarland in

Our collective true-crime obsession has led to binges of breakout series like , , , and ; ; ; and . But if watching all of that murder and mayhem is starting to weigh on you (it’s definitely gotten to us), there’s a whole subgenre of fraud docs to take the edge off. Amazon Prime Video’s recently captivated audiences with its exploration of the MLM machinations at clothing company LuLaRoe, whose reputation is now threadbare. The A.V. Club has put together this list of seven additional docuseries about grifters, scammers, and outright thieves, and how they evaded justice or got their just deserts.

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