Persona: The French Deception
Wondery | Pineapple Street Studios
What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? This is the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time. Host and award-winning journalist Evan Ratliff investigates how Chikli duped some of the world’s most powerful people into handing over their fortunes. He explores how Chikli evaded the law for years and became a Robin Hood-like hero. More than just a tale of criminal genius, this is a show about the moment we’re living in right now — the golden age of scammers — and the power of seduction. But what happens when the fantasy we’ve been lured into finally crumbles away?
Follow Persona: The French Deception wherever you get your podcasts, or you can listen early on Amazon Music or early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.
Podcasts Similar to Persona: The French Deception
The Gas Man | Tortoise Investigates (86.33%)
Tortoise Media
Young Charlie by Hollywood & Crime (85.7%)
Wondery
The Vaping Fix (84.97%)
Wondery
Inside Psycho (83.77%)
Wondery
British Scandal (83.76%)
Wondery
The Black Dahlia Serial Killers (82.63%)
Wondery
Inside The Exorcist (81.64%)
Wondery
Crime Salad (80.97%)
Cloud10 and iHeartPodcasts
TRUE (80.23%)
Imperative Entertainment
Over My Dead Body (79.99%)
Wondery
A Date With Dateline (79.8%)
Kimberly and Katie - ADWDL
Crimes of the Centuries (79.7%)
Obsessed Network
Secrets, Crimes & Audiotape (79.66%)
Wondery
Crimelines True Crime (79.54%)
Basement Fort Productions, LLC
Crime Weekly (79.22%)
Audioboom Studios
Who Killed Bob? (78.93%)
Podshape
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast (78.7%)
Christine Abrigana
Cabot Coverage: A Murder, She Wrote Podcast (78.54%)
Susanna, Megan, Glynis and Ashley
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast (78.46%)
Justin Drown
Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast (78.42%)
Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast
Court Junkie (78.37%)
PodcastOne with Law & Crime
Military Murder (78.37%)
Mama Margot Productions LLC
Cold Case Files (78.31%)
PodcastOne / A&E
ImaginePublicity on Air (78.19%)
ImaginePublicity
Tru Crym Podcast (78.17%)
Tru Crym Podcast
The Psychologists Are In with Maggie Lawson and Timothy Omundson (78.14%)
Cloud10 and iHeartPodcasts
Done & Dunne (78.12%)
Hemlock Creatives
True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer & Mark Boyer (78.02%)
Burl Barer
Not Another True Crime Podcast (77.93%)
Betches Media
Deutsche Welle - Crime Fighters (77.73%)
Deutsche Welle - Crime Fighters
True Time (77.71%)
Avery Hammel
The Misery Machine (77.64%)
The Misery Machine
Bad Batch (77.63%)
Wondery
The Secret Sits (77.59%)
John W. Dodson
House of Mystery Radio on NBC (77.58%)
House of Mystery Radio
Morbidology (77.51%)
Morbidology
Stolen Lives True Crime (77.48%)
Ali
The Opperman Report (77.44%)
The Opperman Report
True Crime Society (77.42%)
True Crime Society
Salty2302 (77.24%)
Salty2302
L.A. 85 (77.19%)
Frank Girardot, Sarah Favot
Missing Erica Franolich (77.16%)
Crawlspace Media
Murder Was The Case (77.05%)
Lee Mellor
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories (77.03%)
The Minds of Madness | Wondery
Criminal Broads (77.02%)
Cloud10 and iHeartPodcasts
PH Murder Stories (77.01%)
PH Murder Stories | Podcast Network Asia
Crime Talk (76.98%)
Anthony Meoli, MA, J.D., CFC
A Glimpse of Hell (76.96%)
Rachel Jay & Matthew Ducza
CrafteaMess (76.89%)
CrafteaMess
Bad People (76.81%)
BBC Radio 5 live
10-41 with Todd McComas (76.78%)
Todd McComas
The Debriefer (76.72%)
Litopia
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories (76.69%)
Parcast Network
Not Commonly Common LLC (76.65%)
Not Commonly Common
The Background Report (76.63%)
Neal Barton
1001 History's Best Storytellers (76.57%)
Jon Hagadorn and Guests
Life in the 11th Hour (76.56%)
Mark Burns
Persons Unknown (76.54%)
Persons Unknown Podcast
Murder in the Land of Oz (76.49%)
That's Not Canon Productions
True Crime Never Sleeps (76.48%)
True Crime Never Sleeps
Crimeatorium (76.45%)
Madeline
Dramatic Listening... the podcast where you learn English by listening to radio plays (76.4%)
Wendy Lambert
Sword and Scale (76.38%)
Incongruity
Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime (76.34%)
Cloud10
Book & Crime Talk with Author and Criminologist Jennifer Chase (76.33%)
Jennifer Chase
Sword and Scale Rewind (76.32%)
Incongruity
Inside Writing True Crime (76.32%)
Alan Warren
The Forgotten Detectives of Old Time Radio (76.28%)
Adam Graham
Killer Vibes (76.28%)
KCSU
Pink Collar: A True Crime Podcast (76.18%)
Pink Collar Pod
All I'm Saying Is (76.17%)
Harley
Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries (76.1%)
Crawlspace Media & Glassbox Media
ColdCaseDetective (76.09%)
Hit The Lights
True Crime Creepers (76.08%)
Kristin & Mogab
Missing (76.05%)
Crawlspace Media & Glassbox Media
Dark Downeast (76.0%)
Kylie Low
The Great Detectives Present Nick Carter (Old Time Radio) (75.98%)
Adam Graham Radio Detective Podcasts
Scandinavian Crimes (75.96%)
Devante Johnson & Delila Sirak
Criminal Vortex (75.96%)
Sharvari And Sumana
The Columbo Podcast (75.92%)
Heard Yet Media
Method & Madness (75.88%)
Dawn Gandhi
I Could Murder a Cocktail (75.87%)
ICMAC
CSI: Reality Check (75.83%)
Jordan and Paige
True Crime Obsessed (75.82%)
Obsessed Network
Criminal Records Podcast (75.82%)
Demetria Spinrad and Isaac Meyer
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers (75.82%)
Dan Zupansky -
Hukum (75.81%)
Hukum
Unethical Podcast (75.79%)
Celeste Brown, Richard Steudle, Tali Hall, Kristy Lynn Janssen
Crimes - True Stories (75.77%)
Studio Minuit
Southern Fried True Crime (75.75%)
Erica Kelley
True Insights To Crime (75.75%)
True Insights to Crime
The Unlovely Truth (75.73%)
Lori Morrison
Without a Trace (75.72%)
Laura Kite
Mafia (75.69%)
Audioboom Studios
Detective and Mystery – Retro Radio Podcast (75.68%)
Keith Heltsley
Undoing Evil (75.65%)
Scott Stick Productions
The Great Detectives Present Box 13 (75.61%)
Adam Graham
Crimes Through Time (75.59%)
Karen Purnell
Trace Evidence (75.58%)
Steven Pacheco
Fool Me Twice (75.55%)
Auscast Network