Christian Watt
Director
My Online Nightmare (2017)
Season 1
Accounts of some of the most extraordinary tales of scammers and fraudsters who have used the internet to find their victims and to lure and con them, with terrifying and sometimes deadly results.
Released April 12, 2017
None+
Genres: Crime, Documentary
Keywords: imdb.reenactment
Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Episode 1
In Alabama, troubled teen Marissa repeatedly talks to strangers online despite her aunt Patra's disapproval. Patra poses as a man online to chat to her, only for her niece to ask 'him' to help kill her aunt.
April 12, 2017, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
Liz, a doctor from Newcastle was left without any money following an elaborate scam. William Allen Jordan tricked women looking for love in the US and UK.
April 19, 2017, midnight
S1E3 - Episode 3
Kurt and his new girlfriend were contacted repeatedly on Facebook with abusive messages by a mysterious woman called Suzie. One evening Kurt was violently stabbed by two masked men and narrowly escaped with his life. The attackers were hired by Luigi Dalli, after he had plotted a contract killing on Kurt, for starting a relationship with his ex. They had agreed to kill Kurt for £500 each. Meanwhile, CBS news anchor Erika von Tiehl was terrified when she received abusive anonymous texts. The cyberstalking escalated to identity theft and murder threats. Eventually police arrested serial stalker John Hart, who Erica had dated and who became obsessed with her after she dumped him.
April 26, 2017, midnight
S1E4 - Episode 4
The extraordinary stories of women targeted online and defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of pounds, including single mum Annie, who was conned out of her £80,000 inheritance. Elsewhere, Joe and Keith Barnett were cruelly cheated out of thousands of pounds when a potential surrogate mother turned out to be a fraud, and university professor Judith was fooled into handing over £140,000 to a fictitious man she met online.
May 3, 2017, midnight
S1E5 - Online Fraud
None
May 3, 2017, midnight
Network: Channel 4
Released: April 12, 2017
Last Air Date: May 3, 2017, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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