Con Artist Marianne "Mair" Smyth

08/20/2025

In my book, anatomy of a con artist, I lay out exactly how this woman scammed me and how every con artist scams every victim. There are 14 red flags to look out for. Be careful and be safe.

08/20/2025

“Anatomy of a Con Artist” available everywhere books are sold.

08/20/2025

Available EVERYWHERE books are sold.

04/02/2025

THESE ARE THE 14 RED FLAGS TO SPOT THE SCAMMER IN YOUR LIFE. Some people play golf on the weekends...I HUNT CON ARTISTS. And this is what I have learned over the past 8 years investigating hundreds of cases.

12/04/2024

If you've listened to Season 1 of Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress then you know who Mair Smyth is but what you don’t know is that after she gets out of jail in Los Angeles and moves to the state of Maine... from 2021 to 2024 Marianne “Mair” Smyth scams people out of thousands of dollars claiming she sits on the IRA council and is running rescue missions in the Ukraine.
A victim who donated money to her fake cause recorded this phone call and sent it to me. FYI… Mary McDonald is the Sinn Féin leader and Michelle O’Neill served as deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. Mair claims to know both of them! Earlier this year, she was arrested by US marshals and extradited the Northern Ireland. She’s sitting in a jail cell right now awaiting trial for scamming a couple dozen people in Northern Ireland out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

07/02/2024

Marianne Smyth was flown to Northern Ireland over the weekend and faced a judge in the UK this morning.

Marianne Smyth is accused of stealing more than $170,000 from people she met through her work at UK-based mortgage companies

03/20/2024

The UK just bought Mair a one-way plane ticket. Stay tuned!

03/20/2024

Guess who's getting EXTRADITED?!?!?!

Marianne ‘Mair’ Smyth scammed a television producer of $100,000 and will now face charges for swindling others in the UK

03/01/2024

Marianne Smyth is a master of disguise. Below are the personas she used to scam victims in Florida, Tennessee, Michigan, California and Northern Ireland. She's now a twice convicted con artist whose aliases include "Lucia Belia" "Marianne Clarke" "Marianne Welch" "Mair Ellis" "Marianne Andle"

02/21/2024

Got a new boyfriend or a new girlfriend? New neighbor or a new coworker? New friend? How many of these RED FLAGS are they waving at you? If it's more than 3... BE CAREFUL.

Here are the Red Flags a Con Artist is IN YOUR LIFE! I was charmed by a charismatic, exciting woman who injected herself into my life and became my best frie...

02/20/2022

A lot of people have been asking... whatever happened to the pool? In Ep 1 I explain how we lost the pool in mid 2013 due to a legal spat with the neighboring condo building - which is how Con Artist Mair Smyth entered my life; exclaiming her politician boyfriend can get the pool back - no problem. Well that turned out to be a fabricated story. Shocker. We did eventually get the pool back though - in 2016 - after a legal settlement was reached between the condo building and our building. Ironically, Mair's politician boyfriend had no idea we ever lost the pool in the first place. But Mair's pool con had served its purpose by then. It gave her entry into our lives and laid the foundation for her to scam me as well as other neighbors in our building.

01/17/2022

Mair got out of going to court A LOT by pulling scams. She pretended to have cancer to get out of paying rent. She used a pair of crutches to appear disabled. In this one she faked mental illness by pretending she tried to kill herself. The judge believed her. She got admitted to a psych ward of a mental hospital in Los Angeles and was able to skip court for weeks. Eventually she had to come back to court, dressed in a sucide gown so she couldn't hurt herself. And the judge talked to her like he was addressing his 5 year old daughter - with love and compassion and sympathy. It infuriated me. "How can he believe her?" I thought. It was a real world testament to how convincing she was. Even to a jaded, experienced judge in the Los Angeles criminal court system.