How did so many aspiring creative types, believing they were talking with top Hollywood directors, get fooled into flying to Indonesia and parting with every last dollar they had in pursuit of a career-making job?

The answer is really, really convincing AI. In Hollywood Con Queen, premiering on Apple TV+ next month, Hollywood Reporter journalist Scott Johnson (who has written a book on the subject) leads the investigation into the mysterious person behind the scams, with help from private investigator Nicole Kotsianas.

The scam ran like this: the AI mimicked the voices of top female execs like Kathleen Kennedy, Amy Pascal and Deborah Snyder (among others) and invited aspiring actors, writers, makeup artists, assistants, and more to fly all way to Indonesia for productions that didn’t exist. But before the victims had a chance to figure that out, they spent all of their savings paying for normal expenses, never receiving the promised reimbursement.

A big part of what made the Con Queen so convincing was the voice. The scammer, who is revealed to be a London-based man, would start the call pretending to be a male assistant before transferring the victim to the powerful woman he was impersonating. Apparently, the scammer went even further by “[luring] men into phone sex,” according to a Vanity Fair report.

The Apple TV+ series has three episodes, revealing the identity of the scammer as well as the outcome of his trial and the fates of the victims, in the last episode.

The series was directed by Chris Smith, who also directed Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and Tiger King.

Hollywood Con Queen premieres on Apple TV+ on May 8th.