IDENTITY THIEF
Con artist Samantha Azzopardi first became known to police when she was just 19, when she was caught using false Medicare cards. Soon after she posed as a student named Dakota Johnson – also the name of the famous Hollywood actress – and enrolled in a Brisbane high school. There she went to classes, forged friendships and told people she had been abused by her family. When she attempted to enrol in a second school, her reference letter was found to be a fraud and she was rejected.
Born in Sydney’s Campbelltown in 1988, Azzopardi’s next fraud was to pose as a 14-year-old trafficking ring victim when she was discovered wandering the streets in Ireland in 2013. A year later she popped up in Canada, claiming to