New York is a place where people come to make their fortune. Bloomberg. Murdoch. DeGrom.

For Anna Sorokin (you might know her as Anna Delvey), New York wa s a place where she came to fake her fortune.

From the moment Ms. Sorokin arrived in the city in 2014 she seemed to turn Gotham into an archipelago of Pollyannas. She said her dream was to build a members-only arts club on Park Avenue South. She handed out $100 bills as tips, wore fancy clothes and lived in elegant hotels.

Yesterday, Ms. Sorokin, 28, was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for grand larceny and other charges.

Ms. Sorokin’s scandal was made for social media: She was young, her marks were luxurious and the deception was simplistic enough to share in 280-character tweets.

Here’s what you need to know:

Who is Anna Sorokin?

Ms. Sorokin was born in Russia in 1991, moved to Germany in 2007 and later went to Paris. Around that time, she began calling herself Anna Delvey, the name she used in New York. She also claimed to be a German heiress.