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Today we're talking to Dr. David Maimon, criminologist, fraud expert, and a guy known as

the undercover professor, which sounds a little bit like a CBS procedural where the professor

actually has a burner phone and a telegram login.

David doesn't just study fraud from some safe little academic perch while sipping bad campus

coffee.

He goes undercover in the digital sewer system where identity

thieves, document forgers, money launderers, AI scammers, and synthetic identity goblins all hang out,

compare notes and apparently run crime like it's a SaaS startup with worse ethics and better margins.

The dark web is what we're talking about, of course, and this is the scary part. Fraud is no longer one guy in a hoodie hacking the mainframe or whatever. It's a whole industry. A supply chain, fraud as a service, someone steals the data, somebody builds the fake identity, somebody opens the account, someone launders the money, somebody on LinkedIn is probably calling it entrepreneurship. We'll talk about fake businesses in California,

Medicare fraud using stolen identities, AI generated faces and documents, voice clones, deep fakes,

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