44. Love Fraud Island
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 106 minutes
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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about romance scams, minions, and what's a normal amount of money lending between lovers!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna. |
| 0:33.5 | All right, Kenna, today I would like to ask you, did you ever watch the TV show Love Fraud? |
| 0:37.0 | No. Um, do you know anything about it? |
| 0:58.7 | Just from what you told me, my guess is that a dude went on an online dating site, pretending to be someone he wasn't to get, to, to grift to grift to get money from, uh, women. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, it's pretty much it. It was like, I think it was on Showtime or something. And it was a documentary like mini series about a man named Richard Scott Smith, True Story, who used 43 different |
| 1:09.9 | telephone numbers, 10 different social |
| 1:11.9 | security numbers, and like a ton of different names to pretend to be a real estate investor. |
| 1:18.3 | Then he dated a bunch of women in the Midwest and even married like 10 of them and I think |
| 1:22.4 | like opened businesses with some of them, then conned all of the women out of their money |
| 1:27.2 | or stole their identity to open |
| 1:29.0 | up credit cards in their name. And then all the women got together and they hired a private |
| 1:33.6 | investigator to try to track them down. Oh, cool. Yeah, it's a really good show. And I watched |
| 1:39.1 | this with my friend. And after one episode, we just watched one episode. She instantly was like, yeah, I got to break up with |
| 1:45.2 | someone right now. I think I'm getting love frauded. Whoa. Oh yes. I remember this. Yeah. And I think she was |
| 1:50.6 | like half joking, but she was dating this guy who was getting money from her and from his ex. Like he |
| 1:58.4 | fell on rough times, whatever. She was trying to be sympathetic. |
| 2:04.8 | But then after she watched the show, she was like, wait a minute, this guy is kind of always in rough times and some woman's always giving him money. |
| 2:09.4 | Yes. |
| 2:09.7 | Like at what point are you just like helping out your boyfriend who's a little broke right |
| 2:14.2 | now? |
| 2:14.6 | And at what point are you getting grifted? |
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