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The FBI had taken him under their wing, had gotten his criminal record submarine, and he had been arrested a bunch of times.

I'd gotten him a new driver's license and passport and everything you could think of, under the name of Franz Joseph Unhopsberg-Lotharingen,

I'd let him scam and lie and steal and inmess himself in the criminal underground just so long as he would throw them a bone from time to time.

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Today, one from the vault. We're talking with Stephen Rambam. The sky was a little salty. It's like a gritty, private eye.

He's been a private investigator for nearly 40 years. He's a Nazi hunter. I'm not kidding. I mean, how cool is that, I suppose.

He speaks at hacker conventions, talking about privacy and anonymity. That's how I came across him in the first place.

Among other topics, whenever I call him, he's always working on something I will say marginally insane.

In this episode, we talk a little bit about fraud, but also we get into how fraudsters think some of the advanced frauds and crimes financial stuff. Not like high market, white collar crime, but con men ripping off companies and the mindset behind fraudsters in their games, as well as how we can protect ourselves.

Some of this stuff, yay, I'm wondering how people fall for it. Other stuff, it's so complicated I really can see how anybody, I mean even companies that do their diligence, how they could fall for some of this.

Of course, some wild tangents in this one as expected. So enjoy this episode from the vault with Stephen Ramban.

First of all, tell us a little bit about your background because you don't just go look on monster.com. I think I'll be a private investigator. Is that what your job title would you consider it to be?

I'm a director of an investigator agency, but yes, I spend quite a lot of time in the field and I am certainly before anything else. My day job is being a private investigator.

And you're correct. You don't get an office with a pebble glass door and a leaky secretary and puff your private investigator. It requires quite a lot of training, quite a lot of experience. In fact, to get licensed, you have to actually prove the experience to the various things.

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