A Reality TV Star’s Telemarketing Scheme
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Hoping to build her hobby into a business, Penny takes an online training course in social media marketing. After this initial small investment, she is flooded with calls from companies selling different website services. They promise big returns, but her investment of more than $30,000 with multiple companies doesn’t lead to a single sale. Penny reports the scam, but it’s not until she gets a call from a news producer that she learns that the person behind the scheme is none other than The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the perfect scam. |
| 0:03.0 | Why are the police here? |
| 0:05.0 | We're looking for 10 saw. |
| 0:06.0 | Oh my gosh, what? |
| 0:08.0 | Real house I star charged a massive fraud muddy wandering ski. |
| 0:11.0 | Before I knew it, I had spent over $30,000 between websites and all of this other stuff that went along with it. |
| 0:20.0 | Are you selling any blankets? No, I didn't sell not one thing. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh. $30,000 and you didn't sell one blanket. Right. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. Right. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome back to the Perfect Scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:37.0 | And before we get to this week's episode, just a quick exciting announcement. |
| 0:41.0 | The Perfect Scam now has its own email address. |
| 0:44.6 | The Perfect Scam Podcast at AARP.org. |
| 0:48.4 | And we want to hear from you. |
| 0:50.0 | If you've been the victim of a scam or you know someone who has and you'd like us to tell the story, write to us, or just send us some feedback. |
| 0:58.4 | That email address again is A Perfect Scam Podcast at AARP.org. |
| 1:05.0 | Penny Puckett has a beautiful hobby. |
| 1:10.0 | She makes baby blankets. |
| 1:12.0 | These aren't just any baby blankets, however, they are specially |
| 1:16.0 | designed to be used in car seats where, often, parents struggle to keep anything warm and |
| 1:21.9 | safe on their kids. |
| 1:24.0 | But when the family farm in Kansas started to struggle a few years ago, |
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