Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz: A Farewell to Arms | 213
Scamfluencers
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4.1 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz were two Miami Beach stoners with zero military experience and absolutely no background in military procurement – but they had audacity to spare. The childhood friends hustled their way into nearly $300 million in Pentagon contracts, supplying ammunition to the Afghan army. They raked in millions along the way, blowing their profits on bayfront condos, luxury cars, and Miami clubs. But when you build a weapons empire on hustle, bravado, and a lot of weed… sooner or later, someone will notice the smoke.
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| 0:13.9 | Sachi, the longer we do the show, do you feel like the world of scammers get smaller? |
| 0:19.5 | Like, there are characters who do pop in every once in a while in various stories, which is pretty crazy. |
| 0:24.4 | Yeah, it's like they all go to the same parties and clubs and schools and stay friends forever. |
| 0:29.3 | It's bananas. |
| 0:30.5 | Yeah, it's kind of like a scammer extended universe. |
| 0:35.5 | And it has me thinking, is it all connected? |
| 0:38.6 | Are all rich people in the same scammer network? |
| 0:42.2 | Yes. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes. |
| 0:43.9 | Wow. |
| 0:44.4 | Goes all the way to the top, doesn't it? |
| 0:46.1 | Yep. |
| 0:47.4 | Well, today we're going to talk about a couple of guys who inspired the actions in a previous |
| 0:52.7 | story we covered. |
| 0:54.1 | These two are not criminal masterminds. |
| 0:56.6 | They're more like criminal fuck-ups. |
| 0:58.8 | And like many scammers, they took advantage of an already exploitative industry and |
| 1:03.6 | somehow made it worse. |
| 1:09.1 | It's April 2007 and Alex Padriski is standing inside a crumbling bunker in Albania, |
| 1:15.7 | staring at a mountain of aging ammunition stacked on wooden pallets. |
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