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The Megyn Kelly Show

Fraud Week: Megyn Kelly Reveals Personal Story of a Scam in Her Own Life Involving Her Family | Ep. 818

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.438.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Fraud Week concludes with Megyn Kelly's personal story of fraud that she reveals for the first time ever - a scam involving her mother-in-law, her husband, and more. To help tell the story, you'll hear from members of her family, and Steve the Cape Cod whale watching guide who helped expose the mystery. Then Megyn plays the audio of her conversation with the scammer, and talks to security expert Bill Stanton, who helps explain the details of the scam, and how viewers and listeners can avoid being scammed and being the victim of a fraud in their own lives.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Serious XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to'm Megan Kelly.

0:14.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show and the conclusion of Fraud Week.

0:18.0

I have a story that I need to share with you.

0:21.0

It's one I've never told publicly before and to do it right, it took

0:25.9

virtually my entire family on my husband's side. January 22, 2021.

0:32.8

Much of the world is still shut down due to COVID.

0:35.8

Our family, still living in Manhattan,

0:38.4

and getting ready to travel south for the weekend

0:40.9

for my nephew's wedding. As I pack up that Friday my husband Doug calls

0:45.3

relaying that he has just heard from his then 84 year old mother Jackie in

0:50.2

Philadelphia. She's received a disturbing phone call from her daughter Diane.

0:56.1

Diane and her partner Brad are oyster fishermen on Cape Cod. She was hysterical sobbing and couldn't complete a full sentence, but she said that she was in jail on a drunk driving charge and that she, I needed to get talked to somebody that she had a telephone number and I they were

1:28.3

going to talk to me about getting bail and this was on a Friday, which I don't know. Anyway, I didn't know much of anything, but I kept asking her if she was all right and I just didn't know

1:51.8

what to do and she just said I'm so scared I'm terrified and I asked her where I'm terrified and I

2:00.3

asked her where Brad was and she said, well he's in jail too, but she said, I don't really have time. They're not giving me long to talk. You need to call this number.

2:20.0

So what did you do next?

2:22.7

I called the number.

2:25.4

And he told me that the court was closed on Friday, and it was COVID so they had limited times when you could get in and he told me to call this lawyer whose name I can't remember.

2:49.0

And he would walk me through getting the bail money.

2:55.6

So this was the report that you were talking to saying you need to talk to a lawyer, here's

3:01.9

a number you can call. Yes. And then did you call

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