How Do Con Artists Keep Fooling Us?

Part-Time Genius

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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America has a soft spot for scoundrels. From the (evil) genius who kept selling the Brooklyn Bridge to foreigners, to the original Snake Oil Salesman, we race through history's most legendary cons and discover why Denver was the Florence of the Con-Man Re

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