How The Cut's Financial Advice Columnist Was Scammed Out Of $50K

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, Sara and Danny cover the viral story from The Cut's own financial advice columnist, Charlotte Cowles, who was the unlikely victim of a scam that cost her $50,000. They get into Cowles' article, which details how over the course of just one day, the scammers - posing as Amazon employees and and FTC agents - successfully convinced her that she was the victim of extensive identity theft, with multiple warrants out for her arrest for cybercrimes, money laundering, and drug trafficking. Cowles withdrew and handed the scammers $50,000 from her bank account, before realizing it had all been a lie. SOURCES: https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hayes Catering is a small company run by two brothers selling food at festivals across the UK.
0:08.0	But when COVID struck, the plug was pulled on live events. To help fill the gap, Barclays provided them with a loan so
0:18.1	they could diversify their business. And now that live music is back,
0:25.0	So a Hayes catering. Grow your business.
0:27.0	Bank on Barclays.
0:28.0	Search Barclays business banking.
0:41.0	Welcome back to not another true crime podcast emergency episode honestly. Sounding every alarm.
0:43.0	True, I'm Sarah Levine.
0:45.0	And I'm Danny Murphy, where your partners in wine, crime, and Halloween time this time around
0:51.0	because no, it's not a Halloween themed episode, episode but the scam we were going to be talking about happened on Halloween
0:56.6	But it took the internet by complete storm I want to say this past week
1:02.0	Oh 100% and I loved it because I really feel like Storm I want to say this past week? Oh, 100%.
1:03.0	And I loved it because I really feel like the,
1:06.0	between this and this unrelated essay in New York magazine
1:10.0	about this woman who wanted to divorce her husband like the discourse was
1:14.2	discoursing it was oh amazing it made you realize oh print media has got another
1:20.6	decade in it thank you right media we're we still kicking. All we got to do is just
1:24.8	revive exo Jane. I was going to say exo Jane and as long as people continue to just, hey you want to share the world, share with the class one of the most embarrassing things that's happened to lately and thankfully people do and it helps out when it's like the writers are good at writing so they can eloquently tell their story,
1:48.0	given themselves the proper personal shame going through it.
1:51.6	This week, of course, we're talking about the day I put
1:54.5	$50,000 in a shoebox and handed it to a stranger I never thought I was the kind of
1:59.5	person to fall for a scam. I mean.
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