Inheritance Cons: Meet the Bakers and the 'Drakers'

Criminalia

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this 2-for-1 inheritance scam special, Holly and Maria talk about William Cameron Morrow Smith and Oscar Hartzell, who, separately, bilked thousands of people out of millions of dollars, just by telling them they might be in line to receive a huge fortune. Spoiler alert on that: There was no fortune.

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0:00.0	Introducing Hashtag Matter, a brand-new eight-episode scripted podcast.
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1:55.0	It's not an uncommon fantasy. You find out you have a distant relative who has died and left you in unexpected inheritance.
2:02.0	It's also not uncommon for a con artist to exploit that fantasy, contacting you about a huge fortune because, well, it could be yours!
2:12.0	Spoiler alert on that one, though. It's not yours.
2:16.0	In this episode, we're talking about what are known as inheritance cons, and we have a two-for-one special.
2:22.0	Welcome to Criminalia, I'm Maria Tramarkey.
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