Everywhere you turn right now, someone's trying to scam you.

An unknown number, a dubious email, a voice that feels just a little bit off.

You know, the story's like almost famous meets Catch Me if you can, and it's hard not to be like, wow, this is crazy.

We are living in a golden age of deception.

Everyone has an angle.

And now we're pulling back the curtain.

I'm Josh Dean, host and co-creator of The clearing, hooked, and white devil.

And this is Chameleon, a new weekly show about scammers, con artists, and impostors.

From Campside Media in AudioChuk.

Every week, a new twisty, jaw-dropping story about someone somewhere, pretending to be something they are not.

The cops raid his apartment where they find the gems he's been stealing from Harvard to pay Princeton back for defrauding them. To this day, I don't know exactly how he

caught himself how to fly a small airplane. And it's remarkable that he survived,

given that he ended up crashing five airplanes

by the time it was all over.

It really burned the city down for a couple of weeks.

A 14-year-old boy actually being able to masquerade as a police officer.

These stories are, for the most part, crimes.

But they're also mysteries.

That really does make me think it's plausible

that they might have murdered someone

and hid the body on their property.

I actually got a gun out of the gun safe because I figured some meth heads going to come and

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