Introducing: Creating a Con: The Story of Bitconned
Betrayal Weekly
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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We are excited to let you know that ALL episodes of Creating a Con: The Story of Bitconned are available and 100% Ad Free exclusively with an iHeart True Crime+ subscription on Apple Podcasts, so you can binge the entire season! Go to Apple Podcasts and search for iHeart True Crime+ and subscribe today! " Episodes will be premiering free to listeners starting Wednesday, April 3rd, on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Creating a Con is a true crime anthology podcast that goes inside the minds of the most prolific modern-day con artist. Their schemes may be new, but their tactics are tried and true. In Season One, you’ll meet Ray Trapani – a 26-year-old whose schemes targeted pharmacies and a payment app before he created his biggest con yet: a tech startup endorsed by DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather that was built on empty promises, fake executives, and millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors.
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| 0:00.0 | In the summer of 2017, my best friend founded one of the hottest startups in the world. |
| 0:06.3 | I went from working construction hating my life. |
| 0:08.8 | To just making nine grand, ten grand, twelve grand grand, just living like a maniac. |
| 0:14.1 | His company instantly became a massive success. |
| 0:17.7 | He was the poster child of an emerging market. |
| 0:20.5 | Even the New York Times profiles of his company. |
| 0:23.0 | But here's the thing about my best friend Ray. |
| 0:25.0 | I always wanted to be a criminal. |
| 0:28.0 | If someone's like, oh, what's your best way of making money? |
| 0:30.0 | I might go, we should start some sort of scheme. |
| 0:33.4 | Ray had this crazy ability to find a loophole and turn it into millions. |
| 0:38.1 | He's like, this market's so untapped. We should definitely jump on this. |
| 0:42.4 | Anytime I see flaws in something like this, I have |
| 0:46.1 | to export I cannot help myself. My best friend found himself at the helm of a cutting edge |
| 0:51.1 | technology company. His business, Centratech, was going to the what this company could be. |
| 1:03.2 | They collected $30 million. |
| 1:05.7 | There were headlines about it. |
| 1:07.3 | Even some of the biggest celebrities jumped on board. |
| 1:10.0 | You really got DJ Callit and Floyd Manning Mayweather to endorse Centrata? |
| 1:15.3 | Wow. When something sounds too good to be true, chances are it is. |
| 1:23.4 | As just a regular person sitting on the outside, |
| 1:25.9 | it's hard to tell what's fact and fiction. |
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