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Hello, and welcome to Web Crawlers, the podcast where we do a deep dive into some of our favorite mysteries.

Each week we will introduce our topic, lay out our research and findings, reveal some conspiracy theories, and conclude with our own hypothesis. I'm Ali Siegel.

I'm Melissa Stetten, and I produce her Maria. Melissa, who are our patrons for today?

We've got Crystal, Kelly, Ian, poo, poo, pee pee. Who is that in there?

I did that while we were waiting to record. Sorry about that.

Guys, welcome to the team, and especially poo, poo, pee pee.

Welcome, guys. We're so excited to have you. Melissa, what is our episode on today?

This episode was suggested by Matt Scuda in the discord. Shout out to Maria's demon, who continues to

every month emails us a list of everyone's suggestions in the discord. It is so awesome.

That's so honestly, that's so sick. And if I check the web crawler's emails, I would really benefit from that list.

There's a whole spreadsheet. It's organized by people's names, there's links to the stories. It's incredible.

That's incredible. Thank you. That's so crazy.

So imagine you're working at Long John Silver's, or McDonald's, or any other fast food joint,

and your boss calls you into the office and tells you that the police are on the phone,

and they're telling your boss to strip search you because they have you on video stealing from a

customer. Oh my god. What would you do? You would most likely tell him to fuck off or be like,

what kind of sick joke is this? Yeah. Yeah. There's no way you would let this happen, right? No.

Well, unfortunately, many people have felt for this. It's something that actually happened about

70 times in the United States. What? It's called the strip search phone call scam.

Let's get into it. What is this? Like a cranky-ankers thing? Cranky-ankers. Have you seen the movie

compliance? No, I don't think so. You haven't. I mean, maybe I have. Oh, baby. It's starring

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