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Sarah, have you ever hung out with like newish friends and gossiped a little too hard?

And then you realized that you weren't really in the right company for the kind of gossip you just told?

You know what?

That is so close to being my worst nightmare. I've been close where I've tested the waters where I've been like, yeah, you know that girl? And then people are like, oh yeah, I love her. And I'm like, gotcha. But usually I try and like dip my toes in to see what the vibe is. But yeah, I mean, it happens to everyone. And I'm sure it's happened to me and I've just like erased a memory. Well, this has never happened to me because I do not gossip and I do not start every single scamfluencer's recording session with, do you have any gossip? Oh my God, you actually do that. And when I don't have anything to offer you, I'm like, I've failed. Yeah, and I feel that you have failed.

Well, I asked because today's scammer got caught doing a version of just this,

trusting the wrong people with the intricate details of his scam.

God, Sarah, it's like you can't trust anyone to keep a little secret about fraud.

It's an early morning in March 1977 and Jack Brennan is sitting by the window in a hotel room in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Jack's in his early 30s with boyish round cheeks, sandy hair, and a southern drawl.

He's about to spend the next few days at this Lux resort, but he's not on vacation.

Jack is an FBI agent, and he's here working undercover.

Jack and his partner, JJ Weddick, are trying to gather enough evidence to bust a scammer

they've been following for months, a guy named Phil Kitzer.

Phil has been running a fake bank con for almost a decade. He offers people

phony loans that never come through, and right now he's targeting a new mark, Hawaii's

lieutenant governor. But this isn't a typical FBI assignment for Jack, because this time Jack and

JJ are along for the ride. Phil thinks they're

scammers too, and he's brought them into his entourage of rowdy, hard-drinking conmen.

Over the past few months, Phil has taken them all over the world to meet other ne'er-do-wells

and cook-up schemes. But he also has them out dancing all night while he picks up women.

To keep from blowing their cover, the agents have to stay up late too,

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