SCAMPLING: Scams You Should Be Aware Of

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Danny breaks down some current scams everyone should watch out for. First, people posing as Bank of America fraud department employees are tricking customers into transferring money via Zelle. Next, a Florida woman conned an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor out of $2.8 million. Then, a fake romance-crypto scam that started on Hinge and ended with the horrifyingly named “pig butchering.” Finally, what happens when you hire someone to investigate a scam—only for the investigator to be a scammer themselves? The episode wraps up with an update on Sarma Melngailis, aka The Bad Vegan. RESOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/28/florida-woman-romance-scam-jailed https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/florida-woman-pleads-guilty-defrauding-holocaust-survivor-28-million-connection-romance https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-executive-falls-victim-450k-190411822.html https://uk.news.yahoo.com/private-investigator-preyed-dating-scam-113900495.html Check out our latest promo codes here: https://betches.com/promos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.8	Welcome, everybody, to not another True Crime podcast. I'm Sarah Levine,
0:27.9	And I'm Danny Murphy, you know, where your partner is in one crime time and just whatever is on our mind each.
0:32.6	Oh, we love that. Yeah.
0:34.2	All right, we're adding it added, added.
0:36.9	Well, what is on your mind?
0:38.2	Well, on my mind, well, I just, I know we're doing a scamp on episode this week, but there was no
0:42.4	Yes, scams at the Aristotle, which just came back from I know I was shot.
0:48.5	Well, actually, I mean, no scams potential cults.
0:53.2	Yeah.
0:53.6	Yeah, because I, I, I, I, I'm a member.
0:56.9	I, I didn't expect I was like, everyone had so many friendship,
1:01.9	but I used to say our past year round, I was like, what is going on?
1:04.8	But then I started getting some and I was like, oh, oh, my God, it's like
1:09.0	appropriating EDM culture, but I'm here for it with Charlie and that I was just like
1:15.6	shouting along.
1:16.4	And I was like, oh, I'm, I'm hooked.
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