Scams From The Headlines: Defrauding The Lottery, Fake Remote Employment, & Nefarious AI

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Danny's flying solo this week with another roundup of recent newsworthy scams. First up, a Massachusetts family defrauds the lottery out of $20 million. Then, an Australian woman is the latest victim of an employment scam, losing her life savings. And finally, striking actors are being recruited for AI research that may end up replacing them in the future. SOURCES: https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/news/how-a-massachusetts-family-scammed-the-lottery-out-of-20-million/ https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/aussie-mum-loses-her-life-savings-to-a-cruel-employment-scam/news-story/13a9a41820d16246d020b51a0b5dad96 https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/19/1081974/meta-realeyes-artificial-intelligence-hollywood-actors-strike/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Louis Thruu Interviews is back on BBC Eye Player.
0:04.0	Thank you for letting us in.
0:05.0	Letting you in, we've taken over.
0:07.0	I'll be having honest chats with some well-known faces,
0:10.0	like Anthony Joshua.
0:12.0	When I be the champions of the division, then you'll see me exciting.
0:14.0	If you beat Tyson Fury,
0:16.0	I'll be able to move.
0:17.0	Ray.
0:18.0	I don't know how I would handle some things that I've experienced without music.
0:21.0	And Ashley Walters.
0:22.6	But I had no reason to be out on the street, do you know what I'm saying?
0:25.6	Louis Thru interviews. Watch on BBC Eye Player. Welcome back to not another true crime podcast. I'm Danny Murphy and it's just
0:39.8	Danny Murphy this week so apologies for that but Sarah is well she was going to be on
0:45.7	vacation but the sickness of fall I think just hit her a little too hard so
0:50.0	she is on I don't know if being a sick day is a mental vacation. No, it's just a sick day so she's sick but I am here and I think I am starting to get sick so who knows what if next week it'll be a little flip-flop but I think also just everybody is in their sick energy and I think mine just came from
1:05.7	after traveling where all the babies on planes like to sneeze, which is there right, but makes the
1:11.6	immune system feel a little wrong.
1:13.4	But I, when I was looking for something to do so low,
1:16.2	I was going to like kind of be like, do I want to do like a big deep dive down on things?
1:20.7	And I was like perusing, and then I just saw some good old scams in the news which are kind of so I this is going to be like an informal
1:27.6	newscast of people either committing or being the victim of a little scams, which I mean we all really know in love here.
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