Stan Rifkin and the Biggest Wire Fraud in US History [111]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Stan Rifkin was a computer consultant in California that in 1978 pulled off one of the biggest wire frauds in US history…at the time. This heist has some of the best aftermath we've ever covered. Also it turns out Stan was neighbors with Matt's uncle and he had no idea! What a small heist world we live in. HEEEIST
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| 0:00.0 | Computers, diamonds, Soviet Union, Heist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Heist podcast. I'm Simon. |
| 0:17.5 | And I'm Matt. |
| 0:18.6 | And this is episode 111 of the Heist podcast. Still in quarantine, still self-isolating. We are not experts on any of that stuff. So please do listen to the experts. We're just the guys that like to talk about heist. And I think we're experts on heist at least, right, Matt? Yeah, for sure. I think it's giving everyone a nice distraction from all the other crazy things that are going down. So that's what we're going to keep doing. That's what we're going to keep doing. The True Crime Podcasts without the murder. Matt, how you doing, man? I'm doing good. Nice. Socializing as much as possible over the internet and having good times. Yeah, we've been playing a lot of video games. Playing a lot of a game called Rocket League, which we found you can play across all different |
| 0:58.7 | consoles and PCs. |
| 1:00.3 | And it's been a good scene. |
| 1:02.0 | It's been kind of cool. |
| 1:02.7 | We've had like 12 friends from like Canada here, everywhere, kind of all meeting online |
| 1:08.1 | and goofing around on it. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah, it's a blast. |
| 1:11.6 | It's a good excuse to talk and have a couple beers. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But that's not what we're here to talk about, Matt. We're here to talk about the heists. Should we get into it? Let's do it. Heist news. A lot of heist. All right, here we go. Heist in the News. |
| 1:31.6 | Okay, Matt, this first one is pretty real heist news. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.0 | It's real real. |
| 1:39.7 | Oftentimes it's like hobo steals, toilet paper, and iguana. |
| 1:41.4 | But this is the complete opposite. |
| 1:42.8 | This is like a real story. |
| 1:44.3 | This is a scary kind of heist. Yeah. So this comes from the AP. The headline is the complete opposite. This is like a real story. This is a scary kind of heist. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.4 | So this comes from the AP. |
| 1:51.4 | The headline is robbers escape with 15 million in Chile airport heist. |
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