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American Greed Podcast

The Fake Prince's Royal Scam

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

An outlandish con artist poses as a Saudi royal to cheat investors out of millions, promising them access to Arabian oil stock. (Original television broadcast: 01-06-2020) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/

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0:00.0

This is the American Greed Podcast presented by

0:02.8

C and BC. I'm Stacy Kich.

0:08.3

In this episode of American Greed,

0:10.7

on an exclusive island, word spreads about a new arrival.

0:15.0

Oh, there's like your highness or his highness.

0:18.0

A Saudi prince has blessed Miami with his presence.

0:22.0

He talked the part, he dressed the part. has blessed Miami with his presence.

0:22.6

He talked the part, he dressed the part, he drove the part.

0:27.8

With a massive oil IPO looming, his highness brings in more than eight million dollars by promising investors a share of his unfathomable wealth.

0:38.0

The idea that there was a Saudi prince in Miami, it wet the appetite of very many people. But despite the

0:45.4

bling he shows off on Instagram, you know what it is. You know what it is? You know what

0:50.9

it is. It turns out that this Saudi prince is just the king of cons.

0:57.0

He looked like an overweight Hispanic guy from South America.

1:01.0

It just looked preposterous.

1:04.0

Preposterous.

1:05.0

So who is this royal scammer?

1:07.0

And how does he pull off his princely scheme?

1:11.0

There could be any number of reasons why people find him to be credible, but they do.

1:17.0

And they do it again and again. It's really quite astounding. Just off the causeway connecting downtown Miami to Miami Beach, there's a small driveway few

1:36.0

have ever seen.

1:38.0

Here, cards board a ferry that crosses a narrow channel to an ultra-exclusive enclave called Fisher Island.

1:46.0

Forget 902-1-0.

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