What Next TBD: The $30,000 Zelle Scam

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Zelle has exploded in popularity as a fast, convenient way to send and receive money. But the story of a couple who was scammed out of a pool shows there are problems with safety on the platform. Guest: Devin Friedman, journalist and senior correspondent for GQ magazine. You can read Devin’s piece here. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Check out Compiler here: https://link.chtbl.com/compiler?sid=podcast.whatnext.2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars.
0:26.3	New series, watch now.
0:28.1	Only on Prime Video.
0:34.3	Do you think of yourself as like the kind of guy who has a pool?
0:39.6	Like, are you a pool guy?
0:41.4	No, no, I am really not.
0:43.8	I mean, I always wanted a pool.
0:45.6	Like when I was a kid, I would just, you know, fantasize about like what it would be like if I had a pool.
0:51.4	But I don't identify with having a pool. It just seems like something other people
0:56.7	do. That's Devin Friedman. He's a writer and editor, someone I've worked with in the past.
1:04.1	And I would probably not describe Devin as a pool guy either. He's low-key and sardonic,
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