Fraudsters

On the final episode of our series on Kevin Trudeau, we delve into one of his most recent and most outrageous scam – a multi-level marketing company called the Global Information Network. It promised trade secrets of the illuminati, ferraris, and inner peace all for the low, low price of many thousands of dollars, recruiting your friends and family, and giving up things you love in order to become "coachable."

Special thanks to Linnea, former GIN member, for sharing her experience.

Special thanks to Professor Edward Balleisen, fraud expert and author of Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff, for his historical contextualization of fraud and thoughtful insights.

Special thanks to Cosmic Connie of Whirled Musings for sharing her wealth of knowledge on GIN with us.

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In Part II of our series on the notorious infomercial scammer Kevin Trudeau we cover how to lose 300 pounds in 30 minutes, go to prison sleep-away camp, and get a presidential pardon!

Special thanks to Howard Beales, Former Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the FTC, for a wonderful conversation.

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In Part I of our series on the notorious infomercial scammer Kevin Trudeau we cover how to give yourself mega-memory, break any addiction 100% of the time, and all the other things THEY don't want you to know about!

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In part I of Fraud Reich we brought you historical fiction—the story of the Hitler Diaries. Today we bring you a sci-fi thriller featuring Adolph Hitler, Hans Loads, David Bowie, and a fraudster named Trevor Ravenscroft.

We’re talking the “Spear of Destiny”— the alleged source of Hitler’s power and rot.

Special thanks to Marcus Parks, founding father of the Last Podcast Network, for a magical interview.

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Dear Diary,

Many historically significant figures generate lore. Some say Shakespeare had a ghostwriter. Some say Nikola Tesla designed blueprints for a "death ray" before his passing. Some say Thomas Jefferson drank breast milk!

Few theories, however, are as wild and as widely entertained as the Hitler Diaries were.

On the 12th episode of Fraudsters Season 1, we talk where the myth began and how it snowballed into 62 forged Hitler diaries lauded as true by some of the foremost historians and news outlets in Europe.

So excited to share this episode with all the Spotifites out there.

Love,

Seena, Justin, Hazel, and Marie

PS: I made up the breast milk myth

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Remember when we actually said "world wide web?" Remember netscape? Remember the dot-com bubble? Remember Y2K?

Remember when a car dealership company said it had the cure for AIDS and sold stocks for $9 through early internet message boards until someone from the FTC commented "hey, this isn't real?"

No?

On this weeks episode of Fraudsters we bring you Alfred Flores and Uniprime – a con on a .com two decades ago.

Special thanks to John Reed Stark, cyber-cop extraordinaire, for a wonderful and nostalgic interview.

Special thanks to Kai Elwood-Dieu for his wizardry on the website for this episode (http://uniprimeinc.com/).

Special thanks to Joshua Sutherland for composing music for this episode.

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The second installment of our two part mini-series on Anna Delvey (Sorokin). We get into Anna's apprehension, the circus of the trial, and Anna's own reflections from Rikers.

Special thanks to Emily Palmer for being such a wonderful guide throughout this series. You can find Emily on all social at @emilyepalmer.

Special thanks to Todd Spodek a delightful interview.

Special thanks to Joshua Sutherland for music for this episode.

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The first installment of our two part mini-series on Anna Delvey (Sorokin). We get into Anna's adolescence and designing "Delvey," her escalating frauds in its name, and the inevitable unraveling.

Special thanks to Emily Palmer for guiding us throughout this series. You can find Emily on all social at @emilyepalmer.

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Our final episode of the mini-series we walk you through justice finally being served in the case of Jim Bakker: How he went to prison for 25 years and came out as a reformed man who lived a quiet, secular life back in Michigan.

Just kidding! He barely went to prison and wasn't humbled by it at all.

On this final episode we spend more time talking about an incarcerated Jim Bakker than he spent in prison. We get into his prison hustles, his strange choice of friends, his post-release shenanigans and reflect on the series as a whole.

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Part 2 of our mini-series on Praise the Lord and Jim Bakker.

Special thanks to Joshua Sutherland for always making amazing music for us.

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