Danny breaks down some current scams everyone should watch out for. First, people posing as Bank of America fraud department employees are tricking customers into transferring money via Zelle. Next, a Florida woman conned an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor out of $2.8 million. Then, a fake romance-crypto scam that started on Hinge and ended with the horrifyingly named “pig butchering.”

Finally, what happens when you hire someone to investigate a scam—only for the investigator to be a scammer themselves? The episode wraps up with an update on Sarma Melngailis, aka The Bad Vegan.

RESOURCES:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/28/florida-woman-romance-scam-jailed

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/florida-woman-pleads-guilty-defrauding-holocaust-survivor-28-million-connection-romance

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-executive-falls-victim-450k-190411822.html

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/private-investigator-preyed-dating-scam-113900495.html

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