86 episodes
Scams & Cons Jim Grinstead
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- True Crime
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4.4 • 45 Ratings
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Scammers don't steal your money, they create a world where it makes perfect sense to hand your cash over to them. Three-card-monte, the longest running show on Broadway, seems easy. You're watching the tosser and you always see the queen. What you don't see is a group of shills working you into the gate where you'll lose everything you have.
Sometimes a large sum of money is accidentally sent to you and the sender asks for the additional cash to be sent back. In the meantime, they empty your bank account.
We'll tell you all about the scams, how they work and why people fall for them. Don't become a sucker. Listen in.
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Scams & Cons News
News: A Nebraska woman is conned out of a gold bar and a woman buys the wrong kind of gift card, frustrating a scammer, but still losing her money
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Witness Protection Programs -- it's not an easy way to vanish
t would seem if federal and state governments wanted you to disappear for your safety, it would be an easy thing to do. They can create all the documents you need, give you some money to get started and grease the wheels needed to get a new job.
If only that were the case. Being uprooted is just as difficult -- if not more so -- than taking a powder on your own.
In this episode, you'll hear from some people who were scooped up in the night to disappear and you'll hear from the people who created the federal program.
If you're thinking the best way to disappear is to catch someone committing a crime so you'll get protection, you may want to think again.
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Scams & Cons News for 04/04/2024
Woman recovers $147k from scammer and a man tries to own the New York Hotel
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Hear from Maureen, a woman whose husband disappeared and she doesn't know why
The theme of this series has been the long con of vanishing. Instead of a scammer targeting you, you are the one scamming everyone else. To be successful, you must do this the rest of your life, making it possibly the longest con of all.
Maureen is the victim of this con. Her husband went missing and while she verified he was still alive, she doesn't know why he left -- or even if he is still alive.
In this episode, you'll hear her tragic story and her best guess on what really happened, although she'll unlikely to never know for sure.
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
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Scammers break into a physician's prescription system, creating orders for tens of thousands of addictive drugs and a lawsuit has been filed against CitiGroup for not doing enough to protect customers
Scams & Cons News for March 21, 2024
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Vanishing: Where to go and dealing with loneliness
Once you've decided to vanish, the question is: where do you go?
In this episode we explore those possibilities and what you need to keep in mind when choosing a place.
The odds are you'll end up somewhere that's not familiar and among people you don't know. That loneliness is one of the main reasons that a vanishing con fails. We'll tell you how people cope with that ... and sometimes it just means living on the street.
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Customer Reviews
Just too short
Love the show but wish it were longer. Great for quick trips though!
Great show!
I was introduced to Jim and his show at Podfest 2024. So glad I did! This show is clever, creative and thoughtful. It’s very well produced. I’m looking forward to season 6!
The Klingon commercial had me DYING
Great show that hasn’t been poisoned by wokeness