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Convicted Christian con artist Jim Bakker now just literally selling buckets...
https://youtu.be/PwJaa-TFVSg Behold, how the mighty have fallen. (more…)
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Donald Trump picked business adviser convicted in “major Mafia-linked stock...
The Associated Press reports today that GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump asked a man who was once involved in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme to be a senior business adviser to the Trump...
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Why we can't help getting ripped off by con artists
Incredibly Interesting Authors: RSS | iTunes | Download this episode | Email | Android Please rate or review Incredibly Interesting Authors on iTunes. One day in September 1951, Dr. Joseph Cyr, a...
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Florida teen poses as doctor, opens office, and examines undercover agent
https://youtu.be/f6MAOyIfOmA 18-year-old Malachi Love-Robinson does not have a medical license, but that did not stop him from opening the New Birth New Life Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida....
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With 3,500 U.S. legal actions, Trump is most litigious presidential nominee ever
An analysis from USA Today finds that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is currently involved in 3,500 legal actions. Who else is involved? Everyone from the government to vodka makers. This...
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Trump used $258,000 from charity to settle lawsuits involving his for-profit...
Washington Post reporter David A. Fahrenthold has been digging into purported billionaire Donald Trump's purported charity and unearths a heck of a story: Trump used $258,000 from his 'charitable'...
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Russia's "Bernie Madoff" has been pulling a multi-billion dollar scam for...
One of the hallmarks of a great con artist is that his victims will return again and again to be fleeced. A few months ago I interviewed psychologist Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game: Why...
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40 common tourist scams to look out for
Here's an infographic with 40 scams you should be aware of when you travel. Grifting creeps have tried pulling scams like this on me on various trips but luckily they weren't good enough at their trade...
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Spectacular read: a profile of Anna Sorokin, a con-artist who convinced New...
Jessica Pressler's long, gripping profile of con artist Anna Sorokin (AKA Anna Delvey) has all the making of a first-rate grifter novel, where the likable, unflappable rogue is revealed by inches to...
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Fyre Festival fraudster sentenced to six years in federal prison
Billy McFarland, the 26 year old con-artist who organized a disastrous Bahamas music festival in 2017 was sentenced to six years in federal prison on multiple counts of fraud. Ticket buyers who paid...
View ArticleMachine learning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your...
Phrenology (the fake science of predicting personality from the shape of your cranial bones) is like Freddy Kruger, an unkillable demon who rises from the grave every time some desperate huckster...
View ArticleHow con artists use the Ouija board effect for their scams
In 1851, Michael Faraday secretly measured the muscle movements of Ouija board users who believed that the planchette was under ghostly control. According to Faraday, the users were unconsciously...
View ArticleGoogle Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses,...
We bought a house in 2018 and have been renovating it pretty much constantly ever since: I've had to call out movers, emergency plumbers and electricians, find HVAC repairpeople, hire locksmiths,...
View ArticleHealthcare choice in America is a scam, according to the people who came up...
One of the most frustratingly incredible things about Corporate PR Con Artistry is that even when the chaos magicians behind it reveal their tricks, there are still people who will continue to insist...
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This white collar dot-com true crime story about Stan Lee's media company is...
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee is a brand new biography from author Abraham Riesman about the life of Stan Lee, with all its complications. Riesman conducted more than 150 interviews and...
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The wild story of a new comic book publisher con artist who bought up popular...
Terrific Productions, LLC announced themselves with great fanfare at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019: Terrific Production is new publisher Fall 2019. We are staffed by former senior comic book...
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Con artist busted for scamming 35 women for birthday gifts by pretending to...
Takashi Miyagawa, 39, of Kansai, Japan allegedly scammed three dozen women out of cash and birthday gifts by pretending to be in a serious relationship with each one of them. Apparently his racket...
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The Strange Case of the Tom Ripley of Book Publishing
I've heard whispers about the "Spine Collector," as he's come to be known, for years now. The New York Times published a story about it last December; Vulture did a long-form feature on it in August...
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Netflix paid con artist Anna Sorokin $320k and made her the star of her...
Anna Sorokin, a convicted con-artist who fleeced friends and businesses alike, was paid $320,000 by Netflix for her story. Moreover, she is now the titular star of a fictionalized drama, Inventing...
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After Trump's flight broke down, the cheap grifter is now asking his fans to...
For a billionaire, Donald Trump sure is cheap. First, he got a donor to loan him a private plane on Saturday to fly him from New Orleans to Mar-a-Lago in Florida. And when the plane lost an engine...
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When Americans used to get goat testicle transplants to cure impotence
Every now and then I read something that reminds me that con artistry is truly an art in its own way. Such as the case with this recent MEL Magazine article about John R. Brinkley, an early 20th...
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Watch: Mike Huckabee promotes his "free" Trump guide for kids but it's...
Former preacher Mike Huckabee idolizes pussy-grabber Donald Trump to such a degree, he is now peddling his book The Kids Guide to President Trump in a video ad tweeted by Aaron Rupar and seen on Fox...
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Why gift cards are gold mines for scammers
Telephone scammers who pretend to be IRS or FBI agents and prey on elders tell their potential victims that they will be arrested unless they give them gift cards. It sounds like a con that wouldn't...
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FYRE Fest criminal Billy McFarland says he is building a hotel in the...
Be sure to book your reservations now for convicted scammer Billy McFarland's latest endeavor, called PYRT (pronounced "pirate"). The fresh-out-of-prison impresario said in a podcast interview that...
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Watch a scammer use AI voice mimicking and phone number spoofing to con their...
A hacking expert was hired by 60 Minutes as an experiment to try to pull off a scam, and how they did it was remarkable. Once they got cell phone numbers of the reporter and their assistant from online...
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Florida con artist and his three sons convicted after selling bleach as a...
Mark Grenon, 65, and his sons Jonathan, 37, Joseph and Jordan, 29, were found guilty by Miami jurors of conspiring to defraud the United States and delivering misbranded drugs. The con: selling bleach...
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Donald Trump committed fraud and lied about his wealth for many years, rules...
A judge ruled today that Donald Trump has repeatedly committed fraud since his early days as a real estate developer, regularly lying to banks and other institutions about his assets to game the...
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Man arrested for faking heart attack to avoid his dinner bill at more than 20...
Police in Spain's Blanca region arrested a gentleman who became infamous at local restaurants for eating a fancy dinner and then feigning a heart attack to avoid paying his bill. According to police,...
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Russian billionaire who accused Sotheby's of art fraud loses his lawsuit
Russian billionaire and fertilizer magnate Dmitry Rybolovlev lost his case against auction house Sotheby's in federal court on Tuesday. Rybolovlev accused the company of helping art dealer Yves Bouvier...
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Financial columnist shares how she was scammed out of $50,000 by fake CIA agent
Charlotte Cowles, the financial-advice columnist for New York Magazine's The Cut, shared her enthralling story about being scammed out of $50,000 by a man posing as a CIA agent. Here are the first...
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