• American’s Scammers and Thieves With Mike and Samantha (earphones*)

  • By: Roger Raftbone
  • Podcast

American’s Scammers and Thieves With Mike and Samantha (earphones*)

By: Roger Raftbone
  • Summary

  • America like most countries had its share of hustlers and con men throughout history. This podcast is about a true stories of numerous men who scammed Americans out of millions of dollars.
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Episodes
  • Mike & Samantha - Are You Too Smart to Click On Ransomware?
    Feb 28 2022
    Episode Notes

    We’re going to talk about Ransomware. Unlike most computer experts, most people are not too familiar with  hackers who are getting rich tricking people into clicking on ransomware. Mike and Samantha try to use simple lanquage to describe how to avoid ranaomware.

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    3 mins
  • Scammers Who Scam Sick Little Old Ladies
    Mar 7 2021
    Episode Notes

    The following is a reenactment of a real scam about an elderly person who trusted someone with her finances.

    They think she stole someone's identity to get the job at the elder care agency and she might be going by a different name these days.

    In the hands of someone trustworthy, a power of attorney can be an important tool to manage the finances of an elder who has become permanently or temporarily unable to handle financial affairs. Nolo Press https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/elder-financial-abuse-scams-33007.html

    https://youtu.be/Utv7mZoLWGM

    Mucic Provided By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The late Sonatas (II rec.) by Gianluca Luisi

    Topics mozart, piano sonatas, sonatas, onclassical, piano music, mp3, mp3s, free music, creative commons

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    5 mins
  • American’s Scammers and Thieves With Mike and Samantha
    Feb 21 2021
    Episode Notes

    In 1817 Drew was a rogue cattle driver.  Scammed cattle station Drew then became one of the best stock manipulators on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1867 Drew had a large block of stock in the Erie Railroad. He joined up with two clever con men Jay  Gould and Jim Fisk.  Gould was an expert at stock manipulation and Fisk was a crooked carpetbagger who was a notorious “robber baron” of that period. Their job was to convince Vanderbilt to buy as much stock of the Erie Rail railroad as possible so he could take over the company. The scam ended when someone at the New York Stock Exchange noticed the ink on some of the fake stock certificates were still wet.  Gould managed to bribe the state legislature in order to make the extra stock certificates legal so they avoided jail. Gould also ended up compensating Vanderbilt for his losses. Drew got stung by Gould and Fisk.  Right Gould and Fisk betrayed Drew because the price of Erie Stock kept rising causing Drew who shorted the stock to go broke. He died in 1879.

    Source: Internet Archives FTC.gov

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    3 mins

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