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Dirty Scams is a narrated documentary podcast built around one true story per episode, reconstructed in granular detail from court records, interviews, and the paper trails con artists leave behind. There's no host chatting on mic, no banter, no filler. Each episode drops you straight into the scam as it was actually built and actually caught, following the money from the first small lie to the moment it collapses.

The cases here span the full anatomy of scams: a church deacon who drained donations for over a decade because no one wanted to accuse the man everyone loved, a forgery so precise that experts eventually lost track of which document was the real one, a single tilted letter in an email address that redirected a $1.3 million wire transfer into a stranger's account. Some episodes follow swindlers running long scams over years, patiently earning trust before cashing it in. Others unpack fast, brutal scams that unravel in a single afternoon once someone asks the right question. What connects them all is the same pattern: ordinary people, extraordinary deception, and the small detail that eventually exposes the scam.

Expect deep dives into insurance schemes, investment frauds, identity theft rings, and workplace embezzlement, told with the pacing of true crime and the precision of financial reporting. If you're drawn to stories about scams and how they're built, unwound, and prosecuted, this is built for you.

New episodes release weekly. Subscribe to Dirty Scams so you never miss the next case, and to understand exactly how the scam works before it ever reaches you.]]>enBusinessCopyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENThttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/eee466ef190faee0442833051eb3b46f.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scams-dirty-money--7307813Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:25:18 +0000OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENTOBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENTcreators@obomedia.comDirty money hides in plain sight, tucked inside offering plates, notarized signatures, and wire transfers that look perfectly routine until someone finally checks the math. This show exists in that gap between trust and ruin, in the moment a...
Dirty Scams is a narrated documentary podcast built around one true story per episode, reconstructed in granular detail from court records, interviews, and the paper trails con artists leave behind. There's no host chatting on mic, no banter, no filler. Each episode drops you straight into the scam as it was actually built and actually caught, following the money from the first small lie to the moment it collapses.

The cases here span the full anatomy of scams: a church deacon who drained donations for over a decade because no one wanted to accuse the man everyone loved, a forgery so precise that experts eventually lost track of which document was the real one, a single tilted letter in an email address that redirected a $1.3 million wire transfer into a stranger's account. Some episodes follow swindlers running long scams over years, patiently earning trust before cashing it in. Others unpack fast, brutal scams that unravel in a single afternoon once someone asks the right question. What connects them all is the same pattern: ordinary people, extraordinary deception, and the small detail that eventually exposes the scam.

Expect deep dives into insurance schemes, investment frauds, identity theft rings, and workplace embezzlement, told with the pacing of true crime and the precision of financial reporting. If you're drawn to stories about scams and how they're built, unwound, and prosecuted, this is built for you.

New episodes release weekly. Subscribe to Dirty Scams so you never miss the next case, and to understand exactly how the scam works before it ever reaches you.]]>falsed163886a-6353-5461-b4f3-6979f0dda717episodic