Al Flores Breaks the Internet… in 1999

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Remember when we actually said "world wide web?" Remember netscape? Remember the dot-com bubble? Remember Y2K?Remember when a car dealership company said it had the cure for AIDS and sold stocks for $9 through early internet message boards until someone from the FTC commented "hey, this isn't real?"No?On this weeks episode of Fraudsters we bring you Alfred Flores and Uniprime – a con on a .com two decades ago.Special thanks to John Reed Stark, cyber-cop extraordinaire, for a wonderful and nostalgic interview.Special thanks to Kai Elwood-Dieu for his wizardry on the website for this episode (http://uniprimeinc.com/).Special thanks to Joshua Sutherland for composing music for this episode. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Fraudsters ad-free. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Remember when we actually said "world wide web?" Remember netscape? Remember the dot-com bubble? Remember Y2K? Remember when a car dealership company said it had the cure for AIDS and sold stocks for $9 through early internet message boards until someone from the FTC commented "hey, this isn't real?" No? On this weeks episode of Fraudsters we bring you Alfred Flores and Uniprime – a con on a .com two decades ago. Special thanks to John Reed Stark, cyber-cop extraordinaire, for a wonderful and nostalgic interview. Special thanks to Kai Elwood-Dieu for his wizardry on the website for this episode (http://uniprimeinc.com/). Special thanks to Joshua Sutherland for composing music for this episode.

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