#goldenageofscam

An episode of the #rtbth podcast, hosted by Real Talk: Beyond the Headlines, titled "#goldenageofscam" was published on January 4, 2023 and runs 67 minutes.

January 4, 2023 ·67m · #rtbth

Summary

We are living in a golden age of scam.   Or, according to actor Ben McKenzie and journalist Jacob Silverman, in their upcoming book Easy Money, a golden age of fraud.     Be it fraud or scam - the point is that deception will take you far in the world today. The election of George Santos to congress is a perfect example of this. The downfall of SBF, founder and former CEO of FTX, is another glearing example of the heights (and depths) scam and deception will take you in the world today.     Deception, unfortunately, is a valuable social currency.     #rtbth discusses the #goldenageofscam with first time guest of the podcast Okechi Okoroafor, financial analyst and graduate of NYU Stern Business School, and creator of the blog budgetunconscious.com.     Show Links budgetunconscious.com   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scam   - https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-02-09/column-pandemic-scams   https://marcellus.in/story/the-golden-age-of-fraud-is-upon-us/   https://newrepublic.com/article/165663/covid-19-pandemic-fraud-crypto-nfts-bitcoin   https://www.wiux.org/article/2022/05/the-golden-age-of-scamming-why-we-are-so-fascinated-by-fraud   https://www.google.com/books/edition/Easy_Money/fBlMzwEACAAJ?hl=en   https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/crypto-peaked-in-nov-2021-investors-lost-more-than-2-trillion-since.html   https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/opinions/crypto-black-investors-carmona/index.html   https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-purchased-lamborghini-after-receiving-39-million-ppp-loans   https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140823783/a-congressional-report-says-financial-technology-companies-fueled-rampant-ppp-fr   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html   https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/lawyer-michael-avenatti-sentenced-14-years-federal-prison-stealing-millions-dollars   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53309873   https://qz.com/africa/1879261/fbi-use-instagram-to-get-dubai-nigerian-fraudster-hushpuppi   https://g.co/kgs/7E78BE   https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-183   https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-reading-effective-altruism/   https://twitter.com/coffeebreak_YT/status/1606349116157693970?s=20&t=ADtyyQnWcG6wVn3qHqgsig   https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-you-need-to-know-about-401k-accounts-with-bitcoin/   https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/   https://twitter.com/rt__bth/status/1268543812831449094?s=20&t=SePE9A9kxfYI-3vdcLcUCg

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