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Caught In The Lie: True Crime
by Joan
Welcome to Caught in the Lie: True Crime, the podcast that exposes the world’s most masterful con artists, scammers, and serial liars.Every week, we pull back the curtain on the mind-boggling double lives of everyday grifters, high-society imposters, fake influencers, and digital deceivers. Through high-tension, serialized storytelling, we investigate not just how these massive scams were pulled off, but the fascinating psychology of deception—and why smart people fall for brilliant lies.From devastating romance scams and corporate fraud to wellness cults and shocking internet hoaxes, we break down the twists, the turns, and the ultimate downfalls when the truth finally catches up.
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The Silent Skimmer - True Crime
How Goldman Sachs Secretary Joyti De-Laurey Pillaged Her Bosses' Private Portfolios
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The Counterfeit Heir - True Crime
How Christian Gerhartsreiter Conned High Society as a Fake Rockefeller
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The Royal Illusion - True Crime
How Anthony Gignac Posed as a Saudi Prince to Con Luxury Hoteliers and Elite Investors
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The Impostor in the Family - True Crime
How Frédéric Bourdin Became a Missing Texas Teenager
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The Phishing Epidemic - True Crime
How Cybercriminals Used Targeted Emails to Compromise 80 Million Anthem Healthcare Records
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The Decentralized Pyramid - True Crime
How Forsage’s Smart-Contract Exploited Crypto Tech to Run a Global Ponzi Scheme
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The Ultimate Crypto Collapse - True Crime
How Satish Kumbhani Engineered the Multi-Billion Dollar BitConnect Ponzi Scheme
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The Locked Vault - True Crime
How Gerald Cotten Left QuadrigaCX’s $250 Million in Crypto Beyond the Reach of Investors
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The Stolen Cassock - True Crime
How James Hampton Posed as a Catholic Priest to Embezzle Community Trust and Funds
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The Artificial Miracle - True Crime
How Paolo Macchiarini Falsified Stem Cell Research While His Patients Suffered Fatal Complications
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The Scalpel of Terror - True Crime
How Dr. Christopher Duntsch Grossed Millions While Paralyzing and Killing His Patients
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The Serial Spouse - True Crime
How Richard Scott Smith Used Marriage as a Weapon to Drain Credit Lines and Vanish
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The Phantom of Finance - True Crime
How Michael Sabo Evaded Federal Agents for Decades as the 'Great Imposter' of Banking
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The Crypto Club Illusion - True Crime
How Pablo Rodriguez Used AirBit Club to Launder Millions in a Global Ponzi Scheme
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The Firewall Breach - True Crime
How Paige Thompson Exploited a Cloud Misconfiguration to Access 100 Million Credit Profiles
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The Digital Ghost - True Crime
How Anthony Weiner Used Fake Avatars and Encryption Apps to Evade State Investigators
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The Nazi Masterpiece Trick - True Crime
How Han van Meegeren Saved His Life by Forging Millions in Fake Vermeers
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The Professional Patient - True Crime
How Sarah Delashmit Faked Severe Illnesses to Infiltrate Specialized Medical Camps
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The Queen’s Shadow - True Crime
How Jeanne de Valois Forged a Royal Identity to Steal France’s Most Infamous Necklace
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The Doctor of Deception- True Crime
How "Dirty John" Meehan Targeted Wealthy Women and Stalked His Way Into Their Lives
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The Missing Cryptoqueen- True Crime
How Ruja Ignatova Fabricated OneCoin and Vanished with Billions
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The Ghost in the Code- True Crime
How Attackers Weaponized SolarWinds Updates to Infiltrate Global Networks
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The Infrastructure Freeze- True Crime
How DarkSide Used a Single Leaked Password to Paralyze the US East Coast Fuel Network
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The Cyber-King of Crime- True Crime
How Evgeniy Bogachev Built the Gameover Zeus Network to Drain Corporate Bank Accounts
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The Philanthropic Forger- True Crime
How Mark Landis Tricked America’s Top Museums by Giving Away His Fakes for Free
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The Toxic Gospel- True Crime
How Jim Humble Used a Fake Church to Hawk Industrial Bleach as a Miracle Cure
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The Phantom Agent- True Crime
How William Jordan Used a Fake MI5 Identity to Control Women and Steal Their Lives
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The Caribbean Kingpin- True Crime
How Allen Stanford Used a Private Bank to Build a $7 Billion Empire of Lies
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The Chameleon of Cannes- True Crime
How Christophe Rocancourt Swindled Hollywood’s Elite with a Rolex and a Lie
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The Imposter Emir- True Crime
How Anthony Gignac Spent Thirty Years Swindling the World as a Fake Saudi Prince
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The Cold-Hearted Telemarketer- True Crime
How Jen Shah Fleeced the Elderly While Living a Real Housewives Fantasy
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The Trojan Cloud- True Crime
How a Senior Engineer Extorted Ubiquiti Networks from Inside the Network
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The Hollywood Blackout- True Crime
How Park Jin-Hyok Unleashed a State-Sponsored Cyber Strike Against Sony Pictures
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The Cyber-Heist Laundromat- True Crime
How Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan Washed $4.5 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin
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The 20th Century Canvas- True Crime
How John Myatt and John Drewe Forged Masterpieces with Common Wall Paint and Fake History
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The Boy Wonder of Fraud- True Crime
How Barry Minkow Built a Multi-Million Dollar Empire Out of Shredded Carpet and Fake Invoices
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The Puppet Master Psychiatrist- True Crime
How Dr. Isaac Herschkopf Usurped His Patients' Fortunes and Lives
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The Dine-and-Dash Deceiver- True Crime
How Paul Gonzales Exploited Dating Apps to Leave a Trail of Unpaid Bills
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The Royal Pretender- True Crime
How Christian Gerhartsreiter Infiltrated High Society as a Fake Rockefeller
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The Vanishing Adviser- True Crime
How Melissa Caddick Stole $23 Million From Her Inner Circle Before Disappearing into Thin Air
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The $11 Billion Accounting Mirage- True Crime
How Bernie Ebbers and WorldCom Cooked the Books with Capital Expenditures
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The Ghost in the Algorithm- True Crime
How EmpiresX Used a Fake AI Bot to Siphon Millions from Crypto Investors
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The Phantom Platform- True Crime
How Ray Trapani Fabricated a Crypto Giant Out of Thin Air
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The Billionaire Gucci Master- True Crime
How Ramon Abbas (Hushpuppi) Funded an Instagram Lifestyle Through Global Cyber Heists
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The Phantom Portfolios- True Crime
How Michael Lipkin Used Fake Property Titles and Ghost Buyers to Secure Millions
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The Backroom Butcher- True Crime
How Rick Van Thiel Ran a Makeshift Surgery Clinic Without a Shred of Medical Training
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The Masterpiece Illusion- True Crime
How Wolfgang Beltracchi Painted Hundreds of Fakes and Fooled the International Art World
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The Digital Casanova- True Crime
How Raymond Abbott Exploited Dating Apps to Drain Widows’ Retirement Funds
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The Phantom Striker- True Crime
How Carlos Kaiser Faked a Decade-Long Professional Soccer Career Without Ever Playing a Match
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The Catch Me If You Can Myth- True Crime
The Real FBI Record of Frank Abagnale Jr.’s Elaborate Forgeries
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Caught in the Lie: True Crime, the podcast that exposes the world’s most masterful con artists, scammers, and serial liars.Every week, we pull back the curtain on the mind-boggling double lives of everyday grifters, high-society imposters, fake influencers, and digital deceivers. Through high-tension, serialized storytelling, we investigate not just how these massive scams were pulled off, but the fascinating psychology of deception—and why smart people fall for brilliant lies.From devastating romance scams and corporate fraud to wellness cults and shocking internet hoaxes, we break down the twists, the turns, and the ultimate downfalls when the truth finally catches up.
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Joan
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