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Caught In The Lie: True Crime

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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  1. 65

    Pharma Bro & The Ponzi Payoff - True Crime

    How Martin Shkreli Gouged A Lifesaving Drug and Ran a Hedge Fund Shell Game

  2. 64

    The French Rockefeller - True Crime

    How Christophe Rocancourt Charmer-Swindled Hollywood and the Hamptons Out of Millions

  3. 63

    The Original Arbitrage - True Crime

    How Charles Ponzi Used Postal Coupons to Build and Crash a $20 Million Empire

  4. 62

    The Island Illusion - True Crime

    How Billy McFarland Sold a VIP Fantasy and Left Thousands Stranded in a Sea of Disaster

  5. 61

    The Boiler Room Machine - True Crime

    How Jordan Belfort Used High-Pressure Lies to Drain $200 Million From Main Street

  6. 60

    The Hollywood Con - True Crime

    How Frank Abagnale Jr. Fabricated His Own Legend as History's Greatest Impostor

  7. 59

    The Soho Heiress Mirage - True Crime

    How Anna Sorokin Conned New York High Society on a Trust Fund Built of Paper and Smoke

  8. 58

    The Crypto Emperor's Hidden Backdoor - True Crime

    How Sam Bankman-Fried Funneled Billions from FTX to Fuel His Personal Empire

  9. 57

    The Edison Illusion - True Crime

    How Elizabeth Holmes Built a $9 Billion Silicon Valley Empire on Broken Promises and Pinpricks

  10. 56

    The $65 Billion Mirage - True Crime

    How Wall Street’s Most Trusted Titan Built and Maintained the Largest Financial House of Cards in History

  11. 55

    The Bedroom Illusion - True Crime

    How a Scripted Cult Drama Tricked Millions Into YouTube’s First Massive Reality Deception

  12. 54

    The Royal Forgery - True Crime

    How a Courtesan's Fake Marie Antoinette Letters Weaponized a Cardinal's Desperation and Sparked a Revolution

  13. 53

    The Paper Empire - True Crime

    How a Scottish Fugitive Traded the Myth of Louisiana Gold to Bankrupt the Kingdom of France

  14. 52

    The Bloody Banana - True Crime

    How Chiquita Funded Terrorists While Marketing a 'Clean and Ethical' Banana Supply Chain

  15. 51

    The Gilded Wilderness - True Crime

    How Two Cousins Salted a Colorado Field to Fool Wall Street Elites and Tiffany & Co.

  16. 50

    The Pirate’s Ransom - True Crime

    How Oscar Hartzell Conned Thousands Into Financing a Mythical Quest for Sir Francis Drake’s Billions

  17. 49

    The Pre-IPO Illusion - True Crime

    How JSG Capital Markets Stole Millions From Tech Workers Dazzled by Fake Shares of Uber and Airbnb

  18. 48

    The Colossus of Gypsum - True Crime

    How an Atheist’s Spite-Fueled Lie Unearthed America’s Most Profitable 'Petrified Giant'

  19. 47

    The Pulpit Ponzi - True Crime

    How James Paul Lewis Jr. Weaponized Faith and Friendship to Fleece $311 Million Over Two Decades

  20. 46

    The Alchemist of Munich - True Crime

    How Franz Tausend Conned Weimar Germany's Elite Into Funding a Factory to Grow Gold From Lead

  21. 45

    The Painted Green Generator - True Crime

    How Next Gen Energy Swindled Millions with Low-Tech Diesel Mimicking High-Tech Biofuel

  22. 44

    The Paper Towers - True Crime

    How the Bancroft Property Trust Pocketed Millions in Condo Down Payments for Non-Existent, Un-Zonable Luxury Real Estate

  23. 43

    The Gridiron Ghost - True Crime

    How the Nation's Heartstrings Were Pulled by a Star Football Player's Non-Existent, Dying Girlfriend

  24. 42

    The Rental-Pup Racket - True Crime

    How Sham Veteran Charities Used Rented Puppies to Scam Cash From Soft-Hearted New York Pedestrians

  25. 41

    The Double-Keyed Villas - True Crime

    How Dubai Syndicates Used Fake Digital Deeds to Rent High-End Palm Jumeirah Properties to Multiple Expats Simultaneously

  26. 40

    The Inside Line - True Crime

    How 'The Community' Bribed Telecom Staff to Hijack Cell Phone Numbers and Drain High-Value Crypto Wallets

  27. 39

    The Luxury Mirage - True Crime

    How Robert Shapiro Swindled Thousands of Elderly Investors Out of $1.2 Billion in a High-End Real Estate Ponzi Scheme

  28. 38

    The Digital Hitmen - True Crime

    How the Silk Road Creator Was Blackmailed and Fleeced Out of $730,000 in a Web of Fake Contract Murders

  29. 37

    The Virtual Hammer - True Crime

    How ZeekRewards Used a Penny-Auction Mirage to Run a $600 Million Ponzi Scheme on One Million Victims

  30. 36

    The Scrap Metal Masterpiece - True Crime

    How Victor Lustig Convinced Paris Dealers That the Eiffel Tower Was Being Sold for Parts

  31. 35

    The Phantom Vocals - True Crime

    How Milli Vanilli Conned the Pop World and Lost Their Grammy Without Ever Singing a Note

  32. 34

    The Velvet Switch - True Crime

    How a Hotel Clerk Used Dummy Packages and Sleight of Hand to Swap Real Diamonds With Cut Glass in 1893

  33. 33

    The Firestorm Predators - True Crime

    How Digital Fraud Rings Mimicked 2020 Bushfire Charities to Siphon Global Relief Funds Into Private Crypto Wallets

  34. 32

    The Invisible Utopia - True Crime

    How the New Rome Colony Scam Sold Non-Existent South American Lands to Working-Class Italian Families

  35. 31

    The Apartment Newsroom - True Crime

    How Jayson Blair Fabricated Front-Page News From His Living Room and Shook the New York Times

  36. 30

    The Ghost in the Receiver - True Crime

    How International Fraud Rings Weaponize Generative AI Audio Cloning to Hijack the Voices of Grandchildren in Legal Distress

  37. 29

    The Faith-Based Fleece - True Crime

    How Greater Ministries International Used Promises of a 'Divine Doubling' to Swindle $448 Million From Christian Investors

  38. 28

    The Manufactured Conspiracy - True Crime

    How Titus Oates Fabricated a Royal Assassination Plot to Trigger the Executions of Dozens of Innocent Citizens

  39. 27

    The Pediatric Betrayal - True Crime

    How Hospital Trust Executives Illegally Gambled a Children's Care Fund on High-Risk Overseas Hedge Funds

  40. 26

    The High-Tide Swindle - True Crime

    How Mid-Century Developers Sold California Coastal Dream Lots That Vanished Daily Underwater

  41. 25

    The Short-Cut Champion - True Crime

    How Rosie Ruiz Slipped Out of the Crowd to Steal a Record-Breaking Victory in the 1980 Boston Marathon

  42. 24

    The Lemonade Stand Executive - True Crime

    How 1-800-Charity-Cars Diverted Millions in Vehicle Donations into Executive Pockets Instead of Providing Free Cars

  43. 23

    The Brownstone Predators - True Crime

    How New York Deed Theft Rings Forged Signatures to Steal Luxury Properties From Elderly Homeowners

  44. 22

    The Manufactured Kidnapping - True Crime

    The Manufactured Kidnapping - How Sherri Papini Faked a Three-Week Abduction to Escape Reality While Blaming a Fictional Syndicate

  45. 21

    The Infidelity Blackmail - True Crime

    How Criminal Rings Weaponized the Ashley Madison Data Breach to Extort Millions of Exposed Users

  46. 20

    The Booster's Bankroll - True Crime

    How Nevin Shapiro Funded Miami Football's Lavish Lifestyle with a $930 Million Wholesale Grocery Scam

  47. 19

    The Phantom Vault - True Crime

    How Thérèse Humbert Spent 20 Years Borrowing Millions on the Promise of a Locked, Empty Safe

  48. 18

    The Greenwash Hustle - True Crime

    How the 'Carbon Credit Cowboy' Sold Phantom Environmental Offsets to Corporate Eco-Initiatives

  49. 17

    The Paperwork Squatters - True Crime

    How Sovereign Citizens Used Fraudulent Legal Loopholes to Seize and Claim Ownership of Luxury Mansions

  50. 16

    The Reality TV Ruse - True Crime

    How a Family Staged a Runaway Helium Balloon Emergency for Fifteen Minutes of Fame

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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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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...

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