Scams, Fraud & Deception
456: Laura Nirider | Anatomy of a False Confession
Laura Nirider (@LauraNirider) is the co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and the co-host of the Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions podcast. What We Discuss with Laura Nirider: Two to five percent of people currently serving time in prison have been falsely convicted. False confessions and admissions are present […]
VIEW EPISODE454: Dodging Criminal Liability For Erotic Roleplaying | Feedback Friday
You’re in an online community that chats about erotic roleplay (ERP), and inadvertently engaged in conversation with a couple of minors. When you discovered their age, you immediately broke off contact — but you’re still worried this could have legal repercussions. Should you be concerned? We’ll tackle this and more here on the first Feedback […]
VIEW EPISODE453: Javier Peña and Steve Murphy | Taking Down Pablo Escobar
Javier Peña and Steve Murphy (@deanarcos) are former DEA agents best known for bringing down Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the ’90s, as dramatized on the first two seasons of Netflix series Narcos and chronicled in their book Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar. What We Discuss with Javier Peña and Steve Murphy: […]
VIEW EPISODE450: Frank Maderal | The Dirty Money Behind Illicit Gold Smuggling
Frank Maderal is a litigator and trial attorney (as featured on Netflix’s Dirty Money) whose work has given him an intimate knowledge of illicit gold mining and smuggling operations that wreak environmental, social, and economic havoc on a global scale. What We Discuss with Frank Maderal: Why gold is such an ideal, sought-after medium by […]
VIEW EPISODE443: Kidnap Me Once, Shame on You | Stereo Sunday
There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, “Kidnap me once, shame on — shame on you. Kidnap me — you can’t get kidnapped again.” But Jordan doesn’t know any better because he comes from Michigan, so he’s actually been kidnapped twice. On this Stereo […]
VIEW EPISODE442: Sextortion Scam Security for Naïve Nudes | Feedback Friday
In a momentary lapse of your usual good sense, you naïvely provided nude selfies to someone on a dating app, and now they’re trying to extort a ransom from you. If you don’t pay up, they’ve threatened to share said nude selfies with your family, friends, and employer. Now what can you do? We examine […]
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