What Was It Like to Be a Scammer in 1988?

What Was It Like to Be a Scammer in 1988?

Long before social media, smartphones, and cryptocurrency, scams were already evolving in surprising ways.

In this episode, we travel back to 1988 to explore how fraudsters operated in a world of landline phones, fax machines, handwritten checks, and classified ads. From fake investment schemes and pyramid operations to mail fraud and early computer scams, con artists relied on psychology, patience, and old-school manipulation to deceive their targets.

How did scammers operate before the internet?
What tricks were most effective in the 1980s?
And how did law enforcement try to track criminals in a slower, analog world?

We uncover the methods, the culture, and the surprisingly sophisticated scams that existed decades before modern cybercrime took over.

Because even before the digital age…
people were finding ways to game the system.

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