Paper Empire | The Case of Equity Funding Corporation of America
Join Caleb and Greg on a twisting saga of an insurance company that began in the late 1950s, rose to spectacular heights in the 1960s, and came crashing down in the 1970s.Sponsors The Small Business R...
31 Juli 20241h 13min
Pyramid Schemes: How to Lose Friends and Alienate Money
You’ve probably heard of pyramid schemes, but are you confident that you know what it is? And if you are, do you know the difference between them and multi-level marketing companies? Or Ponzi schemes?...
17 Juli 202450min
We’re Not a Bank in Kansas Anymore
Legend has it that when asked why he robbed banks, the infamous 20th century bank robber Willie Sutton said, “Because that’s where the money is.” In the 21st century, banks still have the money, but t...
3 Juli 202453min
Meet the Cybersecurity Scholar: Riana Pfefferkorn of Stanford University
As a co-teacher of Stanford University’s Introduction to Cybersecurity course, Riana Pfefferkorn regularly had to guide enterprising students away from violating the law. And it was one of those laws,...
19 Juni 20241h 1min
The Jacksonville Jaguars Employee Who Went All In on Fraud
Gambling is often a factor when a person perpetrates a fraud, sometimes to a shocking degree. Caleb and Greg discuss one such case involving a finance professional who went to extraordinary lengths to...
5 Juni 202441min
More Pandemic Pillagers Got What They Had Coming
More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, stories of regular people and their ill-fated schemes to exploit pandemic aid programs continue to emerge. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discu...
22 Maj 202445min
We’re All Somebody’s Fool | Dan Simons & Chris Chabris
Think you’re too smart to be taken in by a fraudster? If so, that may make you an even bigger mark. In this episode, Caleb and Greg speak with psychologists Dan Simons of the University of Illinois Ur...
8 Maj 20241h 11min
You’ve Got Fail | The British Post Office Scandal
The US Postal Service has long been the butt of jokes for poor service, but nothing that comes close to this. In this transatlantic episode, Caleb and Greg unpack the story of hundreds of British subp...
24 Apr 202445min
