HeyJaredStolen Podcast
Scams, cryptofraud, investment fraud, celebrity impersonation, romance baiting, sexploitation, crypto ATM fraud, job scams, toll scams, human trafficking... Stolen is a weekly podcast that uncovers the global rise of the transnational scam industry.
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Rewriting the Fraud Conversation to Focus on Empathy (Susan Ralston) (opens the original)
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Episode 68: Susan Ralston outlines the evolution of fraud and why she considers it a human, emotional crime whose victims deserve empathy over judgement. Erin West meets with Tower Federal Credit Union VP and COO to talk about changing the fraud conversation to focus on empathy. Susan’s career started at a grocery store cash register and evolved into decades of frontline fraud-fighting experience. We need to put our banker hats down and be human. — Susan Ralston, Tower Federal Credit Union Susan
A Detective’s Journey from Street Patrol to Chasing Stolen Crypto (Scott Simons) (opens the original)
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Episode 67: How an assignment with the DEA led to Detective Scott Simons becoming one of the nation’s go-to crypto tracers and the investigative lead for Operation Shamrock’s Crypto Coalition. The Greenfield, Wisconsin officer's career took an unusual turn in 2015 when he opened one of the earliest cyber drug-trafficking cases in the history of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Simons taught himself to trace cryptocurrency and navigate the dark web to investigate cases that spanned Miami, Argent
Romance Scam Revisited: Life After “The Tinder Swindler” (Cecilie Fjellhøy) (opens the original)
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Romance scam survivor Cecilie Fjellhøy helps expose fraud — and find justice for fraud victims. Well-known for Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler documentary, Cecilie Fjellhøy joins Erin West to expose the real cost of online fraud — and why justice is still out of reach for victims. This isn't just a story about one scam. It’s a roadmap of what happens when a financial crime destroys your life — and no one shows up to help. In this powerful episode of The Stolen Podcast, Erin and Cecilie dive deep i
The Last Mile: Why Banks Alone Can't Stop Pig Butchering Investment Scams (Lenny Gusel) (opens the original)
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Erin West talks with 20-year fraud-fighting veteran Lenny Gusel of Feedzai about why banks are the last line of defense against pig butchering scams, not the first.
Scam Victim Traces $700,000 to Two Scammers in China (opens the original)
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Episode 65: Don was a retired engineer building his dream home when a Facebook "friend of a friend" request turned into a years-long journey into the world of investment scams. Host Erin West and Don trace how a slow-building pig butchering scam that began in late 2021 cost him $700,000 — and how he did the investigative work law enforcement couldn't, or wouldn't. Don walks through the grooming process, the moment a single click handed scammers full access to his crypto wallet, and how he chased
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