Who is “Wall Street Whiz Kid” David Bloom? Caroline D’Amore learned the hard way after the master conman orchestrated an elaborate scheme to defraud her and many others out of nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Season 1 of Once Upon a Con follows Caroline as she turns the tables on David in an unexpected game of cat and mouse.
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Episode Transcript
Why would you do that to me when I thought
we were friends?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We are friends, Los Angeles, twenty twenty one. A friendly
neighbor appears out of nowhere and promises to make all
my dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Let's not forget that David Bloom was a professional, caught artist,
so you didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But my dreams soon turned into a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Bloom generally targeted people with.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Money, and I was not alone.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
He took in over one hundred people for over fifteen
million dollars. One of the victims was his own grandmother.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
David had a band lee and his chauffeur. It was
a British secretary. It answered his office fine.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
He walked in off the street by eight months, and
he had broken company records.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
David was a genius.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
I was married to David for almost ten years. It
was insane that I was barely functioning, and I just
had this realization that he will not stop until he
kills me.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
But I figured this grifter out before he realizes it,
and I start recording every lie.
Speaker 7 (01:08):
We're selling you the twenty section a quarter next monthay, Ever,
twen days later you'll have a wire transfer or.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Check every con.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Easy but it's David.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
I'm gonna put you on speaker phone an interest you to.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Carolina and every manipulation.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
I love you, whatever you need till that money comes
and you just tell me I'll have it to you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, he just thinks I'm just a freaking dummy.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Now on the table's a turn like he doesn't know
that you know and now you're playing him.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Getting a con artist to pay for their crimes is
an easy Gorge David who BLUs a scammers.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But I'm not gonna stop until I bring this con
man to justice.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm Caroline de Moray.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Listen as I take down my scammer on Once Upon
a Con starting February twelfth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your PODCAS tests
Host
Caroline D’Amore
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