Lizzie Mulder appears to be a wealthy Orange County CPA, swooping in like an angel to help small business owners manage their companies. After this clever con artist’s scams push her clients to the brink, Lizzie ends up in the crosshairs of an enterprising Laguna Beach detective and the FBI. But even that heat can’t prevent Lizzie from pulling her most brazen con yet.
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Episode Transcript
Living here is like being in the middle of smoking mirrors.
Everyone presents themselves as one way, and invariably you find
out it's not the truth. Orange County, California, is fertile
ground for con artists like Lizzie Mulder. Lizzie definitely wanted
to be somebody that was seen. She was very charismatic.
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She came in and she said all the right things,
She had the right look. It seemed like she was
doing a good job. She really is doing a good
job of scamming everyone she meets, using a wide array
of confidence tricks and cutting edge technology. And I'm thinking,
I'm talking to a guy overseas that wants to invest
into my winery, and really, I'm talking to that woman
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that is just scamming me the whole time. And it
sounded like a man, it did. It sounded just like
a man. What all was said and done? How much
money did she get from you? She got me for
like two eight five? Yeah? How much money did your
boss end up bluesing millions? She crippled us badly. We
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are facing bankruptcy because of her. There's so much more
about Lizzie that goes into the level of diabolical sociopathic behavior.
Her actions completely sickened me. There were tears. I mean
it was just just never seen the sort of devastation
like that. You have no regard for anyone but yourself, Lizzie,
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You're a horrible person. I'm Jonathan Walton, host of Queen
of the Con Season two, The o C Savior, dropping
May five on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Johnathan Walton
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