Scammer Stories
Scammers are targeting you and your loved ones. I know all too well. My mother spent $350,000 on a man she believed was her soulmate right before her death. The only way we can fight back is to arm ourselves with information. Scammer Warriors unite! These stories are from victims and their families. The details are so shocking that they're hard to believe.
Episodes
Katharine’s family thought they were prepared when they discovered her loved one was caught in a romance scam. They had the resources. They had the ability to intervene. They even had a plan. But they quickly learned that stopping a romance scam is far more complicated than taking away someone’s access to money. Sometimes the victim escapes the scam, but the family is left picking up the pieces.
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A romance scam doesn't just devastate the person sending the money. It can destroy entire families. In this episode, you'll hear two heartbreaking stories. In one, a family member ends up behind bars. In the other, the stress and trauma lands a loved one in the ICU. These are powerful reminders that the true cost of romance scams reaches far beyond financial loss.
Mary's story begins with a love that lasted a lifetime. She met her husband when she was just six years old, and after decades together, they built a life filled with love, family, and memories. Then COVID changed everything. Mary survived. Her husband didn't.
Grieving, lonely, and trying to find her footing in a world without the person she'd loved for most of her life, Mary became the perfect target for an online s...
Heather Rovet thought she had finally found love when a charming handyman named "Jace" entered her life. Instead, she found herself trapped in a nightmare involving one of Canada's most notorious romance scammers.
In this shocking episode of the Scammer Stories Podcast, Heather shares how a relationship that seemed normal slowly unraveled into a web of lies, manipulation, theft, and fear.
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The number one question I get in my email inbox is from adult children desperately trying to save a parent who is trapped in a romance scam. They’ve tried everything… begging, interventions, cutting off money, even taking control through power of attorney. And still, nothing seems to work.
Over the years, I’ve heard countless theories. Do you hit them with tough love? Do you back off? Is there actu...
The woman in this story was scammed twice. Once by love and the other by hanging on to hope that she could get her money back. Then, one day federal investigators came calling. Anola Johnson says her life was just normal before the scam.
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Scammers aren’t always sitting behind a screen in some far away land. Sometimes they're bold enough to meet in person and integrate into your life to steal your money. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean they land behind bars. The law, and those investigating the crimes, haven’t caught up with the times. That gives the perpetrators time to go on to scam again and again.
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Micheal Breinig is a married father of three who had a great life before scammers stole $2 million dollars. The thing is… he wasn’t even looking for anything. He wasn’t even on social media before his co-workers told him he needed to be online to follow what was happening with the election, politics and whatever else was happening in the world.
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We usually hear from a survivor of a romance, or pig butchering scam, sprinkled with a sextortion case here and there because the human side of these stories connect with people’s emotions. However, talking to the experts is just as important. We’ve heard from FBI agents, financial investigators, advocates and a therapist. Now we’re going to hear from a man who is tackling this nightmare from...
"Don" was married for 42 years, with a successful career, when his life was turned upside down by a single message on his Instagram. He hid his dark secret from his wife until one day he was forced to come clean AND found a way to fight back.
A romance scam victim ended up on the other end of an FBI investigation after losing about $500,000 in a pig butchering scam. Jennifer’s story spun out of control when the scammers threatened violence against her family members while she had hundreds of thousands of dollars from another survivor, unknowingly, sitting in her account. Jennifer ended up with police parked outside of her house.
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You like dogs? Do you have a passion for the elderly? This will break your heart. Kate has agreed to let AARS use her face as the image in the education campaign.
Scammers will find you everywhere. This romance scam survivor was able to pull himself out of poverty as a child and rise above it. Little did he know one of his biggest threats would come years later while he was building his real estate empire. Marquise thought he had found a fantastic new client and then... BOOM! He ended up on the other end of a pig butchering scam.
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You may have seen the hit Netflix documentary. Now, hear the inside story from Attorney Scott Adrian who appears in the show. Adrian shares how he got creative in court to fight for justice for women who were losing hope. He also shares behind-the-scenes insights on building a case against romance scammers and what it was like to film for the show.
Mair Smyth didn’t know who she was dealing with when she stole $100,000 from her “best friend.” Johnathan was a former TV journalist in Houston, Texas.
His journalistic nose turned up a world of witchcraft and prostitution that would lead him all all over the world.
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Jerry had just lost the love of his life when he received an urgent message from Apple Cash. The "customer service representative" instructed Jerry to get $750,000 of his gold bars to deliver to an SUV that pulled up outside of his house. Once the scammers had that in their dirty little hands, they convinced him to retire so they could get his retirement.
The host of the Scammer Stories Podcast made it to Capitol Hill to share information and solutions to lawmakers, who are now leaning into the issue. This episode takes you through the process of how she was chosen and what it was like to sit in that spot.
The other speakers on the panel were:
- Jilenne Gunther. National Director, AARP BankSafe Initiative. AARP. New York, NY.
- Joshua M. Bercu. Executive Director, Indus...
Nate Cram talks about everything he did to try and convince his mother that she was talking to a scammer. He used to work in a sheriff's office... and you'd think if anyone could stop the scam, he could.
Click HERE to watch Nate's mother on Social Catfish.
Renee thought her worst nightmare was the day she found out her mother had lung cancer. She had no idea that things were about to get so bad that she would have to worry about her own future. Renee is in trouble. She was diagnosed with a debilitating disease as a child, and then multiple serious health setbacks as an adult. She depended on her mother a lot for her day-to -day care. Her future was left in quest...
Tracey spends most of her time trying to help romance scam victims and their families end the nightmare. She talks to victim daily and she's seeing an alarming rise in sextortion cases related to romance scams.
Click HERE to reach Tracey.
Click HERE to join her Onlinesafe group.
Click HERE to reach Anna with Love Said.
Click HERE to reach Kathy with Advocating Against Romance Scammers.
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