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hey it's karen in georgia from my favorite

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murder here you know it feels like scam scam

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stories are really having moment right now there

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so many shows and movies lately

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about con artists for example

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the new podcast from wonder you persona

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the french deception this is story

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of g their szekely one of the greatest con

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artists of all time you know have ever wondered

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what would be like to pick up the phone call someone

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and end the phone call fifty million

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dollars richer this series investigates

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has she cleans successfully do some

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of world's most powerful people into

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simply handing over their fortunes it

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explores how he evaded the law for years

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and evolved into a robin hood like hero

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to many more than just tale of criminal genius

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this is a show about the moment we're living

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in right now the golden age of scammers

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and the power of seduction but what happens

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when fantasy we've been learning to finally

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crumbles away so listen to this preview

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of persona the french deception and

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while you're listening follow persona the french deception

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wherever you get your podcasts or you can

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listen early on amazon music or early

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an ad free they subscribing to wonder replace

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an apple podcasts or the wonder yeah

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the i

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oh no hello

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the word and french that means scam

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or , a scammer

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or a con artist is sometimes called and on

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occur the original definition

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translates roughly as one who

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amuses in order to defraud

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the good way to think about scans i signed for

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least the most inspired once stream

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, talking about the most

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elaborate confidence games cancer

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and thousands or millions of dollars

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tens millions the as yes it's

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not good the scam is rarely a single

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event in time like assessed

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a robbery no

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truly great khan is a story

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as you know i'm sending you and forty

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five museum solved

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it's fairytale when the taps into

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listeners greed or loneliness

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or vanity charity the

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run this kind of scam you have to be more

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than just clever or persuasive

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gift invent whole imaginary worlds

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and then put your mark inside it make

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them part of it the that they're adopting

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a new persona just as you are that's

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the art part being a con artist and

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on occur to ,

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in order to defraud if you

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can do that if you can make can story so

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enticing that the listener lives inside

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of it and doesn't want leave don't

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even have to steal the money

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given to you or

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, very that was written

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and i'm in rome and ,

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honor the

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white he considers to give him money

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evil genius man

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who started out as out as bit scammer but

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his ambitions kept growing

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email down known as ceo

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fraud and the f b i says it's on

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earth

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any case richer targets with

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more brazen schemes is said i n g

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their annual for the big it

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, two million euro site i

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mean he can convince you to do and think

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ever since he was going after giant

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corporations, american express adidas,

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euro-disney and taking

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tens of of millions from some of of the the richest people

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in the planet was all all the the game

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until it it wasn't

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oh

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yes, he was scammed

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an hour so happy that somebody

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scam scam same says he

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become fugitive for legend even

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a hero to some a modern

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day robin hood you know what is the nickname

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of

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i know if i'll try to do and when you give

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that they're just as you please the

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from wonder if pineapple street studios and

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amazon music persona

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, deception follow persona

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the friends deception wherever you get your podcasts

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or listened early on amazon music or early

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and actually i'm wondering plus wondering alabama

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okay all but wonder he out