He Pretended to Be a Dealer - He Stole a Curator's Life and Savings
He Pretended to Be a Dealer - He Stole a Curator's Life and Savings
Fear that the person you trust online is faking an entire life to take everything you own - John Bell lost $61,000 and much of his professional credibility to a man who posed as a Miami antiquities dealer; how did months of forged paperwork and carefully staged expertise convince a careful archivist to wire thousands? Who was the man behind the profile and what did he really take?
In this episode, we tell how a gradual, plausible friendship built on shared professional values turned into a long con that targeted museum…
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