The Fake Wristband That Sold a Cancer Survivor's Last Trust
The Fake Wristband That Sold a Cancer Survivor's Last Trust
A pristine hospital wristband with the name Robert Dalton appeared on a Dunmore doorstep in November 2019, printed with font spacing a medical records technician said matched a home label printer - not a hospital system. How did a piece of plastic, a stock photo and months of messaging become the center of a federal fraud case that cost a 26-year-old cancer survivor his trust?
In this episode, we trace the steps described in the transcript: the private messages from a man using the name Robert Dalton, the daily calls that began as…
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