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The Red Shoe: How a Lost Oxford Unmasked a Heartbreak Scam

The Red Shoe: How a Lost Oxford Unmasked a Heartbreak Scam

The quiet discovery of a single size eleven brown oxford in wet soil set off the unravelling of a romance scam that stole $41,000 from a cancer survivor - but how did one abandoned shoe expose months of deliberate deception? Which small detail turned a seeming friendship into a calculated betrayal?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the morning the shoe was found through the months of online contact and in-person meetings, detailing how an apparent fellow survivor inserted herself into Rebecca Smith’s life and what…

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