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The Curator's Folder: How a Basset Exposed a Perfect Romance Scam

The Curator's Folder: How a Basset Exposed a Perfect Romance Scam

Fear and fascination collide: a basset hound unearthed a monogrammed burgundy folder in a nature preserve that contained a museum-grade archival sleeve, a photo, an address and a three-digit number matching a transfer - how could someone use precision and provenance to build a romance scam that fooled a senior curator? What led Ruth Farrell, an expert in authentication, to wire thousands to a man with no hotel record and an invented identity?

In this episode, we tell what happened after Fig found the folder and why the archival…

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