The Glass Bowl Trap: How Four Goldfish Exposed a Romance Scam
The Glass Bowl Trap: How Four Goldfish Exposed a Romance Scam
Grief turned into a lure when a glass mixing bowl with four goldfish appeared on a backyard pond and set off a federal fraud probe that traced a romance scam to a man with a forty-one-page playbook - where was the woman who put the fish there? Who used a VOIP voice and stolen photos to turn daily two- to three-hour calls into $23,000 gone wire transfer by wire transfer?
In this episode, we tell how a grief forum post and a photograph of a pond led to a fake profile, nightly phone calls, and a script called script_grief that mapped…
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