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Fraud in a Moment
Fraud in a Moment is the sharing of quick and dramatic stories based on real scams perpetrated on seniors. Shared in the dramatic narrative style of old-time '50s radio broadcasts, these tales 'in a moment' are meant to quickly educate and entertain those who want to protect our revered class of citizens or simply protect themselves. With the hundreds of types of frauds being perpetrating on our elderly and the thousands of scammer perpetrating them… best we learn how they target us. Take a…
Episodes
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Gone Before Her: The Funeral Director Who Left Before She Did
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the scamming of an unsuspecting senior who spent $11,400 pre-planning her funeral — white lilies…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Second Opinion: Saved from Surgery By Family
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the scamming of an unsuspecting senior who is told she'll be in a wheelchair within two years if she…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Kickback Carousel: Specialists Spinning Patients for Four Years
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 8-minute story shares the scamming of a perfectly healthy 78-year-old — who leaves a routine physical with four specialist…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Diagnosis Factory - The Bills for Tests You Never Had
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the scamming of an unsuspecting Senior who almost throws away her Medicare statement — until her…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Gone By Monday: The Fake Employer Who Vanished With Her Life
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 8-minute story shares the scamming of a retired office manager who prepared for three days, aced the video interview, and…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Shop. Wire. Lose: The Mystery Shopper Assignment That Cleaned Her Out
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the scamming of a retired schoolteacher who Googled the company, called her daughter, and did…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Package Not Included: The Remote Job That Made Him a Federal Suspect
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the scamming of an unsuspecting Senior through the "Reshipping Scam" or "Mule Scheme" perpetrated on…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Golden Orchard: Harvesting Trust, Stealing Futures
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the scamming of an unsuspecting Senior through the friendly connection of genealogy eventually…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Check That Was Never Served
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the trifecta of scamming three Seniors using various restaurant bill scams each designed to solicit…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Seats to Nowhere: Three Seniors, Three Scams, One Playbook
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the trifecta of scamming three Seniors all out of events through ticket fraud. Three different…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Sunset Escape: When the Vacation Vanished
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the scamming of a Senior through the misleading and heartbreaking practice of fraudulent vacations…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Last Row: When the Show Never Existed
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the scamming of a Senior who was moderately cautious but then because of the psychological…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The List That Never Existed: When a Scammer Holds Your World in Their Hands
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 4-minute story shares the scamming of a Senior through the horrible and vile practices of the sextortion scam by exploiting…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Eye In The Dark: When a Phantom Camera Turns Fear Into Obedience
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the scamming of a Senior through the horrible and vile practices of the sextortion scam by exploiting…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Password That Haunted The Screen
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the scamming of a Senior through the horrible and vile practices of the sextortion scam by exploiting…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Fundraiser Who Stole Hope
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of a charity that preyed on Seniors with pleas for helping children in…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Hospice With No Care
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of an organization that posed as support through Medicare intending to…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Forest That Never Grew
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares that sometimes even legitimate charities can find themselves at the center of unscrupulous practices…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Scholarship With No Students
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the creative but diabolical schemes of an organization that traveled like a medicine show promising…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Rescue That Never Ran
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of charities that promise the prosperity of defenseless animals and the…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Church With No Congregation
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of charities that set themselves up as religious church-oriented…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Soldier Who Never Stood
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of charities that set themselves up as patriotic arbiters of those injured…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM — THE MIRACLE THAT NEVER HEALED
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of charities that set themselves up as medical miracles with phenomenal…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Shelter of Shadows
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 4-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of charities that set themselves up as personal checkbooks for their…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The CEO That Made More Than The Charity
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 4-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of charities that set themselves up as personal checkbooks for their…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Disaster That Never Happened
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of charities invented to seize wealth based on a disaster that never…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The 92% Fundraising Fee
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of charities that spend all of their time collecting funds only to make…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The $20,000 Love Story
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5 min story shares the scamming of a senior who, against all urging, was determined to send $20,000 to his fiancée, whom he…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Care Company Conspiracy
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6 min story shares the scamming of a senior who hired a company to assist him with his daily living activities only to find…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Cubicle Confession
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5 min story shares the story of a senior who was sure he was being scammed because the charges on his account were…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Last Day Heist
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6 min story shares the attempted scamming of a dead man's estate because he was involved in a business where his partners…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Make-it-Rain-Mirage
This 6 min story shares the scamming of an innocent senior promised financial sanctity, by an internet celebrity who lived the enviable life of riches made…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Shopping Cart of Shadows
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6 min story shares the scamming of a senior who was an expert in fraud but was so well fooled that even she fell victim to…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Threatening Voices
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6 min story shares the scamming of a senior who was so invested in her scam that she refused to believe that her grandson…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The FBI Phantom
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6 min story shares the scamming of an innocent senior who got caught up in a child pornography ring and soon found him…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The $200,000 Houseguests
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5 min story shares the scamming of a senior kept high and drunk by twenty-something twins bent on liquidating his riches in…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Dodger in the Drive-Thru
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 4 min story shares the scamming of a senior who got caught up in identity fraud by the most unlikely woman to impersonate…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Tax Review Trap
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6 min story shares the scamming of a senior who got caught up in Tax Review scam promising lower property taxes if he just…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - EP46 - The Nursing Home Takeover
“Ruth was a grandmother temporarily in a nursing home doing rehab after a medical event…” “ — just a few weeks with Certified Nursing Assistants providing some…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Blind Man's Double
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5 min story shares the scamming of a blind senior who got caught up in identity theft by an imposter posing as him at the…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Burger King Bandit
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 3 min story shares the scamming of a senior who got caught up in a bizarre food frenzy simply from letting her bank card…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Checkbook Prison
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5 min story shares the scamming of a senior by his caretaker who hid his prosthetics while she helped herself to his…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Fingerprint Faker
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 4 min story shares the unbelievable gall of a scammer trying to seize the bank accounts of a senior by claiming the senior…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Hospital Phone Heist
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5 min story shares the scamming of a senior by a hospital attendee who used rehabilitation as a weapon capitalizing on the…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Marriage License Heist
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5 min story shares the scamming of an impaired senior who seeming found herself in a marriage with a woman half her age. If…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Phantom Investigator
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5 min story shares the unbelievable scamming of a senior who got caught up in Tech Support scam and ended up with a…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Irrigation Mirage
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of a landscaper intent on stealing from an unsuspecting senior. If you…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - One Scan Away
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 9-minute story shares the disastrous outcome associated with one of the newest scams out there; the scanning of fraudulent…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Sealed with Deceit
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the elaborate scamming of a senior, by imposters she thought were there to protect and fight for her…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Sticker Shock
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the scamming of a senior through the unscrupulous practices of fraudsters who manipulate parking…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Agent on the Line
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the recovery scam practices of fraudsters intent on taking a second bite of the apple with an…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Hunting Headline
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the attempted re-robbing of a senior with fraudsters infiltrating a media outlet she'd come to trust…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Missing Sage
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of a landscape company whole stole trees from a senior only to sell them…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Romantic Wrong Number
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 8-minute story shares the scamming of a senior by pretending to text with a wrong number. If you like this story - please…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Screen Judge
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 8 min story shares the scamming of a senior who got caught up in a fake courtroom scam under threat of federal arrest. If…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - The Soldier Who Never Came Home
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 8-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of a romance scam impersonating a soldier overseas intent on seizing the…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Trapped At Home
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 8 min story shares the scamming of a senior through Federal "digital arrest" and millions in alleged money laundering. If…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Blue Line - Broken Trust
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 5-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of a ticket fraudster who deceived a senior by promising premium seats but…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Cold Lies - Hot Air
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 7-minute story shares the unscrupulous practices of an HVAC company secretly intent on scamming an unsuspecting senior with…
Fraud in a MomentFIAM - Erased Promises: The Credit Repair Mirage
Welcome to Fraud in a Moment - This 6-minute story shares the unscrupulous and criminal practices of a fraudster who claimed to be able to fix any credit issue…