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 listen, we think you'll enjoy.
FIAM - 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 recognized every piece of the onboarding paperwork — provides her SSN, bank account, and driver's license to a company that doesn't exist. Then pays a $350 "onboarding fee" via Zelle. By Monday, the company is gone. Within two weeks, someone is opening credit cards in her name across the country.
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...FIAM - 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 everything right — receives a $2,850 check and a professional assignment. She cashes it, wires $2,200 to "evaluate a wire transfer service," and submits a thorough report. Four days later, the check bounces. The money is gone. And she owes her bank every penny.
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FIAM - 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 a retired mailman... the perfect candidate for a corrupt organization who positions this senior as the last link in a criminal supply chain. When the FBI knocks, it's not the scammers they're looking for. It's him.
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FIAM - 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 leading to the pig-butchering to the tune of $38,000. A scam preying on trust, warmth, friendliness, and the exclusivity of a deal of a lifetime all perpetrated by a "distant relative."
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FIAM - 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 various forms of payments. Three different seniors each simply wanting to make things right coerced and frightened out of their hard-earned wealth.
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FIAM - 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 individuals each attracted to a different type of event, each with hopes and dreams, only to have them challenged by the circumstances of exploitation. Listen in and see how each of them make out.
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FIAM - 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 packed with hotel, travel, beautiful sunsets, and once in a lifetime concert tickets.
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FIAM - 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 manipulation and allure of the perfect concert in town and "tickets going fast" she left herself vulnerable to the lowest of proprietors.
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FIAM - 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 the fears of exposure whether real or manufactured. This particular scam focuses on the scammer's securing of a contact list housed on the senior's computer and using that to frighten the senior into paying for silence!
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FIAM - 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 the fears of exposure whether real or manufactured. This particular scam focuses on the scammer's hacking of the Senior's webcam and using it to frighten the senior into paying for silence!
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FIAM - 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 the fears of exposure whether real or manufactured. This particular scam focuses on the scammer's securing of a previous password and using it to frighten the senior into paying for silence!
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FIAM - 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 immediate harm's way and bringing them back from the brink of physical dangers brought on by catastrophic events... all while bleeding Seniors dry of both money and worse, HOPE!
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FIAM - 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 provide free services to unsuspecting Seniors all the while enrolling them into Hospice then charging $1,000s fraudulently through their Medicare accounts...and worse!
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FIAM - 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 defrauding seniors who find themselves caring more about saving the forest and its inhabitants than they do keeping an eye on what's really going on behind the scenes of the organization promising safety and prosperity for the forest and its wildlife dwellers.
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FIAM - 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 prosperity and hope to scholarship students all made possible through the countless donations by Senior communities that were duped into believing that someone really cared about our future leaders of tomorrow.
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FIAM - 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 shepherding of them to safe sanctuaries while playing on the heartstrings of Senior animal lovers everywhere.
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FIAM - 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 organizations promising to feed the poor, providing outreach, counseling, and serving communities with grace all while bleeding Seniors dry of both money and worse, HOPE!
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FIAM - 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 while defending our country only to cheat and deceive seniors and retirees of their wealth while making them believe they are providing for those who've made the ultimate sacrifices.
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FIAM — 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 cures, expert scientists, and patients brought back from the brink of death, all to collect enormous amounts of money for research and other needs while bleeding Seniors dry of both money and worse, HOPE!
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FIAM - 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 leadership and deceive seniors and retirees with colorful and alluring missions that barely receive funding from the $1000's or $1,000,000's donated.
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FIAM - 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 leadership and deceive seniors and retirees with colorful and alluring missions that barely receive funding from the $1000's or $1,000,000's donated.
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FIAM - 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 happened.
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FIAM - 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 fundraisers rich.
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FIAM - 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 felt cheated in the settlement.
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FIAM - 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 completely unrecognizable. But there's a twist he never saw coming.
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FIAM - 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 was in jail. She doubled down against the urging by all those involved that she was being scammed and insisted on sending yet another $10,000 to her thieves.
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FIAM - 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 an incredibly elaborate scheme robbing her of $100,000s of thousands of dollars.
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FIAM - 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 never met.
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FIAM - 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 himself caught in a ring of enterprise fraud targeting seniors exactly like him.
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FIAM - 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 possible, by the promise of mortgage relief.
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FIAM - 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 confronted terrifyingly by the FBI.
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FIAM - 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 incredible fashion.
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FIAM - 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 ponied up small fees for the services of savings.
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FIAM - 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 her.
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FIAM - 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 is a schizophrenic.
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FIAM - 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 hijacked computer for $661k.
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FIAM - 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 bank... in order to drain his accounts.
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FIAM - 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 checkbook.
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FIAM - 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.
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FIAM - 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 help in and out of the shower, while she recovered.
Maybe a little physical therapy.”
“But Her stepson and his wife somehow got to thinking she would die there…”
“They took her elderly husband to the bank…”
“They got Ruth removed from all her accounts.”
“They went to the courthouse…"
“It took months to unravel everything…. for a senior who was nearly erased"
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