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Scams - Dirty Money

Scams - Dirty Money

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Dirty money hides in plain sight, tucked inside offering plates, notarized signatures, and wire transfers that look perfectly routine until someone finally checks the math. This show exists in that gap between trust and ruin, in the moment a bookkeeper notices a number that shouldn't be there.

Dirty Scams is a narrated documentary podcast built around one true story per episode, reconstructed in granular detail from court records, interviews, and the paper trails con artists leave behind. There's no host chatting on mic, no banter, no filler. Each episode drops you straight into the scam as it was actually built and actually caught, following the money from the first small lie to the moment it collapses.

The cases here span the full anatomy of scams: a church deacon who drained donations for over a decade because no one wanted to accuse the man everyone loved, a forgery so precise that experts eventually lost track of which document was the real one, a single tilted letter in an email address that redirected a $1.3 million wire transfer into a stranger's account. Some episodes follow swindlers running long scams over years, patiently earning trust before cashing it in. Others unpack fast, brutal scams that unravel in a single afternoon once someone asks the right question. What connects them all is the same pattern: ordinary people, extraordinary deception, and the small detail that eventually exposes the scam.

Expect deep dives into insurance schemes, investment frauds, identity theft rings, and workplace embezzlement, told with the pacing of true crime and the precision of financial reporting. If you're drawn to stories about scams and how they're built, unwound, and prosecuted, this is built for you.

New episodes release weekly. Subscribe to Dirty Scams so you never miss the next case, and to understand exactly how the scam works before it ever reaches you.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT 経済学
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  • The May 9 bill of lading proved the scheme and wiped out $218,400

    The May 9 bill of lading proved the scheme and wiped out $218,400
    2026/09/01
    A retired estate executor finds a May 9 bill of lading proving a storage-auction scheme; how do you fall from that high?

    The May 9 bill of lading proved the scheme and wiped out $218,400

    In this episode, a routine trip to the county recorder's office turns into a catalyst: a single bill of lading dated May 9 contradicts an auction bid sheet dated May 20 and unravels years of transactions. We trace how paperwork, convenience and trust created a pattern that hid $218,400 in documented losses and ask what small oversight allowed it to continue.

    Person: Nicole Holmes
    Person: Christine Andrews
    Person: Dennis Vought
    Date: May 9 (bill of lading); May 20 (bid sheet); May 28 (file pulled)
    Event: $218,400 in documented losses across fourteen victims

    - Holmes pulled a sealed estate file on May 28 and found a May 20 bid sheet listing twelve registered bidders and a $4,100 winning bid for unit seven‑C.
    - In the same estate packet she held a signed bill of lading showing unit seven‑C had left the premises on May 9-eleven days before the auction was allegedly held.
    - Andrews Storage Auction Services operated by advertising auctions, registering bidders and sending sellers a one‑page settlement with no auctioneer signature, bidder list or venue address.
    - Dennis Vought paid Andrews for units days to weeks before their advertised auction dates and signed bills of lading to arrange pickup at 30-40% of market value.
    - QuickBooks review on June 11 showed matching entries where payments from Vought preceded public listings in 14 transactions over 26 months.

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    14 分
  • The displaced decimal point sank his donations - and toppled a town's trust

    The displaced decimal point sank his donations - and toppled a town's trust
    2026/08/31
    A volunteer fire department's memorial fund shows an engraved plaque and a soaked deposit slip - was a decimal point misplaced?

    The displaced decimal point sank his donations - and toppled a town's trust

    In this episode, we follow how a soaked donation receipt found in a creek becomes the first sign that a small town's memorial fund ledger doesn't match bank records. As an auditor arrives to align registers with cancelled checks, one pattern keeps repeating: recorded amounts are consistently smaller - so what happened to the rest?

    Person: Holly Holt
    Person: Larry Ford
    Person: Person: Christine Adams
    Event: Found deposit slip at Quarry Creek
    Date: March 11, 2019

    - Holly Holt pulled a waterlogged RECEIVED slip for the Mabry Falls Firefighters Memorial Fund from a log jam behind the station.
    - The plaques for donors were mounted twenty days before the slip was found during a crowded dedication in the station lobby.
    - The Memorial Fund was incorporated in September 2016 with Larry Ford named treasurer and the fire chief as public face.
    - Nineteen of twenty-three transactions between Oct 2016 and Feb 2019 showed the fund's ledger amounts smaller than the bank's deposits.
    - Christine Adams, an Ohio Auditor field examiner, set up at a folding table to compare the fund's handwritten ledger to cancelled checks and bank confirmations.

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    16 分
  • The ledger entry that sank Barrett's scheme and ruined four lenders

    The ledger entry that sank Barrett's scheme and ruined four lenders
    2026/08/31
    A farmhouse tractor sits in a ditch while four lenders separately claim its serial number - exposing a $748,000 lease-pool maze and one man's doubt.

    The ledger entry that sank Barrett's scheme and ruined four lenders

    In this episode, we follow how routine paperwork, a county surveyor's photograph, and a man's refusal to accept what the documents said collide. The episode traces the chain of loans, the people who signed them, and the single ledger entry that hinted the scheme was already failing - so how did so many lenders miss it?

    Person: Steven Barrett
    Person: Roy Snyder
    Person: Donna Marsh
    Date: June 14, 2017
    Event: Ledger entry "equip, transfer fee" with no corresponding transfer

    - A John Deere 8R tractor with serial JD-8R-2017-40412 is listed as collateral on four separate loan documents.
    - Roy Snyder found that same tractor in his equipment shed with a blown hydraulic line while a lease-pool statement claimed it was "in active service."
    - Barrett Ag Leasing LLC brokered the lease-pool arrangements; agreements were handled by different lenders who never communicated.
    - Barrett's operating ledger shows a June 14, 2017 entry labeled "equip, transfer fee" that investigator Romano interpreted as covering a default.
    - The combined exposure across the four agreements totaled $748,000 while the tractor's appraised value was $187,000.

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    24 分
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