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Stolen Love

Stolen Love

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Have you ever wondered if the person you're falling for online is truly who they say they are? Welcome to Stolen Love, the podcast that unmasks the shocking reality behind online dating scams and the masterminds who perpetrate them.

Stolen Love dives deep into the heartbreaking world of romance scams, revealing the deceptive tactics used by con artists to steal not just money, but trust and emotional well-being. We share compelling true stories of victims who lost everything, alongside expert insights on how these sophisticated fraudsters operate. From intricate catfishing schemes to elaborate investment scams disguised as love, we expose the red flags you need to recognize.

New episodes arrive daily, every single day of the week, Monday through Sunday, promptly at 9:00 AM. Each episode of Stolen Love offers a gripping narrative, crucial prevention tips, and a deeper understanding of the psychological manipulation involved in these devastating financial scams. Our goal is to empower you with knowledge to protect yourself and your loved ones from becoming the next target.

This podcast is for anyone navigating the complexities of online relationships, those curious about the dark side of digital connections, or anyone who has ever suspected a scammer's intentions. If you want to understand how to identify a scammer and avoid falling victim to these predators, Stolen Love is your essential guide.

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  • The shoe in the mud: how they built a man from her heartbreak

    The shoe in the mud: how they built a man from her heartbreak
    2026/09/10
    The shoe in the mud: how they built a man from her heartbreak

    A single polished Oxford sits in a frozen backyard with a phone number folded inside it, placed deliberately where Alice Hunt never went. She had just lost fourteen thousand dollars to a man named Duane Lewis who showed up to five months of dates, remembered her horse's name, and said he loved her - but the photo on his LinkedIn belonged to a stranger in Arizona. Who was really in that backyard, and how many people had been playing the same man?

    In this episode, we trace the architecture of a romance scam built not by one impostor but by a coordinated team that understood Alice's deepest vulnerabilities so well they could exploit them. We follow the voice recordings that revealed two different speakers, the parking lot footage showing two different faces, and the discovery that Marcus Webb had done this before to another woman three years earlier - a connection the prosecutor had but Webb denied at sentencing anyway.

    Person: Alice Hunt
    Perpetrator: Marcus Webb, age 38
    Event: Romance scam using fake "Duane Lewis" identity
    Location: Obendon Township, Carver County
    Amount stolen: $14,800
    Date: November 2017 - February 2018

    - Alice administered insulin injections to her quarter horse Pepper every single day without exception, maintaining a count of 162 consecutive days when the fraud was discovered.
    - The fake "Duane Lewis" photograph was taken from the LinkedIn profile of Patrick Serrano, a civil engineer in Tucson, Arizona who had no knowledge his image was being used.
    - Roy Schultz, a septic tank service worker, found a single polished dark brown Oxford shoe size 11 in Alice's backyard on a wooden bench in March 2018, with a phone number written in blue ink folded inside.
    - Voice analysis of Alice's recorded phone calls revealed at minimum two distinct speakers presenting as Duane Lewis, with one carrying flat Midwest vowels and the other not.
    - Marcus Webb had previously operated the same rotating-cast romance scam against a woman named Barbara Fitch in 2015, stealing $22,000, but the statute of limitations expired before charges could be filed.

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    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
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  • The photograph in the map sleeve: how a love token became evidence

    The photograph in the map sleeve: how a love token became evidence
    2026/09/09
    The photograph in the map sleeve: how a love token became evidence

    A four-by-six drugstore print slides from a trail map sleeve on a Tuesday morning in February, showing two men at a rooftop bar-one of them Terry Wilson, who had never been to a rooftop bar in his life. The inscription on the back reads: "For when you need proof he was real." But the photograph was placed there four months earlier by someone Terry had never met, and it sat undiscovered while he wired thirty-one thousand dollars to a voice on Wednesday night calls. How did a man fall in love with a person who did not exist, and what made the photograph-intended as proof of Raymond McCarthy's reality-into the first piece of evidence that he never was?

    In this episode, we follow Terry Wilson's loneliness into a wellness app forum and track how Kevin Marsh built a fictional nutritional consultant named Raymond McCarthy using a stolen Brazilian fitness influencer's photograph and voice modulation software. We examine the seven wire transfers, the reverse-image search that came back clean, the voicemail traced to Lagos, and the cell tower data that placed Raymond McCarthy within seven minutes of Terry's house-then we uncover the head fake that resolves the entire case: the photograph was not Marsh's mistake, but his ex-girlfriend Lisa Tran's intervention, placed to help a stranger she had never met.

    Person: Terry Wilson
    Perpetrator: Kevin Marsh, age 44
    Case: Romance fraud using fabricated persona Raymond McCarthy
    Location: Pella County, western Tennessee; Kettridge Township
    Amount stolen: $31,200
    Event: Photograph discovered February, arrests made March

    - Terry Wilson, 52, worked as a logistics coordinator on Aspen Ridge Drive in Pella County, western Tennessee, recovering from pre-diabetes and a 21-year marriage to Sandra Kimble that ended six years prior.
    - Kevin Marsh, 44, lived in a furnished rental on Dorado Lane in Kettridge Township, seven minutes from the trailhead Terry walked every morning.
    - The persona "Raymond McCarthy"-a nutritional consultant from Atlanta, originally from Cork, Ireland-used a stolen profile photograph from Brazilian fitness influencer Eduardo and voice modulation software to create a synthetic Irish lilt.
    - The first contact came in late March via direct message on NutriPath; phone calls began by the fifth week, every Wednesday at 12:30 in the morning, continuing for 14 months.
    - Terry made seven wire transfers totaling $31,200 from his retirement savings and a home equity line opened in November without telling his sons, with pretexts including a supplier audit dispute, plumbing emergency, a hospitalized daughter in Dublin, and a practice acquisition bridge loan.

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    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
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    23 分
  • The spreadsheet behind the love letters: how he timed every request to her bank account

    The spreadsheet behind the love letters: how he timed every request to her bank account
    2026/09/08
    The spreadsheet behind the love letters: how he timed every request to her bank account

    A widow in the Texas Panhandle opened her front door at dawn holding a dead phone and eleven opened bank envelopes. She had sent $412,000 to a man who had never existed-a Canadian engineer whose photograph belonged to someone else entirely, whose video calls came from six hundred miles away, whose every request for money arrived within seventy-two hours of her certificates of deposit maturing. How did one person's grief become another person's spreadsheet?

    In this episode, we trace the five months of patient warmth before the first request, the discovery of the stolen photograph by a retired bookkeeper who noticed something wrong, and the laptop recovered in Tulsa that contained the real architecture of the scheme-not romance, but a precisely calculated financial timeline. We examine the eleven certificates of deposit, the eleven deployment extensions, and the question of how someone could know her net worth before she ever knew his real name.

    Person: Pamela Zeller
    Perpetrator: George McCarthy (real first name), age 51
    Location: Tulliver Flats, Texas Panhandle; Tulsa, Oklahoma rental property
    Amount stolen: $412,000 (recovered: $67,000)
    Event: Romance fraud spanning fourteen months, arrested March 29, 2019
    Platform: Social media messaging, video calls

    - Pamela inherited eleven certificates of deposit totaling approximately $412,000 after her husband Tom Zeller died of a cardiac event in March 2017.
    - George's first financial request arrived in July 2018, five months after initial contact, asking for $11,000 for a customs delay in Geneva.
    - A reverse image search run by Pamela's friend Tammy Chambers revealed the photograph belonged to Steven Kowalski, a structural engineer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, used on forty-seven web pages.
    - The laptop recovered at McCarthy's Tulsa rental property contained a spreadsheet with eleven rows matching each of Pamela's CDs, with maturity dates and a column labeled "estimated available."
    - Every deployment extension and new obstacle arrived within seventy-two hours of a CD maturing-eleven extensions, eleven CDs, eleven exact matches with zero exceptions.

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    24 分
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