Episode 256: The Colonel & the Catfish
A retired Army Colonel becomes the unwitting face of thousands of romance scams. Bryan Denny has been breaking the hearts of people he's nev...
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What the Hack with Adam Levin
"What the Hack with Adam Levin" is true cybercrime with dad jokes. It’s a no-shame zone for anyone who’s ever been scammed, hacked, phished or cyber-bushwhacked. Every week, we feature fasci...
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20 of 258 episodesEpisode 255: How Kindness Works in The Scammer's Playbook
She said her name was Clara Harper from Chase Bank. She argued with a police officer. She needed gift cards. Brian Ward shares the three tim...
Episode 254: Even If You're Not Online, You're Online
Craig doesn't have Facebook. He's not a gamer. He builds things, fixes things, grows things, has an assortment of antique chainsaws. So why...
Episode 253: When the Bait Bites Back
A former military guy goes viral, but not in the way he'd hoped. With fake profiles popping up by the dozen using his photos to scam lonelyh...
Episode 252: Surveillance In America, Pt 4: No Warrant Required
The ACLU's Nate Freed Wessler won Carpenter v. United States and changed how the Fourth Amendment applies to your phone. But data brokers fo...
Episode 251: Surveillance In America, Pt 3: Just Say No
Suveillance-for-profit bros say they can eliminate crime in America, but what about the Fourth Amendment? This week: a 1950s numbers racket...
Episode 250: Becky Holmes and the Future of Fraud
Online fraud isn't just getting smarter, it's getting personal. Becky Holmes, author of "The Future of Fraud," traces con artists from ancie...
Episode 249: The End of the Constitution Had to Start Somewhere
Sen. Ron Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the ACLU’s Kia Hamadanchy and Marcy Wheeler explain why the...
Episode 248: Open Source Intelligence and the Death of Obscurity
Data as duh-duh. It's all is out there—indexed, sold, and weaponized. Open source intelligence turns public records into a hacker's playgrou...
Episode 247: Ghost Murmur and the Real Assault on Privacy
The whisper: A downed U.S. pilot was located by tracking his heartbeat from 40 miles away. Real, or fake news to rattle Iran? Benn Jordan an...
Episode 246: Trafficked: Part Three, Asian Scam Compounds
You’ve heard how the compounds work. This week we go inside one—through the eyes of Small Q, an Ugandan musician who was trafficked in and g...
Episode 245: A Professional Noticer of Things
Christopher Anderson has spent thirty years in high-stakes situations—war zones, sinking boats, the current White House. What he’s learned a...
Episode 244: Inside Tracy Chou's Block Party for Social Media
One of Time Magazine’s Women of the Year and a vocal advocate for diversity in tech, Tracy Chou built Block Party after discovering firsthan...
Episode 243: Criminal Mind vs. Criminal Mind
Jim Clemente built a career reading criminals. FBI special agent, behavioral profiler, Unabomber case, the hit series Criminal Minds. Then s...
Episode 242: Surveillance in America, Pt 2: Flock You Very Much
Flock Safety says their cameras have never been hacked. Benn Jordan and Jason Koebler watched themselves on one from their homes. This week:...
Al Franken Holds a Mock Senate Hearing on Privacy with Siri and Alexa (Bonus)
No deep fake here. This week, Al Franken does his own impersonations of Bernie Sanders, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Sherrod Brown and S...
Episode 241: Surveillance in America, Pt 1: Somebody's Watching You
Benn Jordan—musician, acoustic scientist, and one of the sharpest minds on surveillance technology—joins 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and the A...
Episode 240: Who’s Watching the Watchers?
Feeling watched? Join us as Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark breaks down the new reality of digital surveillance. From school apps to...
Episode 239: Is AARP Doing More than the FBI to Stop Scams?
Online fraud isn’t just annoying. It’s a national crisis, one that may have drained $158 billion from the U.S. economy last year alone. In t...
Episode 238: The Phone Call that Broke the Bank
MGM lost $100 million in 2023. Then Caesars paid $15 million ransom. A few phone calls shut down Vegas, highlighting the destruction that on...