Episode 274: How to Not Buy a Stolen House
Rochester broker "J-Man" explains how scammers impersonate owners, why AI-made rental listings are multiplying, and one thing owners and ren...
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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 276 episodesEpisode 273: Profiler Jay Jones Takes on Fake Job Scams
Congrats, you're the perfect candidate! (You're not. You're the mark.) Jay Jones "The Profiler" has taken down more than 58,000 fake job pos...
Episode 272: You Should Be Unsettled: Meta and Teens
When she was 12, Ava Smithing's Instagram algorithim led her from bikini ads to eating disorder content. Meta settled for $17 billion recent...
Episode 271: Are You Being Watched? (You Are.)
Worried about AI? Don't trust Flock Security? You might get on a law enforcement list for that. Investigative reporter Daniel Boguslaw expla...
Episode 270: Your Driver's License Can't Prove Who You Are Anymore
A driver's license breach didn't just leak data—threat actors now have access to a universal key to every identity verification system that...
Episode 269: The Student Data Free-for-All
As technology is integrated deeper into classrooms, the lines between education and data privacy have been destroyed by for-profit data mine...
Episode 268: Your Privacy Is Being Taxed
Same store, same day, different price. David Dayen takes us on a deep dive into the murky cyberscape of surveillance pricing, we enlist youn...
Episode 267: No Price Tag for You!
Fictitious discounts. payday markups. AI setting airfares in real time. Investigative reporter Derek Kravitz, Grace Gedye (Consumer Reports)...
Episode 266: How Much Is Surveillance Pricing Costing You?
Welcome to the infuriating world of surveillance pricing. Chris "the Producer" Parr created a digital nobody to find out whether companies w...
Episode 265: 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 264: 15 Years of Fear: A Stalking Story
A stranger showed up at Anna Nasset's art gallery with a painting called "Marry Me." She said no. He did not get the message — for 15 years....
Episode 263: The Affinity Scam Playbook
Coco Berthmann sold a survival story. Amanda Riley sold a cancer battle. Both were lies that raided communities, wallets, and trust. Journal...
Episode 262: The Mystery that Changed Wyoming's Stalking Law
Fake screenshots. Burner numbers. Forged emails. A stalker who somehow always knew what a 15-year-old was wearing. Blogger Cathy Holman thou...
Episode 261: Aaron Parnas on the Firehose of Our Digital Here-and-Now
Aaron Parnas is the Walter Cronkite of Substack. He has millions of followers who follow him on every platform to get his just-the-facts rep...
Episode 260: Jackals of Trust: A Short History of Cybercrime
Cybercrime expert Gary Warner joins to discuss Nigerian confraternities, the "campus cults" rooted in idealism that morphed into a multi-bil...
Episode 259: Capture The Flag!
Ethan Merritt is an WTH alum, but the last time he was on the pod he was the target. This time, he asked for it: Find four flags using only...
Episode 258: Fighter Pilot Cadet Turned Hacker, She Keeps Us Safe
A teenager rage-hacks a Tetris leaderboard and becomes a millionaire by 18. Now Tal Kollender breaks into companies for a living—and fixes w...
Episode 257: Seth Godin's Anti-Spam Playbook: Be Awesome
Marketing visionary Seth Godin explains how the Internet got hijacked by an attention-stealing spam economy that keeps us in an endless loop...
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...
Episode 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...