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The Hipster Grifter (Fan Pick) Jul 26, 2022

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New Cheat! episodes weekly starting in August. While we’re away working on the new season, we’re highlighting some of our fan favorites, including this one from July 2021.

In the late noughties a woman appeared in New York. She was edgy and cool and she had a tattoo on her chest that read I Love Beards.

But she was hiding a secret. A secret that – when it came out – would turn her from just an ordinary hipster into a con woman who helped define a generation.

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Plagiarism At The New York Times (Fan Pick) Jul 19, 2022

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Missing your Cheat! fix? We've got a brand new season on the way. In the meantime, we’re highlighting some of our fan favorites, including this this one from November 2021, where we talk to the cheater himself.

At the beginning of spring 2003 a young journalist by the name of Jayson Blair seemingly had it all. In five years, he had gone from summer intern to staff reporter at one of the world's most respected news organisations, The New York Times. He had the keys to the kingdom. Until something happened that led us to discover the truth about Jayson and his reporting.

As Jayson himself says in an exclusive interview with Alzo - 'I had the world's best feedback session'.

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Stolen Art, Stolen Back (Fan Pick) Jul 12, 2022

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Missing your Cheat! fix? We've got a brand new season on the way, full of new stories of the people we love to hate - Cheats! New episodes weekly starting in August. In the meantime, we’re highlighting some of our fan favorites, starting with this one from October 2021

In 2010, the first of a series of international heists took place at a royal residence in Sweden. The thieves set fire to cars to distract the police, ignored the more valuable items on display, and stole a very specific set of Chinese artifacts. Then, they fled by speedboat. It was almost too dramatic to be true.
Then after one stolen item was located, a shocking theory arose about who may be masterminding the heists.

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A Very Special Alien Autopsy Jul 05, 2022

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In 1995, FOX aired the one-hour special, Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? Amid various expert testimonies and commentary, there was a piece of footage from a mysterious source that further ignited a debate that had been raging for a while. Were aliens real? And did the U.S. government have more information—and more access—to them than we knew?

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Sidney Poitier's Imaginary Son Jun 28, 2022

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In the 1980s, well-heeled Manhattanites opened their homes to a young man they believed to be Sidney Poitier’s son. He’d promise them parts in movies, and charm them with anecdotes of being on set with his father, or his life at Harvard University. They’d give him food, a place to sleep, and even a little money. The only problem was, Sidney Poitier didn’t have a son.

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The Great Tax Prep Swindle Jun 21, 2022

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Last year, Intuit—the company that owns the tax prep software TurboTax—reached a settlement with 50 state attorneys general, requiring the company to issue $141 million in refunds to users.

The problem? For years, TurboTax has been advertising free filing services but only 2% of 70% eligible tax payers actually filed at no cost.

And it turns out…that might have been Intuit’s plan the whole time.

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The Boy in the Balloon (Update) Jun 14, 2022

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At the end of this episode, last aired in August 2021, Alzo speaks to someone who knew the Heene family—behind the scenes.
In 2009, a little town in Denver called Fort Collins made international headlines. The Heene family were doing an experiment with a huge homemade balloon in their back garden when the balloon escaped its tethers and flew off. But it’s what they told the police that caused a media frenzy.
They reported that their 6 year old son had climbed inside the flyaway balloon.
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Under Foals Pretenses Jun 07, 2022

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For a long time, if you were in America and looking to gamble, you'd head to the racetrack to bet on horses. Maybe sip on some cocktails while you're there too. But that all changed in the mid-'90s--when gambling laws got lax. Suddenly there were more ways for folks to play it fast and loose with their hard-earned cash and racetracks had to find a way to stay afloat.

The story of how one private industry managed to rope in billions of dollars in public subsidies.

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The Bad Batsman May 31, 2022

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In the early 1990’s Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa. He began a process of shedding the sins of apartheid and show the rest of the world that his country wasn’t a rogue state. His foreign policy stretched from international aid missions to international sport.

In this time, a new sporting hero came to fame: Hansie Cronje - the captain of South Africa’s cricket team. Over a six year period, Hansie won over the love of all South Africans. Little did they know, he was harbouring a dark secret, one that would break the hearts of all his supporters.

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Targeted by the State May 24, 2022

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The day after Dr. Feng “Franklin” Tao returned from his trip to China in 2019, FBI agents were at the door of his home in Lawrence, Kansas. He was being arrested.
Someone had called in a tip claiming that this University of Kansas chemistry professor might be involved in…espionage.
An investigation began, under the mantle of a questionable national security program, which turned Dr. Tao’s life upside down. There was just one problem: was there ever actually any evidence to justify these suspicions?
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