Lie, Cheat, & Steal

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Albert Rosenberg, The Yorkville Swindler Sep 26, 2024

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Kath tells Pat about Albert Rosenberg, a man who had many of Toronto's elite fooled into believing he was a fellow power broker in the city's wealthiest neighborhood.

Be sure to check out the documentary, The Talented Mr Rosenberg, produced by Courtney Shea, who wrote the Toronto Life article from which much of this story comes.

Patreon Preview: The Life Coaching Industry Sep 19, 2024

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Kath tells Pat about coaching, an industry undergoing a surge of popularity, and the pyramid scheme-like ways that opportunistic "coaches" take advantage of it.

Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal!

The Tri-State Crematory Scandal Sep 12, 2024

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Pat tells Kath about a crematory operator in the rural south who offered deep discounts to funeral homes to burn their bodies - how'd he do it so cheaply? he never burned them at all.

Patreon Preview: The Chase Money Glitch, Youtube Hoaxers and more Sep 05, 2024

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A lot has been going on in the scam world lately so we are back with another roundup! Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal.

Susan Banks, Coty Craven and the Scandal in Accessible Gaming Aug 29, 2024

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Kath tells Pat about a recent story involving a community of disability advocates working in video games, several of whom may not exist.

PATREON PREVIEW: Academy of Art University Aug 22, 2024

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Kath tells Pat about how a small school dedicated to training artists for the ad industry metastasized into one of San Francisco's largest landowners and bilked aspiring artists out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

August 2024 Scam Roundup Aug 15, 2024

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Pat and Kath talk upcoming vacations, near death experiences, and a roundup of recent stories from the world of liars, frauds, thieves and bullshitters.

Kaitlyn Braun, the Doula Deceiver Aug 08, 2024

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Kath tells Pat about a Canadian woman who scammed dozens of doulas with a fake pregnancy sob story.

Hear the full episode on our patreon at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal!

The Mirai Botnet Aug 01, 2024

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Kath tells Pat about the Mirai Botnet, supercharged form malware that caused such disastrous denial of service attacks that it managed to bring down internet service for the entire US eastern seaboard in 2016. Was this the work of a foreign actor, hoping to influence a crucial US election? The truth is even weirder.

PATREON PREVIEW: Airbnb Jul 25, 2024

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Kath tells Pat about airbnb scams, and we explore a former real estate broker's illegal airbnb empire in New York City that netted tens of millions of dollars before getting busted.

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