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Episode 63: Freewheeling with Cyber Red Queen Tarah Wheeler Sep 19, 2022

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Red Queen Dynamics founder Tarah Wheeler knows a thing or two about smashing norms in the cybersecurity industry. But as a human being, she also has some experience being compromised. You’ll definitely want to tune in as she tells us about her own goal as a cybersecurity executive, and how she practices cybersecurity in her own life.

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Episode 62: Joelle’s Identity Thief Almost Stumps the Chumps Sep 12, 2022

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Joelle was on the launch team for the What the Hack podcast, so she knows a thing or two about scams. But when her credit card was hit for thousands of dollars, even we didn’t know what happened–that is, until Travis figured it out (sort of).

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Episode 61: Andrew Gold Investigates A Dark Corner of the Internet Sep 05, 2022

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Investigative journalist and podcaster Andrew Gold talked to us before about the way magicians work. His second appearance on the show explores a more serious topic. This is not an easy listen, but Germany’s controversial approach to potential sex offenders raises some privacy and ethics issues that are central to the topics we discuss on WTH.

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Episode 60: Caitlin Brodnick Sees Pro Wrestlers on Her Reality TV Aug 29, 2022

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Caitlin Brodnick hosts the ScamWow podcast where she talks about what we talk about, and she has a must-listen podcast. When she’s not in front of a microphone, she spends a lot of time trying to figure out if Reality TV is actually real. Here’s what we found out.

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Episode 59: Dara Starr Tucker Sees Right Through a Scam Aug 22, 2022

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All Dara Starr Tucker wanted was an affordable place to live not quite in the center of things–a place to breathe easy. When she found what looked to be a dream rental for a third of her budget, she was excited, but when she got there her Spidey-sense told her to run.

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Episode 58: Ann Cavoukian Fights For Your Right to Privacy Aug 15, 2022

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When it comes to privacy, Ann Cavoukian is a legend. She created Privacy by Design during her tenure as Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, which landed her in the upper echelon of cybersecurity peeps. And she’s Raffi’s sister! Check it out.

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Episode 57: Brett Johnson is the Bad-Guy-Turned-Good-Guy We’ve Been Wanting to Meet Aug 08, 2022

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If you followed the news in the early 2000s, you probably remember the ShadowCrew cybercrime group. Brett Johnson rolled with them. These days he’s on the right side of the law, helping people avoid getting hacked, scammed and otherwise crimed… You don’t want to miss this one.

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Episode 56: Michelle Tea’s Tarot Business Draws a Fool Aug 01, 2022

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Looking for the blue checkmark on Instagram is the easiest way for consumers to tell if they are dealing with a cloned account, but it’s not so easy to get. The site provides crucial exposure to creatives of all stripe. The problem is scammers are everywhere.

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Episode 55: Rudy Shepherd’s Money Goes to Zelle and Back Jul 25, 2022

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Rudy Shepherd was not used to selling his own work online. He had a gallery for that. But when the relationship with that gallery ended, he had to fend for himself, giving new meaning to the phrase, “learning on the job.” Listen in as he takes us on a tour of the Zelle hell with a scammer who knew just what to say.

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Episode 54: Andy Pham Claws Back a Multi-Million Dollar Heist Jul 18, 2022

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There are tens of millions of small and medium-size businesses in the United States alone, and depending on their state incorporation, many are in danger of business identity theft.

Andy Pham is an American hero by many standards, for sure with regard to the right to become wildly successful. He’s truly living the American Dream. Having grown up in Communist Vietnam for the first ten years of his life, his mom sent him to the United States where she believed he would have a better life and avoid being drafted into the war in Cambodia. She was right.

His story of success is eye-popping, but what happened to him on the scam front is almost beyond belief. Download the latest episode to hear how a nasty dentist managed to steal a five million dollar project from Pham, and how he got it back.

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