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Oh My Fraud

"Oh My Fraud" is a podcast where the true crime is shocking, gruesome, heinous, but with way fewer dead bodies. Hosted by Caleb Newquist, each episode explores fraud cases from petty swindles to corporate conspiracies, examining the people involved, their motives, methods, and how they spent the loot before it all came to a spectacular, inevitable end.

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75:18

Paper Empire | The Case of Equity Funding Corporation...

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2024/07/31

Join Caleb and Greg on a twisting saga of an insurance company that began in the late 1950s, rose to spectacular heights in the 1960s, and came crashing down in the 1970s.SponsorsBean - https://ohmyfraud.promo/bean(00:00) - With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies (01:34) - Life Insurance Policies (05:20) - Case Introduction: Equity Funding Corporation (06:55) - The Rise of Equity Funding (15:35) - Innovative Financial Products (25:01) - Expansion and Acquisitions (27:17) - Tragedy

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55:12

Pyramid Schemes: How to Lose Friends and Alienate Money

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2024/07/17

You’ve probably heard of pyramid schemes, but are you confident that you know what it is? And if you are, do you know the difference between them and multi-level marketing companies? Or Ponzi schemes? In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss all that and more about one of the simplest and most common frauds around.SponsorsMakersHub- https://ohmyfraud.promo/makershubRightRev - https://ohmyfraud.promo/rightrevBean - https://ohmyfraud.promo/bean(00:00) - Introduction to Pyramid Schemes(01:01)

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58:30

We’re Not a Bank in Kansas Anymore

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2024/07/03

Legend has it that when asked why he robbed banks, the infamous 20th century bank robber Willie Sutton said, “Because that’s where the money is.” In the 21st century, banks still have the money, but the approach to robbing has changed considerably. Caleb and Greg discuss one such case that features astonishingly deceitful methods.SponsorsMakersHub- https://ohmyfraud.promo/makershubRightRev - https://ohmyfraud.promo/rightrev Blue Onion - https://ohmyfraud.promo/blueonion(00:00) - A Bank

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66:13

Meet the Cybersecurity Scholar: Riana Pfefferkorn of...

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2024/06/19

As a co-teacher of Stanford University’s Introduction to Cybersecurity course, Riana Pfefferkorn regularly had to guide enterprising students away from violating the law. And it was one of those laws, the federal wire fraud statute, that initially caused her to connect with Caleb and Greg. In this conversation, the three of them discuss Jeff Skilling, cybersecurity, hacker movies, and more. SponsorsMakersHub- https://ohmyfraud.promo/makershubRightRev - https://ohmyfraud.promo/rightrevSettle

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42:31

The Jacksonville Jaguars Employee Who Went All In on...

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2024/06/05

Gambling is often a factor when a person perpetrates a fraud, sometimes to a shocking degree. Caleb and Greg discuss one such case involving a finance professional who went to extraordinary lengths to change his bad luck.SponsorsSettle - https://ohmyfraud.promo/settleHOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud channel. Register for the course,

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51:21

More Pandemic Pillagers Got What They Had Coming

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2024/05/22

More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, stories of regular people and their ill-fated schemes to exploit pandemic aid programs continue to emerge. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss some of the cases featured in the 2024 COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force Report.SponsorsG-Accon - https://ohmyfraud.promo/gacconKeeper - https://ohmyfraud.promo/keeperBlue Onion - https://ohmyfraud.promo/blueonionHOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of

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76:06

We’re All Somebody’s Fool | Dan Simons & Chris Chabris

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2024/05/08

Think you’re too smart to be taken in by a fraudster? If so, that may make you an even bigger mark. In this episode, Caleb and Greg speak with psychologists Dan Simons of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Chris Chabris of the Geisinger Research Institute. Dan and Chris’s new book, “Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It,” goes deep on why we’re all potential victims of clever (or not-so-clever) scams. SponsorsG-Accon -

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50:28

You’ve Got Fail | The British Post Office Scandal

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2024/04/24

The US Postal Service has long been the butt of jokes for poor service, but nothing that comes close to this. In this transatlantic episode, Caleb and Greg unpack the story of hundreds of British subpostmasters whose lives were turned upside down when they were falsely accused of stealing from the Post Office. SponsorsG-Accon - https://ohmyfraud.promo/gacconKeeper - https://ohmyfraud.promo/keeperHarbor Compliance - https://ohmyfraud.promo/harborHOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes,

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66:31

The 2024 ACFE Report to the Nations, Annotated with...

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2024/04/10

In many episodes, Greg cites statistics from “A Report to the Nations,” the biennial report on occupational fraud, from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. As luck would have it, the most recent edition dropped in 2024, and so naturally, Caleb and Greg took the opportunity to discuss it. HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud

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60:59

Next Stop, Fraud | The Case of Frederick Darren Berg

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2024/03/27

SponsorsWebgility - ohmyfraud.promo/webgility We all have childhood dreams. Not all of us get to make them come true. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss the story of Frederick Darren Berg, who as a boy, developed a fascination with buses, and made them central to multiple ventures in his career.HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud

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97:51

Meet the Whistleblower Who Took on Halliburton

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2024/03/13

Whistleblowers are essential to discovering fraud. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, more than 40 percent of frauds are discovered by a tip or whistleblower. In this episode, Caleb and Greg talk to one for the first time on Oh My Fraud. Anthony Menendez, “The Accountant Who Beat Halliburton,” recounts his saga as a whistleblower, and shares the many lessons he learned along his journey.SponsorsWebgility - ohmyfraud.promo/webgility Chapters(00:00) - Welcome to Oh My

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46:41

A Lotto Fraud

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2024/02/28

Everyone dreams of winning the lottery. Some may even fantasize about trying to game the system. But only a very small few actually have the opportunity to tip the odds in their favor. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss an audacious scheme to rig the Iowa lottery.HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud channel. Register for the

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67:01

Sir Frauds a Lot | The Case of Stanford Financial Group

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2024/02/14

Chances are, you probably remember a massive fraud from the late 2000s that created a media circus. Just maybe not this one. In this episode, Caleb and Greg delve into a saga of Allen Stanford, the mastermind of a convoluted, multi-decade, multi-billion Ponzi scheme.SponsorsAirbase - https://ohmyfraud.promo/airbase HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for

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55:24

The Defrauded Famous | Courtney Love and Kevin Hart

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2024/01/31

Hollywood loves a sequel, so Caleb and Greg return with two more stories of celebrities who fell victim to fraud. HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud channel. Register for the course, complete a short quiz, and get your CPE certificate.Download the app:Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android:

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43:36

Steal. Wash. Repeat. | A History of Money Laundering

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2024/01/17

Cleaning dirty money may be as old as money itself. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss the history of money laundering, from ancient China to Prohibition to the greatest American political scandal of the 20th century. HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud channel. Register for the course, complete a short quiz, and get your CPE

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48:40

The Road to Fraud Is Paved With Good Intentions | The...

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2024/01/03

During the Reconstruction era, legal, social, and political change was pervasive throughout the United States as it recovered from the Civil War and the end of slavery. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss the effort to help newly emancipated people with a service most of us take for granted today—banking. HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh

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55:21

Oh My Fraud 2023, Redux

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2023/12/28

Caleb and Greg recount their favorite swindles, interviews, and culprits from the year that was Oh My Fraud 2023. HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud channel. Register for the course, complete a short quiz, and get your CPE certificate.Download the app:Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android:

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61:02

Super Bad Superintendent | The Case of Roslyn School...

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2023/12/20

Public schools are the foundation of American education, and few were better than Roslyn High School in Nassau County, New York. The school’s success was largely due to one man, its ambitious superintendent, Frank Tassone. But when Frank’s key lieutenant is caught up in a scandal, it threatens everything, even Frank.HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for

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63:57

All Hat and No Cartel | The Case of DWI Dude

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2023/12/06

A savvy Texas lawyer who’s made a name for himself defending people accused of drunk driving and marijuana possession tries his hand at high-end extradition cases involving Colombian drug lords. What could go wrong? Everything. HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud channel. Register for the course, complete a short quiz, and get your CPE

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73:45

Meet the Securities Fraud Scholar: Jim Park of UCLA Law

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2023/11/22

Professor James Park’s new book chronicles the history of securities fraud in the US, and oh, what a history it is, featuring some of the most infamous episodes in American business. In this episode, Caleb and Greg talk with Jim about some of the notable cases in his book, whether executives or underlings actually bear the responsibility for wrongdoing, if everything truly is securities fraud and more.HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved

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