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Dirty Scams

Dirty Scams

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Ever wonder how the most audacious con artists pull off their schemes? Dirty Scams pulls back the curtain on the world's most shocking frauds, exposing the masterminds and their victims.

From elaborate financial swindles to cunning identity theft, we dissect every detail of the deception. This is where you uncover the psychology behind the trickery and learn how seemingly ordinary people fall prey to extraordinary lies. We don't just tell stories; we analyze the tactics, the red flags, and the devastating impact of these criminal enterprises.

Join us daily, seven days a week, for a fresh dose of deception. New episodes drop every Monday through Sunday at 7:00 PM, offering a deep dive into a new case of fraud, scam, or con. Each episode is meticulously researched, bringing you the facts and the fascinating human element behind every scheme.

Dirty Scams is for anyone fascinated by true crime, investigative journalism, and the darker side of human ingenuity. If you're keen to understand the mechanics of deception and protect yourself from becoming a target, you've found your essential listening. Subscribe now and become an expert in spotting the signs.© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators Crimini reali
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  • The Concrete Slab, The $38,000 Lie: How Nine Homes Vanished

    The Concrete Slab, The $38,000 Lie: How Nine Homes Vanished
    Aug 24 2026
    The Concrete Slab, The $38,000 Lie: How Nine Homes Vanished

    Fear that your dream home could be a con is immediate when a concrete slab 40 by 28 feet sits alone in a field and someone collected $38,000 to build on land the builder never owned - why did nine families hand over $271,000 for houses that never existed? Who profited while permits were never pulled and addresses were misused?

    In this episode, you’ll hear how a licensed Ohio contractor used a professional brochure, a website, and familiar local ties to collect deposits from nine buyers, how one customer’s bookkeeping and a county permit check began to unravel the scheme, and the single photograph that exposed an empty slab - could a string of ordinary transactions be the core of a criminal scheme?

    Person: Ross Stewart
    Person: Howard Beal
    Date: April 2019
    Amount: $38,000
    Total amount: $271,000

    - The concrete slab found measured 40 feet by 28 feet and was discovered in April 2019.
    - Carl Danning paid $38,000, the largest single deposit collected by Ross Stewart.
    - Nine families paid a combined $271,000 in deposits to Stewart Custom Homes.
    - No building permits were pulled for any of the nine properties listed in the contracts.
    - Howard Beal had owned the 30-acre parcel off County Road Fourteen for 14 years and had declined Stewart’s 2015 offer to buy it.

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    20 min
  • He Pretended to Be the Bank - How Neighbors Lost $4.8M

    He Pretended to Be the Bank - How Neighbors Lost $4.8M
    Aug 23 2026
    He Pretended to Be the Bank - How Neighbors Lost $4.8M

    The envelope that landed on the wrong desk in March 2019 exposed a scheme that siphoned $4.8 million from 214 neighbors who trusted a local retirement club; one misdelivered bank statement and a missing nine-digit reference code started the unraveling. Who was the man at the center of the Lakeland Retirement Security Club, and how did routine-looking statements conceal years of transfers that left the real bank balance under $94,000?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from a misdelivered envelope to an investigation by the state's financial crimes unit and the Department of Financial Institutions, detailing how ordinary trust and small, deliberate transfers hid the truth. What investigators discovered about account records, postmarks, and transfer patterns reveals how the deception lasted eleven years.

    Person: Harvey McCarthy
    Event: Misdelivered envelope revealing fake bank statements
    Case: Lakeland Retirement Security Club
    Date: March 2019 (envelope); statements dated January 2016-2018
    Amount: $4,800,000 deposited over eleven years

    - 214 members belonged to the Lakeland Retirement Security Club.
    - $4,800,000 moved through a single checking account opened in 2008.
    - The real balance when investigators accessed the account was less than $94,000.
    - Bev Evans had saved $40,000 over two decades that showed as $61,000 on the statements.
    - Statements were postmarked the Tuesday after Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2016-2018, a federal holiday when the bank was closed.

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    17 min
  • The Farmer Who Sold the Same Corn Four Times and Got Away

    The Farmer Who Sold the Same Corn Four Times and Got Away
    Aug 22 2026
    The Farmer Who Sold the Same Corn Four Times and Got Away

    Trust can be weaponized: 112,000 bushels of corn, four separate, legitimate receipts, and $940,000 missing from eleven farm families-so how did no one notice for nearly three years? The receipts were real, the grain existed, and the man at the center was a decades‑long pillar of Kettrick County-so who finally unraveled the paper trail?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from the first farmer complaint to the state field examiner who turned a two‑day referral into a full inquiry. You will hear how routine grain marketing relationships and community reputation intersected with multiple legitimate documents to create a large‑scale fraud, and what question about local trust ultimately exposed it.

    Person: Lloyd Dixon
    Company: Heartland Crop Advisors LLC
    Bushels: 112,000
    Arrest Date: late March 2017
    Loss: $940,000

    - Four receipts referenced the same 112,000 bushels of corn from one load.
    - Dixon operated Heartland Crop Advisors LLC in Kettrick for 17 years.
    - Eleven farm families lost a total of $940,000.
    - Jason Tucker began working with Dixon in 2015 and presented four receipts to the field examiner.
    - Lauren Cooper had 11 years as a field examiner and was assigned the Tucker referral in early February 2017.

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    21 min
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