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Learn about our new podcast -- Unseen Influences. It takes you behind the scenes of the techniques others use to guide our behavior.

It officially launches in February, but Scams & Cons listeners can listen to early episodes right now. You can find it wherever you listen to podcasts or by going to our website, unseeninfluences.com.

In this four-minute episode, I'll also bring you up-to-date on what's happening with Scams & Cons and give you details about what shows to expect on Unseen Influences.

Listen in -- you're the first to know.

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The only ways I know to get easy money is to either to be born rich, marry a rich partner or have someone bequeath you a fortune.

If someone stepped up to us and said they have a way for us to make a lot of money fast, odds are we’d listen – listening doesn’t cost anything. Unless the person doing the talking is a scammer and they have now set the hook and may very well reel us in.

Today we'll talk about Easy Money scams and you'll learn just how easy it is for you to lose your cash.

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It's not easy to escape from prison, but when you have a lot of time on your hands and experienced con artists available ... well, it's going to be inevitable.

A few weeks ago, we looked at how con artists used their skills to escape a highly secure prison. This time we're looking at the case of the Texas 7 who managed to escape, but not without costing a police officer his life.

The Seven were on the lam for 41 days, but then police used cons of their own to bring them back to jail. We'll tell you how.