Quiet down, sit still, and join the Fraudsters gang as they jump into the adorably insidious word of Cocomelon. Discover how the company transformed from one Korean father making videos for his kids, into a $3 billion entertainment empire. And don't look away or stop listening – we'll know...

[00:06:50] Meet The Commercial Director
[00:10:20] Goldman Sachs Buys In
[00:14:50] Inside The Distractatron
[00:17:20] The Baby Never Sleeps
[00:18:50] Writers Are A Spreadsheet
[00:26:50] The Dopamine Cycle Explained
[00:29:30] Here's The Actual Scam

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This week's Fraudwire Includes a 9-year-old draining his dad's company credit card for his Minecraft YouTube, a government fraud crackdown led by a woman who insider-traded her way out of the Senate, ghost daycares in San Diego, and so much more. Nobody's innocent, everybody's shady, and Seena and Ariel have theories.

[00:03:50] The $118,000 Kid
[00:06:00] Dad's Confession Video
[00:08:40] Is This Even Real?
[00:23:00] Vance's Fraud Crackdown
[00:25:50] The SBA Boss Who Scammed
[00:29:40] Ghost Daycares Exposed
[00:36:50] Mitch McConnell Is Dead

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This week's Fraudwire is a full buffet of people succeeding at lying on the internet. Join us as we discuss the Temptation Island star who faked her way through Duke University,  the man in a 49ers helmet (no pads, no roster spot, just vibes) who suckered $1.3 million out of dozens of women, and the AI-generated celebrity endorsement that tricked a UK-resident into giving away a quarter million pounds. Sure, nobody died, but a lot of people got got.

[00:07:20] The Temptation Island Fraud
[00:09:20] The Graduation Gave It Away
[00:13:00] Everyone's Faking A Persona
[00:17:30] Meet The Wide Deceiver
[00:23:00] The Fake Financial Advisor
[00:33:00] The AI Celebrity Scam
[00:35:40] How The Psychology Works

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In the finale of our Vince McMahon series, Seena, Ariel, and Justin explore the end of Vince's reign as the head of his wrestling empire. How, despite a host of sex trafficking allegations, institutional cover-ups, securities fraud claims, and federal investigations does he end up free and clear while his ex-wife becomes Secretary of Education? Only one way to find out.

[00:01:50] The Anonymous Email
[00:09:20] He Takes His Company Back
[00:14:20] The $21 Billion Merger
[00:17:40] The Trafficking Complaint
[00:26:30] The Grand Jury Shows Up
[00:29:20] $400,000. That's It.
[00:32:50] Linda's Full Arc

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In Part 3 of our Vince McMahon deep-dive, Seena, Ariel, and Justin detail Vince's feud with the World Wildlife Federation, his growing pattern of sexual abuse, and the birth of the Mr. McMahon persona.

[00:07:10] The Kiss My Ass Club
[00:08:00] Bark Like A Dog
[00:09:20] Drugged, Married, On Air
[00:12:00] Choked With A Pipe
[00:15:00] The Ring Boys Lawsuit
[00:20:40] Rita's Limo Confession
[00:39:50] $14 Million In Silence

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In this week's Fraudwire, we take a break from the Vince McMahon series for Seena and Ariel to discuss Selena Gomez and her mother's shady brand, a Chik-fil-A worker's clever Richard Pryor-esque refund scheme, and an insidious remote-work scam.

[00:03:10] Selena's Mom Problem

[00:06:10] Meet The Serial Fraud

[00:18:40] New Scam Just Dropped

[00:19:40] The Fake Lottery Win

[00:30:00] The Mac And Cheese Heist

[00:35:00] Chick-fil-A Deserves It

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In Part 2 of our Vince McMahon deep-dive, Seena, Ariel, and Justin discuss Vince's steroid trial, the infamous Montreal Screwjob incident, and the tragic death of Owen Hart during a pay-per-view event.

[00:04:10] Buying Out Dad

[00:10:00] The Territory Wars

[00:17:40] Wrestling Isn't a Sport, Actually

[00:21:10] Enter Rick Santorum

[00:32:00] The Steroid Pipeline

[00:41:20] The Montreal Screwjob

[00:47:10] Owen Hart Falls

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Jump into a steel cage death match with Seena, Ariel, and Justin as they explore how Vince McMahon built a wrestling empire at the expense of everything else. In this first episode of the series, we track his villain origin story from a trailer home to a steam-powered rocket ship.

[00:05:40] Trailer Park Beginnings

[00:11:20] The Pipe Wrench Years

[00:17:20] Falling for a Villain

[00:20:30] The Fake Court Martial

[00:23:40] Meeting Linda at 13

[00:27:20] The Snake River Bet

[00:36:10] Fired, Then Handed the Mic

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On this week's Fraudwire, Ariel sits down with with special guest host Roxxy Haze to discuss an extraordinarily promiscuous police officer, debate the ethics of AI-generated music, and make sweeping proclamations about smuggling drugs internationally in your butt.

[00:02:10] Meet the Freaky Frog Cop

[00:07:20] Caught By His Own Texts

[00:08:30] Fired, Fully Pensioned, Free

[00:21:20] The Song Called Rubbers

[00:22:40] Caught In 4K

[00:39:20] The $20K Offer

[00:43:20] Seven Years in a Tokyo Cell

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On our second Fraudwire of Season 6, Seena and Ariel discuss the scourge of clip-farming, question the ethics of gambling on war, and explore the worst possible outcome for pretending to be pregnant.

00:03:30 Betting on War Itself

00:08:20 The Sergeant Who Forgot to Delete

00:14:40 What Is a Clip Farm?

00:27:50 Bibi Netanyahu Ate Our Ad Slot

00:30:00 Maternal Instinct Begins

00:35:00 The Lie Nobody Stopped

00:39:50 Some People Gotta Go

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In Part 2 of our Eric Adams deep-dive – Seena, Ariel, and Justin continue exploring how the former mayor (and current Albanian citizen) left the city with a $12 billion budget shortfall, led his entire team to federal indictments, and temporarily ended all racism with his cryptocurrency. 

00:02:30 — The episode properly begins. Seena sets up Part 2 as covering the ramifications of the Turkish pivot, additional scam highlights, and the moment the feds come knocking.

 00:05:00 — Ariel takes the audience through Adams' relationship with the truth via a catalog of minor biographical lies: the fake gun story blamed on a nonexistent co-author, the skateboarding claim that required his office to officially define a plywood board with metal wheels as a skateboard, the New Jersey residency mystery resolved by a press tour of an apartment he may or may not have lived in.

00:07:30 — The FBI raids begin. Search warrants hit his fundraiser and staffers. Agents seize his phones. The personal phone is not on him. He produces it the next day claiming he changed the password to preserve evidence and then forgot the new password.

00:09:00 — The Red Wedding. In a single week in September 2024, federal agents seize phones from the police commissioner, the first deputy mayor, the school chancellor, the deputy mayor for public safety, a senior advisor, and the chancellor's partner. Resignations follow like dominoes through October.

00:11:20 — The indictment. Five federal counts. Adams becomes the first sitting New York City mayor charged with a federal crime. He pleads not guilty and calls it politically motivated.

00:13:50 — The Trump pivot and the DOJ dismissal. Adams cozies up to Trump, cancels MLK Day events to attend the inauguration, and the Justice Department drops his case — explicitly, in writing, not based on the evidence but to preserve his ability to support the president's immigration agenda. The Klobuchar-Bove hearing plays out live. Danielle Sassoon, Trump appointee and Scalia clerk, refuses to drop the case and resigns. Six other prosecutors follow.

00:30:20 — The chip bribe. Winnie Greco hands a city reporter a bag of Herr's sour cream and onion chips at a Whole Foods. Inside: $300 in cash. Greco's lawyer calls it a Chinese cultural gesture of friendship. It is not.

00:36:10 — The NYC Token. Adams launches a cryptocurrency post-mayoralty at a Times Square press conference, claims it will fight antisemitism, calls blockchain technology block change technology twice on Fox News, watches it hit a $600 million market cap, then watches it crash 80% when a wallet linked to the deployer withdraws $2.5 million in liquidity. Classic rug pull. Frank Carone is involved.

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