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The best podcasts about tricksters and swindlers

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Who am I?

I am an artist and podcaster who has a day job as a marketing professional. I'm passionate about creativity, generosity, and caring for my fellow human beings. I started listening to true crime podcasts when politics got too scary. I listen to a lot of wrongfully convicted and unsolved crime podcasts, but when they got too heavy, I discovered tricksters and swindlers.

My Show

What is my podcast about and/or how does it relate to the playlist topic you chose?

My podcast is about local events, entertainment, and happenings. The content is hyper-local, but the banter and jokes are for everyone. It doesn't relate to my list, really, but people need balance, right?

What is my podcast playlist about?

My podcast playlist is all about people who aren't exactly who they say they are and got away with a whole heck of a lot of nonsense, and, in some cases, some pretty serious crimes. I need other people to listen to these podcasts so I have people to talk to about them because my friends are sick of hearing me go on and on about them all.

The podcasts I picked and why

1. Sweet Bobby

Why this podcast?

I binged this series in about a couple of days and I still can't stop thinking about it. What the actual heck? So many questions.

Sweet Bobby

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

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Kirat and Bobby have an unusual relationship. The circumstances of their individual lives mean it’s difficult for them to meet face to face but, despite everything, they end up falling in love.


Their romance might play out online but in many ways it’s a traditional love story. Until Kirat discovers the disturbing truth.


Sweet Bobby is the #1 chart-topping, award-winning series about a sophisticated ten year scam that almost destroyed one woman’s life, and the investigation into the catfisher behind it all.


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2. The Stalker part 1

Why this podcast?

Wow, what a roller coaster this season of Pretend was. I'm still not over it. I'm not sure how the host navigated all of this insanity so expertly. As a bonus, Javier Leiva has one of the absolute best podcasting voices out there.

PRETEND - The Stalker part 1
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01/10/23 • 29m

Couple terrorized by a sadistic cyber stalker for years

For more than three years, Claudia and David Rodriguez (not their real names) have been the targets of a sadistic cyber stalker. Despite their attempts to involve the police and stop the stalking, it has continued to this day. In fact, the couple has faced accusations from the very detectives assigned to their case. One detective suggests that Claudia may have a split personality and is causing the stalking herself.

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PRETEND is consistently in the top True Crime Podcasts about con artists in U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia.

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3. Swindled

Why this podcast?

This may be the only single-host-telling-a-story podcast I really love. A Concerned Citizen is a gifted and witty storyteller who digs deep to tell multi-faceted stories. The orca episode particularly stuck with me, but the host's whole brand is just engaging and fabulous.

Swindled

Swindled

Swindled

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A narrative true-crime podcast that uses immersive storytelling, archival audio, and cinematic sound design to explore the world of white-collar crime, con artists, and corporate evil. From Ponzi schemes and financial fraud to environmental disasters and political scandals, each story reveals how greed, deception, and the pursuit of power have shaped our world—often with devastating consequences. Become a ValuedListenerTM at ValuedListener.com

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4. The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight

Why this podcast?

Ok, this one gets a little darker because it covers domestic violence and abuse, and it's a bit of an intense ride, but the story of these women coming together to take this guy down is just amazing.

The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight

The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

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In the golden age of air travel, flying was sold as glamorous, luxurious, and effortlessly chic. But for the young women working the aisles at 30,000 feet, the reality was very different. When Patt Gibbs joined American Airlines in the 1960s, she was trained to be slim, smiling, and subservient. Stewardesses like her were weighed like luggage, forced to retire at 32 years old, banned from marriage, and expected to endure sexual harassment with grace. One extra pound, one birthday too many, or one wedding ring and your wings were clipped. But when Patt walks into a union meeting on a whim, everything changes. The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight tells the story of the stewardesses who refused to be grounded. From secret meetings to landmark discrimination cases to high-stakes union votes, these women challenged America’s biggest airlines and the sexism baked into the industry itself. A powerful sisterhood began to form across cabin aisles and crew lounges. They weren’t just fighting for better contracts. They were fighting for control of their own lives.

The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts. For more from Novel, visit https://novel.audio/.

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5. Dr. Death

Why this podcast?

All of the seasons are binge-worthy, but season 1 jas just really stuck with me. Like, WTF, how does this stuff even happen? You will never look at your health care system the same way again.

Dr. Death

Dr. Death

Audible

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Dr. John Schneider rode into town like a character out of a Western: an outsider on a Harley-Davidson, in trademark cowboy boots. He promised relief to patients suffering in Wyoming and Montana. He seemed like the hero they needed. But when surgeries go wrong and a strange letter exposes a bitter feud, medical professionals and government officials search for the truth about this cowboy doctor. They discover claims of broken bodies, bullying, fraud, and lawsuits.

From Audible, the fifth season of the hit series Dr. Death returns with The Cowboy: the story of a surgeon who took advantage of a broken system and the fight to bring him to justice.

Listen to the whole series now ad-free on Audible. Episodes are available weekly everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Season 4: When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around the world turn to him for their last chance. As medical experts praise Serhat Gumrukcu’s genius, the company he co-founded rockets in value to over half a billion dollars. But when a team of researchers makes a startling discovery, they begin to suspect the brilliant doctor is hiding a secret.

Season 3: Paolo is a smart and handsome surgeon, renowned for his ability to perform surgeries that transform his patients’ lives. When television producer Benita covers him for a story, he’ll transform her life too, but not in the ways she expects. As Benita crosses professional lines to be with him, she learns how far Paolo will go to protect his secrets. And halfway around the world, four doctors at a prestigious medical institute make shocking discoveries of their own that call everything into question.

Season 2: If someone you love is diagnosed with cancer you want them to get the best treatment from the best doctors. In 2013, patients in Michigan thought Farid Fata was that doctor. Between his prestigious education, years of experience and pleasant bedside manner, Fata was everything you could want in a doctor. But he was not who he appeared to be. This is the story of hundreds of patients in Michigan, a doctor, and a poisonous secret.

Season 1: We’re at our most vulnerable when we go to our doctors. We trust the person at the other end of that scalpel. We trust the hospital. We trust the system. Christopher Duntsch was a neurosurgeon who radiated confidence. He claimed he was the best in Dallas. If you had back pain, and had tried everything else, Dr. Duntsch could give you the spine surgery that would take your pain away. But soon his patients started to experience complications, and the system failed to protect them. Which begs the question: who - or what - is that system meant to protect? Dr. Death is a story about a charming surgeon, 33 patients and a spineless system.

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