PATREON PREVIEW: Chuck Seidman and the Sweepstakes Scam

About this episode

Kath tells Pat the story of a scam from the height of America's sweepstakes craze.

Kath tells Pat the story of a scam from the height of America's sweepstakes craze, featuring a cast of unusual characters and a cameo by Donald Trump himself. The reporting in this episode comes from Jeff Maysh, an incredible documenter of scams, who wrote about Chuck Seidman and CBS in the New Yorker in 2022. You can read his reporting here. For the rest of this episode, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal!

People in this episode

Hosts: Kath Barbadoro, Pat Sirois

Topics covered

• scams
• sweepstakes
• Donald Trump
• storytelling
• documentary

Keywords

• sweepstakes scam
• Chuck Seidman
• Donald Trump
• Jeff Maysh
• New Yorker

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CBS, New Yorker

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