About this episode

Ethan Merritt shares his experience of being scammed and how he turned the tables on the scammers using his identity.

A former military guy goes viral, but not in the way he'd hoped. With fake profiles popping up by the dozen using his photos to scam lonelyhearts out of money, Ethan Merritt did what we all fantasize about from time to time: he scammed the scammer.Make yourself harder to find, harder to hit: https://joindeleteme.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Guest: Ethan Merritt

Topics covered

• scamming
• online safety
• identity theft
• military
• viral stories

Keywords

• scam
• lonelyhearts
• fake profiles
• military
• online fraud

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