Episode 255: How Kindness Works in The Scammer's Playbook

About this episode

Brian Ward discusses his father's experiences with scams and the unsettling nature of how reasonable they seemed.

She said her name was Clara Harper from Chase Bank. She argued with a police officer. She needed gift cards. Brian Ward shares the three times his 85-year-old father got scammed — and why the most unsettling thing wasn't the con. It was how reasonable it all sounded.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: Brian Ward

Topics covered

• scams
• kindness
• elderly
• financial fraud
• gift cards
• true crime

Keywords

• scams
• elderly
• Chase Bank
• gift cards
• financial fraud
• kindness
• true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chase Bank

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