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Inside the Gross Business of Scamming

26 min · 14. mar. 2025
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We start this episode with another story of abduction. Cataleya is a Filipino mother who was sold into slavery by a friend. We then compare Cataleya and Small Q's stories of how they ran scams. It's a fascinating look at the way scamming has been scaled for mass production. Produced by Superreal Hosted by Julian Morgans [https://www.instagram.com/julianmorgans/?hl=en] @julianmorgans Find us on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@whatitwaslikepodcast]: @whatitwaslikepodcast Find us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@whatitwaslikepodcast]: @whatitwaslikepodcast ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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