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EP. 231 — Conned out of 50K?! w/ Dulcé Sloan
What’s Poppin Con-gregation? This week, The Daily Show correspondent Dulcé Sloan joins the show to discuss how journalist Charlotte Cowles recounts how she was scammed into putting $50,000 in a shoe box. Stay Schemin’!
This was researched by Kaelyn Brandt.
Sources:
https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html
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