Oh My Fraud

Caleb Newquist

"Oh My Fraud" is a podcast where the true crime is shocking, gruesome, heinous, but with way fewer dead bodies. Hosted by Caleb Newquist, each episode explores fraud cases from petty swindles to corporate conspiracies, examining the people involved, their motives, methods, and how they spent the loot before it all came to a spectacular, inevitable end.

  1. 7 hrs ago

    OneCoin to Fraud Them All

    During the rise of Bitcoin, a would-be rival builds a worldwide following, driven by the charisma of its founder, the self-anointed Cryptoqueen. SponsorsMaxima.AI - https://ohmyfraud.promo/maxima  Get NASBA Approved CPE or IRS Approved CELaunch the course on EarmarkCPE to get free CPE/CE Download the app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.app Questions? Need help? Email support@earmarkcpe.com. CONNECT WITH CALEB Twitter: https://twitter.com/cnewquistLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebnewquist/ SOURCES Ruja Ignatova [Wikipedia] OneCoin [Wikipedia] Frank Schneider (spy) [Wikipedia] Co-Founder Of Multi-Billion-Dollar Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme "OneCoin" Pleads Guilty [U.S. Department of Justice] Former Law Firm Partner Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Laundering $400 Million In Connection With "OneCoin" Fraud Scheme [U.S. Department of Justice] "Head Of Legal And Compliance" For Multibillion-Dollar Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme "OneCoin" Sentenced To Four Years In Prison [U.S. Department of Justice] How 'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova ended up as the only woman on the FBI's most-wanted list [CNN] FBI adds OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova to list of most-wanted fugitives [The Washington Post] US adds 'Cryptoqueen' to most-wanted list over alleged US$4b fraud [Malay Mail / Reuters] Cryptoqueen: How this Woman Scammed the World, then Vanished [BBC] A cryptocurrency ponzi scheme is finally unraveling [Quartz] Is OneCoin the biggest financial fraud in history? [Fortune] The 'Cryptoqueen' who made FBI's most wanted after $4 billion heist was rumored killed—but evidence leaves more questions than answers [Fortune] The Outrageous Case of OneCoin, the Billion Dollar Scam Sold as a "Bitcoin Killer" [Bitrates] The OneCoin Scam: the Dazzling Story of the Biggest Crypto Ponzi in History [CoinMarketCap] Ruja Ignatova: The Crypto Mogul Scam Artist Who Vanished into Thin Air [CrimeReads] The Missing Cryptoqueen Details the Rise and Fall of Ruja Ignatova's OneCoin Con [Reason] Subpoenaed emails reveal OneCoin was fraudulent from inception [BehindMLM] OneCoin literally a relaunch of the BigCoin Ponzi scheme [BehindMLM] OneCoin investment packages approach a quarter million Euros [BehindMLM] OneCoin debut €118,000 EUR investment package [BehindMLM] OneCoin under regulatory investigation in Germany [BehindMLM] Fourteen OneCoin promoters indicted in Italy [BehindMLM] Konstantin Ignatov receives time served for OneCoin fraud [BehindMLM] OneCoin's Ruja Ignatova indicted in Germany [BehindMLM] OneCoin Research Paper: Islamic Ruling [Islamic Portal] Cryptoqueen's brother is freed after 3 years jail over OneCoin scheme: Report [Cointelegraph] Cryptoqueen's Brother Gets Time Served for Leading OneCoin Scam [Bloomberg] OneCoin co-founder Greenwood gets 20 years in US jail for fraud, money laundering [Investing.com / Cointelegraph] Fugitive 'cryptoqueen' accomplice is jailed for 20 years for $4bn global scam [The Independent / AOL] US boosts reward for info on 'Missing Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova to $5 million [The Record] Missing 'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova 'May Be Hiding in Russia' [Decrypt] OneCoin fraudster Ruja Ignatova reportedly hiding in Russia to avoid arrest [Invezz] Crypto Queen Ruja Ignatova, OneCoin's $4 Billion Fraud Mastermind, Is Alive And In South Africa, German Police Suspects [Benzinga]

    44 min
  2. Jun 17

    Roll with Trevor’s Changes

    A serial entrepreneur sets out to transform the trucking industry. SponsorsMaxima.AI - https://ohmyfraud.promo/maxima  Get NASBA Approved CPE or IRS Approved CELaunch the course on EarmarkCPE to get free CPE/CE Download the app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.app Questions? Need help? Email support@earmarkcpe.com. CONNECT WITH CALEB Twitter: https://twitter.com/cnewquistLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebnewquist/SOURCES Trevor Milton [Wikipedia]Nikola Corporation [Wikipedia]Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Availability [DOE]Trevor Milton Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Securities Fraud Scheme [U.S. Department of Justice]Former Nikola Corporation CEO Trevor Milton Charged in Securities Fraud Scheme [U.S. Department of Justice]Trump Pardons Nikola Founder Trevor Milton in Securities Fraud Case [CNBC]Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Fraud [CNBC]Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Sentenced to 4 Years in Jail for Fraudulent Claims [ABC News]Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Defrauding Investors [CNN]Nikola: How to Parlay An Ocean of Lies Into a Partnership With the Largest Auto OEM in America [Hindenburg Research]Nikola Admits Semi Truck Prototype Rolled Downhill in Promo [Futurism]Prosecutor Calls Nikola Founder a 'Con Man' in Closing Argument [FreightWaves]Prosecution Rests in Nikola Founder Trevor Milton's Fraud Trial [FreightWaves]Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Won't Testify in His Fraud Trial [Transport Topics]Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Stands Trial on Fraud Charges [CNBC]For Trevor Milton's Business Partners, Warning Signs Emerged Years Before Nikola Downfall [CNN]The Rise and Fall of Nikola Founder Trevor Milton [MEL Magazine]Nikola's Trevor Milton Left a Trail of Bitterness on His Way to Founding the Electric-Truck Startup [Yahoo Finance]Nikola's Trevor Milton Has $7.4 Billion Fortune on Free Truck Orders [Transport Topics]The Nikola Scandal Is a Cautionary Tale About Green Tech's Gauzy Promises [The New Republic]For Trevor Milton's business partners, warning signs emerged years before Nikola downfall [CNN Business]Trevor Milton and Nikola Just Another Page in Trucking History [Commercial Carrier Journal]How Much Are You Spending on Fuel Compared to Other Owner-Operators? [ATBS]California Hydrogen Highway [Wikipedia]Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Details Call With Trump Ahead of Pardon [WSJ News via YouTube]Nikola founder says $2 million in political donations to Trump had nothing to do with pardon [12 News via YouTube]

    59 min
  3. May 20

    For Sale: Famous Landmark. Not Really.

    Stories of brash conmen convincing people to buy some of the world’s most recognizable landmarks SponsorsFishbowl - https://ohmyfraud.promo/fishbowl  Get NASBA Approved CPE or IRS Approved CELaunch the course on EarmarkCPE to get free CPE/CE Download the app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.app Questions? Need help? Email support@earmarkcpe.com. CONNECT WITH CALEB Twitter: https://twitter.com/cnewquistLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebnewquist/ Music: "Offenbach Can Can / Infernal Gallop" provided by Gregor Quendel / Classicals.de Source: https://www.classicals.de Sources: Introduction: Chick-fil-A Bilked for $80,000 in Fake Mac-and-Cheese Refunds, Police Say [NYT] Act I:  Arthur Furguson [Wikipedia]Brooklyn Bridge [Wikipedia]George C. Parker [Wikipedia]Bird's-Eye View of the Great New York and Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Display of Fire Works on Opening Night [Wikipedia]FAILURE OF J. LLOYD HAIGH.; EMBARRASSED BY HIS WIRE CONTRACT WITH THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE TRUSTEES [NYT]J. LLOYD HAIGH ARRESTED; CHARGED WITH FORGERY IN THE THIRD DEGREE. [NYT]For You, Half Price [NYT] Act II:  Eiffel Tower [Wikipedia]Victor Lustig [Wikipedia]Victor Lustig [Biography via Wayback Machine]The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. [Smithsonian]The Smoothest Con Man That Ever Lived [Smithsonian]The long con of underworld grifter ‘Count’ Victor Lustig [The Mob Museum]

    42 min
  4. May 6

    Lou Pearlman: The King of Ponzi Pop

    In the 1990s, a blimp enthusiast with a checkered business record inexplicably dominates pop music by assembling not one but two boy bands. SponsorsFishbowl - https://ohmyfraud.promo/fishbowl  Get NASBA Approved CPE or IRS Approved CELaunch the course on EarmarkCPE to get free CPE/CE Download the app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.app Questions? Need help? Email support@earmarkcpe.com. CONNECT WITH CALEB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebnewquist/ SOURCES: Lou Pearlman [Wikipedia]Baron Blimp Lou Pearlman, head of Airship International Ltd., is fulfilling adolescent dreams of glory [Sports Illustrated]Lou Pearlman, Boy Band Impresario, Blimp Tycoon, and Bunco Artist, Dead at 62 [Slate]How Lou Pearlman used Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC to lure people into massive Ponzi scheme [ABC News]*NSYNC, O-Town members on learning the truth about Lou Pearlman [ABC News]*NSYNC vs. Backstreet Boys: The True Story Behind Their Epic Boy Band Rivalry [E! Online]Lance Bass on the 'NSync and the Backstreet Boys rivalry: 'The animosity was real' [Yahoo Entertainment]Backstreet Boys Turn 25: Untold Stories [Entertainment Tonight]Lou Pearlman Ran 1 of America's Biggest Ponzi Schemes [A&E]Pop Dreams and Ponzi Schemes [Schneider Downs]The "Con" in Trans Continental: Lou Pearlman [Gavin P. Smith]AS HE RAN, CASE WAS BUILT [Tampa Bay Times]IN JAIL AND ON THE PHONE, LOU PEARLMAN REVERSES THE CHARGES [Tampa Bay Times]Victims who lost millions in Pearlman Ponzi scheme could recover a pittance [WFTV]Backstreet Boys' Lou Pearlman's Prison Interview: My Ponzi Scheme Was Smarter Than Madoff's [The Hollywood Reporter]Lou Pearlman Dead: Remembering the Ponzi Schemer Who Spawned the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and More [The Hollywood Reporter]Lou Pearlman, disgraced creator of 'NSync and Backstreet Boys, dies [NBC News]Netflix's 'Dirty Pop' exposes Lou Pearlman's deceptive role in 'NSYNC and Backstreet Boys' fame [MSNBC]The True Story of Lou Pearlman in 'Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam' [Netflix Tudum]The True Story Behind Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam [TIME]10 Most Shocking Reveals From Netflix's Dirty Pop [Screen Rant]The Biggest Revelations From Dirty Pop [Den of Geek]Mad About the Boys [Vanity Fair]Inside the rise and fall of the record store chain Tower Records [Clicktrack]Viewpoint: The Backstreet Boys phenomenon [BYU Daily Universe]Remembering Lou Pearlman: The Ponzi Schemer Who Spawned the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC & More [Billboard]The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story [YouTube Originals]The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History — Tyler Gray

    50 min
  5. Apr 8

    In God’s Bank We Trust

    The Catholic Church’s financial entanglements draw scrutiny after a banker is found hanging under a bridge. SponsorsWurthy - https://ohmyfraud.promo/wurthy  (00:00) - Body Under Blackfriars (00:47) - Welcome to Oh My Fraud (04:43) - Meet Roberto Calvi (07:10) - Vatican Bank Ties (12:14) - Offshore Web And Scrutiny (17:06) - Circular Money And Conviction (21:54) - Flight And Bridge Death (23:59) - Bigger Web Vatican P2 (30:46) - Collapse And Missing Billions (37:06) - Murder Mystery And Trials (39:24) - Lessons And Wrap Up Get NASBA Approved CPE or IRS Approved CELaunch the course on EarmarkCPE to get free CPE/CE Download the app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.app Questions? Need help? Email support@earmarkcpe.com. CONNECT WITH CALEB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebnewquist/ SOURCES: Roberto Calvi [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi Banco Ambrosiano [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Ambrosiano Michele Sindona [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Sindona Propaganda Due [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due Licio Gelli [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licio_Gelli Scandal at the Pope's Bank [TIME, July 1982] — https://time.com/archive/6856828/scandal-at-the-popes-bank/ Italy: The Great Vatican Bank Mystery [TIME, September 1982] — https://time.com/archive/6697494/italy-the-great-vatican-bank-mystery/ The Vatican Hiding Behind the Walls [TIME, March 1987] — https://time.com/archive/6708575/the-vatican-hiding-behind-the-walls/ Four indicted in '82 death of 'God's banker' [NBC News, 2005] — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7546141 All acquitted in 'God's banker' murder trial [NBC News, 2007] — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19075395 23 years on, five stand trial for death of 'God's banker' [Irish Times, 2005] — https://www.irishtimes.com/news/23-years-on-five-stand-trial-for-death-of-god-s-banker-1.502326 Roberto Calvi: Who Killed God's Banker? [OwlCation/The CrimeWire] — https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Who-Killed-Gods-Banker The mysterious death of 'God's Banker' [Crime+Investigation UK] — https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/roberto-calvis-mysterious-death Roberto Calvi [Forensic Cold Case Murder Investigation] — https://www.forensic-access.co.uk/cold-cases/roberto-calvi/ The Vatican Bank Scandal [Christianity Today, 1982] — https://www.christianitytoday.com/1982/09/vatican-bank-scandal/ Vatican Bank mired in laundering scandal [NBC News/AP, 2010] — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna40628315 Liquidators and creditors of the failed Banco Ambrosiano [UPI Archives, 1984] — https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/05/25/Liquidators-and-creditors-of-the-failed-Banco-Ambrosiano-of/8243454305600/

    44 min
  6. Mar 25

    The Defrauded Famous: Tim Duncan and Stan Lee

    Two more tales of celebrities betrayed by the very people they entrusted to manage their vast fortunes. SponsorsWurthy - https://partners.wurthy.co/UNC - https://ohmyfraud.promo/UNC  Get NASBA Approved CPE or IRS Approved CELaunch the course on EarmarkCPE to get free CPE/CE Download the app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.app Questions? Need help? Email support@earmarkcpe.com. CONNECT WITH CALEB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebnewquist/ Sources Duncan gives ex-money man a dressing down [San Antonio Express-News]Feds charge — and sue — Tim Duncan's former financial adviser [MySA]Tim Duncan's ex-financial adviser sentenced to 4 years in wire fraud case [KSAT]Financial adviser who swindled Tim Duncan out of millions gets 4 years in prison [News4SanAntonio]Tim Duncan on losing $20M to financial advisor betrayal [Basketball Network]Charles Banks, Winery Owner and Former Financial Advisor to Tim Duncan, Is Indicted in Federal Court [Wine Spectator]The Curious Case of Charles Augustus Banks IV [NorthBay Biz]Terroir Capital's Charles Banks Likely Out of Wine Business For Good [Wine Enthusiast]United States v. Banks IV (2018) [FindLaw / 5th Circuit]Litigation Release re: Charles A. Banks [SEC.gov]Judge Drops Theft Charges Against Stan Lee's Ex-Manager After Jury Deadlocks [Variety]Stan Lee's Daughter Settles Lawsuit Against Memorabilia Manager [Variety]Stan Lee estate settles suit against ex-business manager [Hollywood Reporter]Marvel Comics Mogul Stan Lee's Former Manager Keya Morgan [NBC News]Stan Lee's Business Partner Keya Morgan Arrested for Alleged Elder Abuse [E! News]Keya Morgan, former business manager for Stan Lee, pleads not guilty to elder abuse [ABC15 Arizona]Stan Lee's Ex-Manager Keya Morgan's Criminal Charges Dismissed [MovieWeb]Stan Lee's Former Business Manager Charged With Elder Abuse [The Forward]What Happened to Stan Lee's Ex-Business Manager Keya Morgan After 2019 Arrest [FandomWire]Stan Lee Abduction, Abuse, Theft of $5,000,000 Assets... [Bleeding Cool]Stan Lee Fast Facts [CNN]Jock tax [Wikipedia]Tim Duncan [Wikipedia]

    43 min
5
out of 5
8 Ratings

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"Oh My Fraud" is a podcast where the true crime is shocking, gruesome, heinous, but with way fewer dead bodies. Hosted by Caleb Newquist, each episode explores fraud cases from petty swindles to corporate conspiracies, examining the people involved, their motives, methods, and how they spent the loot before it all came to a spectacular, inevitable end.

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