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dontgetgot tellls the true stories of hackers, hustlers, and billion-dollar con artists — who they are, how they think, and why they did it. The schemes they built, the lives they lived, and the moments that changed everything. True crime stories about social engineering, and deception. Inspired by real people, real digital attacks, and real situations. Sign up for our Email Newsletter @ dontgetgot.co/subscribe

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    Linwei Ding - Google's Insider Threat

    Linwei Ding was a software engineer at Google, assigned to the team building the AI infrastructure that the entire industry was racing to replicate. He had access to confidential material most engineers only read about. And for a year and a half, he used it to quietly copy over 2,000 pages of Google's most closely guarded technical secrets, file by file, right under their noses. He had a startup in Shanghai waiting for him, investors lined up in Beijing, and a one-way ticket out of the country. Become a member : dontgetgot.co

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    The Bangladesh Bank Heist: How a Typo Saved $900 Million

    A fraud auditor at a small bank in Sri Lanka is reviewing transfers on a Thursday morning when a twenty million dollar wire comes through for an organization he's never heard of, with a name that's misspelled and a number that has no business showing up on a screen in Colombo. What he doesn't know yet is that he's looking at the edge of a billion dollar heist targeting the central bank of Bangladesh. Email Newsletter : www.dontgetgot.co/subscribe Episode research sourced from Reuters, SWIFT security advisories, US Department of Justice indictments, Bangladesh Bank investigation records, Philippine Senate hearings, and Pan Asia Banking Corporation statements.

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    The Call That Crashed Las Vegas - MGM Hack

    This story reveals the inner thoughts of an IT help desk employee whose routine Friday phone call opened the door to one of the largest cyberattacks in casino history. A ten minute conversation, a single password reset, and a hundred million dollars in damage. Inspired by the 2023 MGM Resorts hack by the teenage hacking group Scattered Spider. Email Newsletter : www.dontgetgot.co/subscribe NOTES - Episode research sourced from ALPHV public statements, Okta security advisories, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, VX Underground, West Midlands Police, and US Department of Justice filings.

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    Jho Low - The Prince of Malaysia

    Before the stolen billions, before Hollywood appearances and rubbing shoulders with celebrities, before the yachts and the Picassos and the Golden Globes, Jho Low was a sixteen year old kid at a boarding school in London trying to keep up with Saudi royalty. This is the story of how he learned the game. Subscribe to our email newsletter for updates : www.dontgetgot.co

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    The Contractor's Son - How a 21 Year Old Stole $46 Million From The US Marshals

    His dad spent years earning the government's trust. Built a small IT firm from nothing. Landed a contract to manage billions in seized crypto for the U.S. Marshals Service. Then his 21-year-old son found the keys to the vault. $46 million. Gone. This is the story of how a government contractor's son robbed the federal crypto vault and couldn't stop bragging about it. ____________________________ John Daghita, 21, was arrested on March 5, 2026, on the island of Saint Martin in a joint FBI and French Gendarmerie operation. He faces charges related to the alleged theft of more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from U.S. Marshals Service seizure wallets. He has not yet been formally charged in U.S. federal court and is presumed innocent until proven guilty. His father, Dean Daghita, president of CMDSS, has not been charged with any crime. ZachXBT is an independent blockchain investigator whose analysis initiated the investigation. His findings were reported across major outlets including CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, Decrypt, TRM Labs, and BleepingComputer. If you or someone you know has been targeted by a cryptocurrency scam or investment fraud, report it to ic3.gov or your local law enforcement.

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    Ronald Spektor: The Coinbase Scammer Who Stole $16 Million and Bragged About It

    Ronald Spektor was 23, living with his dad in Brooklyn, stealing millions from Coinbase users with nothing but a phone call. He gambled away $6 million, bragged about it on Telegram, and thought no one could touch him. Then someone started following the money. This is the story of the victim who picked up the phone, the kid who couldn't stop talking, and the trail that doesn't disappear.

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    Betterment Got Got: The ShinyHunters Voice Phishing Attack

    On January 9th, 2026, a Betterment employee got a phone call from IT. The voice was friendly. The request was routine. The login page looked exactly like the one he used every day. Three minutes later, hackers had full access to the systems Betterment uses to communicate with millions of customers, and they used those systems to send a crypto scam from Betterment's own channels. Within two weeks, 1.4 million customer records were dumped on the dark web. This is the story of how ShinyHunters, one of the most active cybercrime groups in the world, used a voice phishing call to breach one of America's biggest investment platforms. No malware. No code exploits. Just a phone call and a push notification. We tell the full story from the employee's perspective and break down what you can do to make sure it doesn't happen to you.

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    Daren Li - Pig Butchering & The $73 Million Money Laundering Operation

    She thought she made a friend over text. What started as a wrong number turned into months of trust, a crypto investment that looked like it was working, and a loss she never saw coming. It's called pig butchering, and it's one of the fastest growing scams in the world. The man behind this $73 million operation pleaded guilty to all of it. Then he disappeared.

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