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Stupid Is as Fraud Does
They can’t all be criminal masterminds. Caleb and Greg discuss four stories of fraud gone absurdly wrong.HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 ho...
Financial Foul Play: A True Tale from Greg’s Workplace
In this special episode, Caleb interviews Greg about a tricky situation he encountered early in his career as an accountant.HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes...
Burned by Solar
In the era of climate change, it isn’t just about saving the planet using sustainable methods of energy, it’s about making a fortune from sustainable methods of energy...
Airbusted
If you’re one of those cynical people who assumes that multinational corporations are deeply corrupt and only concerned with achieving global domination no matter the ...
Meet the Fraud Investigator: Kelly Paxton
Caleb and Greg welcome Kelly Paxton, a former fraud investigator who has worked at both the federal and local level to talk about her career and one of her favorite re...
For Whom the Fraud Tolls | Bell, California
Caleb and Greg discuss the case of a small California city tainted by big corruption.HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn 1 hour of NASBA-approved...
The Defrauded Famous | Alanis Morissette and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If you’re jonesing for some nostalgia, then this is the Oh My Fraud episode for you. Caleb and Greg discuss two stars—an athlete whose fame peaked in the 80s and a sin...
Cardinal Sins
What do the Catholic Church and Oh My Fraud have in common? They both regularly feature absent internal controls, important figures abusing their positions of trust, a...
Paper Empire | The Case of Equity Funding Corporation of America
Join Caleb and Greg on a twisting saga of an insurance company that began in the late 1950s, rose to spectacular heights in the 1960s, and came crashing down in the 19...
Pyramid Schemes: How to Lose Friends and Alienate Money
You’ve probably heard of pyramid schemes, but are you confident that you know what it is? And if you are, do you know the difference between them and multi-level marke...
We’re Not a Bank in Kansas Anymore
Legend has it that when asked why he robbed banks, the infamous 20th century bank robber Willie Sutton said, “Because that’s where the money is.” In the 21st century, ...
Meet the Cybersecurity Scholar: Riana Pfefferkorn of Stanford University
As a co-teacher of Stanford University’s Introduction to Cybersecurity course, Riana Pfefferkorn regularly had to guide enterprising students away from violating the l...
The Jacksonville Jaguars Employee Who Went All In on Fraud
Gambling is often a factor when a person perpetrates a fraud, sometimes to a shocking degree. Caleb and Greg discuss one such case involving a finance professional who...
More Pandemic Pillagers Got What They Had Coming
More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, stories of regular people and their ill-fated schemes to exploit pandemic aid programs continue to emerge. In t...
We’re All Somebody’s Fool | Dan Simons & Chris Chabris
Think you’re too smart to be taken in by a fraudster? If so, that may make you an even bigger mark. In this episode, Caleb and Greg speak with psychologists Dan Simons...
You’ve Got Fail | The British Post Office Scandal
The US Postal Service has long been the butt of jokes for poor service, but nothing that comes close to this. In this transatlantic episode, Caleb and Greg unpack the ...
The 2024 ACFE Report to the Nations, Annotated with Wisecracks
In many episodes, Greg cites statistics from “A Report to the Nations,” the biennial report on occupational fraud, from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. A...
Next Stop, Fraud | The Case of Frederick Darren Berg
We all have childhood dreams. Not all of us get to make them come true. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss the story of Frederick Darren Berg, who as a boy, devel...
Meet the Whistleblower Who Took on Halliburton
Whistleblowers are essential to discovering fraud. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, more than 40 percent of frauds are discovered by a tip or...
A Lotto Fraud
Everyone dreams of winning the lottery. Some may even fantasize about trying to game the system. But only a very small few actually have the opportunity to tip the odd...
Sir Frauds a Lot | The Case of Stanford Financial Group
Chances are, you probably remember a massive fraud from the late 2000s that created a media circus. Just maybe not this one. In this episode, Caleb and Greg delve into...
The Defrauded Famous | Courtney Love and Kevin Hart
Hollywood loves a sequel, so Caleb and Greg return with two more stories of celebrities who fell victim to fraud. HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can ...
Steal. Wash. Repeat. | A History of Money Laundering
Cleaning dirty money may be as old as money itself. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss the history of money laundering, from ancient China to Prohibition to the g...
The Road to Fraud Is Paved With Good Intentions | The Case of Freedman’s Bank
During the Reconstruction era, legal, social, and political change was pervasive throughout the United States as it recovered from the Civil War and the end of slavery...
Oh My Fraud 2023, Redux
Caleb and Greg recount their favorite swindles, interviews, and culprits from the year that was Oh My Fraud 2023. HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can ...
Super Bad Superintendent | The Case of Roslyn School District
Public schools are the foundation of American education, and few were better than Roslyn High School in Nassau County, New York. The school’s success was largely due t...
All Hat and No Cartel | The Case of DWI Dude
A savvy Texas lawyer who’s made a name for himself defending people accused of drunk driving and marijuana possession tries his hand at high-end extradition cases invo...
Meet the Securities Fraud Scholar: Jim Park of UCLA Law
Professor James Park’s new book chronicles the history of securities fraud in the US, and oh, what a history it is, featuring some of the most infamous episodes in Ame...
A Very, Very, Very Nice Lady Did Some Fraud
Who’s the last person you’d suspect of committing fraud? Your grandmother? A good friend? Someone who always seems to be thinking about how they can help others? In th...
A Most Treacherous Advisor
Certified Public Accountants are some of the most hard working, trustworthy advisors in our society. But you don’t listen to Oh My Fraud to hear about them. In this ep...