A New Case: The Criminal Empire of Scam Calls

Bad Blood: The Final Chapter

Sony Music

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.7 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani were convicted on several counts of fraud earlier this year but fraud, cons and scams continue to play out all around us. Chameleon: Scam Likely, the latest season of the chat-topping series from Campside Media, takes you on a worldwide hunt to track down the mysterious criminals behind scam phone calls. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to binge all episodes ad-free. When a small team of government investigators learns that ordinary citizens all around the U.S. are losing their life savings to scam callers, they go on the hunt for the shadowy multinational mob behind the con, unraveling their plot from strip malls in suburban Texas to office towers in one of India's largest cities. In the latest season of Chameleon, host Yudhijit Bhattacharjee retraces the steps of the cops and the crooks, and goes deep into the Indian underworld looking for the alleged masterminds who got away. Search for Chameleon: Scam Likely wherever you get your podcasts to start listening today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, bad blood listeners!
0:02.7	It's been seven months since Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on three counts of fraud and
0:07.0	one count of conspiracy to commit fraud.
0:10.1	Since then, Theranos, co-founder and Holmes' one-time boyfriend, Sonny Balwani, has also
0:15.9	been tried and was convicted on 12 cases of fraud.
0:19.7	The two are expected to face sentencing hearings for these convictions later this year.
0:25.0	In the meantime, fraud continues to play out all around us on scales equally as astounding
0:31.2	as that of the Theranos saga.
0:34.0	That's where I come in.
0:35.7	My name is Yudhid Padacharji, and I'm the host of Camillean, Scam likely, a new podcast
0:42.6	that investigates the criminal empire behind a telephrod campaign that has scammed ordinary
0:47.7	Americans out of millions of dollars.
0:50.6	You've likely been a target yourself.
0:53.5	For received a phone call from an unknown number saying you're late on a car payment for
0:58.0	a car you didn't even own, or from an IRS agent saying you're at risk of going to prison
1:03.6	unless you pay up immediately?
1:06.1	For me, these have become a weekly, even a daily occurrence, and while many people quickly
1:11.5	hang up, many others get wrapped up in an elaborate con, leaving innocent people with their
1:18.0	bank accounts wiped.
1:21.0	And who's on the other end of these scam calls?
1:24.3	That's what we set out to uncover on Camillean, Scam likely, the latest season of the Camillean
1:30.3	podcast.
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