Best Crypto Cory Podcasts (2024)

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The Most Dangerous Russian Mobster America Has Ever Known: Boris Nayfeld 57:53

6h ago57:53

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Boris Nayfeld's life is like something out of a movie; orphaned in the former Soviet Union, he served time in a brutal penal colony before establishing himself as a top tier street criminal before escaping for America. No stranger to violence, he got involved in the burgeoning Russian mafia factions rising up in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach during the…

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Episode 145: Becky Holmes Knows Who Isn’t Dating Keanu Reeves 42:17

28m ago42:17

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Becky Holmes loves DMing with scammers. When it comes to romance scammers, she will do whatever it takes, pursuing them to the great delight of her fans on social media. From flings with A-listers to the lantern-jawed soldier with a heart of gold, Becky's on a mission to unravel the weird world of online swindler love. Learn more about your ad choi…

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Episode 144: Erin West Puts the Bad Guys to Shame 43:18

3d ago43:18

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Erin West is the Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County, California, and the founder of Project Shamrock. Whether she’s prosecuting eye-popping SIM-swap money grabs or putting large-scale pig butchering operations out of business, her stories and experience can help you stay safer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi…

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The Rise and Fall of Golden Triangle Dope: From a Jailed Kingpin to a Casino Shootout 43:08

3d ago43:08

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Lo Hsing Han was a Burmese narco so powerful that Richard Nixon called him a Godfather. But the Kokang king tried one too many shady deals, sending the Golden Triangle’s heroin industry on a helter-skelter path toward a bloody, 2023 shootout with Chinese cops—at a lawless casino town on the edge of nowhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m…

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Episode 143: Carina Follows Her Heart Into a Crypto Scam 52:35

10d ago52:35

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No one’s too smart for a well designed scam. Case in point, neuroscientist, triathlete Carina who thought the finance bro she met on Bumble was the one for her, but the only real thing was the money she lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Loud Tree Media

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Skinny Joey Merlino and The Philly Mob Wars: 46:28

16d ago46:28

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Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night. And they blew up his house too. And the racket boys, they really did have a fight...a brutal one that lasted decades and saw Skinny Joey Merlino come out on top. He's not just America's next top crime podcaster and patreon star, he's also the one-time boss of the Philadelphia mafia and (alleg…

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Episode 142: Tarah Wheeler Narrowly Avoids Getting Got 48:13

17d ago48:13

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No one is immune from being scammed. Just ask Tarah Wheeler, founder and CEO of Red Queen Dynamics, a company that specializes in keeping people scam-free. While onboarding a new hire, a process she put in place stopped a scammer despite a serious cyber misstep. “What the Hack with Adam Levin” is available wherever you get your podcasts. If you lik…

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The Zombie Drug Robbery Gangs of Medellin Preying on Dating Apps w/ Toby Muse 58:34

21d ago58:34

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Medellin was once the world's most violent city, torn about by Pablo Escobar's murderous cartel warfare and later, Don Berna's meteoric rise to control the city's drug trade. Over the last decade, though, the city has grown quite safe, becoming a tourism hotspot and hub for digital nomads attracted to it's people, parties and culture. But a recent …

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Kokang Cowboys: Burma’s Transgender Narco Royalty, a Secret Army, and a “Special Belt” 43:03

23d ago43:03

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Olive Yang—or Miss Hairy Legs, or Two-Gun Mulan, or any number of nicknames folks gave her—was the gunslinging princess of Kokang who bucked the royal yolk to become one of the Golden Triangle’s biggest narco traffickers. With DC’s backing she built an empire all over Asia, and did some pretty impressive spycraft on the side. Part one of this crazy…

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Episode 141: Secret Service Agent “Mark” Works the Pan-Africa Beat 45:07

24d ago45:07

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Who better to talk to about pan-African crime syndicates than someone tasked with shutting them down? From drug mules and sextortion to romance scams and spearphishing, this week’s talk with Secret Service Agent “Mark” pulls back the curtain on Black Axe and other crime rings operating worldwide. “What the Hack with Adam Levin” is available whereve…

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Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow 57:16

1M ago57:16

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From Ponzi schemes to shitcoins, phishing scams and Nigerian princes, we’re living in a golden age of online crime. But hasn’t it always been this way? Cory Doctorow’s latest novel “The Bezzle” dives into some of these recesses, and America’s prison-industrial complex—all part of something he’s dubbed the “enshittification” of the World Wide Web Ge…

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Episode 140: Cybersecurity Girl Caitlin Sarian Tries to Delete Herself Online 35:42

1M ago35:42

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Every part of life that comes in contact with the Internet is tracked, packed and sold to a a seemingly infinite network of data brokers. Caitlin Sarian AKA Cybersecurity Girl joined us this week to discuss why scrubbing your information is trickier than it sounds and what you can do about it. “What the Hack with Adam Levin” is available wherever y…

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The Most Successful American Mobster EVER: Tony Accardo 54:06

1M ago54:06

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Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo aka the Big Tuna (!) was one of the most powerful Mob Bosses that the American Mafia has ever seen, sitting atop the brutal Chicago Outfit for 40 years. From being an errand boy turned hitman for none other than Al Capone to taking the Outfit from a local prohibition gang to a national powerhouse with multiple Vegas casin…

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Episode 139: Cory Doctorow Makes Us Wonder if Everything’s a Scam 46:19

1M ago46:19

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Think you’re too savvy to get scammed? Author and activist Cory Doctorow explains how we’re all one muffaletta and a malfunctioning jet door away from falling prey to the most basic of cons. He joins us this week to talk about that and to fill us in about his new book, “The Bezzle.” “What the Hack with Adam Levin” is available wherever you get your…

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Listen Now: Varnamtown Episode 1 4:08

1M ago4:08

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Two years ago, Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks, called investigative journalist Joshua Davis with a strange story. Kyle had heard a rumor that Pablo Escobar did a deal in the early 1980s with a remote, coastal Southern town of 300 people. In exchange for vast wealth and limitless cocaine, Escobar would be allowed to land planes and ships in…

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Episode 138: Presley Rhodes Fights an Army of Thirst Trap Thieves 48:36

2M ago48:36

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Presley Rhodes makes a living posting what she calls “the subtle art of the thirst trap.” Popular on Instagram, she uses that platform to draw her most parched followers to OnlyFans where she can get paid. But what happens when a scammer buys access to those images? Nothing good. To hear what happened (and try to figure it out) we talked to someone…

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The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF 40:04

1M ago40:04

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When Chinese-American reporter Henry Liu was gunned down in his Daly City garage in 1984, it brought the Bamboo Union, Taiwan’s most powerful Triad, to global attention. But while the killing frayed ties between the island and DC, authorities skipped over a guy in California pulling the strings all along—a silver-tongued philosophy grad who’d gone …

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Episode 137: Joy and Michelle Talk Skimmers, Scammers and SNAP EBT Fraud 32:18

2M ago32:18

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SNAP food assistance is a lifeline for more than 40 million Americans experiencing food insecurity. In a growing trend, criminals are targeting major security lapses in SNAP fund distribution, stealing millions in aid, so we asked this week’s guests how we can put a stop to it. “What the Hack with Adam Levin” is available wherever you get your podc…

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The Yakuza Boss Caught Selling Burmese Nuclear Material to Iranian Generals (Sort Of) 44:40

2M ago44:40

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You may have seen the news last week, about a Yakuza boss caught in Bangkok trying to sell nuclear material to a fake Iranian general. Takeshi Ebisawa and a group of co-conspirators are behind bars, awaiting extradition to the US, the dopes in a sting operation that could’ve been lifted straight from Hollywood. But how legit is the bust? And who is…

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Episode 136: Brett Johnson Explains the Abject Terror that Awaits Us All 42:52

2M ago42:52

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Brett Johnson has been called the Godfather of cyber crime. He was on the FBI’s most-wanted list. And he was on What the Hack before! He returns for a freewheeling conversation about what’s new in cybercrime, how it’s changed and wants you to know how to better protect your digital life. “What the Hack with Adam Levin” is available wherever you get…

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She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter 45:24

2M ago45:24

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When members of the fearsome and brutal Zetas cartel kidnapped her daughter, Miriam Rodriguez did what they asked and paid the ransom. But it wasn't enough, and she never saw her daughter again. Fed up with a lack of help from the police, she went on a one-woman crusade for justice, tracking down the men responsible for killing her daughter by any …

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From Helicopter Prison Breaks to Missing Millions: The French Bank Robbers Who Became Heroes 41:41

2M ago41:41

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On the face of it, Toni Musulin and Redoine Faïd couldn’t be more different: one a quiet, skinflint armored vehicle driver, the other a flamboyant gang leader who went on the lam in Tel Aviv disguised as religious. But the crimes of both men captured French hearts and minds, catapulting them to infamy and prompting some, in the wake of the global f…

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Episode 135: Christina’s Alleged Romance Scammer Plays A Long Con 43:07

2M ago43:07

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Romance scammers spend a lot of time on dating apps, but they almost never meet their targets in person. Christina’s Mr. Right moved quickly. Charming in-person, he lived in the same area and worked in the same industry. It was only after she committed to building a new life with him in Florida that everything began to fall apart. “What the Hack wi…

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The Headhunting Burmese Tribe Running the World's Biggest Cartel: The Wa w/ Patrick Winn 1:03:52

2M ago1:03:52

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The Wa tribe, an indigenous tribe residing in the mountainous Burma China borderlands, has long had a reputation as a people not to be trifled with. And yes, they were actually headhunters, well into the 20th century. Known as powerful warriors who weren't keen on outsiders telling them what to do, they were able to carve out their own autonomous s…

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Episode 134: EFF's Eva Galperin Is Not the Pope of Fighting Stalkerware (But She Is) 45:16

2M ago45:16

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Privacy matters for most of us, but it can be a matter of life and death for some especially when it comes to stalkerware. Electronic Frontier Foundation director of cybersecurity Eva Galperin joined us this week to teach us about the way too common software that can be used to track your every move. “What the Hack with Adam Levin” is available whe…

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Behind Ecuador's Gang TV Takeover: Prison Kings, Megabusts and Daytime Executions 45:31

3M ago45:31

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This month armed men stormed an Ecuadorean TV station, shocking the world and plunging the nation into gang hell. Prosecutors have been assassinated and gangs are looting offices, universities and even hospitals, as martial law takes hold. It might seem like Ecuador has gone from Latin American idyll to narco-state overnight. The truth, though, is …

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Episode 133: Tim Byrne’s Vintage Industrial is Scammer-Proof 39:17

3M ago39:17

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Tim Byrne’s vintage industrial furniture designs are a staple for A-Listers and designers around the world, which puts him in the sites of scammers–whether the target is time, money or goods. Listen as we learn how Byrne’s keen eye for the masterpiece lurking in a hunk of old factory equipment helps him spot thieves before they can strike. “What th…

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Griselda Blanco and Miami's Drug Wars: Netflix's New Narcos 48:38

3M ago48:38

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Dubbed the Cocaine Godmother and the Black Widow, Griselda Blanco rose to power when the cocaine boom was taking off and Colombian cartels started pumping product into the US, mainly through Miami. As the floodgates opened and tens of millions of dollars were being made on the streets, everyone wanted to be on top of pyramid, including Griselda...a…

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Episode 132: Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark Hates Scammers More than We Do 41:38

3M ago41:38

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Ever wonder why facial recognition is so accurate? Well, one reason is the shocking amount of personal data it needs (think: all the world’s snapshots), and that’s why Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark is taking aim at the industry behind that technology. We also review Charity’s top scams to watch for this year, and other topics near and dear…

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A Cop-Cartel Heist and Sky High Homicide Rates: What the Hell is Going on in Tijuana 51:53

3M ago51:53

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When a team of cops drove a truck laden with Sinaloa Cartel product out of a Tijuana warehouse in November, experts predicted violence even worse than the city had suffered in recent years, as roiling fentanyl and meth industries had made it Mexico’s most dangerous city by far. The reprisals began just hours later—and they still haven’t stopped. No…

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Episode 131: Marjorie Bloom Reveals a $661,000 Tech Support Scam 43:58

3M ago43:58

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Retired attorney Marjorie Bloom was minding her own business online when a tech support scam redirected her straight to cybercrime hell. Hear how she lost more than $600,000 in this harrowing tale of a scam turducken. “What the Hack with Adam Levin” is available wherever you get your podcasts. If you like it, consider rating us on your favorite pod…

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BTC ETF what’s next for crypto part 2? 0:58

3M ago0:58

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BTC Spot ETF what’s next for crypto part 2? Price appreciation? Republican support for crypto in 2024?

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What is the Bitcoin ETF and whats next for crypto investors? 0:59

4M ago0:59

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Learn about the bitcoin ETF what’s next for crypto investors and why you should get serious about filing your Crypto taxes ASAP

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The Kingpin Behind Asia's Triad Super-Syndicate Cartel : Tse Chi Lop, with Josh Berlinger 44:05

4M ago44:05

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The mysterious Chinese-born criminal mastermind Tse Chi Lop didn't raise too many eyebrows when he was arrested in Canada in the 1990's for running heroin with the Hong Kong Triads known as the Big Circle Gang in a partnership with the Rizzuto family, a Canadian-Italian mafia clan. But after serving nearly a decade in prison, the laid back, soft-sp…

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