Best Return To Sender Podcasts (2024)

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REPLAY: Hoaxes vs Scams 15:57

2d ago15:57

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What's the difference between a hoax and a scam? Are they the same thing? In this episode, we take a crack at the answer -- unless this whole program is a hoax. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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Regenerative? Part of the Wellbeing Economy? Imagine! Talking Future Scenarios at the UK's new National Centre for Fashion & Sustainability 47:14

3d ago47:14

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Complete this sentence: The future of fashion will be… Welcome to Series 10 of Wardrobe Crisis! We're kicking off with a conversation about the future of fashion, recorded live earlier this year when Wear Next came out in the UK. Clare is in conversation Tamara Cincik, Professor of Fashion & Sustainability at Bath Spa University, at the first ever …

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Woman falling down escalator marks return of pigeon scam 11:19

9d ago11:19

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A woman falling down escalator marks return of pigeon scam, members of British Parliament get caught in a honey trap and a Pennsylvania man loses $165,000 to romance scammer. Hear these stories and much more at ScamsAndCons.com or wherever you get podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Fuck Around & Find Out - the 3/5 Human Design Profile Anthem 18:40

22d ago18:40

18:40

Send us a Text Message. We are diving deeper into our How Human Design Helps Me Human series with a very special to me episode where I finally proclaim that Fuck Around & Find Out is the 3/5 profile anthem If you have a 3/5 profile, have a 3 or a 5 in your profile, or are a human who knows other humans, this episode offers permission, possibilities…

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An Uber driver was killed while delivering a package for a scammer and a Canadian scammer is in jail for a $175 million e-mail fraud in the U.S. 9:51

24d ago9:51

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An Uber driver was killed while delivering a package for a scammer and a Canadian scammer in jail for a $175 million e-mail fraud in the U.S. while a man cons people into letting him use their phones, then drains their bank account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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Woman scammed by promise of free home make-over 14:00

1M ago14:00

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A woman scammed by promise of free home make-over, a scammer tries to hoodwink Drew Barrymore's guests and an Alabama woman has admitted to faking her own disappearance after earlier claiming she had been kidnapped. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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Navigating All.The.Things - Self Regulating through Our HD Openness 32:23

1M ago32:23

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Send us a Text Message. Our How Human Design Helps Me Human series continues with a solo episode exploring how I approach self-regulating through my undefined and open Human Design energy centers. As a Mental Projector I have 2 of the 9 centers defined, which means a LOT of openness in my chart. This episode clarifies the difference between having …

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Clean and green -- washing your checks 23:25

2M ago23:25

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When you write a check, you expect it to be secure, after all, you did write it in ink. That means bupkus unless you used a secure check and security pen. These days, scammers can use household chemicals to eliminate what you have written and fill in the blanks with whatever they want to whomever they want. They will even trace your signature so th…

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A scam leaves a man in a coma and a woman's home is stolen 16:02

2M ago16:02

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An East Tennessee woman stops a scam by people posing as a representatives of Publishers Clearing House and a Wisconsin woman must pay taxes on $200,000 she lost to a scammer. A federal law once protected such victims from taxes. The law was cut. We also tell the story of a Toronto man who encountered a scammer that left him physically broken and u…

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A Provocation: You Need to Support Small Sustainable Enterprises if you Don't Want to Sink into a Boring Big Brand World - Meet High Tea with Mrs Woo 57:16

2M ago57:16

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What does it take to make it as an independent, small, local ethical business in a global world that favours big brands? How can we work together to ensure that our local businesses and creatives are literally sustainable - in that they thrive and stick around, and continue to give us the awesomeness that, at times, we maybe take for granted? It's …

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Being Iconic through Your Values, Human Design, & Astrology w/ Rachel Star 34:49

2M ago34:49

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Send us a Text Message. Rachel Star is an Astrologer, Human Design practitioner, Cosmic Queen, and an overall ICON in the world of self-embodiment And she’s this weeks guest! We explore aspects of Astrology and Human Design natal charts that help us identify and life through our values And how living life as ourselves not only makes life more livab…

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Why steal your identity when all scammers need is a synthetic you? 42:51

2M ago42:51

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Identity theft was once fairly easy. Watch someone's mailbox for a credit card offer, then send it in with a new address; discover something like your Social Security number, then route that money to their bank account. There were lots of ways. But now there's a new one -- a fabricated synthetic identity. It's you without really being you. It can t…

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Give What You Got, Embracing Our HD Defined Centers: Ep 3 of the How Human Design Helps Me Human Series 16:34

2M ago16:34

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Send us a Text Message. Grab your HD charts and note what centers you have defined (hint: they’ll be colored in!) These are your super powers you’re meant to share with the world And they also may be where you’ve been told your energy is big or too much by those around you I’m sorry if that was your experience, it certainly was mine And now that I …

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A boy amputates his legs to get insurance month and "ghost hacking" sends messages to the deceased family 15:12

2M ago15:12

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In separate incidents, a man and a woman are arrested for romance scams. A boy in Taiwan agrees to have both legs amputated to gain insurance money and a woman who wanted a puppy pays the money, only to be told it's a scam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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This is the Real Circular Fashion Economy - Meet Roger, My Local Cobbler 28:23

2M ago28:23

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Forget brands for a minute, the real circular fashion economy is the repair shop on your high street… Do you have a fab local cobbler or clothing alterations service? This episode is a reminder to thank them for being here and fixing our stuff. They are cornerstones of the circular fashion economy, and not some distant future dream - they’re alread…

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Faking your death 25:29

3M ago25:29

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It sounds exotic to fake your death, then just walk away, expect it almost never works. One woman was found in her home closet. Another was found by just pinging her phone. Then there is the woman who researched how to fake her death and took it so far as to hold her own death certificate in her hands. There are many ways to fake your death, but we…

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Human Design as a Liberation Practice with Karyn Paige 1:02:20

3M ago1:02:20

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Send us a Text Message. The Improviding Life Podcast welcomes Karyn Paige as our first guest for our How Human Design Helps Me Human series! We discuss our own entry ways into Human Design, how HD can support our anti-oppression and liberation practices, and how to be critical lovers by holding ourselves and one another accountable as we pursue bei…

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Return to Sender: Buzigahill's Bobby Kolade on Fashion Waste Colonialism in Uganda 44:15

3M ago44:15

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Bobby Kolade is the designer behind Ugandan fashion label Buzigahill - which puts the politics of upcycling and waste colonialism at its core with the brilliant, provocative concept: Return to Sender. Buzigahill's collections are made from items of secondhand clothing donated in the global north, and increasingly being dumped on the global south in…

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News: A Nebraska woman is conned out of a gold bar a woman buys the wrong kind of gift card, frustrating a scammer, but still losing her money 14:45

3M ago14:45

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News: A Nebraska woman is conned out of a gold bar and a woman buys the wrong kind of gift card, frustrating a scammer, but still losing her money Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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Sense Making through Human Design - Ep 1 of the How Human Design Helps Me Human Series 28:06

3M ago28:06

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Send us a Text Message. It’s Human Design season on The Improviding Life Podcast! Join me for the upcoming How Human Design Helps Me Human Series where I will be sharing my personal experience with the Human Design energy system and inviting other HD practitioners and change makers onto the pod to share their own experiences, ways of serving, and c…

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Lou Croff Blake Talks Pronouns, Fashion For Every Body and the Language of Belonging Beyond the Gender Binary 45:45

3M ago45:45

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What do your clothes say about you? Dear listener, I bet you've thought about this before. Fashion is a language in itself. But, what about the language we use to describe - and by extension to include, or to exclude - the people who wear it? Or don't get to wear it? The people we're marketing it to, or employing. Fashion communication isn't just a…

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Witness Protection Programs -- it's not an easy way to vanish 18:44

3M ago18:44

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t would seem if federal and state governments wanted you to disappear for your safety, it would be an easy thing to do. They can create all the documents you need, give you some money to get started and grease the wheels needed to get a new job. If only that were the case. Being uprooted is just as difficult -- if not more so -- than taking a powde…

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Woman recovers $147k from scammer and a man tries to own the New York Hotel 13:47

3M ago13:47

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Woman recovers $147k from scammer and a man tries to own the New York Hotel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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Hear from Maureen, a woman whose husband disappeared and she doesn't know why 29:53

4M ago29:53

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The theme of this series has been the long con of vanishing. Instead of a scammer targeting you, you are the one scamming everyone else. To be successful, you must do this the rest of your life, making it possibly the longest con of all. Maureen is the victim of this con. Her husband went missing and while she verified he was still alive, she doesn…

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Resting to Receive and Being a Gate Tender with Isabel Bagsik 49:12

4M ago49:12

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Send us a Text Message. Ep 47 - Resting to Receive and Being a Gate Tender with Isabel Bagsik In today’s episode we are joined by Isabel Bagsik, Creativity Wellness Guide and very nourishing human to share space with! The TLDR: Your Creative Calling is Medicine -Why so many visionaries and change makers who identify as women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, or as…

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Access Some Areas? Model Junior Bishop on Fashion's Disability To-Do List 51:56

4M ago51:56

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Can fashion lift its inclusivity game? When 28-year-old British model Junior Bishop - who just so happens to be a wheelchair user - spoke at the Houses of Parliament recently, she called on the fashion industry to do more to tackle its disability access issues. Levelling the playing field is integral to the wellbeing economy - what’s the point of o…

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Scammers break into a physician's prescription system, creating orders for tens of thousands of addictive drugs and a lawsuit has been filed against CitiGroup for not doing enough to protect customers 11:35

4M ago11:35

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Scams & Cons News for March 21, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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Vanishing: Where to go and dealing with loneliness 15:35

4M ago15:35

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Once you've decided to vanish, the question is: where do you go? In this episode we explore those possibilities and what you need to keep in mind when choosing a place. The odds are you'll end up somewhere that's not familiar and among people you don't know. That loneliness is one of the main reasons that a vanishing con fails. We'll tell you how p…

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Are You Posh & White Enough for a Career in the Creative Arts? Rahemur Rahman on Strategies for System Change 55:10

4M ago55:10

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Rich, white and privileged - the creative arts sector has a class problem. Particularly in class-obsessed Britain, where middle-class people are twice as likely to work in creative jobs than their working class contemporaries. According to the Evening Standard, "the worlds of TV, film, music and the arts are dominated by straight, able-bodied white…

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Woman uses soap opera scheme in attempt to kill husband; catfishing scam hits business for $4 million 11:32

4M ago11:32

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Scams & Cons News for March 7, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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Caryn Franklin, Beyond The Clothes Show - Fashion, Identity, Representation and Belonging 1:01:10

4M ago1:01:10

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We all know clothes have meaning, beyond just looking nice. We’ve often talked on this podcast about the importance of how they are made. This week, we’re considering how fashion’s meaning stretches beyond supply chains and our wardrobes, to shape our culture and the way we see ourselves collectively. How does fashion see itself when it comes to ra…

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Irish Artist Richard Malone, Who Gets To Make It in Fashion? 1:00:17

5M ago1:00:17

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How much is enough? How can creatives incorporate the idea of sufficiency in their output? If you make physical objects, what does it really mean to be sustainable in your practice? And, how can you, as my guest this week, Richard Malone, puts it, "do your own thing and stick to it" in the context of fashion's relentless push for newness? Also, whe…

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Vanished: How to go missing and avoid those searching for you. 26:42

5M ago26:42

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The longest con of all may be vanishing -- leaving the place you know, going somewhere unfamiliar and never having contact with anyone or anything from your past life. In this episode, we tell you how to go missing and avoid those who will be looking for you. Private Investigative Services Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi…

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Scams & Cons News: Scammers use a smartphone with Bluetooth to steal 800 gallons of gasoline and the DEA accidently gives $500,000 to scammers 10:21

5M ago10:21

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Scams & Cons News for February 15, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jim Grinstead

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The longest con of all -- vanishing. Why would anyone want to do it? 17:11

5M ago17:11

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A good scam creates a reality where the mark thinks it makes perfect sense to go along with the con. A great con is when everyone else is fooled and you are the only one to know the truth. The next few episodes are about the longest con of all -- vanishing. These are people who voluntarily disappear. It does not include those who are running for th…

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Season 6 -- A user's guide 5:07

5M ago5:07

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Regular listeners are accustomed to hearing about different variations of a con in each regular episode. In season six, we're doing something different. We'll be focusing on one con -- vanishing. Vanishing may be the longest con of all because, if you're successful, no one will hear from you again. We'll talk about why people want to voluntarily di…

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Return to Sender 20:50

5M ago20:50

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Author-reading of her chapter in "Rattled Awake: The Podcasters' Edition" where she addresses a real dumbass with surprising results. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtodealwithadumbass/message

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Magnificent Michaela Stark - From Insta Bans to Victoria's Secret, Meet the Body-Morphing Couture Lingerie Maker 1:01:03

5M ago1:01:03

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Why does fashion have such a problem in accepting all bodies they way they are, and recognising the beauty in different shapes and sizes? I know, I know, we’ve heard it all before, yet depressingly little changes. Our guest this week has had enough! Self-described as “that body morphing b*tch”, Michaela Starck is a super-talented London-based Aussi…

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Scams & Cons News: A dating app leads to a carjacking and are you being smished? 9:08

5M ago9:08

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Are you being smed? It's a scam that involves both texts and social engineering. A dating app leads to a carjacking in Florida and a Swiss bus museum. A cashier stole more than $1 million between 2008 and 2019 by reselling museum tickets twice. These stories and MUCH more on Scams & Cons News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad…

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BONUS: Lee Goldberg tells how he writes scams into his books and TV shows 22:24

6M ago22:24

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Any con, any story of a con, begins in the head of the author. Lee Goldberg isn't a con artist -- unless you count how he leads readers toward wrong conclusions -- but he does write successful books and TV shows that involve cons. In this episode, Lee talks with us about how he does it, how he comes up with his ideas and what it's to deal with publ…

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