Welcome back to our scattered schedule of scams! We are your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond and we'll bring you the scams that our tickling our fraud fancies at the moment. This episode: Karen talks about almost falling for a Facebook Marketplace scam, and Stephanie brings us a bank heist to beat all bank heists! Bots! No Guns! Flo…

Well Stephanie and Karen went away, but scams sure didn't. We're always going to tell you about them, but probably not as frequently as before. Join us for our first episode in...forever. It's Season FOUR of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, no…

It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists though, at times, we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. Sometimes the gals get too busy to dig deep into some real Scammy McScammersons, so in this episode they offer you some 'summer nuggets'; quick little peeks into the world of a bunch of…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. In this episode, Karen throws the book at archivist Greg Priore, and Stephanie paints a picture of prodigy artist Marla Olmstead. 400 year old bibles and 4 year old artists. Would you c…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week, Stephanie and Karen are joined by some past guest hosts (Mark Bellamy, John Ullyatt and Jan Alexandra Smith) to play the scammiest game there is: ABSOLUTE BALDERDASH. Here is…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week, Stephanie digs up a buried treasure scam in the U.K. ( Layton Davies and George Powell) and Karen 'delivers' the story of a self titled "Archbishop" who promised infertile wo…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week guest host Trevor Leigh tell us about a bunch of MITs making MILLs and Karen shares the very current fake kidnapping of Shari Papini Hit! Double Down! Branded shoulders! Thing…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie talks about the Amazing Randy, debunker of mentalists and 'healers'. Karen shares some of the worst and weirdest April Fools jokes/tricks/scams. Dusty phone lines! L…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie and Karen tell you about Shaleia and Jeff Ayan and the Twin Flames Universe, and the story of the 2009 Balloon Boy! Mushrooms! Falcons! Restraining Orders! Things to…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie and Karen have a couple of fun little nuggets, and they are joined by good pal Trevor Leigh. Trevor has knocked the gold leaf and plaster off of an excellent scam an…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie circles around crop circles and Karen dances around the American National Ballet. Gun Bras! Dave! Doug! Fractals! Things to help this episode make sense: Tiger ice c…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes where no one was actually harmed (but Paul is Dead). This week, Karen's sister Kimmy (author, editor and Beatlemaniac) fill us in on more details of the Paul is Dead hoax of the 60s/70s.…

Note: This is our final episode for 2021. We'll be back in February with more Scammy MsScamface Scamaramadingdongs! Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds...and unsubstantiated eastern religious symbols. This week, Stephanie talks about fake kidnapping scams and Karen g…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds...and baby FBI agents This week Karen gets on the scam-nugget train with some circus scams, and Stephanie talks about Alan, Eric, Precious and THE WIFE; all made up names in a Ghana Princess scam. Brenda Towers! Agent Martin Shaw! …

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds...and talking eyeballs This week, Karen tells the story of Charles and Diana....Ingram. Not the Royals. Who Wants To Cheat On A Game Show!? Stephanie has some tasty scam nuggets shared by folks who have fallen victim to these Scamm…

Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds.....and the adjective 'bucolic' (not a disease). In this episode, Karen covers "Pepsi's Number Fever" or "The 349 Incident" , while Stephanie takes us to school with the story of Esther Reed who stole the identity of a missing woma…

In this episode, Stephanie tells us the real story of a fake Picasso, Elmyr de Hory and Karen picks a real "winner", lottery scammer Eddie Tipton. Neither of these scammers have anything to do with Bibimbap or Debbie. We don't know who Debbie is. Any similarity to any Debbies real or fictional is unintentional. Cubism! 16.5 million dollars! Turkeys…

With Stephanie live on stage in Edmonton for the next few weeks, Karen gets the chance to play with guest host Mark Bellamy we share scams from Miami and Borneo about Saudi Arabian Princes and Bornean Prospectors. Gold Goldfinger Gold Standard Scams Jimi Hendrix and the Queen! Check out these links: Somewhere in Time - The Movie The Grand Hotel Fel…

Doctor Doctor! This week The Fraud Broads, Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond get MEDICAL! Dr. James Barry (real doctor) and Malachi Love-Robinson (not real doctor) are the subjects of this week's episode. Ally McBeal! Loser brothers! Sesame Street!!! Things to help this episode make sense: Malachi Love-Robinson has a FACEBOOK PAGE!! That vi…

Hello Scamtime listeners Stephanie and Karen are back in September, and in the meantime you get to listen to some of our favorite past episodes. Meet Scott, the toehead. Scamtime is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network. Locally grown, community supported This episode of Scamtime is brought to you through the generous support of The Calgary…

about 10 months ago, Karen and Stephanie shared two scams that have proved to be very popular; one famous, and one closer to home The real voices of the scammers! If you are revisiting this episode with us, have fun. If you are hearing these scams for the first time you'll be shaking your head. SCAMTIME is a brand new proud member of the Alberta Po…

This episode, hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond discuss Belle Gibson (a scammer) and Orson Welles, (an accidental scammer). Belle Gibson benefitted from a fictional cancer diagnosis, and Orson Welles made every effort to let the public know that his broadcast of The War of The Worlds was completely a work of fiction. Fake News! Hazel …

ANOTHER SPECIAL GUEST!!!! Actor John Ullyatt joins Stephanie Wolfe on this episode to discuss his worst holiday of all time. Stephanie shows off her French while naming wines and difficult connoisseurs. Rudy Kurniawan goes for badminton bad-guy-ness, and Jose can't decide what his name is. Check out these links: Our fabulous guest host John Ullyatt…

Welcome to SCAMTIME where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share the scams that we find the most scammy-scammerson of all the scams. This episode, Nik Russian's Great Reality TV Swindle and Paolo Macchiarini unromantic tracheas. SCAMTIME is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network; locally grown and community supported. Thi…

Co host Karen returns to join Stephanie for another round of scammie-scammersons. After starting off with some creepy stories, Stephanie covers the Hollywood Con-woman and Karen tells the story of John and Anne Darwin. We also name drop a LOT of celebrities Things to help this episode make sense: More info on John and Anne it IS Enrique! Not Enriqu…

Stephanie and guest host Mark Bellamy wonder at the world of decietful doctors and spoiled socialites. Mark kicks the episode off with big news about why he is learning to knit, and then tells us the story of Dr. Farid Fata, oncologist (or on CON ogist). Then Stephie shows off her dialect training as she slams Russian socialite Anna Sorokin for her…

Your hosts Stephanie and Karen mark one full year of pandemic-hood by doing what we do best: trying to avoid talking about the pandemic, (and failing), and then sharing stories of frauds and scams. This week on Scamtime: Brice Carrington fakes his own accomplishments, and Rick Singer fakes the accomplishments of others. THIS EPISODE IS FILLED WITH …

Stephanie Wolfe's kitchen renos are finished and Karen Johnson-Diamond is causing water damage in her house. Yet they STILL found time to record this episode of Scamtime. Hear all about the twists and turns of Marianne "Maire" Smyth and polka to the ponzi played by Jan Lewan Stephanie grew up with Polka!!! Karen doesn't know when the Irish Constitu…

Scamtime is back with a helluv an episode! This is one ROYAL scam, and our guests, sisters Shelley Frost and Linda Young, give us all the deets about the tsunami of assholery behind their brand new book "Her King, The Con" Cuba! The Squad! And hey, what ever happened to those laptops? Here are some great links! Her King, The Con on Amazon Her King,…

Karen and Stephanie are taking a few weeks off. Karen will be arranging travel for her Nigerian Prince husband who is bringing her $2,700,000, and Stephanie will be in jail for tax fraud. See you in a few weeks! Scamtime Jingle: Paul Morgan-Donald https://paulmorgandonald.com/ Scamtime Art: Stephanie Wolfe Find us on Twitter @scamtime Find us on In…

In episode 10, Karen's mouth gapes astonishingly as Stephanie tells a 9/11 scam she'd never heard of. Stephie's mouth gapes in astonishment at the kick-assery of Karen's mom Sandy dealing with a scammer. Also, enjoy a scam shared by Justin (who is astonished that his name came out of Karen's mouth) Email us at [email protected] and tell us abou…

Stephanie and Karen get some good ol' girl hang out time with their guest Jan Alexandra Smith. Jan feels scammed by a woman, but she's really OK with it. Karen shares a phone scam (not the kind you are thinking) and Stephanie gives a dialect lesson and an incredible dramatic reading of a scam email. Special thanks to Jan Randall for sharing his ema…

This time, THIS time on SCAMTIME....it gets personal. Karen shares the story of how a family member was recently scammed. Like this JUST happened a few weeks ago. Stephanie would like to "Catch (the scammers) if she can" (HINT!) Dave got scammed but came out unscathed Frank scammed and came out better for it. Karen tried really hard to make the sou…

Episoe #7 features our first SPECIAL GUEST STAR Mark Bellamy!!! Mark woos Karen and Stephanie with a romance scam about Marcel Andre Vautour (if it's a romance scam, can you call it a SCROmance?) Stephanie and Karen perform an INCREDIBLE radio drama about diamonds (no, not Neil Diamond) while Stephanie shares the horrors of wedding planner scams Fi…

Stephanie brings you "The Missing Cryptoqueen" and Karen 'cheers' her on. Ruja Ignatova is a convicted Bulgarian Fraudster. She is best known as the founder of a Ponzi sceme known as OneCoin. She was the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen. Wendy Brown just wanted to get her highschool degree, and one other thing... Pre p…

One oldie timey scam and one from just six years ago. One man. One Woman. Two Boxes and a bunch of junk sellers. Karen and Stephie tell each other about Count Victor Lustig and Elizabeth Holmes. Things that MIGHT make this episode make more sense: Patrick Jones and 'The Vault' can be found on this Youtube Channel 'Cheddar' Schrodinger's Cat: Wire F…

It's the Salimillievanilliji episode! Stephanie tells us about Salim Damji Karen tells us about Milli Vanillli Teeth whitening! Lip syncing! Game show hosts! Plus: What would your hosts Stephanie and Karen do with each other's SIN numbers? Theft vs Fraud: https://davidsongregory.com/areas-of-practice/fraud-vs-theft The Milli Vanilli Carefree gum co…

Your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond discuss scams we have known and loved. Join in! In this episode: Fyre the mechanics! Stephanie Talks about the Fyre Festival Karen talks about the Mechanics who took advantage of her 21 year old self Also in this episode: Stephanie makes up Karen's new favorite word! Scamtime Jingle: Paul Morgan-…

Who Ponzi-ed before Ponzi? Are you a real artists if you are a 'scam' artist? In this episode Karen and Stephanie talk so fast that they mispronounce words like "month" and "ten" Scamtime Jingle: Paul Morgan-Donald https://paulmorgandonald.com/ Scamtime Art: Stephanie Wolfe Things to help this episode make more sense: Hemiplegia is a condition caus…

Your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond discuss scams we have known and loved. Join in! Links to randomly mentioned stuff below! Charles Ponzi was a bit of a hottie! https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/charles-ponziBy Karen Johnson-Diamond and Stephanie Wolfe

Karen and Stephanie are fascinated by the scams that pepole perpetrate, pass up, or place confidence in. Have you been suckered in? You are not the only one. Listen to this podcast and...we've got an island in florida we'd love to sell you. Been scammed? Wanna share? [email protected] Karen Johnson-Diamond and Stephanie Wolfe