Episodes
10 years · 153 episodes
Topic
Format
Year
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2 Jun 2026
The REKK Wreck
Heads up if there's more cat meows and talking over each other than we normally let fly, this…
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15 May 2026
The Bad “Bet”
Or the very good bet, depending on how you think about it. In this episode, we start by…
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16 Jan 2026
The Charizard Charade
Pokémon cards became a billion-dollar market—and then a massive fraud target. This episode follows the rise of ultra-rare…
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15 Dec 2025
Inside the Smishing Triad
A deep dive into Lighthouse, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to millions of scam texts worldwide, and the sprawling…
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16 Nov 2025
How Much of Facebook’s Revenue Is Scam Ads—And Other Chat Worthy Questions
It’s a chatty chat. I repeat, this one's a chatty chat. Today we’re digging into the big weird…
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2 Aug 2025
The Escobar Phone and Imaginary Flamethrowers
We unpack how a Swedish entrepreneur used Pablo Escobar’s name to sell fake phones, flamethrowers, and crypto —…
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29 Jun 2025
The Texas Lottery Courier App Scandal
A London syndicate used a phone app to buy nearly every combination in the Texas Lottery—and walked away…
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26 Apr 2025
Hotline Hacked Vol. 12
A tech worker stumbles upon mass fraud and brings receipts, a flag football prank goes very right, a…
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16 Feb 2025
Silk Road Founder Released + DeepSeek’s Big Moment for Open Source AI + Scam Complaint Lines to Nowhere
We dive into the story of Silk Road—the infamous darknet marketplace that changed the internet. We revisit its…
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29 Jan 2025
Hotline Hacked Vol. 9
A bunch of great stories, including a prank between brothers with video evidence, a DOS frat war, and…
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16 Jan 2025
US Soldier Arrested for Hacking + Honey Plugin Scandal + Listener Creates Bitcoin Pizza Website
We have a bunch of stories to get to, but before you listen, check out our new Youtube…
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16 Oct 2024
Doxing Strangers + Mexican Cartels and Timeshare Cybercrime + Facebook’s Big Password Fine
A chatty chat episode where we discuss a Harvard research project turning Meta Ray-Bans into facial recognition hardware,…