Real Talk with Mary Contrary and Starfish
Explore stories of victims of lies, deceit, mis and disinformation, and conspiracies.
Hear the story of Amy Carlson, the Crestone Cult Corpse. Believing she was ‘God’ as the leader of the Love Has Won Cult, her followers kept her mummified body long after she passed. Introduction An eye-less mummified corpse wrapped inRead More
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Hear the story of Mohamed Mokbel, a Pharma CEO and Medicare fraudster amidst COVID-19, who worked with his accountant, Fathy ElSafty, to allegedly scam Medicare out of over $134 million. The huge Medicare fraud scheme made headlines in March 2021Read More
Hear the story of Gina Marie Marks, AKA Regina Milbourne, Natalie Miller, and Zara Margazio, veteran Psychic Con Artist and author of the sham book Miami Psychic. Gina executed a fraudulent fortune-telling scheme to swindle vulnerable and desperate people out ofRead More
Hear the story Ruja Ignatova, the Cryptoqueen Fraud who masterminded one of the biggest cryptocurrency scams in the history of financial scams. Bulgarian fraudster Ruja paired with marketing guru Karl Sebastian Greenwood to scam over $15 billion between 2014 andRead More
Hear the story of Anna Sorokin, the SoHo Grifter who swindled friends, banks, and hotels by making them believe that she was a German heiress. Anna Sorokin is a 30-year-old Russian-born German who moved to New York in 2013. UsingRead More
Hear the story of William Singer, the mastermind of biggest and baddest ivy league varsity admissions scandal, ever. Listen to the details of how William Rick Singer organized a scheme to cheat on college admission tests and bribed coaches toRead More
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Hear the story of Jenelle Potter who acted as a catfish to convince her parents and boyfriend into murdering a young couple, orphaning a baby. Jenelle Potter Background Jenelle moved to Mountain City, Tennessee in 2005 with her parents MarvinRead More
Hear the story of our own Mary Contrary who got caught up in Sellers Playbook, an online selling scam for Amazon. Mary Contrary shares her personal experience with a fraud scheme called Sellers Playbook masterminded by Trump’s “The Apprentice” seasonRead More
Hear the story of Capitol Police Officer Jeffrey Smith who committed suicide after QAnon conspiracy theorists stormed the capitol to overturn the 2020 Election. Amidst the heat and rage that characterized the Storming of the Capitol on January 6, SmithRead More
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Hear the story of Eric Coomer who was falsely accused of flipping votes on Dominion Voting Systems in the 2020 Election Fraud Conspiracy. Shortly before the 2020 election, a right-wing figure Joe Oltmann in Denver, Colorado heard “Eric from Dominion”Read More
Bonus Episode #3: Crypto Love Scam 
#37. Scott Charmoli – Tooth-breaking Fraudster Dentist 
Bonus Episode #2. Avoiding Home Improvement Traps 
#36. Reed Slatkin – Hollywood Scientology Ponzi Scheme