Welcome to Scamtown! It’s a place where the true crime is stranger than fiction and the stories are filled with quirks and moral ambiguity. Join the mayors of Scamtown, Emmy-nominated filmmakers and Signal Podcast Award winners James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte (McMillion$ and The Big Conn), as they take you through stories ranging from the strange to the unbelievable. Wild scams, surprising heists, forbidden love, and massive explosions are just a little taste of what’s in store.Scamtown is an Apple Original podcast, produced by FunMeter. Follow and listen on Apple Podcasts.http://apple.co/Scamtown
12 episodes transcribedIn 2002, the Underwater Hockey World Championships were taking place in the largest city in Alberta, Canada. Teams from across the globe were...
An indie yarn maker’s popularity skyrockets on social media platforms in the mid-2000s and her online store is booming—until customers start...
In the late 1980s, university libraries start to notice items missing from their rare book collections and suspect they’ve been robbed. That'...
In 2018, a band in Bristol, England, is asked to open for Threatin, a successful hard rock group from Los Angeles that's on a European tour....
In 2017, Italian authorities uncovered a multimillion-dollar scheme as part of a big Mafia bust. But it has nothing to do with broken legs or...
An original drawing by famed artist Salvador Dalí is donated to the Rikers Island jail inmates in the 1960s. It survives years bouncing aroun...
Police respond to a burglary call at an Iowa state courthouse on a brisk September night in 2019 and are alarmed by what they discover. What...
In the early ’80s, Boston is nicknamed the arson capital of the world. Hundreds of fires crop up across the city, terrifying citizens and fir...
Toby Dorr is a middle-aged mom trapped in a loveless marriage—until a cancer diagnosis changes her from someone who’d never jaywalked into a...
In the summer of 1980, Harvey’s Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, prepares for the busy Labor Day weekend. But when a new photocopy machine turns...
In the ’80s and ’90s, fraudulent telemarketing is booming, often bleeding senior citizens dry. Law enforcement is nearly powerless to stop it...
Welcome to Scamtown! It’s a place where the true crime is stranger than fiction and the stories are filled with quirks and moral ambiguity. W...
