Johnathan Walton
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first heard Jul 2026
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The Knife: A True Crime Podcast · Presenting – Hardcore Con with Johnathan Walton · 21 Jul 2026
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It's late October now, in 2023, in New York City.
It's a cool 65 degrees outside, just past 6 p.m., and 39-year-old Charlotte Coles is nervously standing in front of her Brooklyn apartment building.
She looks like she's seen a ghost.
And she's clutching a shoebox containing $50,000 in cash, her cash, her entire life savings.
She had just come from her bank after withdrawing it all.
When all of a sudden, a man in a white Mercedes SUV pulls up.
And Charlotte places that shoebox with her life savings in it on the back seat of that Mercedes and slams the door shut and watches as it drives away.
At this very moment, even though Charlotte Coles is an Ivy League-educated financial journalist for the New York Times and New York Magazine, she has no idea that she has just fallen for an elaborate confidence trick orchestrated by a team of sophisticated con artists working in unison with surgical precision to scam her.
How did these people, these scammers, infiltrate her life to begin with?
And what could they have possibly said and done to convince Charlotte Coles to fork over her entire life savings behind her husband's back?
Listen, I know you think there's just no way that you'd ever hand a stranger all the money in your bank account.
And I know you think Charlotte Coles must be a gullible idiot for doing that.
But a similar thing happened to me.
I got conned out of close to $100,000 and I managed to turn the tables and put my con artist in jail.
And I've since investigated hundreds and hundreds of con cases and scams and wrote a book, Anatomy of a Con Artist, about the psychology of how these elaborate scams work and how these MFers know the exact way to hack your brain to get you to do what they want.
You think you'd never fall for a scam like this?
Well, that belief actually makes you so much more likely to.
In each episode of Hardcore Con, I'm not just going to tell you a crazy con story.
I'm also going to pull the curtain back and expose the dark psychology and the mental tricks these scammers use to manipulate you.
while at the same time making you completely unaware that you're being manipulated.
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