Johnathan Walton

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The Knife: A True Crime Podcast · Presenting – Hardcore Con with Johnathan Walton · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

And professional scammers buy and sell bundles of this information to each other in order to scam us.

You might be wondering how on earth do scammers in, say, India or Nigeria or China get their hands on your social security number?

Well, the answer is simple.

Data breaches.

Lots and lots of data breaches.

Crime of our times.

So the fact that this scammer on the phone with Charlotte, who is posing as an agent for the Federal Trade Commission in D.C., has her social security number and all her personal information on his computer screen goes a long way in making him seem legitimate to Charlotte.

And then this Agent Mitchell tells her.

According to Agent Mitchell, the people that stole Charlotte's identity belonged to a sophisticated crime syndicate who, in a very short amount of time, managed to open 22 bank accounts in Charlotte's name in multiple states.

and then used those various bank accounts to launder more than $3 million that they quickly wired to other banks overseas.

Charlotte suddenly feels all the blood drain out of her face.

Agent Mitchell then texts her a picture of a woman's driver's license, a woman by the name of Stella Kwan.

Agent Mitchell tells Charlotte that the driver's license for this woman, Stella Kwong, was found in a rental car that had been abandoned near the Texas southern border, and that that car was rented in Charlotte's name.

And police later find drugs and blood in the trunk, evidence of foul play.

And when they execute a search at the rental car company, they find reams of bank statements also in Charlotte's name with her social security number attached.

And Charlotte nearly faints when Agent Mitchell reveals.

Now, there are two very powerful scamming techniques that I write about in Anatomy of a Con Artist that are being used on Charlotte very successfully here.

Number one, stories from far away places.

The overseas bank accounts, the Southern border rental car, the blood, the drugs, the felonies in Texas and Maryland.

Human nature is unreliable and easily influenced.

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