Sean Pyles

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9,315 appearances 110 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard today

Sean Pyles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast · Drained Retirement, Maxed Credit Cards. How Scam Victims Start Rebuilding · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

So the identity theft voice-verified

Resource Center and the Federal Trade Commission are two places that people should be filing reports. voice-verified

Also have your guard up if you have been scammed and especially if you've talked about it online. voice-verified

There are a lot of threads on Reddit where people share their scam stories. voice-verified

After that, sometimes scammers will actually reach out to scam victims and pose as scam recovery resources and make you pay money for quote unquote like scam mitigation. voice-verified

And then guess what? voice-verified

You've been scammed again. voice-verified

So if romance scams are a certain type of evil, scam recovery scams are maybe even a more complex, insidious kind of evil because you've already been scammed and you feel so bad about yourself and these people are taking advantage of you. voice-verified

Yet again, you know, get in terms of getting money back, it's just likely not going to happen. voice-verified

You could try to reverse a wire transfer, but just again have realistic expectations that it's likely not gonna happen. voice-verified

A first step to take would be hopefully stopping the financial drain. voice-verified

The tough part with our listeners' question is that the dad doesn't think that he was scammed at all. voice-verified

So there's a chance that he could keep sending money to this person online. voice-verified

And honestly, we do need to acknowledge the fact that this might not be a scam. voice-verified

It could be a real person on OnlyFans abroad, and the dad is just sending a bunch of bunch of money to this real person. voice-verified

Yes, they're probably. voice-verified

being taken advantage of, that doesn't mean it's necessarily a scam though, and there's a difference there. voice-verified

I mean, that's the cost of connection for their debt. voice-verified

And that's a sad truth. voice-verified

But again, it it may not be a scam. voice-verified

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