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Speaker 1: Why would you do that to me when I thought

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Speaker 1: we were friends?

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Speaker 2: We are friends, Los Angeles, twenty twenty one. A friendly

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Speaker 2: neighbor appears out of nowhere and promises to make all

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Speaker 2: my dreams come true.

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Speaker 3: Let's not forget that David Bloom was a professional, caught artist,

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Speaker 3: so you didn't stand a chance.

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Speaker 1: But my dreams soon turned into a nightmare.

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Speaker 4: Bloom generally targeted people with.

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Speaker 1: Money, and I was not alone.

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Speaker 4: He took in over one hundred people for over fifteen

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Speaker 4: million dollars. One of the victims was his own grandmother.

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Speaker 5: David had a band lee and his chauffeur. It was

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Speaker 5: a British secretary. It answered his office fine.

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Speaker 6: He walked in off the street by eight months, and

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Speaker 6: he had broken company records.

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Speaker 5: David was a genius.

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Speaker 6: I was married to David for almost ten years. It

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Speaker 6: was insane that I was barely functioning, and I just

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Speaker 6: had this realization that he will not stop until he

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Speaker 6: kills me.

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Speaker 2: But I figured this grifter out before he realizes it,

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Speaker 2: and I start recording every lie.

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Speaker 7: We're selling you the twenty section a quarter next monthay, Ever,

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Speaker 7: twen days later you'll have a wire transfer or.

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Speaker 1: Check every con.

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Speaker 6: Easy but it's David.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna put you on speaker phone an interest you to.

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Speaker 1: Carolina and every manipulation.

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Speaker 7: I love you, whatever you need till that money comes

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Speaker 7: and you just tell me I'll have it to you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, he just thinks I'm just a freaking dummy.

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Speaker 3: Now on the table's a turn like he doesn't know

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Speaker 3: that you know and now you're playing him.

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Speaker 1: Getting a con artist to pay for their crimes is

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Speaker 1: an easy Gorge David who BLUs a scammers.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna stop until I bring this con

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Speaker 2: man to justice.

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Speaker 1: I'm Caroline de Moray.

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Speaker 2: Listen as I take down my scammer on Once Upon

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Speaker 2: a Con starting February twelfth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 2: or wherever you get your PODCAS tests