Advertise on podcast: Trouble in River City

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht paints a tunnel on the side of a cliff and a scammer goes right through it like the Roadrunner. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Charles regales Hesse and Riley with tales of trickery in 18th Century London, straight from the pages of a tome entitled "The New Cheats of London Exposed, or, The Frauds and Tricks of the Town Laid Open to Both Sexes Being a Warning Piece Against the Iniquitous Practices of That Metropolis." This episode instructs about the following malicious sorts of people: —Hangers-On —Gossips Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Riley tells the tale of the fabulist British politician Jeffrey Archer and his fragrant wife. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Dan reflects on his time working in scammy call centers in Montreal. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Charles rounds up stories about scammers hitting the DNC, RNC, and political campaigns, plus a Nigerian prince who scammed the Nigerian government. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Jim Waterson returns to the show to discuss the time he confronted illegal ice cream vendors on Westminster Bridge by pulling up with his own "completely legal" ice cream van handing out desserts for free. Read London Centric. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Hesse tells Charles the story of Twenty-One, a quiz show that sullied the sterling reputation of television with a rigging scandal. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

This time in 17th Century Chinese swindles: a fox that steals your yang essence, swindling the salt commissioner while disguised as daoists, and the origin of the common phrase "shut up about him!" Remember, you can't snatch the pearl from under the dragon's neck unless you plumb the depths of the pool. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Charles tells the story of Turkish wunderkind Mehmet Aydın, who pivoted from rapping to Ponzi scheming via a Farmville knockoff. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

The gang opens a dot-com-era time capsule: the 2000 Ben Younger film Boiler Room. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Dan shares the story of Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II, the king of the frontier conmen. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Hesse concludes the story of how Magic Alex ensorcelled those inimitable lads famed for walking across London's Abbey Road Street. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Hesse tells the story of Magic Alex, a dubious engineer that ensorcelled a wily band of Liverpudlian moptop Scousers known only as The Beatles. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Riley tells the story of teen millionaire Barry Minkow, who made his fortune by running a carpet cleaning business and did not do any fraud of any kind. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.

Devin O'Shea joins Hesse and Dan for a freewheeling episode covering book-tour life, harassment by Veiled Prophet thugs, an AI scam afflicting a band and its fans, and Herman Melville's The Confidence Man. Buy Devin's book "The Veiled Prophet". Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon. Join our Discord server.