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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Podcaster trolls his scammer all the way to India

We all get voicemails from scammers trying separate us from our money. One podcast producer didn’t hit delete. He called back repeatedly until he had something close to a friendship with the man trying to scam him. Alex Goldman hosts the Reply All podcast. ( Photo courtesy of Daniel Seung Lee for Gimlet Media)

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By Madeleine Brand • Aug 2, 2017 • 1 min read

We all get voicemails from scammers trying separate us from our money. One podcast producer didn’t hit delete. He called back repeatedly until he had something close to a friendship with the man trying to scam him.

Alex Goldman hosts the Reply All podcast.

(Photo courtesy of Daniel Seung Lee for Gimlet Media)

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    Madeleine Brand

    Host, 'Press Play'

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    Gina Pollack

    Producer

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    Sarah Sweeney

    Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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    Michell Eloy

    Line Editor, Press Play

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    Alex Goldman

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