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Posted in: Season 11 The Real Catch Me If You Can Series
The Real Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale

Frank Abagnale, a conman, gets an ethics award (part 8)

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Frank Abagnale, a conman, gets an ethics award   On September 12, 2022, Frank Abagnale was honored with a Heroes […]

Posted in: Season 11 The Real Catch Me If You Can Series
The Real Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale

Frank Abagnale’s older brother posed as a therapist and kidnapped a girl (part 7)

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Roy Abagnale, Frank Abagnale’s older brother, used multiple aliases, faked his career as a therapist, and was even accused of […]

Posted in: Season 11 The Real Catch Me If You Can Series
The Real Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale

Interview with the FBI agent who arrested Frank Abagnale (part 6)

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Meet the FBI agent who slapped the cuffs on Abagnale Frank Abagnale was busted for cashing ten bogus airline payroll […]

Posted in: Season 11 The Real Catch Me If You Can Series
The Real Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale

Ambush interview with Frank Abagnale, the con artist behind Catch Me If You Can (part 5)

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Javier Leiva Ambush interview with Frank Abagnale Abagnale claims he posed as a pilot, a lawyer, a doctor, and a […]

Posted in: Season 11 The Real Catch Me If You Can Series
The Real Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale

Frank Abagnale is a con artist, just not the con man you think he is (part 4)

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Like you, I was shocked to discover that Frank Abagnale’s life story is greatly exaggerated, if not a flat-out lie.  Don’t […]

Posted in: Season 11 The Real Catch Me If You Can Series
The Real Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale

Frank Abagnale—America’s favorite con artist made everything up (part 2)

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Who is the real Frank Abagnale? Frank Abagnale claims he never scammed the little guy. Instead, his target was focused […]

Posted in: Season 8
PRETEND Podcast - The Hypnotist

Hypnotic regression: What is it, and how does it work? (The Hypnotist part 2)

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I got hypnotized to recall a childhood trauma. In part one of The Hypnotist, I interviewed several hypnotherapists to answer […]

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Javier Leiva - Pretend Podcast about con artists

Pretenders, Con Artists, and Fraudsters – Interview with Javier Leiva (Unstructured)

I had the pleasure of chatting with Eric Hunley with the Unstructured YouTube channel. We spoke about finding con artists […]

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Posted in: Episodes Season 5
The Sugar Daddy Alan Canty

S502: The Sugar Daddy part 2 – The beheading of Alan Canty

Alan Canty spent most of his lunch breaks rendezvousing with an 18-year-old sex worker named Dawn Spens in the seedy […]

Posted in: Episodes Season 4
The Bounty Hunter-Part 1 Jack Saltarelli was once a fugitive running from FBI. Now he's bounty hunter.

S404: The Bounty Hunter Part 2

Jack Saltarelli is a bounty hunter who also happens to be a former fugitive. In part one of the Bounty […]

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About PRETEND Podcast:
PRETEND podcast is consistently in the top 100 True Crime Podcasts in US, UK, Canada, and Australia. It has been featured in the New York Times, the BBC, and New York Magazine and Vulture named PRETEND in their top 52 True Crime podcast list.
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