Tell me what's on your mind.

The only ways I know to get easy money is to either to be born rich, marry a rich partner or have someone bequeath you a fortune.

If someone stepped up to us and said they have a way for us to make a lot of money fast, odds are we’d listen – listening doesn’t cost anything. Unless the person doing the talking is a scammer and they have now set the hook and may very well reel us in.

Today we'll talk about Easy Money scams and you'll learn just how easy it is for you to lose your cash.

Tell me what's on your mind.

It's not easy to escape from prison, but when you have a lot of time on your hands and experienced con artists available ... well, it's going to be inevitable.

A few weeks ago, we looked at how con artists used their skills to escape a highly secure prison. This time we're looking at the case of the Texas 7 who managed to escape, but not without costing a police officer his life.

The Seven were on the lam for 41 days, but then police used cons of their own to bring them back to jail. We'll tell you how.

Tell me what's on your mind.

Fear gets your attention. It throws you off-kilter. It corrupts your judgement.

You recover quickly when surprised by a spider. The impact is greater if you awaken in the night and see a stranger standing at the foot of your bed.

In this episode, we tell you how scammers use fear to get us to do things that interfere with our ability to reason and recognize the scam for what it is.