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You're in the right place for the real and unpolished truth about fraud, crime, scams and threats to your bottom line. Episodes include conversations with notorious criminals, victims and FBI agents that get to the bottom of it. From their jaw-dropping stories you'll discover how to spot fraud, crime, scams and detect lies so you protect yourself from personal and business losses. Your host Traci Brown is the Fraud-Busting Body Language Expert. She's spent the last 20 years reading people and uncovering secrets hidden in plain sight.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Tracy Brown turns accounts of fraud and concealment into clear lessons about credibility, corroboration and the costly mechanics of misplaced trust.
Tracy Brown keeps her interviews trained on a practical question: how can hidden conduct be tested against evidence? Her informal, direct questioning gives guests room to explain their methods and experiences, while her follow-ups translate specialized material into decisions a…
A witness's texts and a Ponzi victim's front door give your suspicion more than body language.
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A skeptical look at how option grants and data patterns exposed cheating.
This episode tracks a professor's work on executive option grants and the data patterns that pointed to backdating. Brown keeps the focus on the plain question under the finance language: who pays when cheating like this takes place, and how the gains and losses get spread…
A fraud story that keeps its focus on the human cost, not the scheme.
Andrea Merriman's story is less about the mechanics of the Ponzi scheme than the moment she realizes the life around her was built on top of it. Traci Brown keeps the discussion plain and focused, and that works here.
A concise guide to weighing credibility in workplace disputes.
Marla Moore turns a familiar he-said/she-said problem into a workable framework by laying out five credibility factors she uses in civil investigations: cooperation, motive to falsify, inherent plausibility, past record, and demeanor.
Reputation management, public-image pressure, and a blunt reminder that press reputations do not always match reality.
Tracy Brown presents the piece as a practical study in reputation management, pressing Nate Miller of Miller Inc. on what that work looks like once a public story starts to skew.
Space camp jokes and a loose look at crime absurdity.
Tracy Brown keeps the episode locked on the ridiculousness of crimes going on right now, and Pat Dwyer gives the conversation a loose, quick rhythm.
Ashley Flowers and Britt Prawat revisit unsolved murders and cold cases as new evidence surfaces.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Tracy Brown brings in Professor Eric Lee of the University of Iowa to unpack how stock-option research turned into a fraud story.
Tracy Brown talks with Andrea Merriman about a Ponzi scheme that hit very close to home.
The host, a body language expert and behavior analyst, opens by framing her work as a search for what is really going on in crimes, politics, and billion-dollar business deals.
Tracy Brown sits down with Nate Miller, the CEO and founder of Miller Inc., to talk about reputation management.
Tracy Brown returns to the ridiculousness of the crimes going on out there right now.
Host Traci Brown introduces the show and previews an interview about rapper 50 Cent's legal troubles, focusing on fraud and crime.
Host Traci Brown and producer Alex discuss behind-the-scenes show details and read a listener review.
Host Traci Brown interviews Vince Pacente about his experience subduing Salman Rushdie's attacker and dealing with PTSD.
Host Traci Brown discusses the latest scams with a Better Business Bureau expert, covering dating, rental, pet, and unemployment scams.