Chameleon — Analisi annunci del podcast
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We are living in a golden age of deception. It feels like everyone has an angle and that, everywhere you turn, someone’s trying to scam you. Chameleon is a new weekly show from veteran journalist Josh Dean (co-creator and host of The Clearing, Hooked, White Devil, and the original Chameleon season, Hollywood Con Queen) that takes you inside an incredible, stranger-than-fiction story about someone—or some people—pretending to be something they aren’t. Are you obsessed with cons, frauds, and impostors? Then this is the podcast for you. Get your new weekly true crime obsession every Thursday from Campside Media and Audiochuck.
PodSkip has analyzed 2 episodes of Chameleon, averaging 3.5 ads per episode (4% of runtime).
The Artist of Cons: The Unbelievable but Totally Real Life of Milwaukee’s Most Interesting Man
Aug 26, 2026
As a teenager in Milwaukee, Art Rapkin became a hustler, karate champion and a fake Bob Dylan. Then he started smuggling cocaine, before ending up in a Mexican prison, where he was tortured, before…
Lie in The Sky: Is Frank Abagnale Jr's story too good to be true?
Aug 20, 2026
Frank Abagnale Jr. became America's most famous con artist. He said he stole millions of dollars, posed as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, before working for the FBI. His story became a bestselling…
Cultivated: The Self-Proclaimed Prophet Hiding In Plain Sight
Aug 13, 2026
"In the summer of 1991, a young woman walks into a police station in Ogden, Utah. She claims that just blocks away, amongst the manicured suburban sprawl, a self-proclaimed prophet has spent years…
The Archangel Made Me Do It: The French Mayor And The “Fortune Teller” Who Has His Ear
Aug 06, 2026
The mayor of an idyllic seaside town in France had seemingly fallen under the spell of a glamorous mystic who claimed she could speak to the dead. Their relationship soon pulled the whole town into a…
Big Man on Campus: The Hoops Phenom Who Tried High School Twice
Jul 30, 2026
A promising high school basketball star seemed to appear out of nowhere—a talented homeless kid trying to rebuild his life after Hurricane Harvey. But Rashun Richardson was no ordinary freshman. In…
Going Places: The College Art Students Who Fooled a Nation
Jul 23, 2026
In the late 1990s, a group of art students from Leeds, England, announce a week in Spain as their latest “conceptual artwork” — and Britain’s tabloids lose their collective mind. But as the headlines…
The Wannabe Pilot: Fish Swim, Birds Fly, and Randy Lies
Jul 16, 2026
His friends, family and a string of partners all believed a version of the same thing. That Randy was a former marine who now flew commercial airliners. But as the people around him started to look…
For The Love Of Dogs: The Scam Shelters Abusing Animals For Clicks
Jul 09, 2026
A network of animal shelters in Uganda started posting heartbreaking videos of starving, mutilated dogs on social media, begging for donations from animal lovers. But as a group of women around the…
REVISITED: The Kid Who Couldn’t Stop Playing Cop
Jul 02, 2026
In 2009, Vincent Richardson walked into a Chicago police station and reported for duty. No one noticed he wasn’t actually a cop. No one noticed he was 14 years old. This is the story of the teenager…
Mother of All Stories Part 2: Mom On The Run
Jun 25, 2026
When Heidi Cloud was twelve years old, she became the first child in America to be sent to jail for refusing a court-ordered visit with her father. As she grew up, Heidi came to understand that the…
Mother of All Stories Part 1: A Daughter Falls Under A Spell
Jun 18, 2026
Heidi Cloud's childhood never stood a chance of being normal. A mother with a warped way of seeing the world keeps the family on the run and embroiled in an impossible custody battle with a historic…
Mr 10 Percent: The Suburban Dad Who Fleeced Global Soccer
Jun 11, 2026
He rode a mobility scooter through Central Park with a parrot on his shoulder. He also helped pull off one of the biggest financial scams in sports history. This is Chuck Blazer, the flamboyant…
Fetal Attraction: The Reality Star And The Woman He Wished He’d Never Met
Jun 04, 2026
When Clayton Echard’s season of The Bachelor ended, he thought the public humiliation was behind him. Then a woman he barely knew claimed she was carrying his twins — something which, according to…
Laundry Man: The Wild Ride of the Pig Butcher's Banker
May 28, 2026
A swashbuckling South African expat, Benjamin Mauerberger, rose up as a boiler-room stock hustler in Southeast Asia, then reappeared years later with a diplomatic passport and extraordinary wealth…
Introducing: Crimeless
May 27, 2026
Join your Chameleon host Josh Dean and his partner in (dumb) crime, comedian Rory Scovel, as they dive into the incredible story of a shady Swami who scammed Newark, New Jersey into adopting the…
Dumpster Fire Phoenix: The “Festival” Organizer Who Just Can’t Stop Himself
May 21, 2026
Fyre Festival was sold as the most exclusive party on earth — a luxury music festival in the Bahamas for influencers, celebrities, and the ultra-wealthy. It became one of the most shared disasters…
Catch Him if You Ken: The Dating Scammer Who Targeted Influencers
May 14, 2026
The story of a mild-mannered guy who charmed his way into the lives—and bank accounts—of women on two continents by posing as a wealthy heir with big crypto dreams. But Ken’s real talent isn’t…
Whiteout: The Olympic Snowboarder Who Became A Cocaine Kingpin
May 07, 2026
A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder should have been a footnote—a guy who raced once, finished 24th, and faded away. But in early 2026, Ryan Wedding resurfaces as a fugitive on the FBI’s Most…
High Stakes: Life inside a Vampire Cult
Apr 30, 2026
As a lonely, grieving teenager in the early days of the internet, Celeste Mott is drawn into a secretive message board called "The Looking Glass": a place where self-proclaimed vampires demand total…
The Journalist And The Voyeur: It’s Not So Easy When You’re The One Being Watched
Apr 23, 2026
Gay Talese thought he’d landed a once-in-a-lifetime story every journalist dreams about: a motel owner who built a hidden viewing platform so he could watch guests in their most private moments and…
A Master's Puppet: Jeffrey Epstein's Money Man
Apr 16, 2026
The unsettling story of Leslie Wexner—the Midwestern retail billionaire who built Victoria’s Secret, then gave Jeffrey Epstein extraordinary access to his money and credibility. But how much did he…
The Real Eddie: His Scamming Is Insaaaaane!
Apr 09, 2026
The rise and spectacular fall of Eddie Antar, the electronics mogul behind the Crazy Eddie brand. Who scammed his way from the streets of Brooklyn to Wall Street and then vanished without a trace.
The Mesh Mill: How Scammers Took Advantage of Women's Pain
Apr 02, 2026
Shortly after Christmas, Sharon gets a terrifying call. A stranger tells her the pelvic mesh inside her body has been recalled. It's a “ticking time bomb," and she needs emergency surgery to remove…
Harry And Rachel Part 2: When True Love Dies
Mar 26, 2026
For 563 days, Harry believed the love of his life was dying of stage-four cancer. Then Rachel’s husband called, and everything Harry thought he knew collapsed. A pattern emerges, revealing a woman he…
Harry And Rachel Part 1: When True Love Lies
Mar 19, 2026
In 2001, Harry meets Rachel in Houston. And so begins a complicated and uncertain kind of love story. An on-again, off-again connection that would stretch across two decades of tragedies, lucky…
Extra Credit: The Rise and Fall of a Frat House Ponzi Scheme
Mar 12, 2026
Syed Arbab looked like the next financial prodigy—a frat house day trader who turned beer-soaked bravado into a successful hedge fund. Except that wasn't exactly the whole truth. When the SEC came…
Master Manipulator and Commander: Trust Your Gut
Mar 05, 2026
She thought she'd met the real deal: a decorated Navy officer, stationed at the Pentagon, opening hospitals in war zones. But what begins as a whirlwind romance slowly unravels into a portrait of…
The Vampire Catfish: A Message Board And The Boy Who Believed
Feb 26, 2026
Michael was 16, lonely, and stuck in a small Southern town when he met someone called Dennis on a vampire-themed online message board. What began as a thrilling, romantic connection soon spiraled…
Goodfellas: The Country Bar Theme Scheme
Feb 19, 2026
When an Arizona reporter starts looking into a flurry of closures at country music-themed restaurants, he thinks it’s just another boring business story. But he uncovers a collapsing franchise empire…
Face Plant: The Woman With A Thousand Boyfriends
Feb 12, 2026
What's it like to have your image used as the bait in thousands of online romance scams? This is what happened to Janessa Brazil—whose image has been hijacked and used to con hundreds, maybe…