Explore every episode of the podcast Griftonomics

Your uncle thinks seed oils are a government psy-op. Your mom is on her third apricot-seed video this week. And somewhere out there, a guy with a ring light is explaining that sunscreen is the real carcinogen. Welcome toGriftonomics- a show about con artists, hosted by someone who spent years in a therapy chair listening to people explain why they trusted the wrong person, and years before that as a journalist chasing the paper trail to find out why.

Spoiler: it's not because your mom is dumb. It's because grifters are basically unlicensed psychologists who've figured out exactly which human buttons to push, and they push them beautifully. We're not here to laugh at the people who fell for it - we're here to laugh (a little) at how well-built the trap was, and then explain, with actual rigor, how it works.

No Anna Delvey reruns. No con you've already watched a docuseries about. Just the stuff still actively scamming your group chat, dissected with equal parts clinical precision and appropriate horror.

Every grift tells you who we are. Try not to see yourself in episode three.