A 13-year-old girl is used as a money mule for scammers trying to grab a man&apos;s life&apos;s savings. Fake monks seeking money from monastery clones, and a scammer didn&apos;t realize the mark&apos;s phone number had changed and now belonged to a federal agent. It did not go well for the scammer.Hear these stories and many more on Scams &amp; Cons News, wherever you find podcasts.Support the show!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gold star families swindled and pickpockets use "touchless" credit card theft

Scammers don't steal your money, they create a world where it makes perfect sense to hand your cash over to them. Three-card-monte, the longest running show on Broadway, seems easy. You're watching the tosser and you always see the queen. What you don't see is a group of shills working you into the gate where you'll lose everything you have.Sometimes a large sum of money is accidentally sent to you and the sender asks for the additional cash to be sent back. In the meantime, they empty your bank account.We'll tell you all about the scams, how they work and why people fall for them. Don't become a sucker. Listen in.