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How convincing could you be if no one checked the script? The Imposter Trap pulls back the curtain on frauds, fabricators and the psychology that lets them succeed.

Each episode dissects real impostors and the patterns behind their lies, mixing forensic storytelling with clear lessons you can use to spot deception. Expect concise case breakdowns, behavioral clues, red flags in resumes and social media, and conversations about why smart people fall for confidence dressed as competence. This is not true crime melodrama — it's an evidence-forward look at how imposture works and how to protect yourself from it.

New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 9:00 AM. Episodes are short, focused and actionable so you can listen on the commute, before a meeting, or when you want a quick dose of skeptical thinking.

For listeners who worry about being fooled, who hire or date online, or who want to recognize manipulation before it costs them time or money, The Imposter Trap gives the tools and vocabulary to see through a confident act.

Subscribe now and train your instincts — new insights arrive daily at 9:00 AM.

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  • He Faked a Food Career for Eight Years: The Frank Larsen Fraud

    He Faked a Food Career for Eight Years: The Frank Larsen Fraud
    Oct 9 2026
    He Faked a Food Career for Eight Years: The Frank Larsen Fraud

    A laminated press credential was found six inches above the waterline on September 4, 2019, and it belonged to a real Continental Table journalist - but the name it revealed did not match the man posing as a critic in Crestfield for nearly a decade. How did a stolen badge, a homemade press pass and carefully practiced language let one man quietly build a fabricated career in a town hungry for recognition?

    In this episode, you will hear how Frank Larsen arrived in Crestfield in autumn 2013 with two suitcases, a laptop and a signed lease, presented himself as a contributing critic for Continental Table and The Meridian Review, and wrote a monthly column for Carron Quarterly - so what finally exposed the fabrication and who noticed the inconsistencies?

    Person: Frank Larsen
    Date: September 4, 2019
    Location: Crestfield, Michigan
    Event: Discovery of Continental Table credential
    Publication: Carron Quarterly

    - Frank arrived in Crestfield in autumn 2013 at age 40 with two suitcases, a laptop, and a signed lease on Coulter Street.
    - He handed business cards listing Continental Table and The Meridian Review to local restaurants and introduced himself to chefs at Vessel and Maison Creutz.
    - Denise Edwards of Carron Quarterly began running his monthly column in 2015 after receiving his letter about fermentation.
    - The press credential was found stuck to the inside face of a concrete pier at the old cannery waterfront, six inches above the waterline.
    - Frank had originally found Craig Pullman’s Continental Table badge on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2011 and later produced a homemade replica using a color printer and laminator.

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    19 min
  • The Dead Teacher Who Lived: How Julie Green Fooled a Town for 13 Years

    The Dead Teacher Who Lived: How Julie Green Fooled a Town for 13 Years
    Oct 8 2026
    The Dead Teacher Who Lived: How Julie Green Fooled a Town for 13 Years

    A dry newspaper in a rainstorm exposed a thirteen-year lie: a woman living at 42 Wicker Lane had been waving from porches, running a board game club, and teaching fifth graders - but the name she used belonged to a man who died in 1997. How did Judith Elaine Elaine spend years living and working as Julie Green without being stopped, and who came closest to catching her before a paper carrier noticed one morning?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of documents, small audits, and routine procedures that allowed an identity to be borrowed and a teaching career to be built on a dead man’s credential. We trace Elaine’s discovery of James Walter Green’s death record and certificate, her step-by-step identity requests, years of low-stakes testing in schools, and the near-misses that almost revealed her - then ask how such gaps in systems and human attention stayed open for so long.

    Person: Judith Elaine Elaine
    Alias used: Julie Green
    Deceased person: James Walter Green
    Death period: spring 1997
    Discovery date: August 14, 2011

    - A newspaper left dry inside a plastic delivery sleeve on Wicker Lane had sat for three days after an overnight rainstorm.
    - James Walter Green was born in 1966 and died in spring 1997; his Indiana elementary teaching certificate remained active in the system.
    - Judith Elaine was born in 1949 and was about 49 years old when she found Green’s records in summer 1998.
    - Elaine submitted a replacement Social Security card request by mail posing as a family member, then spent three years testing the identity in substitute roles and seminars before applying in September 2001.
    - By the time Amy Mills found the dry newspaper in August 2011, Elaine had taught across seven district schools, ran a weekly board game club from 3:15 to 4:30 with a waitlist, and had accumulated over $22,000 in cash in a fireproof lockbox.

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    22 min
  • Una consejera de duelo que lloró hijos muertos frente a cada cliente nunca tuvo ninguno

    Una consejera de duelo que lloró hijos muertos frente a cada cliente nunca tuvo ninguno
    Oct 7 2026
    Una consejera de duelo que lloró hijos muertos frente a cada cliente nunca tuvo ninguno

    A folder left upright in a storm drain, a single clean black canvas shoe beside it, and thirty-one pages of forged grief-counseling documents - what begins like a small, eerie puzzle quickly points to a long con that let a woman grieve other people's dead without ever having lost a child herself. How did forged certificates, a dead supervisor, and a precise rabbit logbook keep her secret intact until someone dropped evidence in public?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from a storm drain discovery to the unmasking of Amanda R. Berry, describing the papers found, the people who trusted her, and the small inconsistencies that pulled the case apart. What did the folder actually contain, and why did it take a rubber-band-and-shoe to force the truth into daylight?

    Person: Amanda R. Berry
    Location: Portsmith; Cutter Street (practice), Dekker Street (neighbor), Creel County (Department of Human Services)
    Event: Folder with thirty-one pages of alleged grief counseling certification found in storm drain
    Date: Third week of July (found early morning on a Tuesday)
    Document detail: Forged signature of Douglas Hoff; practicum and transcripts bearing University of Madison letterhead

    - A black canvas shoe was found standing clean and undisturbed beside the folder in the storm drain.
    - The folder contained thirty-one pages, including transcripts, a practicum evaluation, and a clinical endorsement letter.
    - The signature on the paperwork matched Douglas Hoff, who had died fourteen months before Amanda opened her practice.
    - Amanda graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in communications, not in counseling or social work.
    - The last rabbit logbook entry was dated the morning Curtis Fahey confronted Amanda about credentials.

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    19 min
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