Chameleon

Weekly true crime stories about elaborate cons, frauds and impostors AI summary

Audiochuck | Campside Media Visit website › True Crime · EN · 57 episodes · latest 2026-11-12 · explicit

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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.

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Really Bad Blood: the Self-Inflicted Wounds of Elizabeth Holmes

2026-11-12 · 38 min

In 2014, Elizabeth Holmes was being crowned Silicon Valley’s next big genius. That year, Chameleon host Josh Dean got a tip: Theranos was a sham. The source was an old friend of the Holmes family, caught up in a bitter…
Who is Swagg Man? The Rapper Scamming His Fans

2026-11-05 · 34 min · Episode 51

Swagg Man wanted you to know he was rich. He drove Lamborghinis through Miami, covered himself in designer logos, and told his millions of followers that he’d made it from nothing. But Swagg Man was just a character. A…
Queen of Her Own Mind: A QAon Cult Takes Over a Tiny Canadian Town E

2026-10-29 · 36 min

Romana Didulo emerged from the chaos of the pandemic as a QAnon conspiracy influencer, building a devoted following with promises of a new vision for Canada where taxes, mortgages and government no longer existed. She…
Defrocked: There’s a Plagiarizing Pretend Parson on the Run E

2026-10-22 · 38 min

Robert Peters was almost none of the things he claimed to be. For decades, Peters moved all over the world, talking his way into universities, teaching jobs and churches with forged references and invented…
The Rise and Fall of Michael Avenatti: An Anti-Trump Hero Who Flew Too Close to the Sun

2026-10-15 · 38 min

In 2018, Michael Avenatti seemed to appear out of nowhere. A brash, flashy lawyer riding shotgun with the porn star Stormy Daniels as her allegations against Donald Trump exploded into a national scandal. Avenatti was…
Program Pusher: A Trojan Horse Cult For Troubled Teens

2026-10-08 · 41 min

When Esther was a teenager, her parents supported her in joining a group that promised to help her with her drug problem. She found a world of secret rituals, forced confessions, endless meetings — and a community that…
The Problem Dog Whisperer: Too Good To Be True

2026-10-01 · 48 min

Steffen Baldwin was a tattooed dog whisperer with an apparent gift for rehabilitating dangerous animals. He was a beloved local celebrity with a reputation for saving the most difficult dogs from being put down. But…
Jacob and the Lion: A Cult, A Gangster And A Billion Dollar Tax Fraud

2026-09-24 · 39 min · Episode 45

Jacob Kingston wanted money, status and the approval of his family. Then he met a charismatic Armenian oil tycoon called The Lion. What began with a deal over a shipment of stranded biofuel turned into a sprawling…
The Four Mrs Wilsons: The Spy Thriller Author with a Real Life to Match

2026-09-17 · 43 min

When Mike Shannon was nine years old, he was told that his father had died fighting the Germans at the Battle of El Alamein. Michael’s father hadn’t died at all. He’d been a successful novelist and, quite possibly, a…
REVISITED: The Undead Tour: How The Fake Zombies Fooled America

2026-09-10 · 34 min

A British band called The Zombies had a smash hit single in America with ‘Time of the Season’ in the late 60s. Shortly afterwards, four handsome Texans hit the road pretending to be the Zombies. This is the unbelievable…

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Oldest episode in feed: 10/2025 · over a year
Typical length: 36 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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