July 4, 2024
EP. 249.5 — Fraud Friday: The Perfidious Princess w/ Ron Funches
Hear ye, hear ye con-gregation! It’s Fraud Friday and this week we revisit our episode with Ron Funches where we expose the “princess” who was taken hostage by pirates and also her imagination. Stay schemin’!
This episode was originally released 01/12/2021.
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Research by Sharilyn Vera.
SOURCES:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-was-princess-caraboo-scam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Caraboo
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1900621_1900618_1900853,00.html
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