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Bob is currently the host of AARP’s The Perfect Scam podcast. Listeners ride along weekly as scam victims and professional con artists tell their stories. A 2023 Webby award winner
Debugger is a podcast about technology and democracy, produced with help from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
Breach is a deep-dive audio documentary that investigates history’s biggest hackers. Bob is co-host with Alia Tavakolian of Spoke Media. Season 1 uncovers the role of Russia in the massive Yahoo hack; Season 2 examines the comedy of errors that led to the Equifax breach.  Sponsored by Carbonite. A Shorty Award finalist.
No Place to Hide is a 6-episode miniseries examining the state of privacy in America, from abusive digital police tactics to abusive romantic partners who hunt down victims through cyberspace.  Bob co-hosts with Spoke Media’s Alia Tavakolian. Part fiction, part non-fiction. Sponsored by Intel.
“So, Bob?” is a weekly investigation of the unintended consequences of technology.


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Bob Sullivan's podcast projects

Someone made a deepfake of my voice for a scam! (With permission…)

October 20, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

 “I need help. Oh my God! I hit a woman with my car,” the fake Bob says. “It was an accident, but I’m in jail and they won’t let me leave unless I come up with $20,000 for bail …Can you help me? Please tell me you can send [Keep reading]

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‘Why weren’t we prepared for a superpower like this being unleashed?’ – the Debugger podcast with Kashmir Hill

October 5, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

I’m very excited for this episode of Debugger. Kashmir Hill has broken many of the most important privacy stories in the past twenty years, many of them in the pages of The New York Times. She’s been chasing after a secretive company named Clearview AI story for years, and recently [Keep reading]

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Crypto crimes — ‘Sorry, there’s nothing we can do’ … might not be true

September 26, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

“Sorry, there’s nothing we can do,” is about the most frustrating phrase a human being can hear.  But it’s precisely these words you are most likely to hear if you are the victim of a scam — when you call the police, when you call the bank, when you call [Keep reading]

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The darkest side of online scams – when victims attempt suicide

September 5, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

Kathy Book wrote goodbye notes to her husband, son and daughter last December 14, then walked behind her New Jersey home, into the woods, intending to kill herself. She survived, thanks to quick thinking by her husband and local police. (This story and accompanying podcast include extensive discussion of suicide. [Keep reading]

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2023 is the summer of the mega concert (and mega ticket scams)

August 23, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

This is the summer of the blockbuster concert, and why not: Music fans have years of pent-up Covid frustration that they are ready to release.  Sold-out shows by megastars like Taylor Swift are the perfect venue to release all that energy.  Unfortunately, all this pent-up demand has created the perfect [Keep reading]

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Debugger: The Frances Haugen interview. Two years after Facebook, now what?

July 24, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

Nearly two years after focusing the world’s attention on Big Tech’s big problems, Frances Haugen remains a powerful force in the technology industry.  In today’s episode of Debugger, she tells me how Covid lockdowns played a key role in her difficult decision to come forward and criticize one of the [Keep reading]

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Exchange students coerced into West Virginia romance scam crime ring

June 15, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

Huntington, West Virginia has seen its share of tragedies. Nestled near the Kentucky border, Huntington is the home of Marshall University, which in the 1970s suffered one of the saddest disasters in the history of US sports.  A charter flight carrying most of the school’s football team crashed on the [Keep reading]

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Grieving wife, stepdaughter learn dark truth about missing cremated remains

May 19, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

By my calculations … at the low end, she may have stolen 3% of the population of Montrose. Last week I introduced the story of Diana McBride, who had just begun a quest to discover the truth after her step-dad’s cremains went missing following his untimely death. When Diana’s mom, [Keep reading]

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When ‘Cactus’ died, he was supposed to be cremated. Instead, something horrible happened

May 12, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

It did keep plaguing me, you know, what really happened? Did they mix up his body? Did they lose his body? Little did I know what really happened. Really the horror, the nightmare was yet to come. I’ve hosted nearly 75 Perfect Scam podcasts during the past two years, but [Keep reading]

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Rules for Whistleblowers: a Handbook for Doing What’s Right

May 2, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

When Whistleblower Francis Haugen came forward and testified before Congress about what she thought was going wrong inside Facebook, she changed big tech forever. But how? I recently talked about this with Stephen Kohn, author of the book, Rules for Whistleblowers, A Handbook for Doing What’s Right, and many, many [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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