Heart and Hazard

What does it actually sound like when a romance fraud victim calls for help for the first time? Ally Armeson knows. As Executive Director of FightCybercrime.org , she's taken those calls, run the recovery groups, and watched the patterns evolve in real time — and what she's seeing should wake all of us up. In this episode, Ally and I talk about the moment victims finally reach out (and why it ofte...

Most people think getting scammed is about missing red flags. It's not. It's about being human. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Martina Dove, a scam psychology expert who spent years researching the exact mechanisms that make fraud work — the psychology of trust, the architecture of manipulation, and why smart people hand over money to strangers. We talk about what actually makes people vulne...

"Why I Built This" Most dating apps let you create a profile in five minutes. No ID. No background check. Nothing. That's not a bug. That's a decision. When my mom started dating again after 30 years, I helped her set up her profiles. What I found scared me. Fake profiles everywhere. Men who weren't who they said they were. And not a single platform doing anything meaningful to stop it. So I start...