Australia’s Greatest Conman

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Oh My Fraud

Caleb Newquist

101 episodes

2 days ago

"Oh My Fraud" is a podcast where the true crime is shocking, gruesome, heinous, but with way fewer dead bodies. Hosted by Caleb Newquist, each episode explores fraud cases from petty swindles to corporate conspiracies, examining the people involved, their motives, methods, and how they spent the loot before it all came to a spectacular, inevitable end.

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Australia’s Greatest Conman

Oh My Fraud

38 minutes

6 months ago

Australia’s Greatest Conman

A respected leader of an Australian national search and rescue operation isn’t who he claims to be.

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(00:00) - - Introduction to Richard Flanagan and John Friedrich
(01:30) - - Welcome to Oh My Fraud
(07:00) - - John Friedrich and the National Safety Council of Australia
(10:00) - - The Ash Wednesday Bushfires and NSC's Expansion
(16:42) - - Discovery of Financial Irregularities and Friedrich's Disappearance
(22:29) - - Friedrich's True Identity and Arrival in Australia
(25:59) - - Analysis Using the Fraud Triangle Framework
(30:59) - - Friedrich's Arrest, Legal Proceedings and Eventual Death
(35:29) - - Lessons Learned From the Friedrich Case and Wrap Up

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Sources:

Common seadragon [Wikipedia]
List of impostors [Wikipedia]
Fictional impostors [Wikipedia]
National Safety Council of Australia [Wikipedia]
Ash Wednesday bushfires [Wikipedia]
John Friedrich (fraudster) [Wikipedia]
The Story of John Friedrich: The Great Imposter [Australian Crime Stories / True Crime TV]
Mr John FRIEDRICH Medal of the Order of Australia [Australian Government, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet]
Friedrich and Flanagan: the con-man and his ghostwriter [Conversations / ABC]
Richard Flanagan on lies, literature, and Australia’s greatest conman [The Guardian]