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The next story that's coming up to me actually is not a


scam artist story per se, but a triumph over scam artist
story. If I can diverge just for a little bit, is that OK,
yeah? And so I'm thinking so much about the story of
Carlette Duffy. So Carlette Duffy is a Black woman
based in Indianapolis. And in 2020, she decided that
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she needed to refinance her home. And so when she
did that, she had two appraisal teams come down,
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and they both undervalued her home extensively. The
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lowest appraisal being at 110,000 dollars. So she had
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an idea. She took down every picture of her family
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from her home. She removed every single piece of
artwork that depicted Black people. She removed all
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of her hair products and she called a friend, a white
man that news outlets simply refer to as "Hank." Well,
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Hank stood in for her at the
next appraisal, her home went from being worth
110,000 dollars to 259,000 dollars. Does that sound
like a scam to you? Because it sounds like a scam to
me. And in that story, what I think also comes up, is
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Now the next and last scam artist that I would like to
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