Con Artists | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

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Published 2024-05-25
From 1991, Steve Kroft's investigation into unscrupulous used car dealers turning back odometers. From 2015, Kroft's report on conmen filing bogus tax returns and collecting millions. Also from 1991, Mike Wallace's interview with a prison inmate who conducted credit card fraud over the phone. And from 1999, Wallace's report on a man who conned elderly Americans out of $200 million using a lottery pool scheme.

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0:00 Intro
0:11 Cream Puff (1991)
12:55 The Tax Refund Scam (2015)
27:07 1-800-Con Man (1991)
41:17 Con Man (1999)

All Comments (21)
  • @nativeadvisors
    Best line ever: β€œThe heavy set fella in the boss hog hat!”
  • @FredLord-sp4ym
    Nobody was better than Mike Wallace "60 Minutes" had some heavy hitters too. Lol. Thanks for sharing.
  • I don't care what decade it is. There's ALWAYS someone looking into "loopholes ".
  • @user-fi6vl6uf5g
    The punchline "THEN HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT!πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸ˜‚πŸ˜…πŸ˜‚
  • @trebonejones410
    How can someone get 20 years in prison for petty crimes but a scammer steals millions and only get 40 months
  • This was fantastic. Hopefully we'll get a Part 2 soon that includes "21st century snake oil salesmen."
  • I love the moment he recognized who he was trying to hustle πŸ˜‚
  • @paullentz1972
    That jailhouse con artist is pretty ingenious. Got to give the guy his props. Still, I'd love to see Law Enforcement go after Big Businesses that con employees/consumers.
  • @tjstreamer5982
    Back then a carfax was the previous owner writing down the mileage on a napkin
  • @Gabster1990
    We need an update on con artists. This came out when I was a baby, things have changed so much!
  • β€œTo bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.” ― Peter Wessel Zapffe
  • @user-ck6bf3ke1w
    My father was as honest as they come. He grew up with strict morals on a ranch. Everyone hated dad at the Ford dealership, except the owner. Dad wouldn't sell hardly anything all year long, but once every year like clockwork all the ranchers, and farmers Pops grew up with drove into town specifically to trade-in their old trucks for new ones, and they refused to do any business with anyone else. He hated the job which gave him nose bleeds, headaches, high blood pressure, and he started drinking. Eventually the toxic work environment killed him at the ripe old age of 41 of a massive heart attack. No good deed ever goes unpunished they say.
  • @MattMorris481
    The credit card jail guy was funny as hell even though he’s robbing people blind.
  • @09rja
    It's not just cars....I've been burned so many times by used equipment.
  • @Atitlan1222
    I love his Gulf Coast accent. You don't hear many like that in the Houston area anymore. There's a saying in Houston, "...dirty as a Washington Ave used car salesman."
  • @blokkvise
    These are my favorite 60 minutes episodes! Good old fashioned consumer scams to inform the public about.