Episodes 35
Avg. Duration 35m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (8,140)
Since Oct 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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We are living in a golden age of deception. It feels like everyone has an angle and that, everywhere you turn, someone’s trying to scam you. Chameleon is a new weekly show from veteran journalist Josh Dean (co-creator and host of The Clearing, Hooked, White Devil, and the original Chameleon season, Hollywood Con Queen) that takes you inside an incredible, stranger-than-fiction story about someone—or some people—pretending to be something they aren’t. Are you obsessed with cons, frauds, and impostors? Then this is the podcast for you. Get your new weekly true crime obsession every Thursday from Campside Media and Audiochuck.

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Mr 10 Percent: The Suburban Dad Who Fleeced Global Soccer

Jun 11, 2026 38m

He rode a mobility scooter through Central Park with a parrot on his shoulder. He also helped pull off one of the biggest financial scams in sports history. This is Chuck Blazer, the flamboyant…

Fetal Attraction: The Reality Star And The Woman He Wished He’d Never Met

Jun 04, 2026 38m

When Clayton Echard’s season of The Bachelor ended, he thought the public humiliation was behind him. Then a woman he barely knew claimed she was carrying his twins — something which, according to…

Laundry Man: The Wild Ride of the Pig Butcher's Banker

May 28, 2026 32m

A swashbuckling South African expat, Benjamin Mauerberger, rose up as a boiler-room stock hustler in Southeast Asia, then reappeared years later with a diplomatic passport and extraordinary wealth.…

Introducing: Crimeless

May 27, 2026 36m Trailer

Join your Chameleon host Josh Dean and his partner in (dumb) crime, comedian Rory Scovel, as they dive into the incredible story of a shady Swami who scammed Newark, New Jersey into adopting the…

Dumpster Fire Phoenix: The “Festival” Organizer Who Just Can’t Stop Himself

May 21, 2026 40m

Fyre Festival was sold as the most exclusive party on earth — a luxury music festival in the Bahamas for influencers, celebrities, and the ultra-wealthy. It became one of the most shared disasters of…

Catch Him if You Ken: The Dating Scammer Who Targeted Influencers

May 14, 2026 30m

The story of a mild-mannered guy who charmed his way into the lives—and bank accounts—of women on two continents by posing as a wealthy heir with big crypto dreams. But Ken’s real talent isn’t…

Whiteout: The Olympic Snowboarder Who Became A Cocaine Kingpin

May 07, 2026 45m

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder should have been a footnote—a guy who raced once, finished 24th, and faded away. But in early 2026, Ryan Wedding resurfaces as a fugitive on the FBI’s Most…

High Stakes: Life inside a Vampire Cult

Apr 30, 2026 49m

As a lonely, grieving teenager in the early days of the internet, Celeste Mott is drawn into a secretive message board called "The Looking Glass": a place where self-proclaimed vampires demand total…

The Journalist And The Voyeur: It’s Not So Easy When You’re The One Being Watched

Apr 23, 2026 44m

Gay Talese thought he’d landed a once-in-a-lifetime story every journalist dreams about: a motel owner who built a hidden viewing platform so he could watch guests in their most private moments and…

A Master's Puppet: Jeffrey Epstein's Money Man

Apr 16, 2026 39m

The unsettling story of Leslie Wexner—the Midwestern retail billionaire who built Victoria’s Secret, then gave Jeffrey Epstein extraordinary access to his money and credibility. But how much did he…

The Real Eddie: His Scamming Is Insaaaaane!

Apr 09, 2026 29m

The rise and spectacular fall of Eddie Antar, the electronics mogul behind the Crazy Eddie brand. Who scammed his way from the streets of Brooklyn to Wall Street and then vanished without a…

The Mesh Mill: How Scammers Took Advantage of Women's Pain

Apr 02, 2026 39m

Shortly after Christmas, Sharon gets a terrifying call. A stranger tells her the pelvic mesh inside her body has been recalled. It's a “ticking time bomb," and she needs emergency surgery to remove…

Harry And Rachel Part 2: When True Love Dies

Mar 26, 2026 33m

For 563 days, Harry believed the love of his life was dying of stage-four cancer. Then Rachel’s husband called, and everything Harry thought he knew collapsed. A pattern emerges, revealing a woman he…

Harry And Rachel Part 1: When True Love Lies

Mar 19, 2026 27m

In 2001, Harry meets Rachel in Houston. And so begins a complicated and uncertain kind of love story. An on-again, off-again connection that would stretch across two decades of tragedies, lucky…

Extra Credit: The Rise and Fall of a Frat House Ponzi Scheme

Mar 12, 2026 35m

Syed Arbab looked like the next financial prodigy—a frat house day trader who turned beer-soaked bravado into a successful hedge fund. Except that wasn't exactly the whole truth. When the SEC came…

Master Manipulator and Commander: Trust Your Gut

Mar 05, 2026 37m

She thought she'd met the real deal: a decorated Navy officer, stationed at the Pentagon, opening hospitals in war zones. But what begins as a whirlwind romance slowly unravels into a portrait of…

The Vampire Catfish: A Message Board And The Boy Who Believed

Feb 26, 2026 40m

Michael was 16, lonely, and stuck in a small Southern town when he met someone called Dennis on a vampire-themed online message board. What began as a thrilling, romantic connection soon spiraled…

Goodfellas: The Country Bar Theme Scheme

Feb 19, 2026 33m

When an Arizona reporter starts looking into a flurry of closures at country music-themed restaurants, he thinks it’s just another boring business story. But he uncovers a collapsing franchise empire…

Face Plant: The Woman With A Thousand Boyfriends

Feb 12, 2026 39m

What's it like to have your image used as the bait in thousands of online romance scams? This is what happened to Janessa Brazil—whose image has been hijacked and used to con hundreds, maybe…

The Velvet Sundown: The band that’s not quite Human, not quite machine.

Feb 05, 2026 39m

They were a hot new band and storming up the charts. But something seemed off about Velvet Sundown. Was this the work of AI? When someone behind the band came out denying it, this looked like mystery…

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Chameleon has published 35 episodes since October 2025, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.

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