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Matthew Cox: uncertainty

17 Jan 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud

“For some reason, people tend to like me and trust me. I don’t know why. It hasn’t worked out for so many people, but people naturally seem to trust me.”

— Matthew Cox

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Speaker
Matthew Cox
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Verified speaker
Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
17 Jan 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…And a lot of it works on personal relationships. Right. Right. For some reason, people tend to like me and trust me. I don’t know why. It hasn’t worked out for so many people, but people naturally seem to trust me. And so if I say, “Hey, I can close the loan, but you got to do this. It’ll be cool. Don’t worry, we do it all the time,” it’s like my third loan and “I’ve been doing this for years.” And they go, “Oh, okay.” And then they raise the purchase price, they add some money, they have the seller of the house give the borrower some money, they stick it in the bank or they put it in Escrow, the closing company. Now you’re starting to massage deals. What was the second time you committed a crime? So how did it start to evolve from the whiteout?…

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