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King of Sting

Written by: Justin Armsden, Bronwen Reid, Hamish Macdonald
Narrated by: Justin Armsden
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  • Summary

  • Peter Foster is a career conman who charmed his way into the lives of the rich and famous around the world. Justin Armsden is the reporter who’s been on his tail for 25 years.

    In King Of Sting, the two play cat and mouse as Armsden retraces Foster’s merciless series of stings, from Australia’s glittery Gold Coast to London, Fiji and beyond. Armsden reveals how Foster swindled more than $100 million from hopeful victims while earning the trust of Muhammad Ali, British first lady Cherie Blair, and singer-songwriter Samantha Fox.

    With secretly recorded conversations and a private investigator on side, King of Sting exposes the enormous power Foster has built for himself, and his many unbelievable escapes from the law.

    Now, as Foster hatches his latest scam under a new alias, Armsden hopes to catch the fraudster in the act for the final time.

    This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. You can download all 8 episodes to your Library now.
    ©2020 Audible Australia Pty Ltd. (P)2020 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.
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  • Ep. 1: Just a Flawed Man?

    Ep. 1: Just a Flawed Man?
    Jun 20 2020

    You’d think after being caught on camera as a scammer and con artist, Peter Foster might have remorse - change his ways even. Instead, secretly recorded conversations reveal the lengths Foster will go to protect the millions of dollars he’s taken from his victims.
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    43 mins
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  • Ep. 2: I Am Your Worst Nightmare

    Ep. 2: I Am Your Worst Nightmare
    Jun 20 2020

    As a young, cheeky, Aussie upstart in the UK, Foster won the heart of the world’s most desired pin-up girl: Samantha Fox. What made her fall for Foster? Justin Armsden looks at Foster through the eyes of the women who’ve been his lovers and his enemies.
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    45 mins
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  • Ep. 3: A Voice You Don't Forget

    Ep. 3: A Voice You Don't Forget
    Jun 20 2020

    After serving jail time for money laundering offences, Foster announces he is ‘damaged goods’, swearing his fraudulent ways are over. Instead, he wants to find a soulmate and give his mother grandchildren. A nice story, but Armsden discovers there is one detail that Foster doesn’t cover for: his voice.
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    37 mins
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  • Kai
  • 2022-11-28

Not bad

Interesting story, well performed, but at the end of the day it’s white collar crime, and I really could care less about rich peoples lives. Interesting to learn about fjd different scams though. Figures it’s a diet scam.

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Interesting family!

This is a true story. Millions of dollars gained in repeated fraudulent schemes. Weight-loss and high returns on money, two things that interest lots of ordinary people. Peter Foster worked hard to put these schemes together. How tragic that he wasted his creative potential to prey on others - it might have been used for a good cause. It made me think twice about my on-line purchases. It added to my frustration to think about how many scammers are never caught or stopped.

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  • CSD
  • 2020-09-28

Struggled to finish

This is an interesting topic but it could have been compressed into 5 maybe 6 episodes instead of 8.
There's a lot of recapping from one episode to another.
Tip fast forward 5 minutes into each episode as they don't fully start until that mark.

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