In this episode we introduce you to Dr Jonathan Farley.  He was scammed. Dr Farley won Oxford University's highest awards for mathematics graduate students. His experience of getting scammed is an excellent example to help us dispel the myth that scams only happen to stupid people. It also highlights the fact that scam syndicates operate worldwide at a very highly organised and military like level and that they are experts at manipulation, deception and fraud of all kinds, i.e. cyber crime. The scam syndicates are exceptionally successful for this very reason!  People underestimate the intelligence behind this worldwide network because they are experts at remaining below the radar and operating right under noses of the authorities without being detected.  Thanks to social media platforms who do not verify users and permit the ability to create endless fake profiles and to send unlimited friend requests,  they have the ability to communicate and execute their schemes at the speed of light without detection.


Dr Jonathan David Farley graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with the second-highest grade point average in his graduating class. He obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Oxford University, after winning Oxford’s highest mathematics awards for graduate students, the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson University Prize.


He has been a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Caltech, a Science Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT.


Seed Magazine named Dr. Farley one of “15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.”  Dancing with the Stars’ Danica McKellar, star of the hit TV show The Wonder Years and a judge for the 2016 "Miss America" beauty pageant, called him “the incomparable, brilliant Jonathan Farley”  in her New York Times best-selling book, Hot X: Algebra Exposed.


Jonathan D Farley:  "I was scammed, and I won Oxford University's highest awards for mathematics graduate students. Feel free to discuss my case to exemplify your statement, "Many mistakenly believe that only stupid people get scammed."  https://youtu.be/LfhqrGRC2y8