Affinity fraud

And we had one judge who coined a new phrase, and I've never heard it before.

Um, it was a fraud and the victims were members of the shul, and she said, "You know, this is an affinity fraud.

You, uh, preyed on people who you prayed with, you learned with, and they trusted you because of that, and then you stole money from them." And she was, you know, not right, but she was right.

You know, it was a very interesting experience, and she was the daughter of a church deacon.

Not only just polka, which they love and all these things.

old you know eastern-ish pennsylvania people love um they they they love him they love poca they they want to be a part of whatever it is that he's doing and this is where i think you know this is this is a very good example that we've talked about lots of times zach uh which is an affinity fraud Right.

Yes.

Yeah.

And so affinity fraud is, is not an actual crime.

It is a, it is a type of fraud where you have this trusted figure and that figure often exploits the trust of his, in this case, fans.

In some cases it might be followers, but in this case we're talking about fans of yawn and, and they believe in him and what he does and his businesses and they want to support him and because they like him so yeah this this this kind of people who well really let's be honest here zach this is these are people who love polka like we haven't even

yeah yeah