Haley Cohen Gilliland

We learn about hustles and lies from all sides of a con: scam victims, scam baiters, and the scammers themselves.

Winning the lottery. Having a long-lost relative put you in their will. Selling your TV show. For our Money issue, we interviewed 15 people on the subject of windfalls. How they got their money, and what they did with it, was both as intensely personal, and shaped by cultural expectations, as anything else.