Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · Thursday, October 1, 2026
Scammers are impersonating well-known podcasters and influencers to trick small businesses into granting access to their Meta Business Suite. These fake collaborators often promise podcast appearances and then guide victims through a process to gain control of their accounts for nefarious purposes.
“There could be a world where a fake Nicole and a fake money rehab, money rehab podcast. That's probably already.”
“Yes. Like if you look at any big podcasters like Mel Robbins and like yourself, there are people that are pretending to be you. And like asking people to join their podcast and they're like, all it's all nefarious.”
“And then what happens? They're trying to get access to your meta. So this for like a lot of up and coming, like small businesses, they like email as you or Mel or whoever else. And they're like, hey, like, we love what you're doing. Like schedule time with us. We're going to like, we want you to be on this podcast. They make a whole thing of it.”
“Then you jump on like a prep call. And like during your prep call, they have like walk you through steps to like get access to your meta business suite.”