Scam Goddess

Musky Seattle gays, Target drama, and a pair of good-looking evil twins hawking “legal” courses and sketchy e-books collide in this hilarious episode. Laci is joined by actors, comedians, and besties Mano Agapion and Oscar Montoya (Drag Her! A RuPaul’s Drag Race Podcast) to break down and learn how to "make money" through the Mikkelsen twins’ online program. Stay schemin’!

 

Listen to Drag Her! A RuPaul's Drag Race Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

 

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Keep the scams coming and snitch on your friends by emailing us at [email protected].

 

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Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod

Laci Mosley: @divalaci

Mano Agapion: @manoagapion

Oscar Montoya: @ozzymo

 

Research by Kathryn Doyle 

 

SOURCES

https://www.vox.com/culture/24128560/amazon-trash-ebooks-mikkelsen-twins-ai-publishing-academy-scam

https://trevorsomerville.com/who-are-the-mikkelsen-twins/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1aiwdu3/liar_mikkelsen_twins_full_of_bs_from_the_very/

https://www.inc.com/magazine/202309/eric-hagerman/how-mikkelsen-twins-built-a-50-million-a-year-business-around-one-product.html

https://www.wired.com/story/scammy-ai-generated-books-flooding-amazon/

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This Fraud Friday, Josh Brekhus joins the show to discuss Frédéric Bourdin a serial imposter who took on about 500 identities, convincing many that he was a school age runaway well into his adulthood. Plus, 19-year-old chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann is accused of cheating with vibrating anal beads. Stay Schemin’! (Originally released 09/26/2022)

 

Research by Kaelyn Brandt 

 

Sources:

https://slate.com/culture/2022/09/chess-cheating-scandal-magnus-carlsen-hans-moke-niemann-anal-beads.html

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/09/16/chess-grandmaster-denies-cheating-by-using-anal-beads

https://www.grunge.com/292562/how-a-fake-cia-agent-convinced-people-to-rob-banks/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/08/11/the-chameleon-annals-of-crime-david-grann

 

 

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Laci Mosley: @divalaci

Josh Brekhus: @jbrekhus

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A broke CEO, the Indiana Jones of geologists, and a lovestruck mining prospector came together in the ’90s and rocked the world with the largest gold-mining scam in history. Laci welcomes actor and comedian Johnny Pemberton (Fallout, Mermaid) to tell the true tale of the downfall of the Canadian penny-stock mining company Bre-X. Stay schemin’!

 

Don’t miss Johnny Pemberton's film: Mermaid

 

CON-gregation, catch Scam Goddess LIVE in a city near you.

Keep the scams coming and snitch on your friends by emailing us at [email protected].

 

Follow on Instagram:

Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod

Laci Mosley: @divalaci

Johnny Pemberton: @johnny_pemberton

 

Research by Kathryn Doyle 

 

SOURCES

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cheating-wonders-the-6000000000-gold-mine-that-didnt-exist

https://www.mining.com/web/bre-x-scandal-a-history-timeline/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68987824

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/bre-x-the-real-story-and-scandal-that-inspired-the-movie-gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orFsbouXYUY

https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/the-bre-x-gold-mining-scandal-turned-part-of-the-borneo-jungle-into-a-6-billion-lie.html

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This Fraud Friday, we're revisiting when Solomon Georgio listened to YOUR listener letters. Heads up, Venmo does not text you! Stay Schemin’! (Originally released 11/30/2020)

 

CON-gregation, keep the scams coming and snitch on your friends by emailing us at [email protected].

 

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Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod

Laci Mosley: @divalaci

Solomon Georgio: @solomongeorgio

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What do lousy landlords, a beautiful improviser, a scam-call prankster, and a self-led investigator have in common? You! Laci teams up with the hilarious Amber Wallin (Quit Playin’ with Jazmyn and Amber Podcast) to read your listener letters, and they’re packed with beautiful baddies, hater friends, unemployed escapades, and fart machines. Stay schemin’!

 

CON-gregation, catch Scam Goddess LIVE in a city near you.

Keep the scams coming and snitch on your friends by emailing us at [email protected].

 

Follow on Instagram:

Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod

Laci Mosley: @divalaci

Amber Wallin: @burr_iam

 

Curated by Jessica Cisneros

Listener Letters by YOU 

 

SOURCES

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/landlords-bankruptcy-protection-ontario-1.7234290

https://www.villagereport.ca/village-picks/group-of-everyday-canadians-unite-to-buy-sid-development-properties-in-the-sault-and-beyond-10144944

Lastly:

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2085421/ontario-landlords-hand-over-control-of-real-estate-empire-after-allegation-of-misappropriated-investor-funds

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