Scam Gumbo w/ Solomon Georgio (Fraud Friday)

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]. Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Solomon Georgio: @solomongeorgio

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• 1:35Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the Scam Goddess Vault. That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind the paywall. Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall, and as always, stay schemin'.

• 2:16Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin' congregation? Yo, it's your girl Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. And let me let y'all know up top, a bitch is tired, okay? Uh, I'm a black woman, uh, life is horrid. Um, seventy percent of us get fibroids and mine are enlarged and I'm fully dying. But I'm here, cuz I love y'all and we gonna keep it positive and upbeat, hunty. Listen, um, y'all know the drill, say it with me. I am so what? Yes, excited and it's like I heard you, like we in the car together or we on the phone together? Are we in your AirPods together? You see me, you feel me? I'm here, give me a hug, thank you. Um, guys, I'm so excited for our guest today.

• 3:01Laci Mosley?

  Honestly, truly, because I snagged this icon superstar, fucking funny as hell man in the middle of the night. I slid in his DMs. Thirsty as hell. And you were, and he's the first person I asked cuz I wanted him so bad. And I was like, oh, I hope, and I was gonna copy the messages cuz I'm a scammer and just send it to somebody else if he said no. But he has said yes, yes, honey. He has a half hour special on Comedy Central and I tell you, I've seen this man do comedy in person in a mass twenty feet away outside and it was hilarious. And also, Conan O'Brien, bro, you've seen him on his shit, like he's so amazing.

• 3:45Laci Mosley?

  Guys, we have the king being comparable. Also, fine as hell, like he is perfect, like goddamn. Uh, Solomon Georgio, goddamn, hello.

• 3:56Speaker 05

  I am so damn happy to be here, Lacey. This is just- This is just, you, you have no idea how wonderful I think you are. So therefore to be, to even get the appreciation. It's, I'm on cloud, cloud nine, is it cloud nine? I forget which.

• 4:12Laci Mosley?

  Honestly, cloud nine, ten, in 2020, we need to be on cloud thirty. It's brought out here. Um, I am fully dying. But when I tell you Solomon, like, before I even saw him in person, stepped my life up, stepped my game up, like, we're a part of this group that Nicole Byer called Skate Gang. And we all skate outside. And it's been this thing that we started in quarantine because it's like, okay, bro, we gotta do something.

• 4:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:40Laci Mosley?

  Like, we gotta, you know, have something that's not related to work, something that's related to joy, and it's just us having fun as adults. And Solomon got these fire ass skates. They were silver, they looked like Nikes.

• 4:55Speaker 05

  I know, yes.

• 4:56Laci Mosley?

  And they're cute as fuck. And he put them in the group chat. And I was like, Solomon, what's up? What's up?

• 5:02Laci Mosley?

  And that's how I got my pink light up skates.

• 5:04Speaker 05

  I know. We got, we're matching. And the thing is, I've only been to the Skate Gang once.

• 5:11Speaker 05

  I only got to go that one time. I've been busy ever since.

• 5:14Laci Mosley?

  I love it. Booked and busy.

• 5:16Speaker 05

  Booked and busy, but I just want to make sure I leave a little bit of inspiration behind.

• 5:20Laci Mosley?

  You did. You left more than, like, when I tell you I got those skates, and then people reached out to me and were like, where'd you get them? Where'd you get them? Like, oh, my God. And I was like, let me tell you all about my guru. Listen, I'm not in NXIVM, but Solomon, you could be a guru. If you wanted to be evil, you could be a guru.

• 5:36Speaker 05

  I, I plan on, that's my full fallback. Like, that is hands down.

• 5:41Laci Mosley?

  Cult leader is my fallback career. Um, yes. So, Solomon, do you have any relationship with scams? Have you ever been scammed? Have you done a scam? Like, it's, I always want to know, do you like scams? Do you hate them?

• 5:55Speaker 05

  I am a full-on scammer. Uh, uh, hands down. You're talking about, I'm talking high-end scams. I'm former embezzler kind of scams, alright? Yes, my skin is black, but my collars are white.

• 6:09Laci Mosley?

  Velvet broke scammer. I love to see it.

• 6:12Speaker 05

  Oh, I, I, I don't know how or when I figured it out, but my fam, well, first of all, my dad's a drifter. So you, that's the original scammers.

• 6:19Laci Mosley?

  What that mean drifter? What do you mean?

• 6:21Speaker 05

  A drifter is pretty much just a homeless person on the go. It is somebody who just goes from town to town and gets whatever he can. And that's how.

• 6:28Laci Mosley?

  He's a homosexual. It's like when you start fucking him and he's like, oh, now I live here.

• 6:33Speaker 05

  Yes, exactly. That's how I was born.

• 6:39Laci Mosley?

  I love a homosexual. One of my friends is a homosexual and I was like, you don't live anywhere, do you? Like you just live with the women you fuck. Okay.

• 6:46Speaker 05

  My dad barely ever li, it was like living with a bachelor. Like the man got a two door car while I was growing up. That's the kind of person he is.

• 6:55Laci Mosley?

  Yo, when you get a two door car and you got kids, you are saying fuck them kids. Six? I'm leaving. He was like, fuck them kids. He was like, listen, one of the kids can get in sometimes, but maybe never.

• 7:12Laci Mosley?

  A king.

• 7:13Speaker 05

  Six two door, Oldsmobile color supreme would wear his tracksuits in it and not, and not a single child could fit in.

• 7:22Laci Mosley?

  Listen, I'm sure you.

• 7:26Laci Mosley?

  I'm sure your dad, I'm weak. God, I'm sure your dad caused a lot of childhood trauma. However, I am gonna credit him for your flyness because that all sounds very fly to me. A cutless tracksuits, a two door car, even though you got six kids. He was like, one of y'all gotta get in the trunk. Actually, three of y'all.

• 7:49Speaker 05

  We did too.

• 7:59Speaker 05

  This wonderful bachelor that I call my father, uh, he definitely raised a bunch of, uh, scammers and schemers. And I, I actually even at one point took embezzled money out of my own mother's account.

• 8:11Laci Mosley?

  Yes.

• 8:11Speaker 05

  And took eight hundred and fifty dollars out. I walked in with just her deposit check, her four signature.

• 8:16Laci Mosley?

  Nick, you bold. Eight fifty.

• 8:18Speaker 05

  I was, it was like nineteen ninety nine. That was like a lot. That was like.

• 8:21Laci Mosley?

  That's a huge amount of money today. I would notice eight fifty leaving my account.

• 8:26Speaker 05

  Well, here's the thing is that back then they don't just notify you. I just went in with a deposit slip.

• 8:30Laci Mosley?

  Yes.

• 8:31Speaker 05

  With her, uh, no, uh, withdrawal slip and I signed, I forged her name, forged a letter. They didn't even call nobody. They just trusted my little black ass. And I was like, how? And I was like, and ever since then, I was like, you, you're gonna scam as much as you can until you know.

• 8:44Laci Mosley?

  What did you need the eight fifty for?

• 8:46Speaker 05

  I ran away to Los Angeles and tried to be a star.

• 8:51Laci Mosley?

  To be a star, honey, and you did it.

• 8:54Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 8:54Laci Mosley?

  That's worth it. Honestly, your mama should give that as a testimony.

• 8:57Speaker 05

  Twenty years later, I did it after I moved back home.

• 9:03Laci Mosley?

  Yes, Solomon. No, okay, listen. I'm, my mom is like this, it's kind of weird with my mom, because my mom could also have been a cult leader.

• 9:11Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:12Laci Mosley?

  She's so smart. She gives me so many clothes. She could write so many books. She has, she's been published. She's a genius. And she's also just like, it's like I love her, but I'm also afraid.

• 9:25Laci Mosley?

  You know, because she's a strong black mama. And I remember when I was a kid, I stole money, like change, out of her purse, the bottom of her purse, because my friend, in quotes, scammed me and told me she didn't have money for lunch money. And I was like, I've always been a generous hoe. So I was like, oh, let me help you, like blah, blah, blah. Turned out this bitch, she just wanted the money. And she scammed me. But I got my ass whooped one time because my mama saw me stealing out of her purse. And I was like, oh, uh, I couldn't even come up with nothing. I think I was like, I'm looking for chapstick.

• 9:59Speaker 05

  Never scam a scammer.

• 10:01Laci Mosley?

  My mom is a scammer. My mom has more jobs than any Jamaican has ever had. My mom used to sing background for Kirk Franklin. She

• 10:12Speaker 05

  I love her. I've had like, before doing this career, I've had like seventy jobs.

• 10:17Laci Mosley?

  Bruh, the hustling spirit. You're giving me that energy and it's like giving me life right now. She used to work at a Dairy Queen and they would have chili Fridays, which honestly, this is a franchise, right? Chili Fridays, where my mom would just make chili that she just made. It wasn't, nobody at Dairy Queen had said yes. The dairy, the queen, nobody approved.

• 10:42Speaker 05

  Just freestyle chili. I like this.

• 10:46Laci Mosley?

  She's a queen, bro. So yes, yes, I I'm on the same wave as you. But also, I love that the bank just let you ride.

• 10:54Speaker 05

  Oh, I and it's not even that was just the first time, the ultimate time.

• 10:58Laci Mosley?

  The first time.

• 10:59Speaker 05

  This is the the one that I will never I I worked for an office supply chain store that I will not say by name because I do not want to be sued by the statute of limitations.

• 11:09Laci Mosley?

  We love a redacted office supply store. Honey, we live for redacted. We live for a redacted.

• 11:15Speaker 05

  But I may or may not have at one point in time done bookkeeping for a place that had the cashiers were very terrible at counting their monies and it was consistently over. So I just skimmed off the top over the course of six months and may have made or may or may have not made $5,000.

• 11:30Laci Mosley?

  Oh, my God, Solomon, I know you're a genius because who does bookkeeping that's like, everything was over every month? You know what?

• 11:39Speaker 05

  I believe this is my money now.

• 11:42Laci Mosley?

  And it was your money.

• 11:44Speaker 05

  And 100%. That's the thing is anyone who works in a corporate setting that doesn't steal, what are you doing?

• 11:49Laci Mosley?

  What are you doing? Like, listen, corporations are the fucking devil, especially in America, because we give them so many tax breaks. We give them so many allowances. They kill people. Literally, if you want to become a billionaire, you have to kill people indirectly or not directly. It's just what it is. I promise you guys, like, if you work in a corporation, if you clocking in nine to five, if you in your gray cubicle and you working and typing and eating your, you know, Panera salad for lunch, steal a stapler.

• 12:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, you are working for the ultimate thieves.

• 12:20Laci Mosley?

  Take all the posted notes.

• 12:22Speaker 05

  Steal from them. And also, here's the thing is if you work in customer service for a corporation, let customers get away with shit.

• 12:28Laci Mosley?

  Yes.

• 12:30Speaker 05

  That is why. That's why I'm the like, when I call customer service, you are in for an ordeal. I am not backing away from Jack. I got a free iPhone that I cracked myself. The kind of person you're gonna get when you get me on the phone.

• 12:46Laci Mosley?

  Listen, Steve Jobs cracked my iPhone from the grave.

• 12:49Speaker 05

  It's like, first of all, why are you trying to defend this $1 phone that you could easily replace? Let me talk to the person that you're that's in charge of you.

• 12:55Laci Mosley?

  Listen, I joke about Karens on this show so much, but let me speak to the manager. Be changing lives. One, be nice to your customer service person, because when you're in customer service, all their job is is to hear people be mad at them. So if you're nicer to them, it helps you a lot. Then, if you ask, because if they're dumb, if you start to feel like this nigga dumb, you can just be like, let me speak to your manager. I was in London and I was working in London at the time. And Bank of America is a raggedy bitch that will shut your credit card off and your cards. They'd be like, oh, you at a gas station that's 12 miles from your house. We thought that wasn't you. You don't like beef jerky, right? We shut your card off.

• 13:36Laci Mosley?

  And so I was in London, called them niggas 34, 51 times and was like, hey, I'm in London for three months. Come on, y'all. I go to a ATM randomly in Leicester Square and it shuts off. And at the time, I was 20, so like, I, I was young, I didn't know how to get other money. And I called Bank of America and they were like, oh, sis, we're not gonna be able to reactivate your card for a few days. Because we gotta do some blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, for the first time, let me speak to your manager. And the manager got my card activated immediately.

• 14:15Speaker 05

  Yes, that's so how they all work. Here's the thing is that every time, like, I think there's, they definitely set certain rules for that person of the lower ranks. And I'm like, I know you can't do nothing, but I know there's five motherfuckers down. Do some shit. So let's not waste time with each other. Bring me to the next person. I don't even, like, I don't even, like, depending on the issue, I barely talk to the first person. I'm like, let me speak to your supervisor. Then I'm like, let me speak to your supervisor. Let me speak, I will talk to the regional manager, I will get to the CEO if I have to, but I'm gonna get what I want.

• 14:46Laci Mosley?

  Yes, let me speak to the king of Bank of America. Put, put Bank on the phone. That's his name, right Bank? And his middle name is Uff and his last name is America?

• 14:56Speaker 05

  What you gotta do is keep going up to the chain of command where somebody's getting paid so much money that they rather just give you what you want than even be bothered.

• 15:04Laci Mosley?

  Yes. And sometimes they be protecting them, like Verbo. I'm gonna shade you Verbo, cuz y'all know I fought with y'all on Twitter. They have scammers on there, and I guess this is a random scam tip, but I know a lot of y'all are getting stir crazy and tired of being home and you wanna go somewhere and maybe you do it safely, quote unquote, by being at a house and whatever. Verbo has a bunch of people on that site who have photos of places that are really nice, that they don't own, because Verbo, when you pay for something, they get the money pretty quickly.

• 15:44Laci Mosley?

  And then if it's a scam, they like, it's too much, it's like too much time between when Verbo can retract the money, so that you can make off with some shit. So, just so you know, if you go on Verbo and you see a house that's nice and there's no reviews, do not book it, especially if it's recent. If you see it's like, oh, new place and it's posted like two or three days after, you know, before you're looking, do not book it, because those people are scammers and they don't own those houses. It happened to me and I had three thousand dollars tied up for a minute.

• 16:19Speaker 05

  Damn.

• 16:21Laci Mosley?

  Yeah.

• 16:21Speaker 05

  Damn. See, this is why I don't try new things. I just stick to my old... Like, check out this new app. I'm like, oh, let me hear, let me, let me hear this app.

• 16:30Laci Mosley?

  Don't try new things. That's the lesson. Alright, guys.

• 16:33Speaker 05

  Let your friends do it first.

• 16:37Laci Mosley?

  I love it. My mom was always like, would you jump off a bridge if your friends jumped too? And I was like, yeah, if they jumped first and I looked and it was cute and they was alive.

• 16:45Speaker 05

  Like, my friends have been decoys for so many things.

• 16:48Laci Mosley?

  Right. They jump off and I look down and I'm like, "Y'all good?" Then I'mma jump off the bridge.

• 16:53Speaker 05

  House of water.

• 16:54Laci Mosley?

  Scam!

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• 20:09Laci Mosley?

  Hot! Let's get into it. First part of the podcast, what's hot and fraud? So today, so what's hot and fraud, normally you guys know, and if you don't know, if you're new, we talk about a scam that's popping that we want to warn you about, or we read a listener letter. But today, this is going to be a wild, kind of different episode, because, honey, I told you, I'm dying. So today, hot and fraud is going to be a news alert.

• 20:39Speaker 05

  Hmm, that's news alert?

• 20:43Speaker 05

  I love that question mark.

• 20:46Laci Mosley?

  Can I tell y'all babe? I blame part of the coronavirus deniers on the fact that since nine eleven, when sweeps were through the roof and newscasters were getting awards for crying on live television and shit, the news realized, oh, if we extra scary, niggas gonna watch. And so since then, the news has been like, you might die tonight, more at eleven.

• 21:14Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 21:15Laci Mosley?

  And it's like, so it's trained a lot of people to be like, okay, well, we didn't die tonight. Like, why should we listen to news? Like, why? So, I know that people are saying coronavirus isn't real, but when I tell you I've had so many family members pass, like, bruh, it's real. So, how did I get on that tangent? Oh, because.

• 21:36Speaker 05

  I'm stressed. Yeah, I get it, but coronavirus is real. I think that should be the main takeaway, is that coronavirus is not a scam.

• 21:44Laci Mosley?

  So, um, oh yeah, I know I said that because what we're talking about in Hot and Fraud is a poppin' coronavirus scam that I love.

• 21:57Laci Mosley?

  I love these people so much. They're my best friends. So, a single family house on Forestview Avenue in Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, okay, Cleveland, Cleveland rocks, I know the Drew Carey Show, that's all I have, um, shows no signs of farming activity, you understand, so. The only things growing on this one-eighth acre plot are trees, shrubs, and grass. But twenty companies registered at that address with names like Organic Ohio Berries LLC and Garlic Farming LLC have won government approval for loans and grants intended to support small businesses

• 22:41Laci Mosley?

  hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.

• 22:46Laci Mosley?

  They said,

• 22:49Laci Mosley?

  y'all giving farm loans? Hold on.

• 22:51Speaker 05

  Hold on.

• 22:52Laci Mosley?

  And listen, I have, I feel jealous because I have a plant. I have one living plant in my house. So, I'm a farmer.

• 23:01Laci Mosley?

  I'm a former as well.

• 23:03Speaker 05

  I feel like I should grow a plant. I feel like, wow. And no one's gonna check you, Clint.

• 23:10Laci Mosley?

  They was like, here you go, twenty businesses, same address, here you go.

• 23:15Speaker 05

  That is amazing.

• 23:17Laci Mosley?

  In all, the owner of the Forest View Home and his family members created seventy-two companies with aggregarian sounding names at three Cleveland area addresses, then used them to get approval and loans for grants totaling seven point two million dollars. From the Small Business Administration's Economy Injury Disaster Loan Program. State and federal records show there's no sign of agricultural activity at any of the locations, which is hilarious to me because I'm like, did y'all just drive by like, are these niggas farming?

• 23:52Speaker 05

  Not a plant, not a succulent, nothing.

• 23:55Laci Mosley?

  We saw not a hoe, not a rake.

• 23:58Speaker 05

  Nothing is happening here.

• 24:00Laci Mosley?

  We didn't see a plow, and we definitely didn't see a tractor.

• 24:05Speaker 05

  They're like, well, first of all, the five small farms. Really? What does that even mean?

• 24:10Laci Mosley?

  Not a straw hat.

• 24:13Laci Mosley?

  Not a scarecrow.

• 24:14Speaker 05

  Not a pumpkin in the front yard. It is just... I just feel like if you walk in the door, there's a tumbleweed that just blows right through.

• 24:23Laci Mosley?

  They ain't even see no tumbleweeds. It's like, where the tumbleweeds at? God damn. We even sit outside for twelve hours. We ain't seen not a weed, not a tumble.

• 24:33Speaker 05

  Does an empty house with twelve owl figures staring at you?

• 24:38Laci Mosley?

  There's no sign of agricultural activity at the locations, or that any companies were active before February first.

• 24:48Laci Mosley?

  A requirement for the pandemic aid. None of them were registered by the Ohio Secretary of State's office before May. So...

• 24:57Speaker 05

  So, they knew this then?

• 25:00Laci Mosley?

  Well, they didn't know. What happened was, is everyone who was applying for the aid just got automatically approved. And then, seven point two million dollars went away, and they were like, wait a minute.

• 25:14Speaker 05

  I feel, I feel like there were so many holes in this scam. That it is not the scammers fault by any means.

• 25:20Laci Mosley?

  Honestly, they shouldn't be charged. If you gonna let somebody take out seventy-two.

• 25:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, if you are automatically approving loans instead of doing the minimal amount of research.

• 25:32Laci Mosley?

  They said, listen, I understand. They were like, I have five bros. I can't read these loans. Like, I'm tired.

• 25:38Speaker 05

  No, I know that somebody typed in the same address seventy-two times and didn't even think about it once.

• 25:45Laci Mosley?

  I honestly like, these scammers are my favorite people because the audacity. If y'all had just done, I don't know, four, one, ten, y'all was like, nah, seventy-two. Seventy-two?

• 25:59Speaker 05

  It makes sense. Go big. Cause I guarantee they didn't think it was gonna work, let alone seventy-two times.

• 26:07Laci Mosley?

  And then when it did, they were like, I don't know, let's do a little more. I don't know, okay, what, fifty? Okay, what, sixty-two? I don't know. Okay, what, seventy?

• 26:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, there's no way our government can be this stupid.

• 26:21Laci Mosley?

  Our government is dumb as hell. You heard it here first. The niggas are dumb. Oh my god. Look at, Donald Trump wouldn't be president if our government wasn't dumb. And also, he wouldn't be president and you wouldn't be watching debates on television. Where, mind you, America is the most nuke your country, destroy your family, put on your neck ass country of the world. And they asked Donald Trump in a debate, if you lose, are you gonna leave?

• 26:54Laci Mosley?

  It's not his choice. Why do we even ask that?

• 26:59Speaker 05

  That's my favorite. Like, everybody, people's like, well, I don't know if he's gonna do what he say. I'm like, you don't have to worry about that. He ain't got no choice. Yeah.

• 27:09Laci Mosley?

  The fact that they were like, so, you did lost, and um, are you willing to pack your shit and go?

• 27:16Speaker 05

  Nah, grab that bitch by the weave and pull out the damn house.

• 27:21Laci Mosley?

  I have to just pull over for a side note that I was reading about the Trump administration because people have been begging me to do like a whole Trump episode because I did one about how he was stealing money from cancer children. But there's so much more. And so I was like, um, reading it and there was a part in the article that was like, well, Trump's people who work for him really like him, like his three nannies are like, he's so nice. And his hairdresser is like, I have been with him for fifteen years and he's wonderful. And I'm like, bitch, I know you were scammer.

• 27:58Laci Mosley?

  You've been doing this raggedy ass hairstyle for fifteen years.

• 28:04Speaker 05

  That's the thing is that he is a scammer, but he is also the ultimate patsy. Like he is the easy, he's a, he's a, the easiest mark. Like this fool scammed, but he got scammed worse.

• 28:16Laci Mosley?

  I can't. Okay, so to wrap up this whole seven million dollar fake family farm situation. A lawyer for that family said that, okay, yeah, we had scam basically, but we repaid most of the loans.

• 28:39Speaker 05

  Do they pay back the loans with the loan? Because that'd be even better.

• 28:42Laci Mosley?

  That would be amazing. It would be fantastic. Um, so the loans are the latest sign of the mismanagement of SBA's two hundred and twelve billion dollar disaster relief program, which agencies and inspector general warned in July was beset by potentially rampant fraud. So I just want to say when I saw this article in the news, I, I first saw it on Twitter. And then I did a deeper dive, but on Twitter, there were a lot of comments that were like, I tried to get a loan and I got denied. Or I da da da, like I didn't know, like people were doing this. I felt bad for the people who really needed the money. However, the scammers also really needed the money.

• 29:26Laci Mosley?

  If you go into scamming, you need coin.

• 29:29Speaker 05

  Well, first of all, when I heard that they lived in Euclid, Ohio, I'm like, hands down, you need to, you needed money to get the fuck out of there because I don't know.

• 29:38Laci Mosley?

  I wish I could, I wish you guys could see Solomon, he like literally like pulled his jacket and was like, you, you gotta get out of there. Afraid, fully afraid of Euclid, Ohio.

• 29:48Speaker 05

  I don't know what's happening there, but it seems, it sounds like, it sounds like the city, somebody would leave to join a cult.

• 29:54Laci Mosley?

  Absolutely.

• 29:55Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 29:56Laci Mosley?

  I feel like they would be like, oh, okay, I give you money every week and then we, we kiss on the lips. Yeah, I'm describing NXIVM. Like, they would do it. So guys, huh, I don't even know what the warning is here for this because like, honestly scam the government, fuck them. You got one twelve hundred dollar loan, this entire, not even loan, but like this entire stimulus, whatever, this entire pandemic. And we've been in a pandemic for like over six months now, right? How much money has Uncle Sam, how many times have you walked out of your job and like, damn, it was a good day. And then Uncle Sam reached in your pocket and was like, for me?

• 30:32Laci Mosley?

  How many shakedowns?

• 30:33Speaker 05

  Look, honestly, I believe twenty twenty should be the year that we all decide not to pay taxes.

• 30:38Laci Mosley?

  Bruh.

• 30:39Speaker 05

  I feel.

• 30:40Laci Mosley?

  Can you get a three pointed like hat? And just start the fucking Boston Tea party again, bro.

• 30:49Speaker 05

  Seriously, that's what, that's how we, that's how you start a revolution. You wanna be like, oh, you ain't gonna do what we want? Well, come get this money.

• 30:56Laci Mosley?

  Right, come get it, come get it.

• 30:59Speaker 05

  Come get this money.

• 31:00Laci Mosley?

  Cause we've been sending it to you, but now we like, come get it.

• 31:04Speaker 05

  Come get it.

• 31:05Laci Mosley?

  Oh, man, God, it sucks here.

• 31:07Speaker 05

  You better show up to my door with some universal healthcare, otherwise the money ain't leaving my house.

• 31:13Laci Mosley?

  That's what I'm talking about. I'm so mad at this point. I'm like, look, I'm paying all these taxes. We live in Los Angeles. I'm like, every time they seal a pothole, y'all need to write some niggas names on that. Like Tommy sealed this pothole or Jake Jay sealed this pothole. I'm like, I need to know where the money going. Cause I'm confused.

• 31:31Speaker 05

  Again, the ultimate scam, taxes.

• 31:34Laci Mosley?

  It is, cause even during the whole election, like, oh, we gotta count the votes that Trump is trying to sue and all this shit. I'm getting emails from the Biden Harris campaign that are like, oh, uh, can you send some coin to help with this? And I'm like, I already gave my money to the government. I gotta pay for the next president? How much I gotta pay for a president?

• 31:55Speaker 05

  What's, where's all this money going to? I just need, I want receipts as well.

• 32:00Laci Mosley?

  I would love a receipt.

• 32:03Speaker 05

  Robbery.

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• 36:13Laci Mosley?

  Hey, y'all, it's time for historic hoodwinks. Scam? It's not gonna be historic with hoodwinks today because I told y'all I'm dying.

• 36:23Laci Mosley?

  Today, we're gonna read your listener letters on air and we're gonna get Solomon's amazing opinions on the chicanery.

• 36:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, I love it.

• 36:32Laci Mosley?

  Yes, oh my god, you grabbed your hat. You were, oh my god, I wish people could see you. Jesus.

• 36:37Speaker 05

  I'm just, I love.

• 36:38Laci Mosley?

  He's so hot and so expressive and it's just, also these teeth, wow. Um, it's just, it's great. So, sorry y'all can't see that, but I know normally in Historic Hoodwinks, and if you're new to this show, just know normally what we do for the over a year that we've recorded this podcast is I will regale you guys with a Historic Hoodwink and I'll get opinions on everyone's shenanigans. However, today, cuz a hoe is tired, um, we're gonna read your listener letters. So, today, the first listener letter, and Solomon, I'm gonna need you to give me fake names for every person we talk about.

• 37:14Speaker 05

  I'm prepared.

• 37:14Laci Mosley?

  So I need a fake name. Any fake name you want.

• 37:18Speaker 05

  Let me think of, um.

• 37:19Laci Mosley?

  Yes, the deep thought.

• 37:21Speaker 05

  We'll start with, uh, Flavor Magazine.

• 37:23Laci Mosley?

  What magazine?

• 37:24Speaker 05

  Flavor Magazine, uh.

• 37:26Laci Mosley?

  I'm weak.

• 37:29Laci Mosley?

  Flavor Magazine says.

• 37:33Speaker 05

  Oh, it makes me happy already.

• 37:34Laci Mosley?

  This is a scam that was recently tried on me. Happy to say I didn't fall for it, but wanted to give people a heads up. Okay, Flavor Magazine. I first got a call from a New York State number. I didn't pick up, but when the same number texted me the following, "Hello, Venmo here. We are trying to contact you, but we have had no luck communicating due to our unusual activity on your account. Please contact us at this number for more information." I've never got a text from Venmo. Same, sis.

• 38:12Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 38:15Speaker 05

  I would cover up the camera on my phone at that point. I was like, I trust nobody.

• 38:21Laci Mosley?

  Only emails and this text message makes no sense. Scam vibes. So I didn't respond or call back. Smart, because Venmo, look, Mark Zuckerberg, which I like to call him that because Lil Boosie, who's problematic and horrible and he's a rapper, was like, got deleted off Instagram. They took away his account because he was problematic as fuck and showing porn and shit and, you know, transphobic and homophobic and too much in gay people's business, for my opinion. I was like, nigga, you are in gay people's business. Like, get out they business. He was tweeting Mark's, okay, first of all, Mark Zuckerberg, I can't even say his real name anymore, Zuckerberg, doesn't have a Twitter and he was tweeting him like, hey, Mark Zuckerberg,

• 39:07Laci Mosley?

  I give you a hundred thousand dollars to reinstate my Instagram. They're like, nigga, no, what are you doing? Anyway, so I always call Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg now because I love it.

• 39:18Speaker 05

  A hundred thousand dollars, okay.

• 39:20Laci Mosley?

  Boosie, well, meanwhile, he be buying his kids groceries and the groceries consist, like, consist of uh, flaming hot Funyuns, uh, honey buns that he puts in cereal. It's just, it's a struggle.

• 39:37Speaker 05

  It sounds like all the food groups to me.

• 39:41Speaker 05

  Just finish it off with some Robitussin and you have a full day.

• 39:44Laci Mosley?

  He ended with a pyramid, the food pyramid. Which the food pyramid was a scam. Them niggas just want us to buy rice. I hate it here.

• 39:52Speaker 05

  It was like, what, ninety percent grain? Why am I eating so much bread?

• 39:57Laci Mosley?

  Wonder bread was like, let's make a pyramid.

• 40:00Speaker 05

  It was like, fruits and vegetables had to share a tear, but bread had a hole.

• 40:05Laci Mosley?

  Why?

• 40:06Speaker 05

  And also, dairy took up a big, big chunk of that. You're like, oh, the thing that makes us all shit too much? You think that's necessary every day?

• 40:15Laci Mosley?

  Drinking the milk of not a human? Oh, it needs to be necessary every day?

• 40:20Speaker 05

  That's part of a healthy diet? Okay.

• 40:22Laci Mosley?

  Everything is a scam.

• 40:23Speaker 05

  We're all just blowing our asses out.

• 40:28Laci Mosley?

  Ask you guys to think about if like the cocaine industry was like regulated and they and they could put out ads to be like cocaine a fit you diet like it's that's what dairy is doing.

• 40:41Speaker 05

  That's what it did is that you know that those milk ads it was a campaign it was not even a milk company it was just milk in general. Was like hey got milk and you're like the fuck is this?

• 40:52Laci Mosley?

  Right the little white line over people's faces it was a scam like got cocaine you need it you need cocaine it's like no you don't you don't need it it's bad for you.

• 41:02Speaker 05

  And dairy is now one of the worst polluters in the world so.

• 41:05Laci Mosley?

  Yeah and it's sad it's weird and funny because it's the worst polluter because it's like methane farts.

• 41:11Speaker 05

  Mm hmm we gonna die because of cow farts.

• 41:14Laci Mosley?

  I was hanging out with my beautiful white lady friends who are rich the other day and we had this conversation that at the end of the conversation I was like damn this is a very rich white lady conversation because one of them was like look I try not to eat meat. But like if I do I just need it to be sourced from like a place that's not abusing animals and I was like oh so you want them animals to be happy when they get murdered like.

• 41:42Speaker 05

  I want them to see it coming.

• 41:45Laci Mosley?

  I don't want them to want to die I don't want them to be like oh my god finally the slaughterhouse I want them to be like what's happening ah like.

• 41:53Speaker 05

  You named me you love me why are you doing this?

• 41:57Laci Mosley?

  I want them to have an existential crisis before they're murdered I want to taste the fear.

• 42:02Speaker 05

  I want them to have a whole personality I want them to know they're missing out.

• 42:08Laci Mosley?

  I only want to eat the pigs from um what's that Charlotte's Web I only want to eat the pigs from Charlotte's Web.

• 42:14Speaker 05

  I want I can you make sure their kids see them die?

• 42:21Laci Mosley?

  That makes me feel better cuz it's like they were happy and they're with their family before they died like surrounded by their loved ones. I need that.

• 42:28Speaker 05

  I need that.

• 42:30Laci Mosley?

  I'm fucking weak. So.

• 42:34Laci Mosley?

  He says, "The next day, I got another call and a text from a different New York City number. This time I tried to do a little investigation." I love it. You love scams and I love you for loving them. So I asked, "What kind of unusual activity are you talking about?" And so this is the sketchy ass conversation that happened. "Hello, Venmo here. We're trying to contact you, but we've had no luck communicating during unusual activity." The same thing we said before. Me, "What kind of unusual activity?" Them, "Yes, hi." My last name. They used his last name, which she's not giving us cuz obviously scam.

• 43:08Speaker 05

  Well, it's magazine, but go ahead.

• 43:11Laci Mosley?

  They said, "Right, it's magazine." So they said, "Hi, hi, Miss Magazine."

• 43:18Laci Mosley?

  Flava Magazine. Hi, Miss Magazine. Oh, God, I love you, Solomon. So this is Anderson Lewis from Venmo verification department. "There's an alarm going off that somebody by the name of Tyler Thompson is trying to use your Venmo account as a bridge." "Do you recognize this person by any chance?" Me, "No." "Let me ask you, were you trying to send money outside of the US as of now?" Me, "No." "Okay, if you don't recognize this person and it was not you, the one that was trying to perform this transaction, let me make sure that we do proceed to validate and secure your Venmo account, okay?" That's where the scam came in. They come out, "Okay, let me just validate your account then cuz this crime's happening."

• 44:00Laci Mosley?

  So, uh, Miss Flava Magazine started to get freaked out and said that, "Oh, they had my last name and they told me they were gonna call the FBI?"

• 44:09Speaker 05

  Yes. This is like that IRS scam.

• 44:12Laci Mosley?

  Yes.

• 44:12Speaker 05

  Like a, like a, like a different.

• 44:14Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 44:14Speaker 05

  Messed up.

• 44:15Laci Mosley?

  Same shit, same shit. So she said at the end that she did get a real email from Venmo right after saying someone was attempting to sign into her account. She changed her password and the calls and texts stopped. "Be careful out there and warn your boomer parents like I did because this is the type of scam they would fall for."

• 44:37Speaker 05

  Also, if you, if you, if you are susceptible to scams, don't have Venmo. Don't.

• 44:44Laci Mosley?

  Listen, I've talked about this on an earlier podcast with Langston Kerman where. There are tiers of apps to transfer money and Venmo for me is the middle class. It's the one that I feel like everybody knows. Facebook is like, hey, do you love QAnon? Do you think babies are gonna trip on Wayfair? Also Venmo.

• 45:06Laci Mosley?

  So everybody has Venmo. So I get it and it's it's it's a good scam because I'm sure it works on a lot of people. But as I always say, if something feels weird and someone wants information or money from you, I don't care how cool they are. I don't care if they sound like your cousin, like Solomon sounds like my cousin. I would probably send him my money on Venmo. He'd be like, Solomon, if eh we finish this podcast, he'd be like, hey sis, that was a great podcast. I'm about to send you my audio. What's your social security? I'll be like, yeah, here you go, like.

• 45:41Speaker 05

  I would get it, but I'd find a better way.

• 45:46Laci Mosley?

  You're like, this shit is too basic for me. But I would rob you, but it would be more fun.

• 45:52Speaker 05

  I want you to, I want it, I want it to be nice and flamboyant. I don't want to be like, yo, give me your social security.

• 45:58Laci Mosley?

  A flamboyant for a scam is hilarious. But moving on to the next listener letter. This one says, Lacey, I have two scams currently running against Amazon because frankly, I need money more than they need my money. You ain't never lied.

• 46:13Speaker 05

  Two scams!

• 46:15Laci Mosley?

  Amen, amen.

• 46:18Laci Mosley?

  So they say the statute of limitations is not up on these scams, but I thought it might help my fellow Americans by letting them know these little tricks. Give me a name, Solomon.

• 46:29Speaker 05

  Um, we'll go with, uh, Calypso Jenkins.

• 46:31Laci Mosley?

  Calypso Jenkins. So Calypso Jenkins says, one, did you know you can listen to an entire audiobook on Audible and then return it for a credit and use it on a different book?

• 46:46Laci Mosley?

  This is the nerdiest ass scam I've ever heard. Not you out here stealing Becoming by Michelle Obama. Which honestly can I say Becoming by Michelle Obama is the book that every black woman received from their auntie. Like I have Becoming, I didn't buy it. It's an auntie purchased book, like.

• 47:07Speaker 05

  You only have one copy?

• 47:08Laci Mosley?

  Truly, I don't know how I only have one. I feel like I posted about and they were like, oh, well, send it back, send it to somebody else.

• 47:17Speaker 05

  Oh, you got like, oh, like just one cousin with ten books.

• 47:23Laci Mosley?

  Listen, however many Becommings you have is how valuable you are to your family. Do you have ten Becoming by Michelle Obama books? You're the most valuable.

• 47:33Speaker 05

  You became the most.

• 47:37Laci Mosley?

  I was like, listen aunties, I became, I read it and I became. I've already became, it's cool.

• 47:43Speaker 05

  I don't wanna, I can't become twice.

• 47:47Laci Mosley?

  They're like, no sis, keep becoming, like you was so far behind, you gotta keep becoming. You gotta continue to become.

• 47:55Laci Mosley?

  You ain't came yet, I know you did, I know you thought you did.

• 48:00Laci Mosley?

  He says that, was it Calypso? Calypso says that I've traded in the same credit a number of times and they haven't caught me yet. If you order groceries on Prime Now and Amazon Fresh, you can get what they call a returnless refund. Because there are no physical facilities for you to return things to. If you're not happy with something, you can return it in quotes and they'll refund you the money with barely any questions. I've saved myself a ton of money and gotten all sorts of free food because again, I need my money more than they do. I love the mantra of a scammer being like, I need my money more than they do and woo!

• 48:42Speaker 05

  It is a hundred percent correct in this situation though.

• 48:45Laci Mosley?

  I do, I do need my money more than they do.

• 48:47Speaker 05

  Look, let's be honest. Saffron costs twenty dollars and it's a little tiny thing. Feel it.

• 48:55Laci Mosley?

  And it's delicious. And if you order it and they'd be like, Amazon, I'm unhappy with my saffron, what they gonna do?

• 49:02Speaker 05

  Nothing.

• 49:03Laci Mosley?

  I love Calypso so much and also I love Calypso because the end of this email is just in all caps, bye!

• 49:12Speaker 05

  It's like, oh, I just feel like she's just typing like, I gotta let these bitches know.

• 49:17Laci Mosley?

  Be my best friend, Chris, so be my best friend. God damn, I love you. All right, we have one more letter before we get out of here.

• 49:24Speaker 05

  I wanna hear it.

• 49:26Laci Mosley?

  This one says, hey, hello, Lacey. For legal purposes, this email is all a joke.

• 49:34Speaker 05

  Oh, this mail may not have occurred at a time or a place in the previous or the past or the future.

• 49:40Laci Mosley?

  It's all jokes, all the face.

• 49:42Speaker 05

  It's all, it's all jokes.

• 49:43Laci Mosley?

  Allegedly, allegedly.

• 49:44Speaker 05

  Ha, ha, ha.

• 49:45Laci Mosley?

  That's how we did the Shaun King episode. We were like, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.

• 49:51Laci Mosley?

  My name is Lacey Mosley, allegedly. We putting allegedly's everywhere, okay? Um, shout out to my lawyer, Grace, a queen. Um, so allegedly, my lawyer. So I need a name for, hey, hello, Lacey.

• 50:06Speaker 05

  Maxine Vaseline.

• 50:09Laci Mosley?

  As soon as you said Maxine, I thought Maxine Shaw, attorney of law.

• 50:12Speaker 05

  Yes, yes.

• 50:13Laci Mosley?

  But also Maxine Vaseline is fantastic. So.

• 50:18Laci Mosley?

  This has to be a black person, cuz Jesus, I, I, you guys know, if you listen to this podcast, I try not to read everything beforehand. I really try to be like, oh, I wouldn't be surprised with my guests. So I did have to read a lot of this beforehand, and I'm still shocked. Um, so this says, let's get crunk up on.

• 50:40Laci Mosley?

  Have some fun in this dance-a-ree.

• 50:48Laci Mosley?

  Not you putting on your boots and doing the Mary J. Blige dance into my goddamn email inbox. Maxine, I love you.

• 50:57Speaker 05

  Oh, I love that song too, cuz it's, it's, all those words are scams.

• 51:00Laci Mosley?

  We don't need no hateration or no holleration. Honestly, my favorite word that Mary J. Blige made up. We don't need no holleration.

• 51:09Speaker 05

  In this dance-a-ree.

• 51:10Laci Mosley?

  There's a lot of holleration on this show, and on this episode specifically, because of Solomon. A lot of holleration, so that's what we're doing. So I just wanted to directly shout out how Photoshop has changed and shaped my life of scams to this day. My first foray, oh, come on, word, come on, bitch, foray.

• 51:30Speaker 05

  Coating Mary J. Blige and then getting right into the foray of it all.

• 51:34Laci Mosley?

  The foray of it all. Honestly, it's the foray for me.

• 51:39Laci Mosley?

  My first foray started in high school when I got a free large coupon drink at Sonic for good grades. Am I smart? Question mark? I didn't want this to go to waste. I scanned the Photoshop then onto a nine-page document and started mass producing them. I would trade them for money, homework, and money. Had a small coupon ring going.

• 52:02Speaker 05

  Ooh.

• 52:03Laci Mosley?

  Sonic said, "You can get an ocean water for free for being smart." And he was like, "Bet, I'mma get ninety ocean waters."

• 52:12Speaker 05

  I'll do whatever I can.

• 52:13Laci Mosley?

  I'mma get seventy-two ocean waters, like our first scammer family.

• 52:17Speaker 05

  So we got a coupon scammer.

• 52:19Laci Mosley?

  Yes, and honestly, I love this because remember those ultimate couponing shows where it's just a bunch of hoarders who get hard, rock hard on getting coupon discounts?

• 52:28Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 52:28Laci Mosley?

  This is the same shit.

• 52:30Speaker 05

  It is the same, but it's not, it's more fun, because those, those people were terrifying.

• 52:34Laci Mosley?

  Oh, my god. I love this so much. There's some more to this story, but we unfortunately are gonna run out of time. So I'm gonna just stop it there, but I'm gonna read the rest of the story on another episode, I promise you guys. Woo! This is the saddest part of the episode, because this is when I'm soon gonna have to let Solomon go.

• 52:50Speaker 05

  I'm sorry.

• 52:51Laci Mosley?

  And I don't wanna let him go. I wanna grab him through my computer and

• 52:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:55Laci Mosley?

  It's just, it's been wonderful. Here we go. Scammer of the week. This is where we highlight a charlatan who we love, or hate. Sometimes we hate them. Um, I find out during the episode, I'll be like, "Dad, this thing is trash." But this one?

• 53:12Laci Mosley?

  This one I feel like is actually wonderful. So.

• 53:17Speaker 05

  Outlets, let's judge. Let us judge.

• 53:19Laci Mosley?

  Let us judge. I love that Solomon, you're gonna be a judge on some TV shows soon, because not only do you give energy and comedy, but you do give like elevation, like you should be judging people.

• 53:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, I really, I, I bring the best out of people. I don't want to, but they do try hard around me.

• 53:37Laci Mosley?

  I love it. Wait, what's your birthday? Is that rude? Just tell me what your sign is, because that's what I wanna know.

• 53:42Speaker 05

  I'm a Capricorn.

• 53:43Laci Mosley?

  Oh.

• 53:45Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 53:46Laci Mosley?

  You're a Capricorn, but you give me huge Leo energy.

• 53:48Speaker 05

  I have no idea what that means.

• 53:51Laci Mosley?

  I'm gonna get your birthday time, and I'm gonna figure, I'm gonna do your chart.

• 53:54Speaker 05

  Well, good luck, cuz uh, I was born in a refugee camp, and my mom ain't gonna about to remember what time that was.

• 54:00Laci Mosley?

  No. Not the time was like, they brought the guns out?

• 54:07Laci Mosley?

  No.

• 54:08Speaker 05

  I can't like, Mom, what time was I born? Bitch, just be happy you alive.

• 54:13Laci Mosley?

  You right, you right. You can't ask what time you was born. I, I know I was born at 2:18 PM on July 4th, but.

• 54:20Speaker 05

  I was born on Christmas and it was still a hot day. That's how you know it was.

• 54:24Laci Mosley?

  Okay, word, word. My momma was making potato salad, so that's how I knew. She was like, I made potato salad. I was like, oop, a baby.

• 54:33Laci Mosley?

  I was an anti-oop baby. They thought I was gonna turn up for July 4th and I was like, no, I'm gonna turn up.

• 54:38Speaker 05

  I'm here to bother you.

• 54:40Laci Mosley?

  I'm gonna turn up as well. We all gonna get lit. Bring the potato salad to the hospital.

• 54:46Laci Mosley?

  So, scammer of the week, Jesus. Oh, Lord. Scammer of the week is a woman. Who allegedly, we gotta sprinkle some allegedly's on this.

• 54:58Speaker 05

  Allegedly's?

• 54:59Laci Mosley?

  But it is a news article. Charge it to WBRZ. Which, that sounds fake, but it is the news.

• 55:06Speaker 05

  It sounds, it sounds like a place. Yeah, that's, that's, that's a local.

• 55:10Laci Mosley?

  That's news from around the corner. Can you imagine if news was like your homeboy and they just came out on the block and was like, so today, news from my apartment, like? Like, that's really what news is. We just trust news people. We be like, oh, yeah, they said it, so it's true. They just niggas, they just people.

• 55:28Speaker 05

  Oh, just, that's, they have to do, they have to do research, don't, like, we can't just.

• 55:35Speaker 05

  If they just showed up, like, you want to take a guess on what's happening today?

• 55:39Laci Mosley?

  Hey, I'm from the news. What happened over here?

• 55:43Laci Mosley?

  I saw y'all congregating. Did something happen? I'm from the news.

• 55:47Speaker 05

  Um, so I just took a walk around the block, so here's today's news.

• 55:51Laci Mosley?

  I just love industries that can't be setups, like startups, like, you know how we're entrepreneurs technically, because you know, you're so talented, you do podcasts, you do comedy, you do all the shit, right? And you started that shit up yourself. You're a genius. But like, you couldn't just entrepreneurially get into news.

• 56:09Speaker 05

  Look, first of all, I think you can. I think people do. Cause no one I know that has a journalist, journalism degree is on the news. So I don't know if they're, I don't know what people on the news are.

• 56:24Laci Mosley?

  My girl was like, I'm going to cosmetology school now. She be on Fox four like more at eleven.

• 56:32Speaker 05

  Um, I don't remember you go to a real college.

• 56:35Laci Mosley?

  I had a truly real friend. Her name is Chelsea. Shout out to Chelsea. I fucking love you, girl. We did acting school in Pittsburgh and we used to be, cause we had this crazy ass picture. Like teacher who, I won't say her name because I actually was going to. She would have us doing these exercises before we started play rehearsal that were like, okay, now we're all humping the floor and we're humping the floor and we're moaning and we're like.

• 57:02Laci Mosley?

  Now she work on the news.

• 57:07Laci Mosley?

  This is how you get to the news. How? How?

• 57:12Laci Mosley?

  I love it.

• 57:13Speaker 05

  You didn't, you didn't remember nothing back then.

• 57:17Laci Mosley?

  Shout out to that acting teacher. Also acting teacher for scam, but also very good. I learned from the best. So.

• 57:24Laci Mosley?

  So a New Hampshire woman is accused of pretending to be a prosecutor and submitting paperwork, dropping stalking and drug charges against herself, according to an indictment handed down this month.

• 57:38Speaker 05

  Wait a minute, against herself?

• 57:40Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, she was like, oh, hey, I'm the prosecutor for my case.

• 57:45Laci Mosley?

  I, she ain't do it. I, did I say I ain't do it? I mean, she ain't do it. But we should drop all the charges against me. I'm, excuse me, her.

• 57:54Speaker 05

  Oh, my God. This is.

• 57:58Laci Mosley?

  So her name is Lisa Landon, which that's a scam name in itself.

• 58:04Speaker 05

  Once you hear the same cosmet, start like that's okay.

• 58:08Laci Mosley?

  That's robbery. Your name robbed me. Your name robbed me already. I don't have my wallet. What happened? So Lisa Landon, thirty-three, was arrested after she allegedly, I gotta sprinkle them allegedly's in. Submitted false documents in three separate court cases.

• 58:25Laci Mosley?

  Last November and December, under the guise of a prosecutor. In some instances, she even used an electronic court system to file documents.

• 58:35Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 58:36Laci Mosley?

  Okay, now officials first became sus- like suspicious when a state forensic examiner who was scheduled to evaluate Landon's competency for the trial, noticed that her charges had been dropped and questioned if they should move forward with the evaluation. So somebody showed up and was like, hey, I'm here for the eval. And he was like, oh, she not in the system no more. Are we doing this?

• 58:58Speaker 05

  Oh, my god.

• 58:59Laci Mosley?

  So the indictment also says that Landon falsified a decision from a retired New Hampshire Supreme Court judge and waived filing fees. So she was also like, and also, we cannot charge her. I mean, me, I mean, oh damn, I did actually mean her.

• 59:15Speaker 05

  I love all of this.

• 59:17Laci Mosley?

  I love her!

• 59:19Speaker 05

  It's layered. It's all, first of all, you're, you're the only per- she's the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the victim. I love, it's just. I wanna, I wanna watch.

• 59:31Laci Mosley?

  She shows up as a victim, she's in a neck brace. She's like, yeah, me hurt me a lot. I need money in this civil suit.

• 59:39Speaker 05

  I wanna watch this one woman play. I want her to play every part.

• 59:44Laci Mosley?

  I want her to have a civil case where she's like, hey, but also I need money for me hurting me, even though legally we didn't charge me.

• 59:51Speaker 05

  I just want, I just heard an empty courtroom, sitting in every position, going back and forth.

• 59:56Laci Mosley?

  A queen. A queen.

• 1:00:00Speaker 05

  I'm ruled, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. Sustain!

• 1:00:16Laci Mosley?

  The whole courtroom is her. Jesus.

• 1:00:18Speaker 05

  Runs to the jury to take a nap, whatever she got.

• 1:00:22Laci Mosley?

  I'm weak. So she faces charges now of false personation, because obviously she falsely impersonated herself a lot, all the time. She was like, false personation, that's what I do. Like, I ain't never been me. I'm always you. I love it.

• 1:00:38Laci Mosley?

  She has six charges of falsifying physical evidence. Now, I do want to say this. She's also accused of filing an order on behalf of a relative to halt guardianship proceedings involving her child. And that for me, like, I think that, obviously, I talk about all time scams, people are desperate, they need things. Like, you don't want your baby to get taken away, so I understand fully putting on a powdered wig and pretending to be a judge to keep your baby. I get it. I get it.

• 1:01:09Speaker 05

  It ain't gonna work, though.

• 1:01:10Laci Mosley?

  It ain't gonna work, but listen, I get it. But also, if your family was like, you shouldn't have this baby, and also you was impersonating everybody, you probably shouldn't have had a baby. Like, the baby was, I'm glad the baby gonna get rescued, to be honest.

• 1:01:23Speaker 05

  No, I'm sure, yeah, the baby, I'm glad the child is being cared for, but Lisa Landon, wow.

• 1:01:29Laci Mosley?

  Lisa Landon is a queen. Um, she's a massive queen. Oh, ran it. She, she Usain bolted that shit. That was like, we ain't never seen nobody run this fast. God damn.

• 1:01:42Speaker 05

  I would, like, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she wrote that article.

• 1:01:52Laci Mosley?

  Lisa Landon. More of the eleven. She did a report on herself.

• 1:02:00Laci Mosley?

  And on that note, Jesus Christ, Solomon Georgio, this is, oh, this episode has been fantastic. Jesus.

• 1:02:08Speaker 05

  Oh, it was so fun for me.

• 1:02:09Laci Mosley?

  You wore me out. God. Where do you want to be found? That's what we ask on the show. Is there any place you want to be found?

• 1:02:15Speaker 05

  I'm across the board, Solomon Georgio on my Twitter, on my website, my album, everything. You can find me. Just, just type the whole name into Google, and if you, if you don't, if you see another Solomon Georgio, let me know. I'll kill him.

• 1:02:30Laci Mosley?

  Okay, I'm sorry, I'm shrinking y'all's ears so much this episode, because this man kills me. Guys, as always, like you heard in this never-done-before-episode of listener letters, email us with your scams and frauds, uh, snitch on your friends and family, just make sure that the scam is retired. It's [email protected]. If you want to find us on any platforms, it's scamgotuspod. If you want to find me and my ratchet ass, Diva Lacy, D I V A L A C I, Diva Lacy, D I V A L A C I on all platforms. I've never said it twice. What's happening? I told you I'm dying. Oh.

• 1:03:05Laci Mosley?

  Let me stop. Uh, congregation. Stay Schemin. Scam Goddess. This has been an Earwolf Production in association with Team Coco. Scam Goddess is starring me, duh, Scam Goddess, AKA Lacey Mosley. Scam Goddess is produced by Chelsea Jacobson and engineered by Marina Baies, with research by Sherrilyn Vera. Stay Schemin.

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