The Inventing Heiress w/ Nicole Byer (Fraud Friday)

In this week’s Fraud Friday, Laci is joined by Emmy-nominated comedian and actress Nicole Byer (Why Won't You Date Me?) to discuss the fake Irish heiress who scammed her way into a pot of gold worth around ninety thousand dollars. Plus, it turns out, you can drive a brand new car off the lot if you print a fake check. Stay Schemin’! (Originally released 09/14/2020) 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 Nicole Byer: @nicolebyer Research by Sharilyn Vera

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

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• 1:23Speaker 01

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• 2:01Laci 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'.

• 2:42Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. And guys, I'm so, I always say, what do we say? Say it with me, I'm so excited for today's guest. But for real, y'all, okay, this is the first time that we've had a repeat guest. Uh, the one, the only, I think for the whole season, this will be the only repeat guest. Um, guys, she is the Emmy nominated hilarious queen, one of the amazing hosts of Nailed It. You love her podcast, Why Won't You Date Me? You love her podcast, Best Friends? You love her in everything that you freaking see. This is Nicole Byer, guys. What's up, Nicole?

• 3:24Speaker 05

  Lacey, what a beautiful intro. And I love that you tell people to say things with you, because I would love to see someone like in their car, just being like, just talking with you, feeling themselves. I love it.

• 3:38Laci Mosley?

  Right, I feel like especially now, podcasts are like, you're just kinda talking to yourself. Uh, so I want you to feel like I'm talking back. Like, what did y'all say? Y'all so crazy. So we just had a moment.

• 3:52Laci Mosley?

  So y'all get to keep that. Well, we've talked about scams, Nicole, and your relationship with scams and...

• 3:58Speaker 05

  Yes, yes, yes.

• 3:59Laci Mosley?

  We talked, I remember you telling me that you've fallen for some scams, right?

• 4:04Speaker 05

  Have I fallen? I don't know if I fall. I scammed, we talked about me scamming my dad.

• 4:09Laci Mosley?

  Okay, yeah, we did talk about you scamming your dad. I thought that there was a scam that you fell for. Maybe I was wrong, maybe I was wrong.

• 4:14Speaker 05

  Maybe, I don't remember. And I'm trying to rack my brain. And I mean, I just bought a shitty bike from a shitty company, and I think that was a fucking scam. BikeBerry.com.

• 4:29Speaker 05

  I got very drunk and was Googling bikes and you know, they paid for those ads to pop up first. So I clicked on that paid for ad. I found this purple bike that like said it was a cruiser, but then I got it. There was a hole in it. A hole in it. Picture. There was a hole in the box and I sent that picture to uh the company and they were like, oh, well, the thing that's poking through the box was there just in case there was damage to the box during shipping. I said, well, I don't know if I really want to open the bike and like figure out other stuff wrong with it. And they were like, all right, and you know, bad on me for not reading the return policy where it's like, you pay for the ship and back. I don't know how much shipping is for a fucking bike on myself. Is it a lot?

• 5:11Speaker 05

  It's probably, it's probably, it's a heavy, it's like 70, or I don't know, not 70 pounds, 60 pounds, 40 pounds, I don't know. And then you pay like a 15% restocking fee. And I was like, so I'm still going to be out like 50, 60, maybe 80 dollars on this $200 bike. I might as well just put it together, put it together. This thing is so fucking janky, like the gears just twist around and I didn't put it together. I can't do that shit. I had a man put it together. Did you put it together? I was about to be like, okay, Nicole, this is, I was not expecting that. That was the scam right there. You put the bike together. I had a man put it together and he was like, he followed the directions to a T and we could like the gears just spin. It is such a shitty bike.

• 5:55Speaker 05

  So then I posted about how shitty it was and they're like, well, we started a return for you. And I was like, yeah, but I also told you I was going to open it and see how it was. And I opened it and this is a piece of shit bike. I'm very entitled to that opinion. And I'm like, so now you want me to disassemble it, put this fucking shitty ass bike back in the box? You want me to pay 15%? No, I'm just going to donate it. Uh, Jacob Wazaki was like, you should donate it. And I was like, oh yeah, so I might be able to use the frame because the frame isn't bad. The wheels are bad, the handles are bad. I thought you were saying you were going to donate it to a place where it was like, gonna be some little kid riding this janky ass bike. I was like, Nicole, did I write? The thing matches.

• 6:32Speaker 05

  I donated to like kids that need a bike and then they die on this BikeBerry.com bike.

• 6:40Laci Mosley?

  Also, I feel like a bike is something that most people buy in person. Am I crazy? I feel like this is very ambitious of you to like buy a, a, a not, a do it yourself bike.

• 6:50Speaker 05

  I know, I know. It was very ambitious. I thought I was getting a good deal, but you, you get what you pay for. John was like, my roommate was like, yeah, you have to go sit on the bike and see it in person. I said, okay. All right, I give up. I'll go, I'll go sit on a bike another day.

• 7:08Laci Mosley?

  I think that's the right choice because look, I won't even do a sourdough starter. So you are very brave. You are very brave to buy a whole bike in a box. It's my bike in a box.

• 7:18Speaker 05

  It's a bike in a box.

• 7:20Laci Mosley?

  Oh goodness. Let's get into what's hot in fraud. I need a name Nicole for this person.

• 7:28Laci Mosley?

  This person probably identifies as a woman, but I don't care. You can, it can be any name you want in the world.

• 7:38Laci Mosley?

  I love that you're really giving this a lot of thought.

• 7:42Speaker 05

  You just, just a name.

• 7:43Laci Mosley?

  Just a name for a person.

• 7:46Speaker 05

  Okay, let's call her Teresa. What a basic fucking name.

• 7:52Laci Mosley?

  You did all that thinking.

• 7:53Speaker 05

  I took all that time.

• 7:54Laci Mosley?

  For Teresa.

• 7:55Speaker 05

  And I came up with Teresa. No, uh, she'll, sh- Shamika, that's my cousin's name.

• 8:01Laci Mosley?

  Oh Shamika. I like, I know some Shamikas. They're nice. Uh, most of them, they can fight. Can your cousin fight? Does she, does she look like she can fight?

• 8:09Speaker 05

  I think Shamika could take you on a fight. She's tall.

• 8:12Laci Mosley?

  Oh, okay.

• 8:12Speaker 05

  She's, she's, she's a tall woman.

• 8:14Laci Mosley?

  I've never met a Shamika that couldn't fight, so that's. That's just something they're skilled at, okay? There's nothing wrong with that. So Shamika says, I did this scam a decade ago when I was a young, broke adult and it worked out well at the time. Okay. She says, in my state, home state of Montana, Shamika, okay, Shamika is definitely white.

• 8:35Laci Mosley?

  I just looked at the Google photo.

• 8:39Laci Mosley?

  Shumika said, also, she said, my home state of Montana, and that made me shoot my eyes back up to the photo, because I was like, are there, is there a black in Montana?

• 8:47Speaker 05

  I went to Billings, Montana, once, and to get to Billings, Montana, I think I flew to whatever their capital is, or whatever their big city is, and then got on the tiniest fucking plane to get to Billings. And the black flight attendant looked at me as I got on the plane and said, honey, you going to the right place? And I was like, well, she's asking. I don't know. Then I got there and I was like, mm, now I know why she was, she was worried about mistakes.

• 9:10Laci Mosley?

  She started smiling and blinking, and the tear came out her eye. Yes, she was like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

• 9:16Speaker 05

  She was, no, no, no, get, get off the plane. Get out.

• 9:21Laci Mosley?

  I feel like you went to one of those towns where like, they have a population sign, and then it like, goes up when you get there.

• 9:27Speaker 05

  Yep, uh huh, it goes right back down when I left the next day.

• 9:30Laci Mosley?

  Were you there for work or something? Why were you, okay?

• 9:33Speaker 05

  I was doing a show at a college. College shows have truly taken me to the wildest, most racist, smallest towns I've ever been to.

• 9:43Laci Mosley?

  And it's funny, because they hired you.

• 9:46Speaker 05

  Correct.

• 9:46Laci Mosley?

  Now, now, you are very funny, and you're very talented and very beautiful, Nicole, but part of me wonders if they hired you, because they're like, this is our one chance to lay eyes on a black person. We're gonna have to pay them, but they will come here.

• 9:58Speaker 05

  A lot of campuses are pretty liberal, like, you'll be smack dab in the middle of like, Confederate flag country. Like, I was in Arizona, got off the plane, tons of Trump flags, this is in 2015, and like, you know, Confederate flags, I saw like, a people of swastika somewhere, and then got to the campus, and it was like, hippie dippy, people with like, neon hair, and I was like, what the fuck did I do? It's so, it's like, once you cross over into the college, they're like, higher learning, we're inclusive, we want to love everybody. So, yeah, but also, maybe it is just to see a black one, one time.

• 10:36Laci Mosley?

  I'm sure it was because you're very funny. Um, but, but also I'm sure afterwards they were like, wow, that's what it's like, guys. A black person.

• 10:44Speaker 05

  Oh my god.

• 10:45Laci Mosley?

  Did you do meet and greets?

• 10:46Speaker 05

  Blacker in person. Uh, yeah, I usually do meet and greets.

• 10:50Laci Mosley?

  They got to talk to you?

• 10:52Speaker 05

  They did, they did. And one college, a woman gave me lotion and I was like, is this a dig? I was like, am I, I guess I'm notoriously ashy. I always post pictures and I look so ashy. And it was a white lady and I was like, oh no, if they know.

• 11:08Laci Mosley?

  No, not if they know. Look, white people don't know about ashyness. They don't know about it. But I will say that Jaki says that, uh, it's racist when people don't have lotion in the bathroom. Cause black people need lotion after they wash their hands. So maybe, maybe she was just trying to help you out.

• 11:24Speaker 05

  Maybe, maybe she was. She was like, there is no lotion in Billings, Montana. Not one Walmart carries a single drop of lotion. So I'll do you a favor.

• 11:34Laci Mosley?

  But wait.

• 11:34Speaker 05

  But white people do need lotion.

• 11:36Laci Mosley?

  They do, but they don't know that they need it. Oh, you know what? Now is your chance, y'all. Lotion. Everybody needs it.

• 11:43Speaker 05

  Yes, everybody needs it.

• 11:44Laci Mosley?

  Here's the indic- okay, I think this is gonna be indicative if she was being shady. Was it like a fragrant, like a, a nice lotion? Or did she give you some jergens?

• 11:54Speaker 05

  No, it was actually very nice lotion. I cannot say the name of the company. I've been laughed at before. Uh, Leoctane?

• 12:01Laci Mosley?

  Luxitan.

• 12:03Speaker 05

  Oh my god. Yep.

• 12:06Laci Mosley?

  No, no, no, no. Listen, I didn't know either. I had a boyfriend in college and he spoke fluent French. And one time I was like, oh, I love Leoctane. He was like, Luxitan? I was like, oh.

• 12:17Speaker 05

  Luxitan? That's so, I'll never fucking remember that name. Luxitan? What a treat, Luxitan.

• 12:23Laci Mosley?

  It really rolls off your tongue though. You're giving me face with it.

• 12:26Speaker 05

  You can remember it.

• 12:28Laci Mosley?

  Well, no, she was trying to flex. She wouldn't have got you some good lotion. I think that wasn't shade. That wasn't shade.

• 12:34Speaker 05

  Okay, she was being nice. All right.

• 12:36Laci Mosley?

  So, back to Shamika, who was definitely white. Uh, she says, "In my state of Montana, we have a quit line. You can call for free anti-smoking items like gum and patches. It, I took it upon myself to call the quit line and have the short conversation about my smoking habits. They agreed to send me the patches and every two weeks, I need to have a fifteen-minute conversation with them to check in on how I'm doing." That's interesting to me, because it's like, if people want to quit, then why do I need to, like, they're like, "Okay, yeah, you want to quit?" So, how was this week? How many cigarettes did you have? How much to, like, how much tobacco did you lick on? Like, what, what is this conversation?

• 13:15Speaker 05

  Lick on? Well, quitting is very hard. I've tried to quit smoking, uh, no less than four times, ten times, a hundred times. Uh, and it's hard.

• 13:26Laci Mosley?

  I will say that. I was never into smoking cigarettes, but for a four-month period, I was juuling like I was a fifteen-year-old.

• 13:39Speaker 05

  Well, yeah, you just puff on them inside.

• 13:41Laci Mosley?

  It was-

• 13:41Speaker 05

  That's so wild that you weren't a smoker, but you were like, "But Juul, I'll do that."

• 13:46Laci Mosley?

  Because you know, we do comedy and we'll be outside of bars and shit afterwards, and you know, you have a few drinks, and then people would be like, "Juuling," and I'd be like, and sometimes back in the day, I would like bum a cigarette. So, it wasn't like a big deal to like, you know, do that. So, I was like, "Oh, Juul." Then I was like, "Oh, it's not sanitary to just like puff someone else's Juul. I'll just go grab my own for whenever." And then I woke up, and Nicole, I kid you not, Juul pods everywhere, like fucking chargers everywhere. And I didn't know when I had become this person. I had a Juul charger in my car. So, I, so I could, so I could plug it in my car and keep the Juul charged all day. I had no idea that I was so ridiculously addicted to it.

• 14:26Speaker 05

  So, the commercials are real, when there's a team that's like, "It started with one puff," and next thing I knew, my life revolved around Juul.

• 14:34Laci Mosley?

  I was sucking dick for Juul.

• 14:38Speaker 05

  You know that's when times is rough, when you are sucking dick for a cigarette or a jewel.

• 14:45Laci Mosley?

  They're not cheap either, and those pods are not cheap.

• 14:48Speaker 05

  How much are those pods?

• 14:49Laci Mosley?

  Those pods, depending on what store you're going to, some stores will really rip you off and they'll be like thirty-five for a four-pack. And then some places it's twenty-seven for a four-pack.

• 14:58Speaker 05

  Damn. You know, I miss the days where you could share a cigarette with a friend or drink after a friend. Never again. Never again. We was fucking nasty. Now, like, you know, like, now that I think about it, like, I kinda like wearing a mask. Especially like working, cuz like, people get so close to you to mic you, and now it's so nice that like, we're not breathing on each other.

• 15:20Laci Mosley?

  I think it's great. I also think it's a wake-up call to people who have hot-ass breath, and we can never tell people that they breath hot. Like, can we normalize telling people that their breath is hot as fuck? Cuz there's people singeing my eyelashes off, and now I know they gotta smell that. They gotta have it burn their own nostrils.

• 15:36Speaker 05

  Just right back up in there. I was at a protest and I was like, oh no, I think I have bad breath. And then so she was like, did you wa- when's the last time you washed your mask? And I was like, wash.

• 15:52Speaker 05

  But now I'm, I'm in it. I'm in the game. I realize it's like clothing, you gotta wash it every couple days, so I'm, I'm in it.

• 15:59Laci Mosley?

  Yes. I've had, I've had to go out with a funky mask once or twice, and I was like, this is fucking torture. Just.

• 16:05Speaker 05

  It's awful.

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• 16:43Speaker 01

  She'd throw things, wander, and started hoarding. Mom's Alzheimer's was already so hard. But then we found out she had agitation that may happen with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. And that was a different kind of difficult. So we asked her doctor for more help.

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• 17:33Speaker 01

  I'm glad I asked for help.

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• 18:37Laci Mosley?

  But yeah, so, oh my god, I've never admitted, am I gonna, maybe I'll cut that out about the jewel thing, I don't know if I'm ready to tell you guys that I was doing that, um, but I was, I was, I guess I'll be honest.

• 18:47Speaker 05

  I mean, you don't have to be.

• 18:48Laci Mosley?

  Don't do jewel.

• 18:49Speaker 05

  If you don't want the information out there, I rarely talk about smoking because people look down on you so much and they're like, just quit, it's not good. And I'm like, you don't think I know?

• 19:00Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 19:01Speaker 05

  We're in a pandemic and I'm hiding in my house because I'm more susceptible to, like, I have bad lungs. Yet I know, I know what I've been doing.

• 19:08Laci Mosley?

  Right. And it's like, and people, that's, but maybe this will be a cautionary tale for someone out there, guys, don't jewel. Don't jewel, it's bad.

• 19:15Speaker 05

  Don't jewel, don't start.

• 19:16Laci Mosley?

  Don't start, no, for real, don't start.

• 19:18Speaker 05

  It's like, I had to learn how to smoke. I'm not an inherent smoker, so I would like sit in my garage and like inhale and then cough. And then slowly inhale halfway, hold the other half in my mouth. It was, why? For what? And now it's, you know, twenty dollars every couple of days, just so I can get my little fix. Oh, it's, it's a, thank you, Big Tobacco, that's a scam.

• 19:44Laci Mosley?

  Right. Oh, the biggest, one of the biggest. It's crazy that Big Tobacco also pays for all the ads that warn you about cigarettes. Cause that's like, yes, that's like their, like their thing with the government is like Philip Morris, like they have to pay for those ads.

• 19:59Speaker 05

  They pay for the truth ads?

• 20:00Laci Mosley?

  Yes, with the little, little black kids, like, I would never smoke, cause I can't let my hood down. And now we about to dance and play basketball.

• 20:11Laci Mosley?

  Why are those commercials like that?

• 20:14Speaker 05

  Uh, that is, I mean, yeah, black commercials, sometimes I'm like, who did this? Was it a black person? Or is this a white person projecting what they think black culture is?

• 20:24Laci Mosley?

  If you wanna see a, a TV show where you can very much tell where everyone on it was white, who was writing for the black people, I highly recommend, um, In the Dark, I think that's what it's called on Netflix. That's the, the show about the blind woman who becomes a detective, um.

• 20:42Laci Mosley?

  That don't even sound right.

• 20:44Speaker 05

  But I'm not being ableist, but maybe I am being ableist. I feel like that would be just a real uphill battle.

• 20:51Laci Mosley?

  It is, and that's why the show is fun to watch, because you're watching her like she's impressive. But then she she saw in the murder of her her little black friend who saved her once from a mugging. But he's a drug dealer. And but like, he's clearly a British actor. And and the whole thing is written by white people. You can just tell that they'd never they'd never heard of drug dealers before. They did, they probably watched The Wire a little bit and were like, I can do that.

• 21:19Speaker 05

  I once did a McDonald's commercial where McDonald's, you know, props to them. They have a whole website for black people. It's called McDonald's three sixty five. And they and it's like, they talk about black history all year round. Uh, but I.

• 21:35Laci Mosley?

  That's how you know.

• 21:35Speaker 05

  Because they know who their customer is.

• 21:37Laci Mosley?

  We're eating too much.

• 21:39Speaker 05

  But I did this voiceover. It was me and two or three other black women. And I don't remember if I had auditioned for it, but they were like, all right, let's go for it. And my line was, don't steal my french fries. So I said, don't steal my french fries. And they were like, can you? And then I was like, sass it up. And then the other women laughed. And I was like, don't steal my french fries. And then the other women sounded just like me. And they were like, ah, ah, girl. That's my coke. I'm gonna dip it in a french fry. Yeah, pop it a pop. And then after all three of us did it like that, the whoever, I guess it was whoever, like the producers or whatever, the buyers were like, OK, let's just go back to your normal voices. And I was like, point made.

• 22:23Speaker 05

  I like, I love that we made that point because it was like, if you want a minstrel show, you that's what you can have.

• 22:30Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 22:30Speaker 05

  Or you can have like, just three black women talking. It was wild.

• 22:36Laci Mosley?

  I am gonna take that with me because that is an excellent way to not who's also like, why are the lines like y'all getting robbed?

• 22:44Speaker 05

  And you bet don't speak cuz I know you like to steal. Y'all know how y'all be like what? Why are you getting robbed in this commercial?

• 22:54Laci Mosley?

  So Sheer has a pretty good joke about it. I can't remember. It was like the black blinds to go where it was like, you can't see in my house. It was based on a commercial. And then I have a joke about McDonald's and how, my God, sometimes they're just like, my baby daddy took me to get a McRib. And I was like, they both back. And you're like, what the fuck? Not they both back. I'm leaving. I'm leaving. I have to go home. And I'm at home. So guys, what a wild tangent, but to wrap up Shamika, White Shamika's letter. White Shamika says, after she would have her conversations where she talked about how hard it was. And actually, we just talked about how hard it is. And so I understand these conversations now.

• 23:39Laci Mosley?

  She said, I received all three stages of patches. Not sure how many in total, but as soon as I got them, I put them up for sale on eBay. And I had no problem selling them for thirty or forty dollars a box. I know I made a few hundred dollars doing this and eventually I just ignored their calls and quit getting the patches. I'm terrible. Signed Shamika.

• 24:00Laci Mosley?

  Just in case you forgot what we were talking about when we went on these tangents.

• 24:04Speaker 05

  Truly, I did.

• 24:05Laci Mosley?

  Shamika maybe never smoked cigarettes? Or if she did, she didn't quit? Or she just called the quit line, got the very expensive free quitting materials? And then she went to eBay and she slang them.

• 24:20Speaker 05

  You know, I don't, I don't knock the hustle. I really don't.

• 24:25Laci Mosley?

  Shamika, I fucks with you. Like I think, and come on, in Montana.

• 24:30Speaker 05

  Yes, get it Shamika. I think Shamika is an entrepreneur.

• 24:34Laci Mosley?

  Yes, she's a, what, what do they call it when you're a woman entrepreneur or a herchip-? I thought we had a word for that.

• 24:40Speaker 05

  Do we?

• 24:41Laci Mosley?

  Where we just put her in it or something.

• 24:43Speaker 05

  A herchip-.

• 24:44Laci Mosley?

  Shechip-.

• 24:47Speaker 05

  Herchip- truly sounds like something wrong with like a herniated disc.

• 24:51Laci Mosley?

  Yeah.

• 24:51Speaker 05

  Oh, I herchip- my disc.

• 24:53Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, you're right. It's not very motivating. We don't, we don't need that one.

• 24:58Laci Mosley?

  So. This is my favorite segment of the show, Historic Hoodwink, where I will regale Emmy nominated Nicole Byer with, I just have to sprinkle it in like seasoning a little bit, cause

• 25:09Speaker 05

  Honestly, it truly is such a wild thing. Who would have thought?

• 25:13Laci Mosley?

  I would have.

• 25:14Speaker 05

  Who, who would have thought?

• 25:15Laci Mosley?

  You're a black queen. I love it. So I'm gonna regale her with a historic hoodwink and we're just gonna get her thoughts and opinions along the way. Uh, today we're talking about a man named Jonathan Walton, a producer on American Ninja Warrior. That's that show where the athletic people, uh, hurt themselves, uh, and they do an obstacle course. And so you watch it hoping that they fall.

• 25:39Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 25:40Laci Mosley?

  So he was conned out of nearly ninety thousand dollars by his best friend, gonna put that in quotes, Mayor Smythe. Mayor claimed to be a royal Irish heiress waiting to inherit five million euros. So.

• 25:56Speaker 05

  Wait a minute.

• 25:57Laci Mosley?

  Irish.

• 25:58Speaker 05

  If I ever met somebody, if I ever met somebody who was like, just so you know, I'm an heiress and I'm gonna inherit five million dollars, I'd be like, so you good with money? I don't have to give you shit. You're good. You about to get it.

• 26:12Laci Mosley?

  But I'm bout to get it though, girl. Like I just need the taxes and fees.

• 26:15Speaker 05

  No, don't worry about it. You can pay for all that once you get your inheritance.

• 26:19Laci Mosley?

  So I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you some things that are gonna make more sense as to why maybe this worked on him.

• 26:25Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 26:25Laci Mosley?

  So the first time that Jonathan, who was forty-five, met this woman who became his best friend and turned into his worst enemy, obviously. She was offering to help with his building's pool. So Walton lived in a Bunker Hill apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles. Where is Bunker Hill?

• 26:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't know where Bunker Hill is.

• 26:43Laci Mosley?

  But it says downtown LA. I don't live down there. So it says they lost access to their stunning pool amid a dispute with another building. These are champagne problems. So we're like, we lost the pool. Also, what do you mean a dispute with another building? Y'all was fighting that building?

• 27:00Speaker 05

  I really want to imagine people punching brick, but I know that's not what's happening.

• 27:06Laci Mosley?

  So.

• 27:06Speaker 05

  No, not at all.

• 27:07Laci Mosley?

  When Walton, an earnest and animated former news reporter, held a meeting about the incident in his living room, about thirty people showed up, because they're trying to get the pool back, guys.

• 27:17Speaker 05

  I guess so.

• 27:19Laci Mosley?

  That meeting is where he met forty something year old woman with jet black hair in a pixie cut. Ooh, she's a manic pixie dream girl. Who soon took charge of the conversation. She was dressed in pastel colored clothes, shoes that looks high end, and she spoke with the slightest trace of an accent, which I'm assuming is an Irish accent, which is a hard accent to do.

• 27:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, to do just like a trace of, I would think it's harder than just fully getting into it.

• 27:47Laci Mosley?

  Like a charms.

• 27:49Speaker 05

  So, listen, I want the pool to come back. I don't whoop, whoop, whoop. That was bad.

• 27:55Laci Mosley?

  No, that was really good. That was better than anything I could do.

• 28:00Speaker 05

  I, I literally went to, they're magically delicious.

• 28:05Speaker 05

  They stole me like a charms and took away my pool.

• 28:10Laci Mosley?

  Well, this worked. Also, I feel like he must have equated her with just casually wearing pastels as someone who's like rich. I'm trying to think, I don't see a lot of people just, like, unless you're at Coachella, you don't just see people who are walking around in full pastel.

• 28:25Speaker 05

  Not like head to toe in pastel. But now I'm thinking about, maybe I gotta get more pastel in my life?

• 28:32Laci Mosley?

  Right. Is that how I show people I'm a real fancy hoe?

• 28:34Speaker 05

  Is.

• 28:36Laci Mosley?

  Me like, I got money, I'm wearing lavender. Maybe, because I really don't see it that often. Um, so she said during her conversation where she had taken over, uh, that she was a luxury travel agent and her boyfriend was a prominent real estate lawyer. She said that she had sued their own apartment complex a couple of times and won.

• 28:56Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 28:56Laci Mosley?

  Have you ever needed to sue your apartment comp? I mean, you live in a house, but when you lived in an apartment, did you need to sue them?

• 29:02Speaker 05

  No, no, no, no, no. Although my landlord, oh, maybe I talked about this last time. My landlord was running a scam. So he was like, you can give me or, uh, the super your rent. And then a couple of years down the line, there was a note on the building that was like, do not let Louis in the building. He was embezzling money. And then in the paper, we were like, oh shit. Yeah. He was like embezzling money and sent his kids to private school, which I was like, you know. That's nice.

• 29:29Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 29:29Speaker 05

  That's a nice thing.

• 29:30Laci Mosley?

  For the children.

• 29:31Speaker 05

  You know, that's nice.

• 29:32Laci Mosley?

  Also, we need to teach the children, let them lead the way.

• 29:35Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm, yes. But no, I've never had to sue my apart- I don't pay rent. I'd never paid rent on time. This is the first time in my life where I've paid my living expenses on time because it comes out of my bank account.

• 29:46Laci Mosley?

  Oh, right, because it's like auto withdraw?

• 29:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:48Laci Mosley?

  I'm childish. I won't do that, and I know that I could withdraw forever and I'd probably be fine, but I, every month, I just get the email and I begrud- begrudgingly go over there and like hit the payment button. And I don't know why I do it. I think I get like high from it. Sometimes I'll wait because I only get till the third. I don't even get till the fifth before you get a late fee, so I'm like.

• 30:08Speaker 05

  You only get to the third?

• 30:09Laci Mosley?

  The third, girl. They don't play.

• 30:11Speaker 05

  My apartment in New York, when I finally moved out, I would also never pay rent on time. I would pay like three months at a time after the three months. And then when I finally moved out, they were like, your last month of rent is due. And I was like, that's why you bitches have security. And they're like, no, the security's covering all your late fees. And I was like, I don't live here no more. So I.

• 30:33Laci Mosley?

  This is beautiful. You really are a scammer. Nicole, she was like, that's why you got that deposit. Bye-bye.

• 30:40Speaker 05

  Bye.

• 30:41Laci Mosley?

  So, she's very charismatic. She's bantering with the neighbors. She sued the building a bunch of times. I imagine her going to like Judge Joe Brown suing the apartment building. I hope that's where it happens. Um, and her story is is that she in time would also mention that she was pals with Ashley Judd and show him a closet full of allegedly thousand dollar designer shoes and share that she had a psychic gift. Now, I know what you're thinking. If you met somebody and they were like, hey, I be suing my apartment building every other Thursday. Um, I own thousand dollar shoes. Ashley Judd is my homegirl. And, and also I'm a psychic. Like, if you heard all of that at one time, you would be like, bitch, what's going on?

• 31:24Speaker 05

  I would be like, I should stay away from this fucking person. This is too much.

• 31:29Laci Mosley?

  But they were friends for four years before she scammed him.

• 31:34Speaker 05

  Honestly, bravo. Bravo. What a long con.

• 31:38Laci Mosley?

  Right? I was very impressed. So I get how over the years, if you have a casual conversation, like my homegirl would be like, girl, you know, I'm a Bruja. And I wouldn't think that's crazy. I was like, yeah, you're a Bruja. But I've known her for years. I was like, sure, you're a Bruja. She hasn't asked me for ninety thousand dollars yet.

• 31:54Speaker 05

  But beware.

• 31:55Laci Mosley?

  Right. But she has shown me some nice clothes. She is friends with some famous people and she's a Bruja. So technically, I already know somebody like this. I'm just saying, she worked it in a way. I was like, all seems legit, seems normal. So she unwound her story over many, many meetings, like we were just talking about. And later on, in a visit to her apartment, Walton glimpsed at a small frame printed on what Smith said was the Constitution of Ireland. So it's her last name is Smith. So he looked at this frame and then he was like, what is this? And he was like, oh, this is the Constitution of Ireland, you know, casual, hanging in my living room. She said that her great uncle had signed it. She explained, pointing out his signature.

• 32:35Laci Mosley?

  Later, she said that the same great uncle had just died and stood to inherit, she stood to inherit part of his twenty-five million dollar euro, or excuse me, million euro, uh, inheritance, which is about twenty-seven point five million dollars. So in keeping with her image as a wealthy and worldly heiress, she occasionally showed Walton texts and emails from her friends like Ashley Judd, whom she had met in college. Ashley, I'm so sorry.

• 33:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, truly, that her name is dragged all over this.

• 33:07Laci Mosley?

  Also, like, is she like relabeling somebody's number in her phone, Ashley Judd, and texting herself?

• 33:13Speaker 05

  Probably. But also, what a wild person to pick. No shade to Ashley Judd, but she's not, well, I guess honestly, what a smart pick. Because she's not super famous, but like, we all know Ashley Judd's name.

• 33:28Laci Mosley?

  Well, didn't Harvey Weinstein ruin her career? I think that's what happened. Poor Ashley Judd, girl. I could be absolutely wrong about that. Let me say allegedly.

• 33:39Laci Mosley?

  By allegedly, I mean, I thought that. But last time I came on here.

• 33:44Laci Mosley?

  And I said that Michael Jackson's song at the end where they go mama say I'm a side mama goosea. I was like, it's actually words, guys. It means I'mma keep going, I'm not gonna stop. I'mma keep going.

• 33:56Laci Mosley?

  And I definitely told everybody that was true. And they're like, no, it's not.

• 34:00Speaker 05

  That is, I love that you just up on here lying to people. People be telling their friends facts that they learned from Lacey. And then they're like, girl, that's not it. That's no, she lying to you.

• 34:12Laci Mosley?

  The scam facts are true, guys. We researched, I swear. But anything that I say off the cuff could be a lie. But it's not a lie if I believe it. Remember, that's how the truth works. I taught y'all that.

• 34:24Speaker 05

  That's what I honestly believe.

• 34:27Laci Mosley?

  So due to her family's money, she said that she didn't need a job, but preferred to keep busy working for luxury tour operators.

• 34:35Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 34:35Laci Mosley?

  PacificIslands.com and later as a psychic. In the time Walton knew her, she also had several plastic surgeries, including what he recalls as a nose job, a breast enhancement, and some liposuction. So she's an LA girl.

• 34:51Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 34:52Laci Mosley?

  Reading tarot cards.

• 34:54Speaker 05

  Snatch. Yes.

• 34:55Laci Mosley?

  Getting lip fillers.

• 34:57Speaker 05

  Uh huh.

• 34:57Laci Mosley?

  As you do.

• 34:58Speaker 05

  She's a, she's a housewife. I love it.

• 35:00Laci Mosley?

  Not mad at all. So they have this really close friendship. He opens up to her, her about his family. Um, and about his sexuality and how some people didn't accept him. She understood how painful alienation from family members could be, she said, revealing that her cousins were trying to get her disinherited. The drama. So she showed him nasty texts and emails from these cousins, especially one named Fenton, who occasionally wrote in Gaelic. Walton was enthralled with the family drama. So she basically was like, I wouldn't be surprised if this was like all the plot of several Tyler Perry movies that she has seen.

• 35:42Speaker 05

  And she's like, I'mma do my own. I mean, Tyler doesn't take too much time to produce them. I think she took more time to produce a Tyler Perry movie than Tyler takes to produce his own stuff.

• 35:52Laci Mosley?

  To produce these emails. You might be right.

• 35:53Speaker 05

  And I'm not being shady because he has some record, but he shoots seasons in the matter of weeks.

• 35:59Laci Mosley?

  And he does.

• 36:00Speaker 05

  Which is wild.

• 36:01Laci Mosley?

  And I know actors who work for him and they work very hard. I was like, shout out to y'all, because. Long days, long days. Long days. And wigs, the wig. Wigs, wigs, wigs, wigs. Wigs on wigs on wigs. The wigs are just, if, if, if you could manifest struggle into a hairpiece, those wigs.

• 36:24Laci Mosley?

  They're rough.

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• 37:49Speaker 01

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• 37:56Speaker 06

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• 38:51Laci Mosley?

  And fraud! So, basically she moves to a new loft, and they call each other all the time, tell each other that they love each other. So now, let's get into her inheritance. By April 2015, a homegirl had come to Walton with tears cascading down her face, asking for a loan. So, the first loan that she got was for $4,200. Then she came back and said she needed another $5,800 to pay rent at her new loft, which is crazy because she had an inheritance, right? Yes, and she's a psychic, so she didn't see it coming?

• 39:36Laci Mosley?

  She didn't move before she couldn't afford to pay it? She did not move before she could afford to pay it. She's gonna get out. She said that her great uncle's will contained a clause stating that anyone with a convicted felony would be exempt from the will. Walton voiced his fears that Smith's cousins might frame her to push her out of the will. So this is why... So in 2014, Walton's speculation seemed to come true. He received a collect call from a detention facility that Smith had been arrested on charges that she had stolen about $200,000 from PacificIslands.com, which is the travel agency that she worked for. So, she basically sold this as like, "My cousins are setting me up. That call that you got from jail, that's fentanyl in them. Was it in Gaelic?"

• 40:23Speaker 05

  I mean, this is exhaust honestly, the amount of work she put in, she could have just gotten herself a job.

• 40:33Speaker 05

  This is work.

• 40:33Laci Mosley?

  Thing about scamming, people think scamming is not work, scamming is an employment, it's a profession. I'm honestly upset that scammers can't get unemployment right now because they have been self-employed. And you know, that's something we need to work on.

• 40:48Laci Mosley?

  They want they need they stimulus too, we need a scam stimulus.

• 40:53Laci Mosley?

  For robbery, okay, how you gonna be doing robbery when everybody in their house?

• 40:56Speaker 05

  Truly, I was just thinking that the other day, I was like, how do you rob a house if everybody's home?

• 41:03Laci Mosley?

  So just like hairdressers can't do hair in person, robbers can't do their normal robberies in person.

• 41:09Speaker 05

  Rob in person.

• 41:10Laci Mosley?

  Exactly, so everybody's really hurting right now.

• 41:15Laci Mosley?

  I feel for my sister. So, come back to she's crying to him like, I need this money, um, I gotta go down to the attorney's office. Um, because they done froze my bank accounts, the LA district attorney froze my coins up. Uh, cause they think that I did this robbery at this job that I definitely worked at, but really it was my cousins who had set me up. But for some reason, the jail called you, but but really it was my cousins who had put me in jail from Ireland. This makes sense.

• 41:45Speaker 05

  I mean, the fact that he fell for that is so wild.

• 41:48Laci Mosley?

  She was throwing a lot at him at once, it was probably a lot to process.

• 41:52Speaker 05

  And he's like, but that's my pastel friend.

• 41:55Laci Mosley?

  Right, and she, he came out to her about his lifestyle, like she accepted him, so they had an emotional relationship. So it makes sense, so he wrote her a cashier's check, which those are the checks that go.

• 42:08Speaker 05

  That's money.

• 42:08Laci Mosley?

  That's liquid, so he agreed that she said when she regained access to her bank account or received her inheritance, she would pay him back. In the meantime, she moved back into Bunker Hill Towers for a relatively cheaper rent. With the case still ongoing, she asked him for another thirty-eight hundred dollars the next month for rent. Over the year, as it passed on and dragged on with Walton receiving frequent updates, she was still asking him for money. So in September twenty sixteen, she finally came and just really got the bag. She said that, hey, they're gonna give me a plea agreement for this money that I didn't steal from my job. That my, definitely my cousins had framed me from a different country.

• 42:49Laci Mosley?

  Great plea agreement I'm getting fifty thousand dollars and serve jail time. But I'm gonna need fifty thousand dollars from you.

• 42:58Speaker 05

  And this man gave her fifty thousand dollars?

• 43:01Laci Mosley?

  He forked over nearly sixty thousand dollars, yeah. And he also loaned her two thousand dollars for the lawyer to help her avoid eviction, cuz then she wasn't paying rent.

• 43:11Speaker 05

  Then what was she spending the money on? This man needed to ask questions. I would be like, what? How? No.

• 43:18Laci Mosley?

  He didn't ask a single question.

• 43:20Speaker 05

  Sixty thousand dollars laying around? This man is a smart man to have that much cash laying around.

• 43:26Laci Mosley?

  He worked in TV, so you know, he might have been getting them checks.

• 43:30Speaker 05

  I mean, damn.

• 43:32Laci Mosley?

  And he, he believed her. He believed that she was gonna repay him. But one day during her February twenty seventeen sentence, when Walton logged on to the jail's website to schedule a visit, he clicked on her profile at the LA County Sheriff's website, and he noticed something strange. She had been charged and convicted with a felony. So, the, she was trying to avoid eviction. She eventually did have to go to jail. And then when he was going to go see her, probably put some money on her books for some ramen noodles and stuff. He looked and they were like, yeah, she was convicted of a felony felony, like she was doing crime crime.

• 44:07Laci Mosley?

  So, he took a day off work, traveled to the airport courthouse near LAX to draw up the records on her case. When he started looking through the records, he realized that everything that she told him was, say it with me, guys.

• 44:21Laci Mosley?

  The plea agreement meant that she had pleaded guilty, that her bank accounts had never been frozen. They weren't frozen, they just were empty.

• 44:29Speaker 05

  Empty.

• 44:30Laci Mosley?

  I'm gonna start telling people my bank account frozen if there ain't no money in there. That's, it basically is.

• 44:36Laci Mosley?

  The bank won't let me make transfers anymore because they say it's no money in there. So they stopped, they froze my transfers.

• 44:43Speaker 05

  They froze it, so if you wanna, you know, PayPal me some, you wanna Venmo me something, so I can get my transfers back up? That's, my god.

• 44:51Laci Mosley?

  That's excellent wording. If you wanna Venmo me money, so I can get my transfers back up.

• 44:58Laci Mosley?

  That's the phrasing. That is excellent phrasing for I don't have no money, send me money so I can start spending money again. That's amazing. So her plea agreement was for forty thousand dollars, not fifty, and it included a hundred and eighty day jail sentence, later reduced to thirty days. Oh, God. So basically she skimmed him. She like up, she was like, I need fifty thousand dollars so I can get this time served. But then she just kept a little ten so she could get her transfers back up. So she was like, some for the court, some for me.

• 45:30Speaker 05

  Some for me.

• 45:30Laci Mosley?

  On the day of the release, he picked her up, which I'm like, bro, why are you even still fucking with her?

• 45:35Speaker 05

  Yeah, why are you still involved?

• 45:37Laci Mosley?

  Cause I think he was trying to get his money back. So he was like, you've been lying to me this entire time about everything. The next day, he filed a police report alleging a total theft of seventy five thousand dollars, right? So Walton's landlord shared that homegirl also was twelve thousand dollars behind in apartment payments and had delayed them further because she says she had cancer and that her disability insurance wasn't arriving on time. She was running all.

• 46:07Speaker 05

  She, my God.

• 46:09Laci Mosley?

  So where was the money for rent going? Cause remember he, he helped her with an eviction lawyer, quote unquote, two thousand dollars.

• 46:15Speaker 05

  Well, that's how she had that expensive shoes and shit. She was just buying stuff.

• 46:19Laci Mosley?

  She just can't buy shoes.

• 46:21Speaker 05

  She's funny.

• 46:22Laci Mosley?

  I love her. They were like, ma'am, we're gonna put you in the street. She was like, okay, but I really need these Louboutins. Also, my cancer hurts right now, so.

• 46:31Speaker 05

  My cancer hurts so bad. I better go buy a shoe. That's the cure.

• 46:34Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, I can't actually talk about this right now. Cause ooh, that was my cancer. Okay, so I'm gonna close the door now. Bye bye. So background checks revealed that she'd also been charged with writing bad checks, fraud in Tennessee, in Florida, uh, grand theft, among other counts. She was also doing San Andreas.

• 46:56Speaker 05

  I love her.

• 46:56Laci Mosley?

  Yes, um, and then the jury found that Smith was guilty of grand theft and sentenced her uh to five years in jail. So this is on top of the hundred eighty days that she got from robbing her former employment. She did end up having to go to jail for robbing her homeboy. And man, there's a lot to unpack there that we just don't have time to unpack. You guys unpack it in your cars. Um.

• 47:19Laci Mosley?

  You are, but uh, this Irish woman is a queen, um.

• 47:23Speaker 05

  I love her.

• 47:24Laci Mosley?

  She was so fun.

• 47:24Speaker 05

  That's like over the course of four years, you stole eighty thousand dollars? That's pretty good.

• 47:32Laci Mosley?

  It's impressive.

• 47:33Speaker 05

  Twenty a year. That's nice. Tax free. That is twenty thousand dollars a year. That's like pretty decent and I'm sure that's not the only scam she was running on people.

• 47:41Laci Mosley?

  Oh, obviously not. She had the cancer rent scam. She had grand theft. She had like her whole life was a grift.

• 47:48Speaker 05

  She doing it. She doing big things.

• 47:50Laci Mosley?

  So for scammer of the week, we just want to highlight a king, a Floridian, a Florida man. You know, um, if you really just want trash, if you really just want, and I can say that I lived in Florida, it's okay for me to say that. A Florida man bought a hundred forty thousand dollar Porsche with a check that he printed from home on his computer.

• 48:09Laci Mosley?

  I don't even know how people think of stuff like this.

• 48:13Speaker 05

  But also the dealership was like, ah, looks right.

• 48:19Speaker 05

  What, how, what?

• 48:20Laci Mosley?

  Look, times are hard. They trying to sell these motherfucking Porsches. They say anybody want to come in here.

• 48:24Speaker 05

  I guess so.

• 48:25Laci Mosley?

  Forty two year old Casey William Kelly, oh, I love that he has three first names. That's what I'm talking about. Robbery was charged with a grand theft of a motor vehicle and uttering a false bank note, according to the Walton County Sheriff's Office. He allegedly handed over a cashier's check that he printed from his home computer to buy the car. The car was later reported stolen to Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. So he, so also we just talked about in the last story, like you do a cashier's check, that's as good as cash, pretty much, if it looks real.

• 48:54Speaker 05

  If it looks legit.

• 48:55Laci Mosley?

  So this is what he did. Um, shortly after purchasing the German luxury car, authorities say that Kelly then attempted to buy three Rolex watches. He was gonna let her ride. He said, where my printer at? Get the inkjet poppin'.

• 49:08Speaker 05

  So funny. That is so fucking funny.

• 49:11Laci Mosley?

  He handed over a fraudulent check for sixty one thousand dollars to a jeweler. However, the jeweler kept the watches until they could determine if the check would clear. See, cause jewelry. You know, obviously, he's a white man.

• 49:22Speaker 05

  People don't fuck with jewelry.

• 49:24Laci Mosley?

  But jewelers like-

• 49:25Speaker 05

  Jewelry goes up in value sometimes.

• 49:27Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 49:28Speaker 05

  So like, like a vintage Rolex, those go for like a, like a ton of cash. So-

• 49:32Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 49:32Speaker 05

  Smart on them. But also with the car, I would have done a lease. I would have given them a fake address. I would have done, I mean, you probably would have had to put some money down. So you get the fraudulent check for that. Give them a dummy address and then never park the car near your house and be like, I don't know what you're talking about.

• 49:50Laci Mosley?

  That's a good one. Cause then it's also like, they might contact you like, oh, this check didn't go through, but you, we got this lease set up. We got all your info and then you could drive it around for longer. He's just straight up just like stealing it.

• 50:01Speaker 05

  Okay. Now I have the perfect plan. Okay. So we get a fake driver's license with your picture. Different name, different address. Cause I don't think they do any sort of background checks. So if you can make fraudulent checks, write that check for the down payment on the lease. How will they get to you? They can't, they can't find you.

• 50:20Laci Mosley?

  They go-

• 50:21Speaker 05

  And then the bank is on the hook because when you lease a car, the bank buys the car, you pay the bank. So you are literally out of it.

• 50:31Laci Mosley?

  Everyone go out there and print your cashier's check. Emmy nominated Nicole Byer has taught you how to do this scam. Uh, that was her TED Talk. It was free, uh, for you and for me. Uh, I, I just, I think also the jeweler probably caught on because jewelers deal with criminals all the time. Like criminals love jewelry. Like that's their go to thing.

• 50:54Speaker 05

  Three Rolexes for what?

• 50:56Laci Mosley?

  For what? For who? For why? For how? So you know what? But shout out to a three first name king, Casey William Kelly, because I don't even know how you thought to print out a cashier's check at your home. Probably been sitting inside too long. Coronavirus, she was like- I could print out a cash check from my home.

• 51:13Speaker 05

  Or maybe he saw Catch Me If You Can, that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio running all them scams. And he was like, I can do that. I'm cute.

• 51:20Laci Mosley?

  Listen, and he, he did, and did, he did get the car off the lot. So I'm proud of this king.

• 51:25Speaker 05

  Uh, me too.

• 51:27Laci Mosley?

  We have reached the end of the show, Nicole.

• 51:29Speaker 05

  Lacey, thank you so much for having me back. Honestly, it's just a treat to talk to you.

• 51:34Laci Mosley?

  It is. Thank you for being here. Seriously. Wait, where do you want to be found?

• 51:39Speaker 05

  Um, hopefully engaged with a nice man. Uh, no, you can find me on Instagram, Twitter, at Nicole Byer. I have other podcasts, Why Won't You Date Me, Best Friends, 90 Day Bam, Patreon, Drag Her With Mono Agapi, where we talk about Drag Race newcomers with Lauren Lapkus, where now we are watching Lord of the Rings. And good fucking lord, that movie's a scam. They're too fucking long. They should have been broken up. Uh, but yeah, you could just, oh, and I have a book, Very Fat, Very Brave. It's a self-help guide for fat women, but if you're a thin and you have low self-esteem, I guess maybe you'll help. I don't know.

• 52:14Laci Mosley?

  What a sales pitch there. But if you're thin and you hate yourself, no, no, no, no, no.

• 52:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, I can, I can help you, you thin, self-hating bitch. No, I'm kidding.

• 52:24Laci Mosley?

  No, no, no, no, no. But, but it's a good book for just confidence in general.

• 52:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, and it's got like little comebacks if someone insults you. The main takeaway of the book, I'll just tell you, I'd prefer if you bought it is like, if someone says something about your body, it means you're powerful because that person had to stop their day to tell you something and you've never thought once about them.

• 52:44Laci Mosley?

  Yes. I love that. Yes, guys, very fat, very brave. Oh my God, all the things. You have so many podcasts. Uh, as always, guys, email us, [email protected], snitch on your friends, your family and yourself. If you want to find me, D I V A L A C I D, Velace on all platforms. If you want to support a black queen out there, okay, if you want to do your activism for today, like, uh, wait, I was about to say like and subscribe, but it's on YouTube, uh, subscribe to our show. Give me five star reviews, um, and, and talk about how, uh, lovely of a human being that I am. That's how you can help me. And then, and then you help the black person today. You get to go to bed like, mm, I did it.

• 53:25Speaker 05

  I did something.

• 53:27Laci Mosley?

  All right, congregation.

• 53:28Speaker 05

  Thank you, Lacey.

• 53:29Laci Mosley?

  Stay Schemin.

• 53:34Laci Mosley?

  This has been an Earwolf production in association with Team Coco. Scam Goddess stars and is hosted by me, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Our producer is Jessica Cisneros and our audio engineer is Rich Garcia. Research for the show is conducted by Kate Doyle. Stay schemin'.

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