The Hustlin’ Wig Snatchers Saga w/ Adam Rippon

Every era has thieves, but only some have taste! Laci welcomes Olympic medalist and podcaster Adam Rippon (Intrusive Thoughts) to break down today’s loudest wig heists, from ripping your own wig off and offering it to Beyoncé, to stealing them from boutiques, to snatching them right off people’s heads. Plus wig thieves may be shocked to discover they follow in the footsteps of a rich, 300-year history of literal wig-snatchers. Stay schemin’! CON-gregation, catch Laci's TV Show Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu! 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 Adam Rippon: @adaripp Research by Kathryn Doyle SOURCES https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/wig-snatcher-caught-on-camera-at-stonecrest-mall https://nypost.com/2025/04/26/us-news/thief-who-went-to-prison-for-20-years-jailed-for-nyc-wig-theft/ https://www.nbcnewyork.com/brooklyn/thief-steals-supplies-hair-brooklyn-wig-shop-crown-heights/6183324/ https://www.kltv.com/2025/05/30/woman-accused-stealing-wig-off-body-tyler-funeral-home/

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• 1:34Speaker 03

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• 2:24Speaker 04

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• 2:26Speaker 03

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• 2:54Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess, back with the new installment of the podcast, all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it. Sometimes we love them, sometimes we hate them. We will figure out on the way. As you guys know, I'm always what, very, mm, yes, excited, elated, ecstatic. I'm still in Ireland, y'all, but I got one more week after this, and I'll be back in ghetto-ass America. But I do miss it. I do miss it. My guest today is an Olympic medalist, a retired figure skater, and a gay icon. And I know that because I've been at many gay events with him, and he's always serving and making me laugh. He is a pioneering athlete who became the first openly gay US athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.

• 3:38Laci Mosley?

  We got an Olympic winner, okay? Podium, podium, period. He won the 26th season of Dancing with the Stars. He can't stop winning. And has appeared on shows like Will and Grace, Good Morning America, and most recently was cast on St. Dennis Medical, Season 2. And this just in, he is opening a medical spa. Yes, a legal business. Okay, congregation. Please welcome the incredibly talented and first-timer, Adam Rippon, to the show. I feel like this is way too long, Adam, because I'm always running into you in the streets. I know. I feel like this is way overdue. But, Lacey, I'm so glad to be talking to you from America. We all say hello. We miss you. We can't wait until you're back. Thank you. We're holding down the fort, though.

• 4:23Laci Mosley?

  So, and we're making sure all the scams are still alive. And well before you come back. And I love it. I love it so, so, so much. You know, I think that you'd be a great skater, by the way. No, I'm very clumsy. No, no, I don't believe that. I think it's all about like pizzazz and like showmanship, which you have. Yeah, I could only skate on film, which I have done on Scam Goddess, the TV show. And as soon as we got the shot and I was out of frame, I literally ran into a tree and fell. So I've tested it. Okay.

• 4:56Laci Mosley?

  I was laid out there on Miami and on the boardwalk on South Beach like, ah.

• 5:04Laci Mosley?

  Like, listen, I can only play graceful for like thirty seconds at a time, but no. If they're watching full time, no, no, no. No, okay. Your girl's gonna fall. I actually have a baby girl injury right now. I scraped my knee on something and then I had to wear pantyhose to work the other day. And they were like, oh, your knee is scraped. And it's such a childish injury to scrape your knee. It is. Like, if you burn, like, we're adults. We're supposed to be burning our hands cooking, slicing ourselves a little bit, chopping onions. Yeah, you need stitches, a cast, a brace. These are adult injuries, you know, paper cuts, things of that nature. Maybe slamming your hand in a car door will let you have that one.

• 5:46Laci Mosley?

  But getting a knee scraped, that's like, how old are you? Grow up. You scraping your knee, bitch? Were you on the monkey bars? Be serious. Wait, how did you scrape your knee, by the way? Good night, everyone. I think that's it.

• 6:01Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, it's, it's a secret. It's a, I'll just say this. If y'all listened to the last episode, it was at the Berlin airport. Y'all know I was under distress. Don't worry about it.

• 6:12Laci Mosley?

  We're not getting into it, Jess. Don't worry. Don't worry, Rich. Oh, my God, the last, I had an episode with Jenny Slate recently. They're fabulous. And I had to get some shit off my chest because I went to Berlin and I think I took like twenty-five minutes, but Jess is an amazing producer and so Rich is great. Like, they're, they're great. So I'm just like, they'll figure out how to get this down. Because before we got to the scam, it was literally twenty-five minutes of me being like, and another thing.

• 6:40Laci Mosley?

  But yeah, that's how I got my baby girl knee scraped. And I was like, this is so childish and I really need to grow up. Like, what? Yeah, that's so, I've never thought of like that. I've never thought of like an injury being like a baby injury, but it is. Cause you know what? I was just watching the Victoria Beckham, like little docu-series on Netflix. And one of the models like fell off her bike and scraped her knee. And I did think, I was like, I haven't heard of anyone over the age of 12 like scraping their knee. Right. Yes. I'm gonna tell people I scraped my knee doing my taxes. Yeah. I'm really like, I scraped my knee on the way to the voting booth. My daddy.

• 7:19Laci Mosley?

  I gotta come up with some type of lie, cause it's either a baby injury or an elderly injury. And they're like, I fall and I can't get up, or I was in the bathtub and it got slippery. You know, no. No, 100%. An injury from Prop 50. That's what you, that's what would. Yeah, that's what it was. Yes. And I had to make sure it passed. So I got up quickly and I was running to the polls. Because I left my adult job and the polls were about to close as an adult. And so I was running to the polls and you know, a, a, a baby tripped me. Mm-hmm. A baby tripped me and that's how, you know, I still voted though. Exactly. Exactly. The ballot went into the box on your way down. I was also making a car payment and my utilities.

• 8:04Laci Mosley?

  And I was making a doctor's appointment for my physical, my yearly checkup. Mm-hmm. That's what happened. I, that's what I would have thought would have happened. Mm-hmm, cause it was very grown. It was very grown how it happened.

• 8:19Laci Mosley?

  But alright, what is your relationship with scams? Do you love them? Do you hate them? Have you ever been scammed? Anything you can talk about that's past the statute of limitations? This is something that I currently think is a scam. Okay, need to know. Okay. I think that this is gonna be a little controversial, but I just think that, I think organic things are a scam. Oh, because it don't have no poison on it? Well, okay, listen.

• 8:45Laci Mosley?

  That's literally, I'm not even gonna steal that. That's a joke Laura Chen made that I said in Florida Girls. I picked up an avocado and we were so poor that I was like, oh, it's organic. That mean it ain't got no poison on it.

• 8:59Laci Mosley?

  But go ahead, organic is a scam. Okay, I think organic things are a scam because they still use pesticides, okay? So, organic products still use pesticides, but like, non-organic things use synthetic pesticides. But, you know, the synthetic pesticides are like, they're man-made. The pesticide BBL? Exactly, well, yeah, yes. So, then, your organic products, they use like, they use like, organic pesticides, but they're not as effective as synthetic ones. So, it doesn't mean that they don't use any, they have to use more for it to be as effective. Now, are these pesticides, like, they're like, oh, let's put lemon juice on it,

• 9:41Laci Mosley?

  or like, let's have a guy fight the bugs all day? No, these pesticides are like, full-blown chemicals. But the organic ones aren't like, a guy, or like, lemon juice and vinegar and bake. It's not like some, like, buddy going out there with baking soda. Like, they're also chemicals. Not all natural things are good. That's true. So, I believe, I'm not, like, and also, there's like, no substantial nutritional value. There's no like, nutritional difference in a non-organic or organic produce. It's basically a wash. And maybe it was just one of those things to move the goalposts.

• 10:22Laci Mosley?

  Because I remember, like, I remember, I was not alive, you weren't either, nobody really was, listening to this podcast. I can't wait to see what you remember. I remember. The year was 1543. Literally, no, I literally was going back that far. Because I'm talking about how, you know, the spice trade happened, and everyone wanted spices, and how spices used to be this indication of wealth. And then, once spices became widely available to the general public, just like, the wealthy class always does, they're like, oh, we don't do spices anymore. We actually want food with no spice because it's such high quality that we don't need to seize in it. Like, there's always a moving of the goalposts. And that's what organic does feel like to me, is like, we're shifting, it's like, oh, you pores, you pores can afford avocado fruit?

• 11:08Laci Mosley?

  Not anymore. Not anymore, now, now, we have organic avocados, we're not having that pore poison on them. Can you tell me again, is that why, like, white people eventually, like, went away from any sort of spiced food?

• 11:23Laci Mosley?

  No. Oh my god, that's insanity. I mean, it's a scam. They were like, how do we stay fancy in this beach? I mean, this is the same way that like, it's actually not the same way in this way, but I always enjoy knowing that lobster used to be prisoner food, like back in the day, in Alcatraz type shit. And then they were like, they were like, oh, well, you know what? Actually, we're gonna make this super expensive and make it a delicacy. It's a bug in the sea, and I love it. It's one of my favorite bugs. Yeah, so this is what I'm getting annoyed with, like, the organic stuff, because they do a lot of different things where it's like, another thing is like with chicken,

• 12:06Laci Mosley?

  right? Where they go, it's air chilled. And the idea is that if it's air chilled, they didn't put it through like a chlorine bath, okay? A chlorine bath doesn't sound great, right? But it's to kill a bunch of like bacteria and shit from like when they're cutting the chicken up. Or like raw milk. Oh, get over it. The raw milk. I, listen, stop. You're not going to the teat of the cow and like, oh, oh, oh, and getting your raw. What? Are you sucking on cow titty? That's disgusting. Put that cow titty away! Disgusting. People are so stupid. The raw milk. It's just also, I hate when people are like empowered by not having information. They're like, well, they're not telling you this yet, girl, because it's not something to be told.

• 12:51Laci Mosley?

  You made this up. That's why they not telling nobody that, because it's not a thing that should be told. You went on the internet. I used to, when we grew up, we learned about sources. I swear, I'm like one of the last few, like, fully media literacy educated children in America, like our generation. Yeah, how old are you, if I may ask? Okay. Yeah, we're close. Yeah. Well, not far. You look great. You look great. I would have never. That's for acting purposes. I mean, you can Google me and figure it out. But you know, for acting purposes, I'm still baby girl, okay? I scraped my knee, baby. I got Similac on my breath, okay? Exactly. All you need to know is I can work adult hours. That's it.

• 13:34Laci Mosley?

  Right. That's it. That's all you need to know, okay? Put me in a teen jerama, okay? Exactly. As a disposable black girl love interest and also the support system to the white lady who says, you go, white girl, I'll drive to the airport. So I need those jobs. They pay my bills. So, yeah, like, they get on Reddit, or they get on Wikipedia, which I'm like, sweetheart, Wikipedia is a site that anybody can edit. It's not a reliable source. Reddit is a place where people are just talking online anonymously. These are not sources. These are not places that can be sued for putting out misinformation. Or like, all of these experts, experts, they come out and they're like, the mitochondria in your cell bank photosynthesis.

• 14:19Laci Mosley?

  And they go on this thing where you're like, okay, I'm with you. And then you dig a little deeper and they're like, all you have to do is buy my supplements or my book, or, okay, the medical medium, okay? I fell for this scam in the pandemic of drink the celery juice. Okay, celery juice. I thought you were gonna say the colloidal silver and I was about to be like, Adam, did you turn blue? Okay, I did buy like colloidal silver at one point because somebody I, because, listen, I think all of this like RFK, like Maha stuff was all supposed to just like live on Facebook and you were supposed to try it for three days and then forget about it. You were supposed to never try it. Now, I can't even be this judgmental because I did drink colloidal silver on the con on

• 15:02Laci Mosley?

  ABC because we were talking about it and I wanted to taste it. I wanted to taste it. This is not from a judgmental place. Okay, you can ju, I like, I should be like judged, so I, please don't refrain. Colonial silver is bumping me a little bit, but you know what? It was COVID, they had a murder air disease. This was pre-COVID that I tried the silver. Okay, that's better, actually. That's much better. Yes, thank you, thank you. Whew, starting to sweat there. Icon, diva, okay. No, but pre-COVID, drink all you want. Right, no repercussions. It's just, I, just, that's, see, that, when I found out about the blue man, I was like, I think, no, I think we're not on to something. I think we're off of something.

• 15:52Laci Mosley?

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• 16:34Laci Mosley?

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• 17:13Laci Mosley?

  But when something changes, like costs go up or rules shift, organizations are forced to confront how much control and flexibility they actually have. So to understand the challenge up close, I traveled to Paris to speak with IBM's Anapaula Assis and Acts as CIO, Giovanni Daniele, two people who think about these questions every day. Hear the full conversation at ibm.com/smarttalks or wherever you get your podcasts.

• 17:48Laci Mosley?

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• 18:02Speaker 04

  People would always think I was lactose intolerant. So I just kind of shortened my explanation to I'm deathly allergic in a big way that defined a lot of my childhood.

• 18:13Laci Mosley?

  And while there are challenges, there are moments that remind you you're not alone. One of the best guys that I dated, he made a point to memorize all my food allergies. So join us and hear their stories and more. Because living with food allergies isn't just about what you can't eat. It's about still having your seat at the table. Brought to you by Genentech and Novartis. Listen to At The Table, the food allergy podcast on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow At The Table and start listening on the free iHeart Radio app today.

• 18:47Laci Mosley?

  Organically, I'm going to transition into my favorite segment here, historic hoodwakes. This is where I am going to regale Adam with a famous con caper. A group of criminals will get his opinions all throughout. And I picked this one because we've been on a lot of very fun queer shows. And you know, we know about a wig. Okay, even if we're not wearing a wig, we know about a wig. So recent hair thieves may be shocked to learn they follow in footsteps of a rich history of literal wig snatchers going back 300 years. So we're taking it back again. And I remember all of this, remember? No, I do. This is your, like, your time to shine. So wigs have always been expensive, at least good ones.

• 19:33Laci Mosley?

  They're one of the only luxury goods you can buy that is made from another person's body, which I don't like to think about it like that. I don't, me either. I'm like suddenly disgusted by the idea of it. Why would they say it like that? I've been wearing leaves wigs. I'm like, oh, it's 100% human hair because I got it like that. But then now they're telling me I'm, I'm wearing a lady body or whoever donated the hair, I'm wearing their body. Yeah, it's all about the phrasing of it too. Because if it's, because in any other context, you're like 100% human hair. You're like, this is, it couldn't get better. But as soon as you say the hair is from human hair.

• 20:14Laci Mosley?

  It becomes scary. It's only hair that you can be like, this is 100% human hair. Because if I was like, I got my teeth fixed or something. I was like, this is 100% human teeth. No, it makes it bad.

• 20:30Laci Mosley?

  You know what? That's crazy. That is true. You're right. You can't go into the dentist with like a pocket full of teeth going, but I've been collecting these. They 100% human. I want them installed today. No. Why does that change everything? I know. It does. Okay. Okay.

• 20:55Laci Mosley?

  I'm still here. It's like, my nails done. That's 100% human nail. Like, whose nail is it? There's nothing, there's no other body part. That is true. There is, I don't know, is the hair a body part? I think it's like a body, things that comes out of a body. It's not like a part. It's tacky dead, isn't it? Yes. Yeah. So I'm wearing dead people's stuff. Or like their stuff is dead and they gave me their dead.

• 21:26Laci Mosley?

  Okay, I can't think about this. I'm a black woman. You know how much fucking fake hair I wear? No. I'm putting it out of my mind. No. Yeah, don't worry about it, I don't think. No, no, no, no, no. Luxury wigs are a $3 billion industry today, and a third of that business happens in North America. And I, I know I said that I'm a black woman, which if y'all didn't know, I just came out as black. Y'all already know I was gay. But, um, white women, every, every race of women wears wigs. You may just not notice. Like Sabrina Carpenter recently came out and said she came out as a wig wearer. And she was like, these are wigs. And they were like, what? The most unshocking reveal of all time. Yeah. But still very country. But like, you know, everyone's wearing wigs.

• 22:10Laci Mosley?

  So the most expensive wig available costs $12,000 and is made of pure Russian hair. Russian hair can't be bought wholesale, and it's priced higher because it isn't Chinese or Indian, which are more common.

• 22:26Laci Mosley?

  It's giving supremacy cuz Russia is what y'all be eating over there? Potatoes and, and, um, gelatins? I can't ima- is it, is it, maybe gelatin is good for the hair. I think it is, but I don't think it's any better than Indian hair. I mean, No, it's giving racism because the, the Indian hair, the Brazilian hair, luscious. Yeah. So soft, thick. Yeah, exactly. One B naturally. I'm here for it, except for when they steal it, which they do be stealing it. But I don't know if they steal, it's like a diamond trade. You don't know if your hair got stolen. $12,000 feels cheap for a nice, nice wig, right?

• 23:05Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, because I'm thinking of like a plucked lace front, like those on a set, well, that's 10K easy. Like before we, base, like that's not even plugs, that's not even like, that's just like, because they're installing the wig. If you've never had like a, and I actually wear a wig on the show that I'm on now, and it's a really, really nice lace front wig. They went and redid the hairline for me. It's just tiny pieces of lace and they're individually sewing each piece of hair through the lace so that it looks natural and appears like a scalp. They're very expensive and they're very time consuming. So it's 12,000, I think the Russians were trying to flex cuz baby, that's not real wig money over here. I don't think so. No, and I actually, I find wigs so fascinating that I know a lot about them.

• 23:48Laci Mosley?

  Because I just find them so, when they're done well, it's, I mean, it's an art. That's a true art, making a wig. It is. And like right now, because I'm wearing a wig, I have to wear my hair in straight back braids, so I look like Little Bill on the weekends.

• 24:05Laci Mosley?

  So what I'm wearing now is a wig and the thing I hate about this wig is it's so shiny. And like real human hair, it's really not this shiny all the time. They treated it with something. And the only reason I know it's real is because my hairstylist on set, he burned some of it. That's how you can test. And if it burns like real hair, it's real hair. If it melts, then it's, oh, fake. So it is real, but like I thought this was gonna be a good place because in Ireland, they have some kind of, this, I love Irish people, god damn. If you're going through a chemo treatment or something that makes you lose your hair, you can get a stipend from the government for a wig. It's amazing. Isn't that amazing? That is amazing. But only certain places take it, but like they're pretty expensive and I, and I thought to myself, I was like, well, if they,

• 24:50Laci Mosley?

  they helping the cancer patients with the wig, then when I get this wig and I was desperate, I needed a wig ASAP. I couldn't be out here little billing it. Like they, they braided my hair up day one. I was like, mm, can't be out here. So I ran, I ran after the braiding to get. Little Villa sofa. I mean, I feel your pain because if they, if they had to do that to my hair, I'd be out here looking like Caillou. So it'd just be the two of us, Little Bill and Caillou around Dublin. So I get it. I understand what you're saying and the urgency. I had to become a baddie again ASAP. So I went in there, this wig was super expensive. I'm not going to say how much, but I was like, it has to be good. And then they cut some bangs because I was like, I'm not trying to do a leave out. I'm not trying to fuck with lace on the weekends.

• 25:31Laci Mosley?

  Um, so I got it, but it was so shiny and then this bitch be angry. I swear when I take her off, I, I wake up in the morning and this hoe is drunk. I'm like, how did you get tangled? I put you on a wig, man. Again, what did you, what were you doing? Like, she's so frustrating, but I can't let her go because of how much I paid for her. But I'm also like, can I get her treated? I've taken her to several hairstylists here to work on her. She's getting better, but yes, wigs are a thing and they can be a thing for many different reasons. So we have a Forbes article right here. Um, and it's got Rihanna with Fenty Beauty on it, which is confusing to me because it says inside Hollywood's luxury wig industry, Hollywood high fashion and hair loss.

• 26:16Laci Mosley?

  Hollywood high fashion and hair loss. The three H's. Yeah, it's a trifecta. So valued at approximately three billion, the rapidly rising luxury wig industry encompasses celebrities, cancer patients, which I just mentioned, fashion brands and more with human hair pieces eating or like costing up to like $12,000. Forbes, y'all ain't ever met a real wig bitch because it's more than 12K. Forbes, whoever wrote that, she ain't never had a bust down. They, he ain't never had a bust down, but that was cute that y'all said that, but that's not, but Forbes reported that, but we know Forbes.

• 26:56Laci Mosley?

  Like they love criminals. How many people on their 30 and 30 go to prison? You know, like we, you know, I love Forbes. Shout out to y'all, but um, I think y'all got that wrong. Yeah, I just think I.

• 27:10Laci Mosley?

  I just think 12,000 isn't enough. I can't imagine Beyonce putting, I think maybe the back of her wig is 12,000. Yeah. No. Cause I mean, I heard that it was rumored that Kerry Washington's wig on Scandal was like 10,000, but I think it was over there, but maybe they're trying to say like raw material price versus like raw material resale and labor. Yeah, cause wasn't there something about like the wig Cynthia Reva wore in Wicked was like $20,000? Yes, that's what I'm like, cause it was like, Brady, it looked good as hell. Yeah, it looked really good. If I was Cynthia, the last day that we shot the Wicked 2, I would have left set real fast and I'm not, Bye everyone.

• 27:54Laci Mosley?

  I would have left green. I would have got in the car and been like, drive, drive, drive and kept it. I know, I was thinking that. I'm like, well, what, what can they do? They can't do anything with those wigs anymore. She should just take them. No, they can, cause I'm trying to steal my wig from my job right now. And they talk about, production go keep it for next season. That's not an announcement, y'all. If there's, when there's a next season, because we have to speak positivity. But they'll keep it and then whenever the show finishes, again positivity. Right. The make, the hair artists be trying to buy the wig up off of them. Okay, that's interesting. I don't want to buy the wig, but the hairstylist did find the wig, but I'm like, I think I might have to get it from you, sis. Right. I need this more than you. They bought it for you, though, right?

• 28:39Laci Mosley?

  And I watch it get put on every day. I know how to do it now. I'm like, I could be living my life. No, I think that you should, we should talk to somebody for you.

• 28:47Laci Mosley?

  This whole real hair situation is just very exhausting. And I love my hair. I love my curl pattern. I love my texture, but it's just like getting ready every day. It adds another 30 minutes, like. Listen, I don't know the, the, the struggle, but I have like, like naturally like curly hair, like this is like my hair and for many years I would get like Brazilian blowouts where it's this basic, like a, like it'd be straight and I couldn't tell you how life-changing it was because you just wake up and you're like, I guess my hair is done? It's, it is crazy. It takes so much time off your day. Yeah. And like, honestly, like, I have to, and it's not even a straight thing. It's like, I love to wear curly too,

• 29:29Laci Mosley?

  but like, honestly, straight curly, whatever it is, if it's my hair, it's more work to really get it how I like it to look. Cause I'm very particular and I can't have that hair that attracts like older, rich white men. Cause like that, I can't do that. Although I might have to let this wig struggle outside and go ahead and get my Irish husband so I can get some citizenship or my Irish wife, okay? Um, but also I have to get into full drag and shout out to y'all who made podcasts a fucking television show now. Because now I have to get into drag every day when I record the podcast because the internet is forever. So a wig just makes life easier. But, so anyway, we learned about the Russian $12,000 wig. I think that, I don't know, it's given made up.

• 30:11Laci Mosley?

  Cause y'all even know how much it should cost. Talking about it's exclusive and better. Hmm, I don't know, Petrov. So where there's money, there's someone to steal it. We know that. And that counts for human hair too. In 1967 in Brazil, a gang of hair thieves consisting of a fat man driving a small taxi. Why y'all have to call him fat? I don't know if that's necessary. That's, that's in his description? A fat man driving a small taxi. That's amazing. A boy about 14 and two women dressed as policewomen were reported to have cut the hair off of 10 women near Sao Paulo.

• 30:50Laci Mosley?

  In 2013, a Venezuelan gang of hair thieves known as the Piranhas operated in broad daylight in, at a shopping mall in the city of Mera Kalau. The gang members- I love it there. I love it there. I love Mera Kalau. Several of them female were known to surround their victim and force them to pull their hair back into a ponytail and cut it off. That is so traumatic. Yeah. I do not agree with this at all. I mean, there's a Chris Rock movie, which I bet you if I watched it now, doesn't hold up, but called Good Hair. And they're talking about hair texture, about black women's hair, about weave wigs.

• 31:32Laci Mosley?

  They're talking about hair trade and sales. And they talk about how there's like a temple- Or a few temples in India where people will go to shave, like, girls and, and boys will go to shave their head at a certain period of their life. But it's like a scam. Well, they're doing it for the right reasons for them. But they don't know that somebody is sweeping that shit up afterwards, taking it upstairs and sewing it on a weave and mailing it to us. Yes. That to me is more, I mean, none of this is ethical, but I'm gonna put them closer to ethical than running around jacking people's ponytails. That's crazy. Right. You are right that it is more ethical to like,

• 32:16Laci Mosley?

  trick someone into believing something, that they're doing something like a religious ceremony, than it is to like, pull your hair back now, bitch. Longer than we've. Yes. Yeah. So I think they really do believe that. And if I walk away, that's what I define as scam is if I walk away and I feel good about what I did, then that's not a scam to me. That could be giving somebody money. That could be cutting off my hair in a temple. Like, I would think like, oh, as long as I feel good and this feels like a good experience, I'm cool with that. I, I, I wouldn't be thinking about necessarily if they're sweeping up and making a lot of money. But then when you think about people who might do this and they're poor, if they had known maybe that they could have cut it off and sold it, you know? But that would just be one bag for them. Like, hair takes time to grow.

• 33:01Laci Mosley?

  For everybody, no matter how fast you can grow it. Yeah. So, that to me, not that bad, but robbing people of their hair, which is some people's like identity, their crown and glory. I mean, look how fast I fucking ran to get this wig because I was like, I can't look like a milk bud every day.

• 33:19Laci Mosley?

  I'm the brown Eminem with lip gloss on. I don't have the head for short hair. I don't have the head for straight backs. I look like I was on baddies and then they was like, I need that, I need that. And then I'm fighting Natalie None. Why, why?

• 33:38Laci Mosley?

  I'm with you, though. That's traumatizing to be like surrounded and and they cut your hair. That's so great. That is wild, wild, wild crazy. And I'm sure you could be imagining it might be something worse. It's not like they're coming over like, hey, we here for your hair, bitch. Like they're surrounding you. So you don't even know what they're here for. Like yanking them by the hair, pulling them and like hacking it off. They're like, I got a ponytail holder. Put your hair in a pony. Slick it back. Hair robbery is crazy. Like, just take my wallet. I know. You'd need less people. I can grow that money back or at least cancel my calls faster. Or my car is faster than I could grow my hair back. Like, bitch, how you gonna rob me for my hair? Totally. No, that's so crazy. Wait, thinking about wigs.

• 34:23Laci Mosley?

  I remember two like wig controversies from like TikTok. Well, one controversy. Ooh, I wanna, I wanna see if you guessed one of the ones I was gonna talk about. Go ahead. The wigs by Shawnee? Do you, have you, do you, okay. I don't know the wigs by Shawnee. This was like a white woman. I think she made them for like orthodox Jewish women. And her wigs are very expensive. I think they like start at 10K. But then like black Twitter or black TikTok started like seeing these videos and they were like, these thin wigs are $10,000? Because they're like, it's, it looks very like, this is my natural hair. It looks like you'd need to put clip-ins in. Not Shawnee doing shenanigans, not the shenanigans.

• 35:05Laci Mosley?

  And so this was a big thing that I couldn't stop seeing like videos about wigs by Shawnee. And then the other thing that like is wig involved is like every, maybe once or twice a year, I see this girl and she, in the pandemic, I remember, was collecting the hair like out of a brush, out of the drain. And she'd like tape it to the wall. And I recently saw, and she has like- She could almost do a full install. Out of whose brush? Her own. This is her own hair that she's been taping. Okay, that's kinda cool. It's amazing. I love it. I wish I thought of it. She said, oh, you thought shedding? Shedding? Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Uh-huh. We reuse and recycle over here.

• 35:48Laci Mosley?

  You should. I'm shocked that you've never seen this before. Maybe this is maybe what I'm attracting. I'm looking up on TikTok right after this. What I was gonna say was that there was a woman who was working at a wig factory who got on Twitter and was like, I can't believe that we can't fucking bring Stanley cups to work no more. And everybody was like, okay, why? Because what kind of weird work policy is that? And she was like, one of our employees was caught. She had been stealing wigs and her Stanley cup. She would come to work with her Stanley cup and each day she would stuff some wigs in it.

• 36:26Laci Mosley?

  And I was like, why don't y'all fire her? Put her on loss prevention. She's so talented. Like. That's so genius. And I know she was sipping on her wig cup, walking out like, all right, Shalala, see you tomorrow. Mmm, delicious. Mmm. What's that, one B, two? Oh, my God. That is so funny. So people get creative when it comes to hair.

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• 38:53Laci Mosley?

  So we're talking about wig snatchers in Atlanta, which is one of the highest scam rates like per capita, like in the States. So one modern day wig snatcher struck the store. Yes, I'm beautiful in Atlanta in 2022. Owner, Trishana Sampson, Trishana Sampson sound like she take belt to ass. I wouldn't steal from Trishana Sampson. Trishana Sampson sound like she be in the trenches. I don't know about that. I mean, even her like business name is like kind of confrontational. Yes, comma, I am beautiful. And what about it, bitch? And what the fuck? I am beautiful, the fuck? Now get your ass in here, buy some beautiful ass hair, bitch. You're right. The comma makes it, yeah, the comma makes it. It's the comma. Yes.

• 39:38Laci Mosley?

  I am beautiful. It is confrontational. It's very American coded. I learned in Ireland that like, there's, you know, the song, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow. So we were singing this randomly as a joke. And then we got to the end and the Irish people, wait, I have to get it absolutely right. I'm pretty excited to hear the difference because I have a feeling it's going to be like so like, like passive. So. They say, for he's a good fellow, for he's a good fellow, so and so and so. And then when they get to the end, they say, "And so say all of us, and so say all of us." And I was like, we got to the end and I was like,

• 40:22Laci Mosley?

  "Which nobody can deny." And everybody was like, "What?" And we were like, "It's nobody can deny. What are y'all saying?" Right. I realized, I was like, "Oh, wait, I'm from the most aggressive country. Of course, we trying to fight at the end of the song." We were like, "For he's a good fellow." Yeah, and you better not say otherwise, bitch. Don't deny it, hoe. He is a good fellow 'cause we said so, bitch. Beautiful. Right. Yes, I am beautiful. Don't make me stab you. Now come and buy my wares. Like, what is wrong with us? It's not our fault. We're so sick. So, yes, I'm beautiful, right? In Atlanta, it's 2022. We got Trishana Sampson. Again, I told you, I would never play with her. No, she can fight. She says she lost thousands in a hair heist. I believe it. I believe it.

• 41:07Laci Mosley?

  Ocean's Eleven Inches.

• 41:13Laci Mosley?

  So, she was robbed during business hours in plain sight. Why does it sound like they was robbing the loof? Why does it sound familiar?

• 41:22Laci Mosley?

  Not him! Is he who stole? Is he who stole? Oh my god! So, in the video, you can see a female thief running off with two wigs and their mannequin heads. Now, she took the proper storage as well. She took a 50-inch wig, which cost $1,200, and she took a 34-inch wig, which was more attainable at $875. Trishana offered a $1,000 reward for information on the theft, along with a free wig, but the theft is still at large. So, the thief took $2,075 worth of hair. And Trishana offered $1,000 for tips and a free wig. That's how I know Trishana Sampson was ready to beat ass. Because she was like,

• 42:07Laci Mosley?

  "I'mma take, I'mma take another loss and make it $3,075, 'cause I wanna beat your ass." Yeah. I'll put these books in the red. I don't give a shit. Trishana's a crash out. Miss Sampson?

• 42:21Laci Mosley?

  She was like, "Just drop a pin." Exactly. Just drop a pin. And Miss Sampson showed up with three of her cousins. And it's on sight.

• 42:33Laci Mosley?

  So we got wig snatchers in Brooklyn. Of course we do. We're going to all the crime smekas, smekas, mekas, snatching mekas. So another recent wig snatcher got away with thirty thousand, thirty thousand dollars of hair wear from a Brooklyn shop this past March of 2025. So y'all about to have armed guards in the hair store and this is crazy. Mm hmm. Thirty thousand. That's, that's a lot of hair. Yeah. And this, this place is called, this, this wig store, it's called Hustle Wig.

• 43:07Laci Mosley?

  But it's still somehow less confrontational than, yes, I am beautiful.

• 43:14Laci Mosley?

  But Hustle Wig gives me like, oh, you finna try to rob a bank? Come and get your hustle wig. Oh, you spying on your baby daddy? Come in the hustle wig. Yeah, I just see, it's like the wigs for entrepreneurs, the hustle wig. Serial entrepreneurs. Exactly, yes. You finna set it off? Hustle wig. Hustle wig.

• 43:34Laci Mosley?

  Okay, hustle wigs can be switched very quickly. You can go from one wig to the next. You running from the cops? Hustle wig, have one in your purse, switch it. And then you can walk down the street and not gonna know it's you. I mean, I'm into it. So this is on Dean Street in Crown Heights. And it's run by high school best friends slash business partners, Raviki Krasinski and Giddy Cohen. Are y'all Jewish? All right, get it. Get it, Giddy Cohen. Okay, and y'all named it Hustle Wig Shop?

• 44:05Laci Mosley?

  I know, it's not adding up all the way. But they in Crown Heights. They, they standing on business. You know what? I'm not mad.

• 44:13Laci Mosley?

  They use real human hair to make wigs for women who wear them for religious reasons. Yes, and those wigs are, like I said, they're very expensive, those wigs. Why, why are they hustling people who got religious stuff? And, and also they make them for people who have, people who are going through chemo. So are y'all telling your customers you hustling now? I know. What's going on? I don't know. You know what? It's because they're in Crown Heights. They just had to blend in. They were like, I don't know, what's black? Hustle? Hustle wigs. Yeah, Rick Ross just came out with that song, "Every day I'm hustling." We just add wig to it. Every day I'm hustling. It was like of the time to name it that. Yes. And of Crown Heights. I'm kind of not mad at it. Y'all didn't try to gingerify the place. Y'all blended it in. That's very cute.

• 44:55Laci Mosley?

  So, early one Tuesday morning, their shop was hit by a suspect riding a city bike. Nine of the stolen hair pieces were valued around $3,300 each. Police caught a career criminal with nearly 60 arrests on his record named Darren Ware. Like Darren Ware. Clearly burglarizing the shop on surveillance cameras. Can we get the photo of Darren Ware up? Okay, Darren Ware is bald. Yeah, bald. First things first. He says, "Some for me, some for the streets."

• 45:31Laci Mosley?

  I mean, they say never tell a, like, never let a bald man tell you how to grow hair. But can a bald man teach you how to steal wigs? Apparently not on camera. Yeah, he got caught. See, this is why they say never let a tell. Right. They say never let a bald man tell you about hair. He can't even steal hair. That's how bald he is. He can't even steal it. He can't grow it and he can't steal it. And so I'm guessing he has a bucket and a flashlight, which are kind of essential if you're going to be stealing wigs. Unless you have a Stanley. He could have had a bag. Right. He has a backpack on as well, right? Oh, I don't know about this man.

• 46:14Laci Mosley?

  So do they recover? What happens? Well, he made two separate trips to the shop. He took hair, hats, as we can see some hats are missing. A light up sign that says hustle. Now you just wanted that for your house. Stop. And a bag of loose human hair that had just arrived in a shipment. So you, okay, first of all, sir. You didn't even get the hair that's already on the whiff? I know your bald ass can't sell no hair to no whiff. Like, what are you thinking, sir? He's just ransacking the place. So, Giddy Cohen. Said recently, the price of hair and wigs has gone up significantly. So it makes sense that somebody would know that hair and wigs are a high cost item. Darren was caught and locked up on Rikers Island. That's one of the worst prisons in the U.S.

• 46:56Laci Mosley?

  And if I went there for stealing loose dead hair. Loose hair?

• 47:03Laci Mosley?

  What are you in for, Lacey? I stole loose hair off the ground of a Jewish girl's store. And I'm your cellie. I'm here for stabbing. Just stabbing. The hustle sign. The hustle sign. The hustle sign? You want to be next to Mr. Stabber in Rikers? For God knows how long because it's what they do over there is not legal. And there have been so many cases where they hold people without bail and they die there. You you going to Rikers? No. For loose hairs. For loose hairs. I'm gonna guess he did not know how to put them into a wig. So he was really hoping that once he got out there, he's gonna find a maker?

• 47:46Laci Mosley?

  I feel like he was gonna try to take it home to his mom or his girl and be like, babe. You know what to do. You you always got that shit in your head. Like, what do we do with this? He's got a fist of the loose hair. You're right. Oh, my God. You're right. A woman was about to be involved, so I'm glad I'm kind of glad they put y'all away before this changed the ones to the new black. So we got wig snatchers funeral home. We're we're we're getting to the end of this. Most recently, a Texas woman was arrested after taking the wig off of a body at a funeral home. An employee saw a woman named Tanya leaving the funeral home with a reddish brown wig in her hand. The director said they realized one was missing from a body the next day. Tanya. I kind of love Tanya.

• 48:28Laci Mosley?

  I mean, they weren't that body was not gonna need the wig. No, it okay, more points to Tanya if it was after the service. If it was after the funeral. Yes. We're closing that casket. We're never gonna see that person again. So, you know, I don't know, Tanya. And Tanya's got a receding hairline. I feel like she was about to rock that. Yeah, but and she's got like, she was ready to wear the wig because I do see that she's got her makeup done. Mm-hmm. And she's getting face in her mugshot. Kinda, yeah. Can y'all let me hold the wig for the mugshot real quick? At least? At least? Before it goes to the evidence locker, like, come on. Yes. I mean, it looks like they took the wig fresh off her. She, I think she's feeling quite good about herself in her red hair.

• 49:11Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, cuz she does, I can't tell if it's graying hair or if that's like, you know, when you put on a lace front, you get that like, uh, if you take it off, there's like glue line? Yes. Is that a glue line? Cuz it goes all the way around. Did they snatch the wig off of her before the picture? That's disrespectful. They could've left the wig on her if that's the case. I think it is a glue line. Oh, my gosh. Why would y'all do that to her? Let her have her photo. Wait, that is really amazing. Which, also, it is crazy that from, immediately from a dead body, she went, "Where's the glue?" She had that shit in the car.

• 49:45Laci Mosley?

  She held it up, she turned the heat on and she held it up to the, to the vent. The got-to-be, because it's just got-to-be on my head in the next minute. She said, "It's got to be serious, okay? We have to get to work immediately." She had somewhere to go. She had somewhere to go. What if she had a job interview, y'all? Y'all don't know what she had going on. Yeah, but that is absolutely, cuz you, I can see what hairline she was creating for herself. Yes. And now I wanna see the wig cuz it could, it was probably late. She really got the glue on there. Yeah. No, it's, it's freshly peeled from the head. And she's still giving main character energy in this photo. She said, "Bitch, I don't need this wig for real, for real." But I wanna see the wig on her. Um, so we have a Beyonce fan. At the final stop on the Beyonce Formation World Tour in New Jersey,

• 50:30Laci Mosley?

  one fan snatched off her wig and handed it to her. Now, why would you ever do this to Beyonce? She should've whipped your ass. Julia should've jumped on you. Let's see it.

• 50:40Laci Mosley?

  Beyonce singing "All Night Long."

• 50:45Laci Mosley?

  Okay, but y'all said gave the wig back. Yeah. Because that's what a queen does. Well, she slams, like, body slams the wig back to the ground. Okay, so she might not have liked the wig. I think it's like- Maybe she was trying to tell her, like, "You ain't no diva, get you a new wig, get it plugged." She was trying to help her, mother was trying to help her. She was like, "The reason you snatched this wig off is because this wig is low vibrational." Right, right. "I'm singing to you, and you knew the wig was not worthy of me singing to you, and so you took the wig off." I mean, I love, I really do love this video, a lot. And she didn't, like, there's not really a lot of emotion, she's just- No, it was like choreography. It was like she planned- "All night long."

• 51:27Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, she, I feel like she knew at, like, some, like, somewhere in her body that she'd be holding someone else's wig during that performance, and she just kind of let it take over. As she does metaphorically every performance. She's holding wigs all the time. And she did so majestically. She, like, her hair goes back, like, what- This thick wig, too. Looks like a Tina Turner. It is. But it's not giving me quality, the way that it's flying.

• 51:54Laci Mosley?

  Baby girl. So, wigs matching in history, all these thieves and fans are unknowingly continuing a long tradition of stealing their hair off someone else's head. So now we're going back to the 1700s. Wigs were really tall and full of ribbons and extra accessories in the royal courts and upper classes of Europe, but wasn't that because they had some stanky going on under their head or something, they was coming up some- They didn't shower. This is all pre, they were still eating spice, at least at the time. Now I'm learning. Yeah, they was getting stuff. So, the bigger and more complicated your wig was, the higher you ranked socially. Plus, the easier it was to grab. Mm-hmm. I knew those big, bobbly-ass wigs were easy to snatch. Okay, this is kind of cunty, though. Like, this is drag. Like, sir, your wig is in the sky.

• 52:39Laci Mosley?

  And there's a tiny hat on it. Which is so goofy, and I love that. By the mid 1800s, the fashion of having a conspicuously huge hairdo had made human hair worth twice its weight in silver. This led to a series of wig thefts, surprisingly elaborate and creative robberies involving animals, long poles, and young boys hauled on the shoulders of tall men, because you know that wig is all the way up there. Look at these. They, they trained a monkey to snatch a wig? That's crazy. And also the phrasing of long poles, young boys, and animals. Oh, no. No, no, no. We gotta re-. It was for wig snatching. It was for wig snatching. Purposes only.

• 53:20Laci Mosley?

  So, one successful tactic in England required a boy to ride a butcher's tray carried on the shoulders of a tall man. As the tall impostor butcher walked past, a wig wearer who didn't notice that he didn't have no meat on his tray, but it was a little boy, okay? So it looked like a piece of meat, because I guess they covered him up in a blanket, and that little boy looked like a, like, maybe like a pig laid flat or something? Yeah, I'm picturing it. I'm trying to. Yeah, I'm trying to. All these words are not giving me. Right, your butcher's tray, okay? I'm following. So the boy would then twist the wig off the head of the victim.

• 54:01Laci Mosley?

  Then the butcher would take off in the opposite direction, leaving the confused owner clutching at his or his own, or her own bald head. So it was literally snatching bitches bald. Damn. Like, little boys. This is before, like, the pickpockets of today. Yeah, this is before COVID even. Even? It's crazy.

• 54:24Laci Mosley?

  The original plays. Right. This is crazy. Wig thieves also employ dogs. You could get Fido and, and have them snatch a wig. So one boy would harass a finely dressed, be-wigged gentleman, and another would grab the hair and toss it to a dog. All three would split up in different alleys and meet up later to celebrate. The dog would link up with the owners afterwards, like, "We hit a lick."

• 54:55Laci Mosley?

  That's genius. If you can teach a dog how to, like, you deserve the wig at that point, I believe. Yeah. To meet up with you later, that's insane work. How much later? Like, the dog, like, I'mma see y'all. Next week. The fuck, the dog wears the wig for a little bit and is like, okay, I can have it. Exactly. I saw my bitches already, so y'all can have it.

• 55:17Laci Mosley?

  And then also, the last one here we have is that traveling backroads was risky as it is now, right? Backroads, alleys. Some things never change, right? Some things never change. A little narrow something. Although I used to think that, and then I had to retrain my brain because I was like, if I was like a robber, like a creepy criminal, why would I be standing on a, like, sparsely populated walkway waiting for a victim? Like, I'm just gonna be in the alley like, somebody gonna come down here soon, I just know it. Right. It's kinda dark, but I got my phone flashlight. It's like, no, you gonna get me on the street. Like, you're gonna get me, you know, in the public, like, what robber's like, damn, nobody came out to the alley today? All right, I'll come back tomorrow.

• 56:00Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. That's, I'm feeling the same. I think we, like, think the same, where I just, I have also tried to retrain my brain because I'm like, I do think that, like, it's gonna be, they wanna get you where you least expect them. I think- Right. In an alleyway like that, people are, like, they have their guard up, they're kinda looking around, they're making, they're checking their surroundings. Mm-hmm. That, so I agree. And I feel like you're more likely to run into a shadier person in an alley too, because like, why they feel so comfortable in the alley? Now, I'm not motivating y'all to go down alleys, that's not what I'm saying, but I'm just like, I don't think like somebody, oh, you know, a robber's getting home today boo and is like, slow day in the alley, don't even wanna go down a dark alley no more. It's a recession, bitches wanna walk in under the streetlights, like, I don't know if that's happening.

• 56:44Laci Mosley?

  So, you know, back alleys like we were talking about thieves known as shivvings. Okay, these names are so jaunty. I miss a jaunty name. Would lurk behind horse drawn coaches, which were forced to roll slowly down narrow and poorly paved streets because they're not trying to fuck up the the car. And they would slice the back of the carriage with a knife to snatch a wig from the passenger's head. Oof. And and and we're gonna bring it back to present day to wrap up this episode. We have a video of Queen Olu, a TikTok influencer who had her wig snatched in broad daylight just last year at a. Okay.

• 57:25Speaker 05

  In life, they have come to steal my wig from me in broad daylight. Can you imagine? The thing that's irritating me is that they didn't even take the entire wig. This part is still remaining. What are you going to do with three quarters of a wig? Come and tell me. Come and tell me. It's just so mad to me because I've never ever heard of anybody ever getting their wig ripped off their head before. Unless they are inside fights, but me, I don't fight. I was just on my own, taking my pictures. And they came to come and rip my wig off my head. Anyhow, Sha, if you live in Atlanta, please be careful because apparently.

• 58:01Laci Mosley?

  Of course it's Atlanta.

• 58:03Speaker 05

  Girls are going around snatching wigs from people.

• 58:05Laci Mosley?

  I I shouldn't know. She she she had the Nigerian accent, so I thought that maybe she was in Nigeria. But of course she's in Atlanta and. Of course. Girl, your wig must have been laid and they were like, I need that. It's crazy. That that is so wild. I couldn't imagine that happening. Like, take my wallet, my wig, and then she had to go home with her hair. Y'all see, I'll put it on the Instagram. But her hair is like braided down. You can see the glue. This will help with the comparison to our other wig queen. But she still has part of the wig hanging off on one side. They didn't stay to steal the whole thing. No, she's right. That would make me even more mad. That I would that that they don't even have the whole thing. So now you just, we all fucked up.

• 58:48Laci Mosley?

  Right. That's crazy, but a beautiful way to end the episode, I think. You know, y'all watch out, especially if you're in Atlanta. Trying to say it like Tyler Perry. That's all, that's all me is. But we always ask at the end of this podcast, where would you like to be found? Anything you want to plug? You can find me on Instagram. My name is at Adarip. And I have a podcast called Intrusive Thoughts that you can listen to wherever you listen to your podcasts. Yes. And as always, you can follow me at D I V A L A C I D, Lacey on all platforms. If you want to see the pictures from this episode, Scam Goddess Pod on Instagram. If you want to chat with me, you know where to do that. Yeah. And that's, I mean, watch Scam Goddess on Hulu right now.

• 59:32Laci Mosley?

  Get my book, Scam Goddess. It's available everywhere books are sold, including audiobooks. And guys, I'm going on a live show tour. So stay tuned because there will be dates available for y'all to see Scam Goddess live very, very soon. Congregation. I want y'all to get out there and stay wiggin'. Mm hmm. Stay wiggin'. Stay wiggin'. Stay wiggin'.

• 1:00:00Laci Mosley?

  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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