Fraud Friday: Love Fraud w/ Scottie Beam & Sylvia Obell

In this week’s Fraud Friday, Scottie Beam and Sylvia Obell hear from Laci about Richard Scott Smith—a man who promised love but instead conned a group of Midwestern women out of over $1 million. Plus, a Los Angeles family is shocked to learn that someone posted their home on Airbnb to rent it. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 01/17/2022) CON-gregation, catch Laci's new TV Show, Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu! Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Scottie Beam: @scottiebeam Sylvia Obell: @sylviaobell Research By Kaelyn Brandt. SOURCES: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/style/taking-down-bad-men-is-her-job.html https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a33821604/love-fraud-richard-scott-smith-true-story/ https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a33915040/richard-scott-smith-love-fraud-now/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8644523/Richard-Scott-Smith.html https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/what-happened-to-carla-the-bounty-hunter-from-love-fraud https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/11/30/exclusive-local-family-discovers-home-listed-on-airbnb-after-strangers-arrive-saying-they-rented-it/

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• 1:01Laci 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'.

• 1:43Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? Welcome back to another installment of Scam Goddess. It is I, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Good to see y'all. Can y'all see me? I'm just fucking with you. Y'all having a good day? You having a bad day? You got gas? I don't got gas. Anyways, guys, I am very, yes, excited. And I truly am. I know I say this every single time, but we get the best guests on the show. And I know that y'all are gonna go up for today's guest. And we have two guests, okay? Double homicide. And I'm very excited. Today, we have two guests on the show. One is an influential media personality and the other one is an unfiltered journalist. Together, they host the Okay Now Listen podcast on Netflix, strong Black Lee Brand, honey, yes.

• 2:28Laci Mosley?

  And you can catch the reality TV show Get You A Me on the still-watching Netflix YouTube channel. Get You A Me is a show where Scotty and her bestie Sylvia will be giving men advice on how to land women like them. Just in time for conversation, y'all, and congregation, please welcome Scotty Beam and Sylvia O'Bell.

• 2:48Speaker 03

  Hi. Hello. I love that intro so much.

• 2:54Laci Mosley?

  I love your voice.

• 2:56Speaker 03

  Oh, thank you. I'm gonna have an unfiltered journalist to my bio. So that was a good one. Thanks for that. Thanks for that.

• 3:04Laci Mosley?

  I love that for you. Yo, I gotta, okay. Get You A Me, I gotta watch it. I'm gonna watch it because I'm so excited. I know Tristan. He's a very dear friend and I know he directed.

• 3:15Speaker 03

  Oh, we love Tristan. Tristan know everybody, child.

• 3:20Laci Mosley?

  Yes, I know Dama. So I was like, oh.

• 3:22Speaker 03

  Oh, so you were Aggie?

• 3:25Laci Mosley?

  Honorary, honorary.

• 3:28Speaker 03

  Okay. I'm gonna say you start naming Aggies. I'm gonna be like, alright, you got one more.

• 3:33Laci Mosley?

  I could get this. I could get this. I know them because when I moved to Los Angeles, uh, one of my friends, Cody, out here, he actually put me on the first podcast I ever did. And I had to ask him, I was like, where the, where the real niggas at? Like, cause you know, I was in Hollywood and I was like, well, you know, everybody was being very Hollywood. I was like, where are like the rea- the nice, real, normal blacks? And then he pointed me in the direction of Tristan and JoJo and all of them. And we've been friends ever since, so.

• 3:59Speaker 03

  Uh, I love that when somebody asks where the real niggas at, they get pointed to Tristan. He'll love that. I'm sure he loves that.

• 4:06Speaker 04

  It's right up his alley.

• 4:09Laci Mosley?

  Just go ahead and make the merch. I'll let you, I'll let you have that one.

• 4:12Speaker 03

  Oh my goodness. I will never hear the end of this.

• 4:16Laci Mosley?

  Oh my goodness. Well, guys, I have to ask you, and either one of you can go first if you're expired, but what is your relationship with scams? Do you like them? Do you hate them? Have you ever been scammed? Do you run any statute of limitations provided? Uh, you know, what's the deal?

• 4:31Speaker 04

  I don't know of any scams. I think the biggest scam had, was probably when a nigga wore his like hat in the pool and that's how I knew that he had a receding hairline. That's a scam. Niggas with hats are scams. So that was some scamming shit, but other than that, like, I don't necessarily know any scams.

• 4:49Laci Mosley?

  You got hatfish? Damn.

• 4:51Speaker 04

  Oh, child.

• 4:52Speaker 03

  The hatfish is a, is a common offense.

• 4:55Laci Mosley?

  Well, now they got weaves. They got man weaves. So.

• 4:58Speaker 03

  They got, they got beads. You know, sometimes they'll try to make that Beijing blend like it's a little higher hairline than it's supposed to be.

• 5:05Speaker 04

  Only scam that I know of.

• 5:06Laci Mosley?

  They were using concealer. Look, hatfishing is funny to me in a pool because you know how misogynistic men love to be on Twitter like, if she really wanna know if she pretty, throw in the pool.

• 5:18Speaker 04

  He jumped in the pool. That's how I knew it was bad. That's when I figured out, oh, I've been scammed. He jumped in the pool with a fitted on. I said, oh.

• 5:26Laci Mosley?

  He's swimming underwater with the fitted on?

• 5:28Speaker 04

  Absolutely, yes.

• 5:32Speaker 03

  I'm crying. I now imagine the men trying to have sex with a fitted on like it's natural.

• 5:37Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 5:37Speaker 03

  Cause they don't want you to see it.

• 5:39Speaker 04

  And I feel like it's been done and I wanna tell my ladies that you deserve better. Please, God, do not lay in bed with a man.

• 5:46Laci Mosley?

  Y'all take a shower together? He got the fitted on still? No.

• 5:50Speaker 04

  No, not. This can't be it. Yeah, that's the only scam I know. That's my only relationship to scam.

• 5:55Speaker 03

  Okay, that's a good one. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, have you ever been scammed? Or do you have a relationship with scams? Well, but listen, men aside, because I don't know how much time we have. Oh, every man is a scam. Uh, niggas aside. I mean, also, there's obviously all the internet scamming that's trying to occur today. Sometimes I'll be like, "Y'all, this the best y'all got?" That is not a challenge. If I am not challenged. But, you know, definitely, there's the, you know, the emails of people who just are in need, or but not really, you know, and they just want your bank information. There's the callers who claim that they're the CIA or who FBI. People who will never call you up like this on an automated account. You know, like, there's those run-ins.

• 6:36Speaker 03

  But, um, I think I've essentially, I feel like I've managed to be pretty scam-free. I will say, the last time I felt like I got away with a little bit of a scam, even though it wasn't like a, nothing crazy, because, you know, I'm not about to confess no crimes on a podcast. But I did, the other day, Honey Baked Ham, right? It was Thanksgiving. Mm-hmm. Honey Baked Ham is a popular place where people get hams and turkeys and stuff. And turkeys are expensive now, like. Yeah, but I, so we didn't get the whole turkey, but we got the ham, because we're more of a ham family than a turkey family. And you should be. And. Anybody should be. Right, and we were like, "Who wants to go through all the trouble?" Like, you know, like, "Let's just get a ham from Honey Baked Ham." So, we went to go pick one up. I had done the reservation.

• 7:17Speaker 03

  Child, the line was around the corner, around the parking lot, for people waiting in line to get their Honey Baked Hams that they had already pre-ordered. I said, "I know this ain't the line where people who already reserved the ham." Sure was. I promise you, I cut that line. Like, I walked in like I was a DoorDash delivery person, trying to pick up. I was like, "Excuse me, excuse me, oh, I'm so sorry, excuse me, I'm DoorDash. You gotta, gotta, gotta delivery, gotta pick them up." I got to the register, the little side where it said, "DoorDash." I said, "Hey, I have a reservation." Uh, can I get the, can I get the turkey, the, the, the? She was like, "I got you." I paid, I tried to pay when nobody was watching. Got, was in and out in about 10 minutes flat, while everybody else was in that line for hours.

• 8:00Speaker 03

  Because what I was not about to do was spend hours waiting for no ham. Now, listen, I'm with you on that, Sylvia. Lines are bad for my self-esteem. I will cut a line. That's the, that's every, that's my top scamming thing, is figuring out a way to cut a line.

• 8:14Speaker 04

  I do have a top scamming. Sylvia knows the story, I think.

• 8:19Speaker 03

  I was waiting to see if you was gonna tell. Well, I don't know, which one are you gonna tell?

• 8:22Laci Mosley?

  That's a good friend. She was like, I ain't gonna snitch on you.

• 8:25Speaker 04

  I just remembered as soon as like you were asking. Oh, yeah, duh. You remember back in the day, they used to send you these checks? Shopper checks, you could go in and you act like you shop there.

• 8:38Laci Mosley?

  Mystery shopper, yeah.

• 8:39Speaker 04

  What is it called?

• 8:40Laci Mosley?

  Mystery shopper.

• 8:41Speaker 04

  Mystery shopper, right? And they send you that fake little check. This is back when I was broke, guys.

• 8:48Laci Mosley?

  The desplo meter, like when you need.

• 8:52Speaker 03

  That's when most people scam.

• 8:53Laci Mosley?

  That's when you start being like, hmm, maybe.

• 8:56Speaker 04

  Maybe, so it was a fake little check, but it looked real. So I said, let me just go ahead and put this in the ATM and see what happened.

• 9:03Laci Mosley?

  Oh, no, I know what happened.

• 9:06Laci Mosley?

  Don't tell it.

• 9:07Speaker 03

  Wait, I don't think I knew this one.

• 9:08Speaker 04

  Oh, you know this one, Sylvia?

• 9:09Speaker 03

  I know.

• 9:11Speaker 04

  Child, they froze my checkings, they froze my savings, they froze me. They froze my lunch.

• 9:20Laci Mosley?

  They said, I'm Fox.

• 9:22Speaker 03

  Chase said, shut it all down.

• 9:24Speaker 04

  They froze it.

• 9:26Speaker 03

  Chase said, cut the cameras, dead ass.

• 9:30Speaker 04

  And I was like, oh, you can't do that? They was like, ma'am, you knew that this wasn't a real check.

• 9:37Laci Mosley?

  Not ma'am.

• 9:38Speaker 04

  This, this fact, it was like so fake.

• 9:41Laci Mosley?

  They don't know you. Ma'am, I'll give you my money. Ma'am, we go together. Chase, we go together.

• 9:48Speaker 03

  That was, that was, that was all the respect they have for you. That was the best they said that, you know you lied to me.

• 9:53Speaker 04

  They looked at me like, bitch, you better be happy that we ain't called the authorities. Get your ass out of Chase, you can no longer.

• 10:01Laci Mosley?

  They chased you out of Chase?

• 10:02Speaker 04

  They sure did. I ain't have a Chase sense. Yep, I had to move on. Shout out to TD Bank, they gave me a second chance that night.

• 10:09Speaker 03

  That's why you, that's why you went TD Bank.

• 10:12Laci Mosley?

  Not TD Bank, we'll give you a second chance.

• 10:15Speaker 03

  I know she was, not you banned from Chase.

• 10:19Laci Mosley?

  They said, we don't walk in here, you walk in the Chase, they got a picture on the wall of Scotty. They said, if you see this woman.

• 10:26Speaker 04

  Mind you, it was like for one hundred and ten dollars.

• 10:29Speaker 03

  I'm for it.

• 10:30Laci Mosley?

  Also, Chase is fucked up for that. Why they victim blaming? Why they victim blaming, okay? You got a check and you deposited a check. I see nothing wrong with you believing in a check, okay?

• 10:41Speaker 03

  It could have been an honest mistake. Maybe you thought it was the check and you put the other one by accident, you know?

• 10:45Speaker 04

  That's right.

• 10:46Speaker 03

  Nah, Chase, I mean.

• 10:47Laci Mosley?

  Chase ain't right for that.

• 10:49Speaker 03

  No, I thought she was gonna say the New Jersey Transit one. That's why I thought she was gonna say it.

• 10:53Speaker 04

  That's not scamming, that's just stealing from the state. But no, that's not.

• 10:56Laci Mosley?

  And listen, that's about as scam. Public transportation in New York and New Jersey should be free.

• 11:01Speaker 04

  Be free.

• 11:02Laci Mosley?

  It should be free.

• 11:04Speaker 04

  Okay?

• 11:05Laci Mosley?

  And they be trying to run up the metro card. Every time I come back, the metro card is more expensive, but the metro is not giving expensive.

• 11:11Speaker 03

  It's not approved a thing. Where are this budget, where is my money going? Cause it's clearly not going to the subway system.

• 11:17Laci Mosley?

  Right, the same rats got the apartment complex, right by the J train.

• 11:21Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 11:21Laci Mosley?

  Like, it's giving dirty.

• 11:23Speaker 04

  Outlet and the NJ Transit. So how come y'all ain't got no extra outlets yet? Y'all ain't got no cup holders?

• 11:29Laci Mosley?

  No wines or no size.

• 11:31Speaker 03

  All they got is that blast and that A C, be freezing. You be freezing your ass.

• 11:36Speaker 04

  Them niggas still take cash. You understand? NJ Transit still take cash. Yeah, so Sylvia's talking about, I will hide my ass in a motherfucking bathroom before I pay for a damn ticket.

• 11:52Laci Mosley?

  Amen, amen.

• 11:53Speaker 04

  It's too expensive.

• 11:54Laci Mosley?

  That's called reparations, okay? They not gonna give us reparations. We gonna have to take them wherever we can get, okay? And that's, that just sounds to me like some reparations, okay, for the community, okay? I'm not mad at it. Well, let's get into our first segment here. What's hot in fraud? This is where we warn our listeners about a pop and scam and the zeitgeist, or more often than not, we get your letters. As always, snitch on your friends and family at [email protected]. Just make sure the scam is retired because we don't wanna what? Yes, fuck up your bag. Amen. So I need a fake name for this person, Sylvia, Scotty, any fake name, we don't care about gender on this show.

• 12:29Speaker 04

  Andrea.

• 12:30Laci Mosley?

  Andrea. Oh, Andrea sound like she do her taxes. That's a classy name. So Andrea says, I worked for redacted cable, internet, and phone service provider for five years. You better redact. When I would go to service calls. Right. So when I would go and do service calls, within thirty minutes of my own home, I would always leave customers the number to a burner phone so that they could call me directly if they had issues. And they could pay me fifty dollars instead of paying redacted seventy dollars and having to wait. I know that's right, cuz them cable windows, like they, they really are disrespectful.

• 13:09Speaker 03

  They're ridiculous.

• 13:09Laci Mosley?

  They must, they don't want nobody to have a job.

• 13:11Laci Mosley?

  Eight AM to midnight. What, what kind of window is that?

• 13:15Speaker 03

  Exactly. Exactly. I hate, I hate, I hate activating cables.

• 13:18Laci Mosley?

  They say you don't have to leave your house, right? You don't have things to do. You don't have a job. Okay? Yeah, wait there all day. So he said he gonna come in thirty minutes or less like Domino's Pizza. I'm not mad at this scam so far. So then Andrea says, "What I would do is leave a small time bomb inside of their house so they would have to call me, usually within about a month. During this time, I made between five hundred and fifteen hundred dollars extra a month doing side jobs that usually took ten minutes or less."

• 13:50Speaker 03

  Wait, hold on. Wait, wait, this is involved.

• 13:53Laci Mosley?

  Andrea.

• 13:56Speaker 03

  A time bomb? What does that even mean? What is a time bomb?

• 14:01Laci Mosley?

  Who, who I look like? I don't know what a time bomb, I don't know what it is.

• 14:05Speaker 03

  Well, she ain't giving up the scripture. I need to know what the hell is a time bomb?

• 14:08Laci Mosley?

  Not, not me, not me Googling time bomb. Let me see.

• 14:11Speaker 03

  Time bomb, cable time bomb. I don't even know what the fuck that means.

• 14:15Laci Mosley?

  What the hell is a cable time bomb? Now you got me like Beck, like that's the only time bomb I know. Tick, tick, na, na, na, na. I don't know this time. So maybe he must be doing something, when he's always something. He must be doing something.

• 14:27Speaker 03

  Very much something.

• 14:28Laci Mosley?

  Very much something to the cable boxes or to the internet that he knows is gonna like short out or isn't gonna last very long. And then he knows that they're gonna have to hit him up on the burner. And then he gonna pull up and fix the problem that he made. Now, she, he, they made.

• 14:46Speaker 04

  I love that you, I love that you already knew it was a man.

• 14:49Laci Mosley?

  I don't see no woman doing this to families. She know, they got mothers and children and shit. What, baby, baby wanna watch Pe- Pe- Pe- Patrol, can't watch Pe- Patrol? Right, can't watch. Pe- Patrol, you don't come out Peppa Pig, Pe- Pe- Pig and Paw Patrol. That's the bootleg version.

• 15:06Speaker 03

  Tell me nobody has kids in this podcast episode without telling me.

• 15:10Laci Mosley?

  Pe- Patrol.

• 15:11Speaker 04

  Pe- Patrol.

• 15:12Laci Mosley?

  Pe- Patrol. Pe- Patrol, the explorer. Like, that's great in shows.

• 15:17Speaker 04

  Dr. Pepper Pig.

• 15:18Speaker 03

  Clues, clues, clues.

• 15:19Laci Mosley?

  You know, it's a little cop and they look for clues and it's a pig and it's British.

• 15:23Speaker 03

  Whatever, whatever them kids is watching today.

• 15:25Speaker 04

  Pe- Pig, Pe- Pig, that's Dr. Pepper Pig.

• 15:28Laci Mosley?

  Dr. Pepper Pig.

• 15:29Speaker 04

  Dr. Pepper Pig.

• 15:31Laci Mosley?

  My thing is, is I had a cousin who used to install bootleg cable until he got caught. And that's, that's a benevolent scam because he would come do the bootleg cable, charge you a one-time fee. Now you got Skinamax, Showtime, if the weather right. And, you know, that's a kind scam. Andrea, I don't know if I fuck with you over here, like messing people's stuff up purposefully. And then giving them a discount.

• 15:56Speaker 04

  That's fucked up. I don't like that.

• 15:58Speaker 03

  I don't like scamming people. I'm only here for scamming big corporations that deserve it. You know what I mean? Or like rich, the rich. Steal from the rich like Robin Hood. You know what I mean?

• 16:08Speaker 04

  Absolutely, 100%.

• 16:10Speaker 03

  But messing with the people who are just trying to get by, probably didn't get paid that day because they stayed home from work to fix what you started.

• 16:18Speaker 04

  That's true.

• 16:18Speaker 03

  And you taking their money.

• 16:19Laci Mosley?

  Well, now, he said he does it to 30 minutes or less. So, like Domino's, okay? So, he said.

• 16:25Speaker 04

  That takes time. I still gotta be home for it.

• 16:28Laci Mosley?

  And he charging $50, that's cheaper. And here's the thing, Andrea, I love you, I love you for listening to the podcast, but I gotta read you, I gotta read you just a little bit. I gotta open the book, I gotta open it, we in the library, just one second.

• 16:39Speaker 04

  I'll open that book.

• 16:40Laci Mosley?

  If you had done this and then people called you and they had real problems and it wasn't something you manufactured, I would be with the shits. But the fact that you are over here breaking people's stuff.

• 16:53Speaker 04

  That's crazy.

• 16:54Laci Mosley?

  And then coming back and fixing it. That's like the windshield, like that's like if Safe Flight, like Safe Flight Repair, Safe Flight Replace. Like if they came out and just started throwing bricks in niggas windows and was like, oh damn.

• 17:04Speaker 04

  Oh, you need me? Ah, shit, I'll be there in five minutes.

• 17:07Laci Mosley?

  Right. That's so tragic. I just happened to be here.

• 17:10Speaker 04

  Right.

• 17:11Laci Mosley?

  With a car full of windshield.

• 17:12Speaker 04

  It's even more disrespectful that you say it's 30 minutes or less because I still gotta be home the whole day for you to be there and then you take care of it in 30 minutes. And how many times are you fucking up my cable? He's probably done it to the same person numerous times.

• 17:27Laci Mosley?

  I hope not. Andrea, I hope you were not double dipping. I hope you were, at least if you were doing it, just one time. Or, or at least let the houses be opulent. Were the people rich? Like, did they get several cable boxes and you were like, oh y'all got money? Like, I hope. Oh, man. Andrea, I don't-

• 17:48Speaker 04

  I can't respect that. I can't respect that. I can't.

• 17:49Laci Mosley?

  I don't know about that. I don't know. I don't know if I like that, Andrea, but I still like you. Keep listening to the podcast.

• 17:55Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 17:58Laci Mosley?

  Tune in. Like and subscribe. And then let your baby listen in the other room. Multiple streams. That's what we want.

• 18:06Speaker 00

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• 19:09Laci Mosley?

  And we are back and it's time for my favorite segment of the show historic hoodwink. This is where I will where Gail, Sylvia and Scotty with a famous con caper group of criminal squad. Maybe we like them, maybe we hate them. I have a feeling we might not like this guy. Let's see.

• 19:23Speaker 03

  Damn it.

• 19:24Laci Mosley?

  So I picked this scam for you guys because of get you a me. And I know that y'all are out here getting men together and this is a man who sorely needs to be gathered.

• 19:38Speaker 03

  That's, well, that's what we do. Who you gonna call?

• 19:46Speaker 03

  Fuckboy busters.

• 19:49Speaker 03

  Nigga busters.

• 19:55Laci Mosley?

  No, what is that? What is y'all's, what is y'all's kit when you show up then? Is it like Dax, Reese, Durags?

• 20:01Speaker 03

  You laugh, but we had a kit in one of our episodes when we, when we, when we went to a nigga's house, room raiders style. We had a black light. We had MAGA, we had gloves. Touching on, we had flashlight, black light. We had a lot of things. Weezer tongs.

• 20:17Laci Mosley?

  Remember room raiders? What a toxic time in MTV, reality television shows and it was beautiful.

• 20:27Speaker 03

  We were trying to restore the feeling.

• 20:29Speaker 04

  Yes, that's very true.

• 20:31Laci Mosley?

  I love that. It was like, let me go through your shit and see if I want to date you. Wild. Also, I love Next. Did y'all ever watch Next? The most disrespectful dating show?

• 20:41Speaker 04

  Fuck with Next. I love that show. I love that show. See, pretty much shit bad.

• 20:47Laci Mosley?

  Right. Forget the Bachelor. We want Next. Okay?

• 20:50Speaker 03

  Right. Quick and dirty.

• 20:52Laci Mosley?

  They be like, I love to work out. And they be like, I don't like to work out. Next.

• 20:55Speaker 04

  Next. And they gotta get their ass off the bus.

• 20:58Laci Mosley?

  Do the thumbs down and the thing. And then I always loved the little walk of shame that they did where they filmed and they was like, I like him anyway.

• 21:04Speaker 03

  Anyway, right.

• 21:06Laci Mosley?

  He didn't even have all his hair, talk about next. He wish he could get with me. This show is so like, they would be so mad.

• 21:11Speaker 04

  Did this because I'm an actor, whatever, I'm out.

• 21:13Laci Mosley?

  Whatever, I just wanted to get my five minutes of showtime, whatever. My man gonna find me now that he saw me on MTV. They have to all be actors. Maybe some of them were, but I feel like most of them had to be.

• 21:22Speaker 04

  I mean.

• 21:23Speaker 03

  I mean, most contestants on most things are actors just trying to get seen.

• 21:27Speaker 04

  Trying to get seen. And then a lot of them, you see them in different shows and you're like, where's you in a different dating show? You're trying to get on. Elimidate working. Right, Elimidate.

• 21:37Laci Mosley?

  Elimidate loves to recycle through people. That was my show that was like X-rated because it came on real late at night and they'd be in a hot tub and they would blur out stuff. I was like, ooh, I'm grown now.

• 21:46Speaker 04

  That was a good time in history.

• 21:48Laci Mosley?

  It was so good. And Cheaters is also fake, y'all. Sorry to expose the scam. One of my homies, Tony, he was on Cheaters. And I was like, Tony?

• 21:56Speaker 03

  Not Tony, but you sure Tony wasn't cheating? Maybe Tony was cheating.

• 22:00Speaker 04

  The camera's dead ass.

• 22:02Speaker 03

  You about to, this is like telling Scotty Santa ain't real. What you talking about? Cheaters is fake.

• 22:06Laci Mosley?

  Cheaters is fake, Scotty, I'm sorry.

• 22:08Speaker 03

  How you know that every episode is fake, though? Every episode? They be fighting, though. Like, they be fighting.

• 22:14Speaker 04

  Hold on, hold on, hold on. You mean to tell me? First of all, I be seeing the aunties in there that be over the age of 50. You mean to tell me? Them. They are actors, that you telling me? And I'm gonna show you one. I can show you one after this show. That I know is real.

• 22:32Speaker 03

  Scotty, he did.

• 22:34Speaker 04

  My girl did not sign up for any of that. I know for a fact it's a real story. They was in North Carolina. That's how I know they real.

• 22:41Laci Mosley?

  Yo, if you were on Cheaters, tweet me, tweet Scotty, tweet one of us, and tell us if you was on Cheaters because I need to know if it is ever real.

• 22:49Speaker 04

  God, me got stacked on the bottom.

• 22:54Speaker 03

  God, I'm about to say, Scotty about to cite real episodes to you. That is her shit.

• 22:59Laci Mosley?

  Okay.

• 22:59Speaker 03

  All right, well, moving on.

• 23:01Speaker 04

  My, my, my, move on.

• 23:03Speaker 03

  Stop, moving on.

• 23:06Laci Mosley?

  Wow.

• 23:09Speaker 04

  Hate to see it. Go ahead.

• 23:13Laci Mosley?

  For over twenty years, a man named Richard Scott Smith conned a series of women, many of who he ended up marrying for over one million dollars. One million of them, thanks. He was mostly unknown and did not meet justice until a team of victims, documentarians and a bounty hunter took the case. Oh, no. You telling me this man with this face?

• 23:36Speaker 03

  He scammed how many women into doing what now?

• 23:39Laci Mosley?

  How would you? How would?

• 23:40Speaker 03

  How?

• 23:41Laci Mosley?

  He get money from you?

• 23:43Speaker 03

  Like, he would have. That man's got a receding hairline. Is that even? With like a soul patch in the middle.

• 23:49Laci Mosley?

  He looks like.

• 23:50Speaker 03

  Like a flavor saver at the top of his head.

• 23:53Laci Mosley?

  A thumb.

• 23:54Speaker 03

  The front of his hairline started at the nape of his neck, like.

• 23:59Laci Mosley?

  He looks just like the thumb, right here.

• 24:00Speaker 03

  He got a face like a thumb. Where's the chin?

• 24:02Laci Mosley?

  He don't have no chin. It just all run down.

• 24:04Speaker 03

  No chin. Give us chin, sir. You owe us chin. All forehead, no chin. You hate to see it.

• 24:11Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 24:11Speaker 03

  He looks like, he looks like he'll kill you. Like, what woman was falling in love with this? I'm not figuring this out.

• 24:17Laci Mosley?

  And also, like, a man like this, you even have to pay me to even say hello. Like, I'm not giving him any money. First of all, I'm running away just based off the look.

• 24:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 24:26Laci Mosley?

  Like, the pout of the lip.

• 24:28Speaker 03

  The glass eye, the glassy over eyes, like, I have no emotion deep inside.

• 24:34Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, it's giving, like, I'm gonna be chopped up in your freezer next to the meats. I don't like it.

• 24:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 24:40Laci Mosley?

  I don't be next to the honey baked ham. Yeah. I'm not gonna be in there. Nah, yeah, it's not giving anything, actually. I mean, he got a lip, though. He got a little bit of lips.

• 24:50Speaker 03

  Lacey, don't do this.

• 24:51Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, Lacey, don't sit here.

• 24:54Speaker 03

  No, no, no, no.

• 24:55Laci Mosley?

  I don't appreciate it. Don't sit here and try to give us.

• 24:57Speaker 03

  You're giving more than it deserves. Don't give him more than he deserves.

• 25:00Laci Mosley?

  He got a little bit of lips.

• 25:02Speaker 03

  Please, I don't wanna talk about his lips, cuz now I'm imagining him kissing people, and I don't.

• 25:07Laci Mosley?

  I don't want it. I don't want it. Make it stop.

• 25:10Speaker 04

  I don't want it.

• 25:10Laci Mosley?

  Whenever I used to use dating apps, I would like, look at the man's picture or a woman's picture, and I would lay down and I would hold it up so I could see if I would ever want this person on top of me.

• 25:21Speaker 04

  Yes. Yeah. Yep.

• 25:25Laci Mosley?

  And I feel like if I held this picture up over, over me laying down, I'd be like, ah!

• 25:29Speaker 04

  If more people, if more people did that, I feel like it would keep you from actually like wasting your time.

• 25:36Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 25:36Speaker 03

  That is hilarious.

• 25:38Laci Mosley?

  Because sometimes you'd be swiping because you're like, I ain't got shit to do. But I'm like, I gotta just see, like this. Also, dating apps, guys, a scam, if anybody says they work in consulting, they don't got no job. I hate, that's not a real job, okay? Consulting what? Consulting where?

• 25:54Speaker 03

  Shout out to the 20 people who actually consult in any city, but the rest of them are lying.

• 25:58Laci Mosley?

  And I'm sorry to y'all. Sorry to those consultants, but they stealing, they lying on y'all. They saying they do their job. It's one of those jobs you don't have to really prove anything. It's the kind of job where you don't really have a job. They're like, no, I just move some firm to the firm.

• 26:10Speaker 03

  Verify their identity.

• 26:11Speaker 04

  That's how I found out about the consulting is Hitch. Hitch, I was like, this thing don't do nothing. This thing don't do nothing but just team up other people. Vibes. Just talk to people. That's it.

• 26:23Speaker 03

  He's a, he's a glorified wingman.

• 26:26Speaker 04

  And that's why, he said, that's why I get to charge so much.

• 26:30Speaker 03

  So much. Because nobody knows what I do.

• 26:32Speaker 04

  Don't nobody know.

• 26:33Laci Mosley?

  And I love it. And I love that for him. So the beginning, in August of 2015, Gene Hansen flew with a man named Richard Scott Smith to get married in Las Vegas. They had met through singles group and immediately hit it off. This is the same man. So then next to him is Gene.

• 26:50Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 26:51Laci Mosley?

  So Gene is giving me 2000's eyebrows, but that's okay. She, she did him up a little bit. She looks very smitten. And you know, they taking a selfie. He's holding the camera. So he's definitely giving like vibes of like a man who's committing because you know, non-committal man, they, they run away from cameras. They act like they, and get out. And they see a flash, then they go.

• 27:11Speaker 03

  He took this a full usi they took right here.

• 27:13Laci Mosley?

  Yes. And they look like they're in a diner. It's giving diner. I see some things behind a fridge. The fridge is visible. Um, so you know, and the restaurant's not too nice, but you know, it's cute. I'm not mad at it. So they met through a singles group. So this man was going and shooting fish in a barrel. A singles group?

• 27:31Speaker 04

  A singles group?

• 27:32Speaker 03

  They met in a singles group.

• 27:33Speaker 04

  What is that?

• 27:33Laci Mosley?

  So a singles group is where when you're single, like people do them on Facebook, they'll do them, you know, online or Craigslist, wherever, and they'll be like, hey, come to our singles group, we're all single, you can come here and you can definitely meet single people, whereas like, you know, you go to a bar or whatever, you just like rolling the dice.

• 27:49Speaker 04

  Right, right, right, right.

• 27:51Speaker 03

  Curated, curated singles.

• 27:53Laci Mosley?

  Curated singles group. Also, it means that probably people are intentional about getting in a relationship because...

• 27:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, you can find eager, vulnerable, lonely people, victims. Aw, man. You hate to see it. That's what he's going for. That's what he go, I see the game suddenly. Well, no, that's what he's, obviously, those are the ones he's looking for. He like, they, you gotta be real deep, deep, deep in your singleness to go to a singles group now.

• 28:16Laci Mosley?

  You being a real unfiltered journalist right now, wow.

• 28:19Speaker 03

  I, I am. I was single for, I've, I've been single for, what, six years? You ain't seen me in no singles group? I have, I have done the apps.

• 28:28Laci Mosley?

  I've been thinking about a singles group, but now I'm like, well, never mind then, cuz, yeah, like the president's gonna be there.

• 28:34Speaker 03

  It depends, is it a black singles group? I would trust that more.

• 28:37Laci Mosley?

  That don't make no difference.

• 28:39Speaker 03

  No, but I mean, at least like, I guess, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how I feel about singles.

• 28:45Speaker 04

  Or just show up. What you should do is just like, if they meet up at a bar or whatever, you can't necessarily say you found this, like, just don't look too desperate. Just be like, hey, I'm here for the singles group, like, come in, be like, oh, what's going on here?

• 28:59Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 29:00Laci Mosley?

  Act like you're, act like you're not there for the singles group.

• 29:02Speaker 04

  Right, like you're not there, you just went there to pick up the food.

• 29:04Laci Mosley?

  Don't take a name tag. Don't sit down.

• 29:07Speaker 04

  Right, just go to the front and say, pick up for, uh, Larisse.

• 29:12Speaker 03

  Not my, not my, not my DoorDash scam.

• 29:16Speaker 04

  You start looking around.

• 29:17Laci Mosley?

  And see what you can be. That's a good flex. That's how do you make yourself like have some status at the singles group? You'd be like, oh, you're here for a singles group?

• 29:25Speaker 04

  That's true.

• 29:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, like, I like, yeah, I've heard of like speed dating and like mixers and stuff like that. I guess it was just like the formalized term of singles group.

• 29:34Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 29:34Speaker 03

  And then what the, what that couple looked like. It was like... The neighbor, like a neighbor's and get out. It was giving and get out.

• 29:41Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's true.

• 29:42Speaker 03

  And she did need to. And it was so, I was a little like afraid of just regular people going to those type of meetings. If that's what's there, if that's the material.

• 29:51Laci Mosley?

  I don't know if match.com, maybe because we're still in the pandemonium, they probably don't do this. But they, match.com used to do single group nights out. And I remember when I was bartending in New York City. One time, match.com canceled the singles group thing. And they canceled it through us because they were hosting it here. And I'm like, damn, I just know people go, there's gonna be some lonely bitches showing up tonight and I'm gonna feel so bad. Girl, I was making, uh, mint juleps and, and saracks and all types of stuff for free.

• 30:21Speaker 03

  Cosmo politics.

• 30:22Laci Mosley?

  For my poor queens.

• 30:23Speaker 03

  Sex on the beach.

• 30:24Laci Mosley?

  Here you go, sis. Sip, sip up. Sip up. I'm so sorry. It's on the house. I'm so sorry.

• 30:29Speaker 03

  It's on the house.

• 30:30Laci Mosley?

  There's, there's nothing worse than going to a singles meeting and it's canceled. Damn, that's, that feel like a sign from God.

• 30:37Speaker 04

  That is. That hurts. Damn.

• 30:38Speaker 03

  They were down bad. They were probably down bad that night.

• 30:41Speaker 04

  That would hurt. Yeah.

• 30:42Laci Mosley?

  Soon into their courtship, Richard told her he was looking for someone to help with his business, Prestige Corporate Living. I don't even know what that means.

• 30:50Speaker 04

  The fuck is that?

• 30:51Laci Mosley?

  The company leased apartments and subleased them to renters around the area. Jean agreed to join the business. Now, y'all done just got together. And if you are a man, and I have to say this because I feel like, especially in the black community, we as black women are trained and, and told by so many people like, you know, you build with your spouse, you build with your partner. And y'all go, y'all grinding together, team, no sleep and love. And, listen, i- if you are a cisgendered man, don't call me until the house is built. And it better have furniture. And it better be saying, okay?

• 31:30Laci Mosley?

  And it needs to also be paid for, okay? I don't want no mortgage either.

• 31:33Speaker 03

  She said she was like a turnkey nigga, thank you.

• 31:36Laci Mosley?

  A turnkey nigga.

• 31:37Speaker 03

  Anybody looking to refurbish or rebuild or you know.

• 31:44Laci Mosley?

  We ain't taking down no walls.

• 31:45Speaker 03

  I'm not looking for a project.

• 31:47Laci Mosley?

  I'm not remodeling the kitchen.

• 31:48Speaker 03

  What you said is, we call them Bobisha the builder. That's what we call them on our podcast.

• 31:53Laci Mosley?

  Bobisha.

• 31:53Speaker 03

  Bobisha the builder. We ain't building no man.

• 31:58Speaker 04

  I'm not building a damn thing.

• 31:59Laci Mosley?

  No, you gotta come with it. I'm coming with it. I'm in therapy, like, get your stuff together. I build my own furniture, child.

• 32:05Speaker 04

  Hello?

• 32:06Laci Mosley?

  So, you know, when a man asks you to invest in his business, because normally, like, that's a prideful thing for a sister, man, like, why is he asking for your coins already, like?

• 32:14Speaker 03

  Especially so early, like, how lo- how far into it was it that he asking her to invest in his business?

• 32:19Laci Mosley?

  So he promised that she would be paid back once he received the 1.2 million he was due for the sale of another business. So there's another scam. He talking about he got money in transit. He said the money on the way, the money around the corner. It's 15 minutes. GPS say the money gonna be here in eight to nine business years. Like, what?

• 32:35Speaker 04

  Did my girl see how this nigga was living in the first place? No?

• 32:39Laci Mosley?

  Was he giving millions? Because he was not giving millions in his appearance.

• 32:43Speaker 03

  I'm about to say, because if somebody got million dollar deals, coming and coming in their way, all that, and willy-nilly, they should be living, their quality of life should reflect that.

• 32:51Laci Mosley?

  He wasn't giving thousands, he wasn't giving hundreds.

• 32:54Speaker 04

  Right, and judging by that photo that we just saw, that's a diner. So, no, that is giving absolutely hundreds. I'm not even gonna give him thousands, just hundreds of dollars. So, yes, go ahead.

• 33:07Laci Mosley?

  It's giving, like, do we even get a napkin with our silverware? It's giving. They just put a fork on the table.

• 33:12Speaker 04

  Your hot water for the, for the silverware? That's what it's giving.

• 33:16Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, no, absolutely not. Jane soon came to realize that this wasn't true and was only one of Richard's many lies. But by the time she left Richard, she was so far in debt that she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy after going $700,000 into debt.

• 33:30Speaker 03

  Seven hundred thousand American dollars?

• 33:35Laci Mosley?

  USD.

• 33:37Speaker 03

  Into debt for that hairline?

• 33:40Laci Mosley?

  For that.

• 33:42Speaker 03

  For that man.

• 33:43Laci Mosley?

  He gotta have some, maybe he know how to do some things in the boudoir.

• 33:47Speaker 03

  No, can't be, eh, no.

• 33:48Laci Mosley?

  Maybe he booming in the boudoir.

• 33:50Speaker 03

  What my girl Anna from Bling Empire say? Ain't no dick in the world. Worth that, okay? Seven hundred thousand? There's not a dick.

• 34:01Laci Mosley?

  He might be getting married to be full Magic Michael.

• 34:03Speaker 03

  No, nope, nope. Nope.

• 34:05Laci Mosley?

  So, it wasn't until after the wedding that Jean learned that he was still married to a woman in Georgia. So, wait, he got some exes down in Georgia, like.

• 34:18Laci Mosley?

  Not to the peaches.

• 34:22Speaker 03

  Not only did he take her seven hundred thousand dollars in debt, he was also married this whole time.

• 34:27Laci Mosley?

  Yes, fully married. That woman that he was married to was Lisa Linton. And she married Richard in April of twenty twelve. Let's look at old Lisa. Okay, Lisa's giving the same brow.

• 34:38Speaker 03

  All they, I'm about to say, they look like they all get their brows done at the same place.

• 34:43Laci Mosley?

  Right. They, Scotty said he's not the same white woman from before.

• 34:47Speaker 03

  It's the same, it's a different white woman. They just also got some nineties.

• 34:52Laci Mosley?

  Them nineties brows where it's like eleven hairs in a straight line.

• 34:56Speaker 03

  It's given pencil, it's given, it's given a pencil fill in.

• 35:00Laci Mosley?

  But you know what Lisa, we not gonna drag you because you are the victim here.

• 35:04Speaker 03

  Too.

• 35:04Laci Mosley?

  Okay, Lisa.

• 35:05Speaker 03

  We gonna drag your browist, whoever they be.

• 35:07Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, that's who's in the wrong. We will fight whoever does your brows.

• 35:11Speaker 03

  You know, they still tweeze. It's given that they tweeze, still. They probably don't even have somebody, nobody's really doing that. These women are just tweezing too much.

• 35:18Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, she's a little three. Or she getting her brows done at the nail salon. Cause you know they'll, they'll be like, come on to the back and uh, we'll wax everything. I'm like, if you get your coochie waxed in the same place you get pedicure, you down bad. Don't do that. Don't do that.

• 35:33Speaker 03

  You just hurt somebody's feelings. Cause I see them do it. I see them, I see it happens. I be at a nail salon like.

• 35:39Speaker 04

  No, she probably, she probably go to Sally's. She go to Sally's to get that done.

• 35:42Laci Mosley?

  You can go to Costco and buy milk and a casket, but you cannot go to the nail salon and get everything done. Okay, if they say they doing everything.

• 35:52Speaker 04

  Or Supercuts. Supercuts does eyebrows.

• 35:55Speaker 03

  It's giving Supercuts. It is giving Supercuts.

• 35:58Laci Mosley?

  Supercuts can't even do the cuts super. You definitely don't wanna let them near your face.

• 36:02Speaker 04

  Well, no, them white people love, them white people, I much respect to y'all white people, yay, on this show. But y'all niggas love Supercuts. So y'all have to, this is definitely a Supercut family.

• 36:12Laci Mosley?

  Maybe they know how to cut white people's hair, okay, but I'm not walking into a Supercuts with these naps. It's just not gonna happen.

• 36:18Speaker 03

  It's not happening. But she got him in the chokehold like he hers for real. And he been on the internet, he been on the internet with other women.

• 36:25Laci Mosley?

  And you can tell he got a, a skill set here, cause you can see both of her hands. So he taking the photo. So he was like, baby, come over here, let's take a photo. You know I love you. Now give me some money. I'mma put this on Facebook. Let the girls know you took.

• 36:38Speaker 03

  I'm about to say this, he not have, he must not be posting these on his, or he got multiple Instagrams and Facebooks.

• 36:43Laci Mosley?

  It's getting, she posted it on Facebook and she changed her status to in a relationship and in love and dick down.

• 36:51Speaker 03

  And married, cause she's apparently his wife.

• 36:53Laci Mosley?

  Oh yeah, and also married and natural. Okay, and she had to let the other single girls know, like you could never have a man.

• 37:00Speaker 03

  But they could, but the gag was.

• 37:02Laci Mosley?

  So, their marriage has never been legally dissolved or annulled. After learning that her husband was still married, Jean granted an annulment in 2019 in the Johnson County District Court. So she was granted an annulment, cause they were like, well, we can't do the polygamy, you know, so can't do the bigamies. So, on the other hand, Lisa, who was the real wife, right? After only a few months of marriage, she discovered that he was married to yet another woman. But as of 2017, hadn't been able to get an annulment or a divorce. So.

• 37:34Speaker 03

  There's a third woman?

• 37:35Laci Mosley?

  Yes, a third woman. Wrong woman number trace. Okay?

• 37:38Speaker 03

  Do the courts not check for marriage certificates when you file for one?

• 37:41Laci Mosley?

  If it's in a different state, you know, it's kinda messy.

• 37:44Speaker 04

  They can't, they can't.

• 37:46Speaker 03

  I didn't even, was it not like a federal office that they run these files through?

• 37:50Laci Mosley?

  The government is tired.

• 37:51Speaker 03

  So I don't know how this works.

• 37:54Laci Mosley?

  You just gone on down to the courthouse and it's in the same line where you pay your, uh, traffic tickets and go to traffic court. It is, cause I had to go to traffic court. And I wore, I wore a suit. I thought I was about to be Annalise Keaton.

• 38:08Speaker 03

  I'm dying. If it's them same people, if it's them same people, they ain't never gonna, Scotty gonna have to move, get married in a different state than New Jersey. That DMV and her got beat. You hear me? I got beat for New Jersey's DMV as well. What, so you, marriage is hard enough. You trying to tell me that you also gotta make sure that your man ain't marrying women in other states?

• 38:29Laci Mosley?

  Yes. And like, that's something I never thought to ask a man, cause I will, I will ask a straight man, I'll be like, is there anyone in this world who thinks that you're in a relationship with them? Like I asked him that, but I didn't know I needed to ask, is there anyone in the continental US?

• 38:45Speaker 03

  That you're married to? No, make it international.

• 38:48Laci Mosley?

  Including territories.

• 38:50Speaker 03

  I know what my uncles do across, you know, across the Atlantic, but I ain't know that within America. I didn't know that in these United States that don't seem to be too united. Ain't nobody, that's wild. Nah, alright, continue child.

• 39:05Speaker 04

  I'm trying to wait for the part, Lacey, where he get his ass beat, but I'm assuming.

• 39:10Laci Mosley?

  So Lisa says she was lucky because she left Richard and froze her accounts before he gained access to any of her finances. I know that's right. I know that's right.

• 39:18Speaker 03

  Joint what? Joint nothing?

• 39:20Laci Mosley?

  Right, joint, joint who? Joint where? My mom always said, my money is my money, your money is our money.

• 39:28Speaker 04

  That's right. She right about it.

• 39:31Speaker 03

  She, she right about it.

• 39:33Laci Mosley?

  So it was her difficulty with both a marriage with Richard and her inability to get it voided that prompted Lisa to start a blog about him. Oh no.

• 39:42Speaker 04

  That's right.

• 39:42Laci Mosley?

  A woman scorn, she done got on the internet.

• 39:45Speaker 03

  Nah, she got it behind.

• 39:47Laci Mosley?

  She got it behind.

• 39:48Speaker 03

  And, and why she got a picture of it with a huge sign that says crook underneath, it's in red letters.

• 39:54Speaker 04

  They put my, they put this man, hold on now.

• 39:58Laci Mosley?

  Children are not safe about him. Please message me for more info. It's the black and white jail suit.

• 40:05Speaker 03

  Costume that she got him in.

• 40:07Laci Mosley?

  She got him in the old timey, she, she ain't got no damn uh, uh Photoshop. She done did this on Microsoft Paint.

• 40:14Speaker 03

  She did the best she could with what she had.

• 40:19Speaker 03

  She said, "I am no web engineer." You hear me?

• 40:22Laci Mosley?

  Right, but you get the, you get the point though, you get the gist. She went to godaddy.com and said, "Let me ruin him." Wait, let me read this author part, Judith.

• 40:30Speaker 03

  She has his other aliases up in here, child. It's quite, she didn't even crop her battery in time out the photo, the screenshot.

• 40:38Laci Mosley?

  Wait, go up, I need to see this author thing. So, she got a picture of his mugshot, right next to author. So, obviously she using a template because...

• 40:48Speaker 03

  It's giving blog space.

• 40:49Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 40:50Speaker 03

  It's definitely blog space.

• 40:51Laci Mosley?

  It's giving, yeah.

• 40:53Speaker 04

  This is blogspot.com.

• 40:54Laci Mosley?

  It says, "About me," it's giving Xanga. It's giving...

• 40:58Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 40:59Laci Mosley?

  And it says, "I am just another woman who was victimized by Richard Scott Smith, AKA Scott Smith, AKA Richard Smith." All the AKs, alright, bars. And then if we scroll over, it says, "I mean, how terrifying is this mugshot?"

• 41:15Speaker 03

  But what's killing me is that like...

• 41:17Laci Mosley?

  Okay, that mugshot is terrifying.

• 41:18Speaker 03

  It is actually, you married that, you married him, sis.

• 41:21Speaker 04

  What the fuck is around his neck?

• 41:22Laci Mosley?

  Says, "Richard Scott Smith pleads guilty..." What did he plead guilty to? Scroll down. "Richard Scott Smith pleads guilty to identity theft in Johnson County, Kansas, and admits to violating probation regarding his domestic assault case in Polk County, Iowa." So, he over here doing domestic abuse too? Oh, Richard, you got a lot of nerve.

• 41:41Speaker 03

  Violating probation. So, this man, so you mean to tell me that Meek Mill can't pop a wheelie, right? But this man...

• 41:51Laci Mosley?

  But this man.

• 41:52Speaker 03

  But this man been violating probation across the, and let the Midwest, and they, and they let him run free.

• 41:59Speaker 04

  And they let him run free.

• 42:00Speaker 03

  Ain't nobody come and get him. Ain't nobody come get him.

• 42:03Speaker 04

  And between him and Meek Mill, this nigga looks terrorizing.

• 42:08Speaker 04

  So scared of this man.

• 42:09Laci Mosley?

  If anyone belongs behind bars, like the, the most of, like terrorizing thing that Meek Mill has ever done was eat french fries in a pool with pool water on it.

• 42:18Speaker 04

  Oh my gosh, please, please, please.

• 42:21Laci Mosley?

  This man, Richard, is a menace. So, it was only through discovering that blog that Jean found out that Richard was married to Lisa. It was also through that blog that Jean and Lisa discovered Richard's other wives, girlfriends, and that Jean may have been Richard's eighth or ninth wife.

• 42:38Speaker 04

  Hey, question, guys. Um, how are y'all finding this blogspot.com?

• 42:43Laci Mosley?

  Google.

• 42:44Speaker 04

  Oh, I got you, I looked up his name.

• 42:46Laci Mosley?

  They just Googled his full name. I think everybody should Google his full name if somebody they date.

• 42:50Speaker 04

  This is on the fifth page of Google. Like, this is on the seventh. This ain't on the first page.

• 42:56Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, Richard Scott Smith is a very basic name.

• 42:59Speaker 04

  So, you had to go through the LinkedIn's, the Facebook's, the everything to get to this blogspot.

• 43:04Speaker 03

  Can you imagine meeting the man and Googling him and finding this fucking page? I would be...

• 43:09Speaker 04

  I would have passed out.

• 43:10Speaker 03

  I would be...

• 43:11Laci Mosley?

  Dead.

• 43:12Speaker 03

  I would be dead, you hear me?

• 43:14Laci Mosley?

  So, in addition to finding Lisa, Jean also found out that Richard had been seeing other women. He became engaged a month before they were even married. Like Jean, the woman was also involved in Richard's business, which we know is not a real business, and continued to be involved with him even after his marriage to Jean, unaware that he was married. In September 2015, while the woman was on a business trip to Des Moines, Iowa, Richard physically assaulted her. The woman called it a terrifying incident, which she thought that she might be killed. That's so fucked up. Richard was arrested for domestic abuse and then put on probation, but that didn't prevent him from continuing to con women. And we see that he was arrested, we saw his mug shot. While little is known of Richard Scott Smith's family history, his aunt told documentarians that he was raised by his grandparents until the age of nine. At nine, his verbally abusive, alcoholic mother took him back and vanished without a trace.

• 43:59Laci Mosley?

  His mother passed away when he was 32, leaving him to care for his 12-year-old sister, Toni. Toni said, "Scott was jumping from woman to woman and telling them that I was his daughter. He used me as a tool to play at their heartstrings." Oh, yeah, single dad. And you know, single dads get all the love.

• 44:15Speaker 03

  Women do be like, "Oh," but I thought it was like when they have a baby, "Oh, it's such a cute baby in a stroller." I know you could be walking around with a full 12-year-old. He probably was like, "My wife died, I'm taking care of her."

• 44:24Speaker 04

  Okay, yeah, if you add that like to Razzle Dazzle, man, like maybe, but 12-year-old...

• 44:28Laci Mosley?

  There's no woman there.

• 44:30Speaker 03

  He putting some Razzle Dazzle on it.

• 44:31Laci Mosley?

  He putting some sympathy, he going for the sympathy widow card or something.

• 44:34Speaker 04

  He putting Larry's on it.

• 44:36Speaker 03

  The way if I was a little sister, I would've been sliding a little napkin, though, across the table. Now, look, if I was a little sister, I would have been going with it. I would have been like, "I love you daddy, brother." I mean daddy. Listen, I'm trying to get the bag. If she got the bag, I know my daddy don't. We know Richard broke, so I'm gonna be over there like, "Daddy, can I have $20 for some ice cream?" Like, "Can I have $50 for my silent, I mean for some ice cream?"

• 45:07Speaker 03

  For my silence. The code word for silence is ice cream. We should be on the corner here. I'll be, my allowance would be hefty. Okay? Okay. A hefty allowance.

• 45:18Speaker 00

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• 46:21Laci Mosley?

  So he would present himself as exactly the sort of man that the woman was looking for, regardless of how far it was from the truth. To one woman named Tracy, he was a real estate agent who owned a company and was deeply religious. I'm gonna sidebar here real quick. Everyone out there, no matter your gender, he, she, they, them, non-binary icons, never.

• 46:39Laci Mosley?

  Under any circumstances, tell someone that you're dating in the beginning, what you are looking for in a partner. Never do it. Don't do it.

• 46:49Speaker 03

  Ha.

• 46:50Laci Mosley?

  Because a lot of people will be what you ask for just long enough to get what they want. Don't do it. Just observe, ask them questions, see who they are. But in terms of scamming, if you tell people what you want and they want something from you, they'll be it just long enough till they get whatever it is. Great piece of advice.

• 47:08Speaker 03

  You know, that's interesting. I think the only caveat I would add is the reverse, which is don't be quick about it. Cause I always feel like people will show who they are eventually if you give them enough time. That's why scammers gotta work quick. You gotta be, move slow. Like if you come in with your intentions, move slow. Don't marry that man in ninety days. Don't be giving him no money in sixty days. You be, watch him for like a year.

• 47:33Laci Mosley?

  Ain't no such thing as whirlwind romance. That's a tornado sis. That's a tornado. That's not a whirlwind.

• 47:39Speaker 03

  Watch what he, how he.

• 47:40Laci Mosley?

  Get into the basement and duck and come.

• 47:43Speaker 03

  Consistency. Listen, all of that. Do the drive bys. All the stuff.

• 47:47Laci Mosley?

  Do it all.

• 47:50Speaker 03

  Check the marriage, the marriage license sites in other states.

• 47:54Laci Mosley?

  If he got Instagram, she got Instagram, they got Instagram, check them tag photos. See what's going on in them tags. Okay, cause that's where it must be. Yeah.

• 48:02Speaker 03

  So, or if they, or if they, or if they have no tagged photos, that's also a sign.

• 48:06Laci Mosley?

  They turn the tags off.

• 48:07Speaker 03

  Take that off. Turn them tags off. Why the tags is off now?

• 48:11Laci Mosley?

  Why the tags is off? So for another woman, Sabrina, he made her feel like she was his world. Even getting her name tattooed on his back. So. Wait, wait.

• 48:22Speaker 03

  Oh Sabrina, why you got the same eyebrows? Why, is he targeting women with these eyebrows? Y'all drawing your eyebrows. Thin self-esteem? Why, it's like they.

• 48:33Laci Mosley?

  No. No. My eyebrows are a little thin. I just be, I draw them all one brow at a time, like everybody has.

• 48:41Speaker 03

  A little Anastasia dip brow. I'm no.

• 48:43Laci Mosley?

  Y'all filling your brows, filling your brows.

• 48:45Speaker 03

  I feel, feeling them in. The scammers are looking for.

• 48:48Laci Mosley?

  They're looking for thin eyebrows. I'm scared. So he got the name tattooed on his back. So my question is, all these other women who are married to him, when they see Sabrina, not the teenage witch, on his back, like, what is he telling them? Like, oh, that's my cousin.

• 49:03Speaker 03

  My mama, my grandma, my wife who died, my, all the stories.

• 49:08Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm.

• 49:09Speaker 03

  I would like to see her. That's what you should say when they tell you that. Ask who the woman is, and then ask to meet that woman.

• 49:15Laci Mosley?

  For both women and many others, he started saying, "I love you." Shortly into the relationship, soon after that, he'd move in and buying expensive gifts with bad checks and making grand promises in those early days. Move in, he a homosexual, why he moving in with you? Why you not moving in with him? Why you not getting a place together? Uh-uh, homosexual.

• 49:34Speaker 03

  That's what I'm saying, too quick. He's moving quick because you got to move quick.

• 49:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, but then, I don't know, because sometimes, especially at that age, I don't know what age that is, but that, to me, is old.

• 49:44Laci Mosley?

  They're older. And they do move faster when you're old.

• 49:47Speaker 03

  And they do move faster, but you can't move that fast.

• 49:49Speaker 04

  So they move faster, and then, once you feel like you know, you know, you know, people do that. And so I can't really be mad at them for doing that, because they think that they met that person.

• 49:59Speaker 03

  We don't got time to waste.

• 50:01Speaker 04

  We don't have time. I've been through the niggas, I've seen the niggas, I've dated the niggas, I've married some niggas. Like, now, here we are.

• 50:08Speaker 03

  I feel like just do your due diligence, though, is all I'm saying.

• 50:11Speaker 04

  But they don't do, that's what I'm saying. Right, but they're at the age, I don't know what age that is, but that's older. But they're not on internets looking for whatever. And even, you know, we talk about back in the day where your grandfather had about six, seven different kids on seven different lots. So, I'm saying, yes, I, I know, like, you know, they should be, but shit, they like sixty years old. They can't be over here looking at shit and, and trying to make sure that their man isn't on Facebook with other women, Sabrimnas, and all that stuff like that. Poor them, I feel bad. This is really sad. The compassion in me is getting really sad.

• 50:53Speaker 03

  I know, I get it, but tap a child, a niece, a nephew, somebody. Be like, hey, just look this person up. That's like for the older people listening.

• 51:00Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 51:01Speaker 03

  If you're worried, tap, tap, tap the millennial or Gen Z-er in your life. And have them do a recon. Recon for you. They could get it done before Thanksgiving dinner is over. That's true. At Christmas.

• 51:12Laci Mosley?

  You got any Gen Z in your life? You got any TikTokers in your life?

• 51:14Speaker 03

  Right. They can do more than teach you how to TikTok.

• 51:18Laci Mosley?

  Honestly.

• 51:19Speaker 03

  Save you from this.

• 51:20Laci Mosley?

  If you just made a TikTok and were like, hey, Gen Z, I need to figure out if I'm down bad. Can y'all look up this man? You have about thirteen comments in seven minutes with all his information, social and everything.

• 51:30Speaker 03

  That's what I'm saying.

• 51:31Laci Mosley?

  They tell you every city, every county.

• 51:32Speaker 03

  That's better than the FBI, okay?

• 51:35Laci Mosley?

  Okay, the FBI and I be on TikTok like, mm-hmm.

• 51:37Speaker 03

  That's why it reminds me of Dear John. Y'all watch them Dear John shows? Uh, that series Dear John where it's like two different seasons, but they, it's about con men, con women. It's like exactly this situation. But it's like, um, but the kids are always the ones who try to tell their mama, but then the mama thinks that they hatin'. And they're just upset or jealous.

• 51:55Laci Mosley?

  This is your new daddy now.

• 51:56Speaker 03

  Wanna listen.

• 51:57Laci Mosley?

  Uncle Rich.

• 51:57Speaker 03

  And they're like, you know, they think they blamed it on some parental daddy issues and they're like, no, he's crazy. I'm trying to tell you.

• 52:03Laci Mosley?

  Momma need love too. Eventually, he would convince his new victim to grant him some form of access to their finances. And obviously, he's giving them gifts, so that's kind of like the small investment to get the larger investment. Where you look like you're rich or give a nice gifts and then you're asking for money and people are like, well, you got money. You show me you have money. So if you need some money, that don't work. If they got money, they got money. If they need your money, they don't got money. He used a lie and he would repeat it often, that he promised to pay them back once he received the multimillion dollar payout from his medical malpractice suit. Oh, this is a different one. He ain't even talking about the business no more. He said, I, I had a, a knee surgery, but then I, I came out of the operation room and I had one titty. They gave me one implant. So, uh, they left a towel in my booty. So they gotta give me my money. Like, he lying.

• 52:44Laci Mosley?

  So, once he completely fleeces women of their life savings, he vanished for days, never to be heard from again. Over the course of twenty years, Richard has used ten different social security numbers, forty-three phone numbers and fifty-eight registered addresses, mostly operating across the Midwest, which, you know, like, the Midwest, they're not fast like that. They're not on the, the internets like that. Since his first wife in the late nineties, he has reportedly swindled at least a dozen women over a million dollars. It wasn't until Lisa Linton began her blog that his victims finally had the ground. To fight back. Has this man victimized you? As they became aware of each other, Lisa and several of Richard's other victims tried to warn new victims, but for many, it was already too late. He had already got him, gone for the coins.

• 53:27Laci Mosley?

  In August 2016, Concerned, which was her alias, wrote, Sabrina from Kansas City, if you're able to get this message, know that the car you just leased under your name for blank, or whatever he's calling himself these days, is the first step in putting you in financial hardship. Be careful with Richard, we know who talking about. Opening new accounts under your name with him telling you that he will pay off the balance. By the time Sabrina got wise to Richard, he had already conned her out of ninety-five thousand dollars and skipped town. Ninety-five G's.

• 54:00Laci Mosley?

  Like, his job is being a gigolo. But you don't know you getting gigolo'd. You thought you were getting married and you was getting gigolo'd.

• 54:08Speaker 03

  Also, like, they got so much money to be scammed out of in the first place, child. This pay gap is real. But also, like,

• 54:17Speaker 03

  give it to the people who know what to do with it if y'all just gonna let these niggas come and take it.

• 54:21Laci Mosley?

  Forty cents on the dollar.

• 54:24Speaker 03

  Told you, but also, like, where, I just can't, I mean, uh, it just be, it is sad because it speaks to, like, people's deep, deep desire to be loved and not be alone. That they're just willing, they just go dumb. Like, can you imagine? I can't imagine a man asking me to open a bank account with him. Like, who's not my husband even?

• 54:49Speaker 03

  In his name. Like, not that he wants to join something or do a joint, but like, in my name. Just his money. Or like, just lease his car. And not like, I just, what? Like, there's no way to make my coochie dry up faster. I'm talking air it. I'm talking tumbleweeds. I'm talking Candace Owens edges dry. Than asking me for money.

• 55:13Speaker 04

  That's true.

• 55:13Speaker 03

  Don't ask me, bro.

• 55:14Speaker 04

  I'm not, I'm just not in the business of giving money to anybody.

• 55:18Speaker 03

  And you know, listen, I would even say like, cause I understand that that's a personality thing. We're, we're, we're, we're built a little differently than a lot of women, right? So I'll even give you borrowing money, maybe. I don't, I itch.

• 55:29Laci Mosley?

  If we've been together for a long time, if we're married for a long time and you come across financial strife, then obviously like I'mma hold you down. I think that's a different situation.

• 55:38Speaker 04

  Most definitely.

• 55:40Speaker 03

  Yes, this is, that's what I'm saying, like, this is not that. This is, cause he got to be moving at a fast rate to be hooking all these women back to back. Like, within three months, how, how are you already giving them all your financial information within ninety days?

• 55:54Laci Mosley?

  And also, how do these women all not know that he was cheating? Like, I get to a certain extent not knowing if someone's cheating, but if someone is cultivating relationships, which I'm sure he's a love bomber, he's giving a lot of gifts, he's spending a lot of time with them upfront. Where is he saying that he's at when he done moved into your house, but he already pursuing his next grift? Like, what is, where he say he going?

• 56:14Speaker 03

  Yeah, where is he, where do you think he is?

• 56:15Laci Mosley?

  He on a business trip for business? Like, where, where is he going?

• 56:19Speaker 03

  It seems like he's ghosting some of half of these women, but then it's like, why are you not filing for, I don't know, I don't, I don't under, I guess it's just like, they're like, by the time they realize what's happened, I wouldn't, what, you didn't realize that the first ten thousand dollars? Or the twenty thousand dollars? He got all the way to ninety-five thousand dollars?

• 56:35Laci Mosley?

  And where is the million dollars? Did he show you paperwork for the lawsuit? Did he, did you meet his lawyer? Okay, does he have an abu dada? What happened? Did he at least have a neck brace?

• 56:45Speaker 03

  It don't have to be like this.

• 56:47Laci Mosley?

  Every time he filed for medical math practice, no matter what they did wrong, you got to get a neck brace? It really sells it.

• 56:55Speaker 03

  Now you teaching them how to do it more.

• 56:56Speaker 04

  Right, do not.

• 56:58Laci Mosley?

  I don't care if they got messed up on your toe.

• 57:00Speaker 04

  But my, my problem is with this is, okay, yes, he's terrible, he's a fucking terrible person. When does he have the time to spend the money that he stole from the women if he's putting it into another woman?

• 57:13Laci Mosley?

  Well, he probably not putting it all into another woman, but hopefully he was still taking care of his sister daughter. And, you know.

• 57:20Speaker 03

  It just don't sound like he's a good saver. After the first ninety-five K woman, why you had to keep going?

• 57:26Laci Mosley?

  So retrospectively, Sabrina said in a documentary, "The best way to get over a guy is revenge, and I'm sorry, it is. Rick, you lying sack of shit, you fucked me, and I am fucked. Buddy, I'm coming after you." Not buddy, you know you done made a white woman mad when she starts saying stuff like buddy.

• 57:44Speaker 04

  All of them?

• 57:46Speaker 03

  I'm just trying to figure out how he.

• 57:48Laci Mosley?

  So a bunch of malarkey.

• 57:49Speaker 03

  All these, when they say malarkey.

• 57:51Laci Mosley?

  You better be scared.

• 57:52Speaker 03

  Cause you know there's a few, at least a few Karens in this number. And these Karens will, they will call the cops on somebody for just walk, jaywalking across the street. But ain't none of them called the cops on this man yet? Ain't none of them like called the enforcements on this man?

• 58:08Speaker 04

  He's not black.

• 58:09Speaker 03

  How, like, how has he gotten away? Like, ain't nobody called the police about this?

• 58:13Speaker 04

  He ain't black.

• 58:14Speaker 03

  If I was a white woman, I'd be calling the police. You're right, I know.

• 58:17Speaker 04

  Child, I say every time you say that.

• 58:19Speaker 03

  Someone please call nine-one-one.

• 58:21Speaker 04

  But, yeah.

• 58:22Speaker 03

  Tell them I have been robbed down from the money in my account, and he's stealing from my kids.

• 58:31Laci Mosley?

  Like, what did he do it?

• 58:32Speaker 03

  I, yeah.

• 58:33Speaker 04

  What's the revenge that you gonna get, sweetheart?

• 58:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, what you doing?

• 58:36Laci Mosley?

  She's doing a documentary. She doing a documentary.

• 58:38Speaker 03

  Oh, the documentary is her revenge.

• 58:40Speaker 04

  Girl, that's not gonna get you that money back. How you gonna get that fucking money back? You give the money back.

• 58:47Laci Mosley?

  You can't get it from a stone. He ain't getting no money back.

• 58:50Speaker 03

  Girl, if little America was watching these documentaries, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in now politically. Why do you think they gonna watch a documentary on Showtime about this?

• 59:00Laci Mosley?

  I mean, cause this is mess. This isn't about politics. It's not about poverty. It's not about socioeconomic issues. It's about mess. This is morbid.

• 59:07Speaker 03

  You would have to be watching, you would have to seek out a documentary in the first place.

• 59:10Laci Mosley?

  I mean, this is real life Maury. So Carla Campbell, the bounty hunter. Alright, we getting close today in here. So in 2017, filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing began searching for a story to go after. And happened upon Lisa's blog, thus beginning the production of Love Fraud. So this is a television show. Rachel, if y'all want to watch Love Fraud, get into it. Yeah. Rachel and Heidi reached out to some of the women on the blog who expressed frustration at both knowing where Richard was and receiving mostly apathy from police. So they did try to call the police, though there was a current warrant out. So they was like, hello, 911. They was like, 911, what's your emergency? I'm being robbed by my, a man. Okay, uh, what is his description?

• 59:53Laci Mosley?

  Like, they were like, we don't care. We don't care.

• 59:56Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 59:57Laci Mosley?

  So Sabrina said in an interview, unless he kills someone, the police don't give a shit. Several women also remembered being told verbatim by police, you should have known better, honey, and I hope you learned your lesson, sweetie. Now, you should have known, the police are not very woman-friendly in the overall, general perspective, okay? That's just not their bag. They don't like women nor minorities, so. Yeah. Because like, I mean, Google domestic assault and police and look at that percentage, because it's bad. It's up there. And like, it's like, who gonna call the police on the police? Okay? So because they were finding so few leads and receiving so little support from the police, the Love Fraud filmmakers hired a bounty hunter named Carla Campbell.

• 1:00:39Laci Mosley?

  Now, you know Carla Campbell got to be a Karen, but I like that Carla Campbell used her Karen-ness for good. She said, I'm going to Karen for good. And she's shooting a flamethrower here? What's happening? There's an American flag behind her. Fire in the background? Oh, she wearing thin blue line stuff. Okay, we know she racist.

• 1:00:58Speaker 04

  You know she went to the Capitol. You know she went to the Capitol in January.

• 1:01:02Laci Mosley?

  Carla was definitely at the Capitol. I would like to know where all of these people were in January 2021. I would like to know where everybody involved was on January. If I was a racist and I saw this photo, it would be fire. Like, I would, this would get likes on the Gram. She got an American flag behind her. She got a gun. She, she got on all the body armor and it's a fire behind her. That's lit. This is a lit photo.

• 1:01:29Speaker 04

  That is a great, yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:30Laci Mosley?

  Listen, it's an advertisement. It's, she know her, she know her audience. She know her audience and she understood the assignment. Because I mean, I'm scared.

• 1:01:42Speaker 03

  I feel like I'm about to go to jail the longer I look at this photo. Any minute, I feel like my life is in danger.

• 1:01:47Laci Mosley?

  I'm afraid. Let's get it off the screen because honestly, I'm, I'm like, I can't even.

• 1:01:53Speaker 04

  I'm really afraid.

• 1:01:54Laci Mosley?

  And as always, guys, we'll post these photos on Scam Goddess Pod Instagram, so y'all can also be afraid, but also.

• 1:02:01Speaker 03

  Be afraid.

• 1:02:03Laci Mosley?

  After hearing about Richard's crimes, Carla agreed to take on the women's case pro bono. She said she gonna do it for free. Oh, that means she's just petty. She was like, no, I'm gonna do this on the strength of pettiness.

• 1:02:12Speaker 04

  She newly divorced. She's trying to get that.

• 1:02:15Laci Mosley?

  Listen, Carla might be a racist, but she didn't listen to some Mary J. Blige. She said, I ain't gonna cry no more. I ain't gonna shed no tears. I'm gonna light your shit on fire. Love this for her. So she said this, uh, the bounty hunter, these girls, they struck a chord with me. It's just like, they need my help because they've got nobody else. Carla also said, if Richard Scott Smith came in here and robbed me like these other women, I'd be in prison. I slit his throat and watched him bleed to death and admit to doing it because I am not gonna let him do that to somebody else. Damn, not you gonna kill him and watch him die? Damn. It took many months of effort on the revenge squad. They got a name now, Squad, the Revenge Squad.

• 1:02:56Speaker 03

  But. The Revenge Squad.

• 1:02:58Laci Mosley?

  In 2018, Richard was tracked down to Knoxville, Tennessee and arrested for identity theft and forgery. He was sentenced to 10 months in jail and released on probation in April 2019, according to.

• 1:03:07Speaker 03

  10 months?

• 1:03:08Laci Mosley?

  10 months, that's all he got.

• 1:03:09Speaker 03

  10 months?

• 1:03:12Laci Mosley?

  And he probably write letters to some bitch in jail.

• 1:03:14Speaker 03

  10 months? I don't think that that cop got with a dime bag who in jail longer than 10 months?

• 1:03:19Speaker 04

  He's still in jail. That's insane.

• 1:03:21Laci Mosley?

  To the love fraud filmmakers, as of today, Richard Scott Smith is a free man and apparently still trying to date into fraud women. I feel like he should be barred from marriage. I feel like he should not be allowed to get a marriage license.

• 1:03:32Speaker 03

  Like, you know how like you can't get a license, driver's license if you got, how is driving, like how you is more strict than marrying it? Like, I just feel like.

• 1:03:40Laci Mosley?

  If you get a certain amount of DUIs, you can't have a license. I feel like if you have a certain amount of fraud marriages, they, the courthouse should just be no.

• 1:03:47Speaker 03

  After the first time you got caught being married in two states, he shouldn't be allowed.

• 1:03:51Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:03:51Laci Mosley?

  I feel like they should have sent out emails.

• 1:03:53Speaker 04

  Or I think you should also be on a list, like, you know how they have a sex offenders list?

• 1:03:58Laci Mosley?

  Like a no-fly list.

• 1:03:59Speaker 04

  Right.

• 1:04:00Laci Mosley?

  Yes. No marriage list, no fly, sex offenders.

• 1:04:03Speaker 04

  Wherever he goes, they send it to all the women.

• 1:04:05Laci Mosley?

  He gotta go, wherever he moves to, he gotta go up and down the block and tell everybody he can't marry.

• 1:04:10Speaker 03

  Or at least like when you try to file a marriage license, a warning pop up to the woman behind the computer like, hey, let's just know. This nigga done did this twice before.

• 1:04:18Laci Mosley?

  That she down bad. She down bad and she needs to run. Okay? So according to the Love Ride filmmakers, uh, you know, he out here. He was last seen in Kansas in August 2020. Since finding Richard, Carla has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has to retire from bounty hunting. Though she's still very invested in finding Richard and bringing new charges against him, I think that's gonna keep her alive. She set up a GoFundMe to pay for a DMO.

• 1:04:42Laci Mosley?

  Of his known wives. I gotta go DMX on this. There was Ellen, Tracy, Sabrina, Carla, Jean, Lisa, Angela, Jennifer, Holly, Michelle, Rebecca. I met her at our ice cream parlor, Crystal and Sandy, all still looking for justice.

• 1:05:01Speaker 04

  Damn.

• 1:05:02Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 1:05:02Speaker 04

  Wait, that's it?

• 1:05:04Speaker 03

  Not you said their names.

• 1:05:07Speaker 03

  She said, I will say your names, ladies.

• 1:05:09Laci Mosley?

  I was saying, I hope y'all get some justices, but I don't think you will. You gonna have to just go to therapy and move on because Richard ain't got nothing to give you but penis and problems and debt.

• 1:05:19Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm. Ain't nothing else you can do, sweetheart. Damn.

• 1:05:22Speaker 03

  I'm at a loss.

• 1:05:25Speaker 03

  Damn. They, cuz at least Lacey could've got them an address and they could've rolled up together. Like, I wanna put, and beat his ass. I know some of them got brothers. Some of these 12 women gotta have men in their family who can beat that ass down.

• 1:05:41Speaker 04

  Especially like them dudes that got the sunglasses.

• 1:05:44Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 1:05:45Speaker 04

  You know, the Avatar sunglasses.

• 1:05:46Speaker 03

  Yep, yep.

• 1:05:48Laci Mosley?

  If they got gas station sunglasses, they bout that violence, like.

• 1:05:51Speaker 03

  Throw them in the back of that, pull them in the back of that pickup truck that I know they got.

• 1:05:56Laci Mosley?

  They love to throw hands.

• 1:05:58Speaker 04

  The American flag on it and the Confederate flag on it.

• 1:06:00Laci Mosley?

  They love to toss hands. Okay, they love to talk to him.

• 1:06:03Speaker 03

  They need to pull up on him like they pulled up to the Capitol. Look at the violence.

• 1:06:07Laci Mosley?

  Hello. Y'all's only justice is gonna be, "Risha, come outside, ain't nobody finna jump you." Like that's.

• 1:06:13Speaker 03

  Sometimes you gotta get your own justice. That's what they don't know that, cuz they're not black. Take a page, they don't know cuz they're not black. Sometimes you gotta go get your own justice.

• 1:06:22Speaker 04

  That money not coming.

• 1:06:24Speaker 03

  This country is, this country is set up for white men to be able to scam us all. That's, that's, that's the way the system has been set up.

• 1:06:32Laci Mosley?

  R.I.P.

• 1:06:33Speaker 04

  And it sucks that the Karens had to find out this way, but sweetheart.

• 1:06:37Speaker 03

  Hate it had to be like.

• 1:06:38Laci Mosley?

  Hate it had to be, y'all. And it's time for Scammer of the Week. This is where we highlight an honorary charlatan grifter boondoggle worthy of our praise, or maybe not, we'll see. So Scammer of the Week, a family in Los Angeles was shocked to learn that their home was listed on Airbnb after strangers arrived at their doorstep saying that they had rented it. The owner, Jeff Branch, never listed the property. Still, there was a listing with photos of their house address, calling the home a modern masterpiece and listing it at $450 a night for the whole villa. Branch immediately messaged and called Airbnb. He was told his case would be escalated to a specialized team, according to Branch. Someone said they'll be in touch with you tonight, and then nothing. Y'all know I don't like Airbnb. Fuck Airbnb all day. I love to drag them. They ain't shit. They are so racist.

• 1:07:21Laci Mosley?

  And, um, so just know Airbnb can't help you. The listing stayed up for weeks, and several weekends later, another stranger showed up to the home saying she had rented the house. Airbnb listed that the host's identity was verified, but they allegedly don't actually do anything to verify the address to make sure the person listing the property actually owns it. It wasn't until CBS LA reached out to Airbnb that the listings were taken down. And this is how Airbnb works. They're like, if you're not gonna get on Twitter, if you don't got no followers, if you're not gonna give us no smoke, we will just let it rock. We'll let the racism rock, we'll let the bullshit rock. I hate Airbnb, fuck Airbnb, it's a scam. But if you're gonna rent from Airbnb's bamboozle, if you're gonna rent.

• 1:08:05Speaker 03

  Not Airbnb, that's a second B stand for bamboozle.

• 1:08:08Laci Mosley?

  Then at least, when you see a property, one, check how many reviews they have. Two, Google the property, or if you can get on Google Images, try to see what you can see. Also, if the property is new and it looks too good to be true, it's not. It's not true, cuz a lot of people will put up a picture of somebody else's crib and be like, rent this out, and then you give them the money and then they disappear.

• 1:08:31Speaker 03

  Or now, I saw a whole video yesterday showing people how to find secret hidden cameras in people's Airbnb's. Like how people hide them in the smoke detectors or in the alarm clocks. And film you in the bedrooms and bathrooms, night vision style too. And I said, what the fuck? Like, I had never even thought about that.

• 1:08:49Laci Mosley?

  They be filming you.

• 1:08:50Speaker 04

  Also, they be having roaches. Please, just go to the hotel. That's all I ask.

• 1:08:54Speaker 03

  Hotel me down, please.

• 1:08:56Laci Mosley?

  Cause also, are they cleaning them sheets? Like, are they washing their towels?

• 1:08:59Speaker 04

  They not, they not, they not, please.

• 1:09:02Speaker 03

  I would like to have the maid service's number. You know, like, sometimes you gotta see them coming. I wanna see them leaving the house when I get there.

• 1:09:11Speaker 04

  Get your Lysol, but that's wherever you go sweetheart.

• 1:09:14Laci Mosley?

  I need to almost get bleach poisoned when I go in.

• 1:09:16Speaker 04

  Shit.

• 1:09:17Laci Mosley?

  But guys, that brings us to the end of an epic episode. Scotty, Sylvia, y'all are amazing. Please tell us where you would like to be found, what you would like people to watch, all that.

• 1:09:30Speaker 03

  I mean, I don't know how many scammers are in the audience. I'll do, you know, respectfully. Um, respectfully, you can find me at Sylvia O'Bell on Instagram and Twitter. Please, don't try to take my Instagram or Twitter. I have friends at both companies who can get it back for me. So, don't, we both do. So, don't, it's not us. We not the, we not the people you want.

• 1:09:55Laci Mosley?

  Judith, our super producer, got everybody scared talking about that they gonna get robbed.

• 1:10:00Speaker 03

  She said, she said, careful what you share. I said, what now Judith? Early, I said, huh?

• 1:10:04Laci Mosley?

  Yeah Judith, we putting you on blast.

• 1:10:07Speaker 03

  Listen, um, but yes, watch, watch Get You, watch Get You With Me on YouTube. I think that's the main plug. It's, I just still Netflix, still watching Netflix, you know, um, page. It's called Get You With Me. It's right there, you know, run it up. Links in the bios.

• 1:10:21Laci Mosley?

  And obviously, you've heard these women are very entertaining. So watch them get these men together. And Scotty, where would you like to be found?

• 1:10:29Speaker 04

  You know, don't find me. You know, find, I'm here with y'all. And that's the importance of staying in the present. Right, staying in the present. Let's be present. You know, I loved it here. And my name is Scotty Beam. I am not gonna tell you where you can find that.

• 1:10:46Speaker 03

  They gonna find it.

• 1:10:48Speaker 04

  But, um, yes. And power to the people who are stealing from the man. And y'all can follow me. Follow me if you stealing from the man.

• 1:10:56Speaker 03

  I got my fist up. Y'all can't see this.

• 1:10:58Laci Mosley?

  Amen.

• 1:10:59Speaker 04

  Still from them corporations, sweetheart.

• 1:11:01Speaker 03

  Scotty Beam, my whole influencer talking about y'all can't find me. Girl, they gonna find you.

• 1:11:05Speaker 04

  Please don't.

• 1:11:07Speaker 03

  They gonna find you. She literally in the dark right now, like, please don't find me.

• 1:11:12Speaker 04

  Please don't find, I'm literally sitting in the dark because I'm the only person that's probably east coast. So I'm sitting here like, damn, don't stop, don't find me.

• 1:11:19Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, the sunlight said, bye.

• 1:11:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, bye.

• 1:11:21Laci Mosley?

  And guys, as always, if you want to see the horrifying photos, uh, Scam Goddess Pod, follow us on Instagram, follow us on Twitter. If you want to find me and my shenanigans, D I V A L A C I D, Velaci on all platforms. All episodes of The Black Ladies Sketch Show, season two, are streaming now on HBO Max if you want to see my comedy. Also, iCarly on Paramount Plus. First season is streaming right now. And we're shooting the second season. I don't got no air date for y'all. Stop asking. But I love y'all. All the merch is out. Please get into it, PodSwag.com because give, give, give a gift, you know? Buy a gift for a loved one because I'm gonna switch it up pretty soon. All right, congregation, stay Schemin.

• 1:12:00Laci 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. It's produced by Judith Cargvo, engineered by Marina Fais, and researched by Kaelyn Brandt. Stay Schemin.

• 1:12:16Speaker 06

  This has been a Team Coco production in association with Earwolf.

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