Scam Goddess

What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week, Adam Conover joins the show to discuss amateur British archeologist Charles Dawson, who committed one the greatest frauds in all of archaeological history. Plus, “Yellowstone” actress Q’orianka Kilcher, has been charged with two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://www.livescience.com/56327-piltdown-man-hoax.html h...

What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, Chelsea Devantez joins us to discuss Inigo Philbrick, a young art dealer who took the fine arts world by storm with a few Ponzi schemes. Plus, an LA rapper who rapped about committing fraud has plead guilty! Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/inigo-philbrick-intelligence-report-2020-1800972 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1...

What’s poppin’ Stitcher Premium family? This week, Laci and Priscilla read your listener letters. One about a “Publishers Clearing House” scam phone call turned flirting opportunity and another about a sweet schemin’ co-worker who got caught up in embezzlement. Stay Schemin’! Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scam Goddess ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free tria...

What’s poppin’, con-gregation? It’s the re-release you all have been asking for, the Shaun King episode part one with Ashley Ray. You know what episode this is. Buckle up, because we’re talk about a true scamming King. We recently reunited for a part two cause, he’s still at it. Check it out. Stay schemin’!    Sources: https://medium.com/@deray/on-shaun-king-351bd812318c https://www.buzzfeednews.c...

What’s Poppin’ con-gregation? This week, Sydnee Washington joins the show to discuss how the social media platform Triller launched a series of partnerships to support Black creators only to come up short on paying the content creators. Plus, a French physicist apologizes for passing off a piece of sausage as a star. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/01/tr...

What’s poppin’ Stitcher Premium family? Priscilla and Laci, in an episode filled with hilarious tangents, read a listener letter detailing the ultimate revenge pick pocket story. Stay schemin’! Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scam Goddess ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus . See omnystudio.c...

What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, Sam Sanders joins us to discuss Bishop Lamor Whitehead, who garnered initial sympathy for being robbed during a livestream of his sermon. Now, his integrity is being questioned after past crimes have surfaced. Plus, the TikTok viral Pink Sauce is called out for not being FDA approved. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: ​​ https://www.thecity.nyc/brooklyn/2022/7/29/2...

This week, actresses Josie Totah, Alycia Pascual-Peña & Yasmine Hamady join the show to discuss Richard Ayvazyan and Marietta Terabelian, the leaders of a family fraud ring that collected $18 million in pandemic relief for 151 sham businesses. Plus, a load of jewelry and gems were stolen from a Brink’s truck at a truck stop along the I-5. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://www.latimes.com/californi...

What’s poppin’ stitcher premium family? This week, Laci and Priscilla read your  scam letters all about coupons. From getting free meals from food delivery services to profiting off of extra coupons at a chain restaurant, these letters don’t disappoint. Stay Schemin’! Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scam Goddess ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on...

What’s poppin’ con- gregation? This week we got Amy Aniobi & Grace Edwards discussing Dr. Ruja Ignatova, the once famed crypto genius known for her new currency, OneCoin, who ended up stealing nearly $4 billion before disappearing in 2017. Plus, a woman has been writing fake Russian history on Wikipedia for over ten years. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-...

What’s poppin’ congregation? This week, Demi Adejuyigbe joins us to discuss Kane Gamble, a 15 year-old who wreaked havoc on several US government officials sometimes with just his phone. Plus, the Orlando Museum of Art is under fire after displaying 25 fake Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-investigating-claim-of-hack-on-cia-director-email/...

What’s poppin’ Con-fessions stitcher family? This week, Priscilla and Laci dive into listener letters all with some fun plot twists. From an inappropriate aged love scam to a sports franchise throwing a scammer a party, find out where these stories go! Stay schemin’! Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scam Goddess ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on...

What’s poppin’ con-gregation? Jonathan Van Ness joins us to discuss how Margaret Keane didn’t know that her husband, Walter Keane was taking credit for her famous “Big Eyed” children paintings popularized during the 1950s and 60s. Plus, find out how one woman found a stack of 70 Chase bank credit cards in her mailbox. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/deception-effect...

What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? Ashley Ray joins the show to dissect how so called “civil rights activist,” writer, and company founder Jeffrey Shaun King is still out here scamming. Also, a worker in Chile accidentally got paid 286 times his salary. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://www.blackenterprise.com/shaun-king-daughter-kendi-has-a-word-family-move/ https://www.blackenterprise.com/calvin-crim...

What’s poppin’ Con-fessions Stitcher Family! This week, host Priscilla Davies  and Laci Mosley read your letters. One is from an overseas mark stuck with the bill at a bar turned strip club and the other one chronicles a wedding scammer who plays victim and sneaks away with the wedding money. Stay Schemin’!  Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scam Goddess ad-free and a wh...

What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week, we got Eric Mosley discussing how a psychic conned Vera Pratt, a well-traveled heiress, out of her inheritance under the guise of curing her of demons. Plus, one wife of former California State Senator is in hot water after a Bay Area news organization discovered she plagiarized her book from Wikipedia. Stay Schemin’!   Sources: https://www.thedailybeast.co...

What’s poppin’ con-gregation? We got Priscilla Davies joining us to discuss Elisabeth Finch, a former TV script writer who allegedly lied about her health status and used other people’s trauma to write story lines in Grey’s Anatomy. Plus, a retired Atlanta Police Sargent says that a con man used his business, to defraud a DeKalb County church out of tens of thousands of dollars. Stay Schemin’!   S...

What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week we have comedian Nimesh Patel on to discuss James Hogue, named one of Time’s Top 10 Imposters, this runner turned bike thief fooled an Ivy League school into thinking he was a student but was really a 31 year old con man. Plus, the Red Power Ranger has been arrested by the FBI because of COVID fraud. Stay Schemin’! Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-ne...

What’s Poppin’ Congregation? This week, we have comedian Kevin Fredericks to discuss the baddest bitches of pirating to have ever sailed the ocean blue, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Plus, a family of scammers from Queens, New York, who stole a house from a dead man in 2010 are finally caught. Stay Schemin’!   Research by Kaelyn Brandt.    Sources: https://queensda.org/family-of-alleged-scam-artists-c...

What’s poppin con-gregration? It’s the iCarly, Scam Goddess crossover we’ve all been waiting for! We got Miranda Cosgrove and Nathan Kress discussing Cassie Chadwick, who at the turn of the 20th century became one of the US’ foremost accomplished fraudsters. Plus, a Florida man is charged with 114 counts of various fraud, after he was caught in an alleged decades-long scheme to defraud Florida Sta...

What’s poppin’ congregation? This week, we have the hosts of  Not Another True Crime Podcast , Sara Levine & Danny Murphy to discuss Elizabeth Swaney, who proudly made it to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, without doing a single trick in her sport. Plus, the FDA demands Alex Jones stop advertising questionable dietary supplements as coronavirus treatments, threatening legal action if he doesn’t...

What’s poppin’ congregation? This week, Tahir Moore returns to the show to discuss John Darwin, a British man who faked his death and disappearance to avoid a mountain of debt. Plus, a home in Virginia was put on the market with an occupant still living in the basement. Stay Schemin’! Research by Kaelyn Brandt.  Sources: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-i-exposed-the-curious-case-of-canoe-ma...

What’s poppin’ congregation? This week, we have Lady Bunny and Monét X Change discussing Amy Bock, a 20th century con woman who famously disguised herself as a wealthy sheep farmer convincing another woman to marry her. Plus, Goldman Sachs and Ozy Media try to work out their business relationship after someone impersonated an executive during a conference call. Stay Schemin’!   Research by Kaelyn...

What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week, Jordan Carlos joins us to discuss how during the 1970’s the FBI hired Mel Weinberg, a career conman to tackle some of Washington’s biggest politicians. This story inspired the movie  American Hustle . Plus, Late Night Talk Show Host John Oliver is scamming the scammers…Congress that is. Stay schemin’!   Research by Kaelyn Brandt.  https://www.rollingstone.c...

What’s poppin’ congregation? This week, content creator La’Ron Hines joins us to discuss how a New York man is scammed by his therapist Dr. Ike Herschkopf, getting caught in a web of entanglement and paying him $3 million in monetary compensation. Plus, the city of Fresno, California lost $600,000 and told no one about it. Stay Schemin’! Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of...