Fraud Friday: The Pristine Ponzi Scheme w/ Matt Walsh

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Just like that, it's Fraud Friday! Today, Laci visits one of the very first episodes of Scam Goddess, episode 13, with comedy legend Matt Walsh (Ghosts, Upright Citizens Brigade), as they dive into the most famous Ponzi schemer in world history: Bernie Madoff. More like he “made off” with those billions. Stay schemin’! (Originally released 12/23/2019) CON-gregation, keep the scams coming and snitch on your friends by emailing us at ScamGoddessPod@gmail.com. Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Matt Walsh:@mrmattwalsh Research by Laci Mosley

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0:00.0	What's popping, congregation?
0:02.5	It's your girl Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess.
0:05.0	Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the
0:11.6	scam goddess Vault.
0:13.0	That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind
0:16.8	the paywall.
0:18.1	Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall.
0:20.3	And as always, stay scheming.
0:23.0	Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:31.7	Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud. Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:39.3	Scam Goddess
0:41.3	Congregation, welcome to another episode of Scam Goddess.
0:45.3	Guys, I'm so excited about our guest today. He is just a comedy giant, and I am so excited to have him here.
0:52.3	Guys, I have Mr. Matt Walls. You You've probably seen him on Veeb. You've probably seen him on so many other things. Also, he's one of the creators of the comedy theater that I came out of, UCB. So this man has done a lot for me and he's also just hilarious and I'm so happy to have here. Hi, Matt. That's a great intro. That's a little shorter next time. No, no. Honestly, could be longer. Cody, pull up the IMDB. Let's read every credit. Punish someone with their IMDB. It's a pleasure to be here. Scam goddess. What do I call you on this show? Just so I, we were talking about names earlier. Yeah, I'm Lacey. Lacey. Yeah, just Lacey. Yeah, the scammers know, I, I told everyone like you should have an alias if you're a scammer. Unfortunately, my alias is like super obvious. I feel like if I call myself scam goddess, people know what's about to happen. But I think that's fair. I can still scam you. You think you know what's going to happen. You're right. Like when the medicine show came into town, or like you knew there was something magic about it, but he still would scam people. Exactly. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I pride myself in people feeling good after I've scammed them. Like, oh, man, that was fun.
2:01.5	It's the allure.
2:02.3	I lost a little money, but I had a good time.
2:04.3	It's the allure of winning, you know, or like being smarter than the game.
2:09.9	Right.
2:10.5	That suckers people. And I have an Atlantic City story that my friend convinced me you could guarantee
2:15.4	win at roulette, and we brought $300 down.
2:18.4	Okay.
2:19.3	And within three minutes that money was gone.
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