Fraud Fridays: The Fyre Fraud w/ Yassir Lester

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It’s Friday, con-gregation! This week, we revisit our episode with Yassir Lester all about the Fyre Festival. Yassir and Laci break down false promises, class action lawsuits, and of course, that infamous “take one for the team” incident surrounding the infamous Fyre Festival. Plus a bonus music industry scam. Stay schemin! This episode was originally released on July 21st, 2020. Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Yassir Lester: @yassir_lester Research by Sharilyn Vera. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-46904445 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/how-fyre-festivals-organizer-scammed-investors-out-of-26-million.html https://www.netflix.com/title/81035279 – Netflix Documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened

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0:00.0	Scans, hard, robbery, and fraud.
0:07.0	And fraud.
0:09.0	Scales,
0:12.0	Scans, Robbery. Cone robbery and fraud
0:16.0	Gump goddess
0:19.0	you just eaten full chips
0:21.0	it feels crazy.
0:25.0	They were hoping with my asthma.
0:30.0	Chips.
0:32.0	What has happened?
0:35.0	The holopinio was helping my cough.
0:40.0	Okay, I...
0:42.0	But it's no. Oh, it's true. Okay, I, I, you know what you know what you know what I'm, you know what, sure, how about that?
0:48.8	Absolutely.
0:49.8	I'm from Texas, okay, sometimes I do a little home remedy.
0:51.9	It's like a little vapor.
0:53.0	A home remedy is like, yeah, it's like, oh yeah, you like bite into a jalapeno or whatever.
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:58.0	Like, these jalapeno chips that I got from 7-Eleven help me with my asthma sounds crazy. It's a little bit of a vix vapor
1:07.0	no it's not vix is vix paper. You know what? Let me have at least my loo, my loo placebo effects so I can stop popping.
1:17.0	I truly can't believe you just ate chips as you're recording a pocket.
1:21.0	We start, I'm getting to the scams of ASMR.
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