ICYMI: Scam Goddess on the Worst Fraud She Ever Fell For

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🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Scams are everywhere. From the Fyre Festival to Anna Delvy to LuLaRoe, fraudsters just seem to be getting more and more popular these days. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison welcome Laci Mosley, host of the podcast Scam Goddess, to talk about her love of scams and scammers, how she’s been scammed herself, and why she thinks we are all so obsessed with these audacious grifters. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7	So my podcast is a scam, but it's fun because you can laugh at scams and you can laugh at
0:34.7	scammers for the most part and have a good time.
0:36.9	It also learns some stuff about how not to get scammed or how to run a scam if you want
0:40.4	to.
0:41.4	I didn't even say that legally.
0:43.4	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:46.3	You're listening to ICYMI.
0:48.1	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:52.0	Today's episode is about one of my favorite topics, scams, scammers, the topology of what constitutes
0:59.7	a scam or not.
1:00.7	I never know if I'm actually using the word topology correctly.
1:03.2	Anyway, we're talking about scammers today.
1:05.2	Rachel, you know I was a one-time teenage scammer myself.
1:09.1	No?
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