The Curious Case of Benja-Scam Button w/ Josh Brekhus (Fraud Friday)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This Fraud Friday, Josh Brekhus joins the show to discuss Frédéric Bourdin a serial imposter who took on about 500 identities, convincing many that he was a school age runaway well into his adulthood. Plus, 19-year-old chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann is accused of cheating with vibrating anal beads. Stay Schemin’! (Originally released 09/26/2022) Research by Kaelyn Brandt Sources: https://slate.com/culture/2022/09/chess-cheating-scandal-magnus-carlsen-hans-moke-niemann-anal-beads.html https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/09/16/chess-grandmaster-denies-cheating-by-using-anal-beads https://www.grunge.com/292562/how-a-fake-cia-agent-convinced-people-to-rob-banks/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/08/11/the-chameleon-annals-of-crime-david-grann Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Josh Brekhus: @jbrekhus

Transcript

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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,
0:25.4	car robbery,
0:29.5	and fraud.
0:31.7	Scam
0:33.6	card,
0:36.2	robbery,
0:37.2	and fraud.
0:39.3	Scam goddess.
0:41.3	Was popping congregation?
0:43.3	It's your girl Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess.
0:45.3	And we're back with another installment of scam goddess.
0:47.3	The podcast is all about robbery fraud, those who practice it.
0:49.3	Sometimes we love them.
0:50.3	Sometimes we hate them.
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