The Hollywood Hoodwinker w/ Lauren Lapkus (Fraud Friday)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Laci is joined by actress, director, & podcaster Lauren Lapkus (Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Threedom) to cover the Hollywood scam artist and master impressionist who lured unsuspecting professionals halfway around the world before leaving them high and dry. Stay Schemin’! (Originally released 10/14/2019) 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 Lauren Lapkus: @laurenlapkus Research Assistant: Sharilyn Vera Sources: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hunting-con-queen-hollywood-1125932 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fbi-seeks-more-victims-hollywood-con-artist-marvel-executive-targeted-1137712 https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742818984/the-story-of-a-scam-that-lured-hollywood-professionals-to-indonesia?t=1564239220681 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49001504 https://caymannewsservice.com/2019/07/status-scammer-guilty/ https://www.caymancompass.com/2019/07/10/10-years-for-delilah-who-orchestrated-1-9-million-scam/ https://caymannewsservice.com/2016/02/scammer-took-20k-in-pr-con/

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0:00.0	What's popping, congregation?
0:02.0	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 scam goddess Vault.
0:13.0	That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind the paywall.
0:18.1	Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall.
0:20.3	And as always, stay scheming.
0:22.5	Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:31.5	Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud. Scamp goddess. Cards Robbery And fraud
0:39.0	Scamp goddess
0:40.8	That's the thing about scams
0:43.5	Sometimes they work
0:44.6	You know, you just got to keep sticking your money
0:46.6	Into every single one
0:48.0	That's true
0:48.3	Yeah, I miss that on the Bitcoin scam
0:50.3	I'm gonna come on my own coin though
0:51.7	Well, what we said we can call this coin
0:53.6	Cody, a cyber coin That sounds like it already good. The cyber coin? Intercoin, like internet and then corn. A web coin. Webcoin. I like webcoin. All right, guys, Lauren and I are coming out with webcoin. Webbucks. Webbugs definitely sounds fake. With an X at the end too.
1:11.6	B use. A. Webbux. Oh, God. If you guys buy Webbugs, y'all are really fools.
1:17.6	What's up? Congregation. It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess. And I'm here with an amazing guest. Guys, I'm so excited to have her on the show. She's super talented.
1:28.0	She's a writer.
1:28.5	She's a director.
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