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Scam Goddess

The Polka King w/ Bresha Webb

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What’s poppin’ Con-gregation? Run the World actress Bresha Webb joins the show to discuss Jan Lewandowski, a polka star during the 80’s and 90’s who ran a Ponzi scheme robbing over 400 people of millions of dollars. Plus, one scammer made thousands of dollars off of Frank Ocean fans who bought fake songs generated by AI. Stay Schemin’ !   Scam Goddess Live @ the Elysian Theatre on Thursday, June 22, 2023 in Los Angeles. Live TICKETS SOLD OUT. To livestream go to: https://www.moment.co/scamgoddess   Research by Kaelyn Brandt   SOURCES https://www.janlewandowski.com/about-me/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-polka-king-the-surreal-true-story-of-a-fame-hungry-ponzi-schemer http://cosmopolitanreview.com/jan-lewan/ https://www.wptv.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/polka-king-jan-lewandowski-returns-home-to-palm-beach-county-after-visiting-poland-ukraine-border https://www.timesleader.com/archive/1058732/polka-king-lewan-attacked-his-lawyer-criticizes-prison https://apnews.com/article/84a47e4da19e036549d574b1ccb56215 https://www.timesleader.com/archive/1049699/lewan-pleads-guilty-in-fraud-case-the-polka-king-is-accused-of-selling-unregistered-securities-in-his-businessesto-many-investors https://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/firstlight/20030313firstlightp2.asp https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mn75/scammer-made-thousands-selling-leaked-frank-ocean-tracks-that-were-fake-ai-generated-the-line-steer-it

Transcript

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0:00.0

Scam, corn, robber free, and fraud Scam, corn, robber free, and fraud Scam, got it.

0:19.0

What's poppin' congregation? Welcome to another episode of Scam, got it.

0:23.5

Hosted by me, Lacey Mosley, aka Scam, got it.

0:27.0

Y'all, you already know the pair of social relationships.

0:31.0

Yes, I'm very excited. This feels like a scam long in the making because I have been watching this woman and seeing her amazing work.

0:40.0

I'm sure that you have been too. You've seen her in Meet the Blacks, Tyler Perry's, Oslo from Grace, Sherman Showcase, and more.

0:47.0

And now she's back in season two of the hit star show, From the World, which is out now getting into it.

0:53.0

Oh, wait, congregation, please welcome, Frisha Webb. Hi, Frisha. Hi. How are you?

0:59.0

I'm doing wonderful, sis. You look really good. You look great.

1:03.0

Thank you. I got my self together.

1:05.0

And I love your Robert. I just had a, I had a bob. I just, I just just was trying to miss it now.

1:11.0

This is Jessica. Yeah, this is Jessica. Jessica. She's beautiful. She's super cute.

1:18.0

Thank you. We always ask on this podcast, what is your relationship to scams? Like have you ever been scammed? Have you ever run in?

1:26.0

You could talk about it could be anything.

1:28.0

I mean, there's so many different ways to interpret scams. Yes. You know, you have a scam of a friend, you know, that takes up your time and your patience.

1:41.0

That's a way of scamming. You have scam x's, you know, every time I paid a rent or they're going to do something and they don't.

1:49.0

That's another way of being scammed. And then, you know, there's these people now like that just randomly text you, you know, you get these numbers.

1:58.0

And so now I'm aware of it. You know, like if they're asking you questions about like, oh, click this link and you can go and, you know, log in and all of that.

2:07.0

So that happened to me one time. And then after that, I ended up cussing out the person, which is probably not the safest thing. But I was like, I want you to believe for this.

2:16.0

But no, let me cuss about it. It was the tax cause. I called them and cuss them out because actually it just happened that I was like on the wait list for something for Apple.

2:26.0

And so they were texting me about some type of Apple merchandise that I wanted. And so it just kind of made sense. And I was like, oh, this must be it.

2:35.0

And so I clicked on it. But I had time. It was during the pandemic. And I'm okay.

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