The Resurrecting Romance Novelist w/ Paula Poundstone (Fraud Friday)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Fraud Friday, Laci is joined by the legendary Paula Poundstone (Science Court, Inside Out) to discuss Susan Meachen, an independent romance novelist who faked her death in 2020 and miraculously resurrected in 2022. Plus, a Florida woman has been arrested after a 4-year-long romance scam that resulted in the defrauding of an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 02/13/2023) Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Paula Poundstone: @paulapoundstone Research by Kaelyn Brandt SOURCES: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/health/fake-death-romance-novelist-meachen.html https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/book-author-exposed-fake-suicide-facebook-group-1234655830/?fbclid=IwAR0T1Z8YBSGjkOmKkE2bqww-XVhj2142WqdD97YlxSd0QWLr_eCm8LSaJKc https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/susan-meachen-author-fake-death-b2265223.html?r=21062 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/susan-meachen-author-alleged-death-hoax Twitter user @Draggerofliars thread: https://twitter.com/Draggerofliars/status/1610491152091717632 https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-allegedly-steals-28-million-holocaust-survivor-romance/story?id=96673243 https://www.news4jax.com/consumer/2019/04/30/how-to-avoid-falling-for-fake-online-product-reviews/

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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.
0:23.1	Scams,
0:25.4	car robbery and fraud.
0:31.8	Scam!
0:34.0	Cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:39.3	Scamp Goddess.
0:41.3	What's popping congregation?
0:43.3	It's your girl Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess, back with another installment of the podcast.
0:47.3	Scam Goddess all about robbers, con, artis, people who practice scams.
0:53.3	Sometimes we love them, sometimes we hate them, and parisocial girlies out there. One of my blues, glories. Yes, I'm very, yes, I'm very excited. I love you guys. And welcome new people. All right. No, I'm extremely excited. Y'all don't even understand. We have a legend, okay? I don't even know how we scammed her and got her time like this, but shout out, shout out to the team. Okay? Today we have
1:16.5	an amazing stand-up comedian and author rests on the show. She is a regular panelist on NPR's
1:21.7	News Comedy Quiz Show. Wait, wait, don't tell me, which I've done quite a few times. This is the
1:26.8	Queen Victoria of Stand Up. You can listen to her podcast. Nobody listens to Paula Poundstone. And you can check out her stand-up comedy tour in a city near you, honey. Because she'd be out here in these streets, honey. Back in the day, she would get on the ground and do all the mics everywhere. And that's just my own personal. I'll be stalking Paula. But you can check out our stand-up comedy tour. Go to paula poundstone.com for more information. Congregation, please welcome Paula Poundstone to the show. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here, Queen. I'm so, I'm really truly elated to have
2:01.8	you on the show. This is really dope. You know, I realize as I'm watching you talk into the microphone,
2:07.7	I'm like, she doesn't need me. I can see that you sort of imagine the audience that you're talking to.
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