Con-Fessions: Facebook Fraudulence

Summary

Scam Goddess
Host: Laci Mosley, with co-host Priscilla Davies
Episode: “Con-Fessions: Facebook Fraudulence”
Release Date: September 16, 2020

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Episode Overview

This lively installment of Scam Goddess delves into the wild world of Facebook scams, as host Laci Mosley (the Scam Goddess herself) and co-host Priscilla Davies break down scammy experiences sent in by listeners—ranging from dubious mixed drinks and marketplace hustles to wedding videography cons. With the show’s signature comedic flair, Laci and Priscilla expose how the everyday social media platform has become fertile ground for grifters, mixing cautionary laughs with sharp insights into how and why people get got.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The State of Facebook (& Why It Breeds Scams)

• Facebook = America:
  • Laci reflects on Facebook’s unique role in American culture compared to other social media platforms.
  • Quote: “Facebook is where all my fucking relatives are. All the problematic ass people that I met in high school and just mess. Facebook is really America.” (00:57)
  • Priscilla agrees: “That's a fucking fact. It sure is.” (01:38)
  • Both note how a lack of attention to Facebook—especially during key events like elections—can mean missing out on where "real" conversations (including scams and drama) are happening.

2. DIY Dentistry & Medical Scams

• Unlicensed Facebook Dental Work
  • Laci shares stories about people offering dental and orthodontic services on Facebook; one woman offered braces, another made their own dentures due to COVID.
  • “How do you do Braces. That's not a—” (Laci, 02:22)
  • Both joke about dentistry being a scam, but highlight the dangerous results of trusting sketchy social media services, especially in healthcare.

3. Buying Alcoholic Drinks on Facebook: The Frozen Hennessy Scam

• Listener Submission (“Henny”): Frozen Drinks That Weren’t
  • A listener’s daughter bought frozen drinks (with supposedly a Hennessy side shot) from Facebook. On arrival, the seller was "oddly nice" and lowered the price unexpectedly—a major red flag.
  • Key quote: “If it's too good to be true, it is. And also, why are you giving me a discount if I didn't ask for one?” (Laci, 07:21)
  • The “Hennessy” included turned out to be brown vodka with a fake label!
    • “It was a Hennessy label that was wrapped around a bottle of brown vodka.” (Laci, 11:08)
    • Both hosts are baffled: “Is there such thing as brown vodka?...What?” (Priscilla, 11:27)
  • Lesson: Be wary of oddly generous deals and unregulated products on social media.
    • “Just be wary...if it’s too good to be true, that’s the lesson. It is.” (Laci, 15:02)

4. Facebook Marketplace iPhone Hustle

• Listener Submission (“Bradley”): Dad Gets Burned
  • Bradley recounts his dad buying an iPhone 11 for a suspiciously low price from Facebook Marketplace.
  • Red flags: Seller swaps locations last minute and the person at the meetup isn’t the owner but “her boyfriend.”
    • “Once motherfuckers start talking about, like, oh, it's not going to be me, or like, I'm sending somebody else, or instead of this place, they switch it last minute, I be like, no, thank you." (Priscilla, 17:16)
  • Dad checks out the phone—all’s well—until months later it’s remotely disabled. The phone was sold to him on an installment plan, and the original owner stopped payments. Now it’s locked and practically useless.
  • Quote: “So now he has this phone...which has no actual cell phone service, and it's essentially just a glorified iPod touch at this point because he refuses to pay monthly.” (Laci, 18:48)
  • Major Lesson:
    • "If the deal is too good to be true...you just can't buy nice shit for nothing. You know what I mean? Not an iPhone, not technology. Cause there's no reason for it to be discounted if it's Brand new." (Laci, 20:26)

5. Wedding Videography Scam: Copper Stallion Media

• Listener Submission (“Johnson”): A Four-Named Fraudster
  • Johnson reports being scammed by Jesse John Francis Clark (the full “government name” is repeated for emphasis and warning).
  • Clark/“Copper Stallion Media” runs fake wedding videography businesses, conning couples out of deposits nationwide but dodging prosecution by exploiting jurisdictional issues.
  • Worst example: He refused to refund a grieving groom whose fiancée died in a car accident.
    • “If someone was like, hey, I had this horrible tragedy happen to me, I would just like, here's your money. Please don't mention my name in anything.” (Laci, 25:10)
    • Priscilla breaks down scammer greed: “You can't be greedy when you scam. I mean, that's where it takes you down. You gotta. Sometimes you gotta put the Shit back. Give it back.” (Priscilla, 25:35)
  • Warning Signs & Advice:
    • Excessively generic names, lack of legit business reviews, and huge upfront payments.
    • “You might have to do a deep dive on people and be like, let me go to their Instagram or let me go to their Facebook and look at their wedding video and see if it's real...Because you know, people can just lie about anything on the Internet." (Laci, 29:05)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Facebook’s nature:

  • Laci: “Twitter thinks it's America, but Facebook is America. Because on Twitter, there is the kind of dirty underbelly...but on Facebook, it's all your problematic friends and family.” (01:41)

• On shady deals:

  • Laci: “So if my friend had taken these pills, he might have died.” (08:59)
  • Laci: “You don't got no charts. You got at least a white jacket. We know you don't got a white coat, you don't got a white jacket.” (09:18)

• On wedding scammers:

  • Priscilla: “You already know it's fucked up when you have four names. Like, come on.” (23:55)
  • Laci: “Will I ever be at your wedding? No. Will I come with a camera? Absolutely not. Okay. Will a single photograph be taken? Not by me.” (29:32)

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Key Segment Timestamps

• 00:57 – 02:22: Facebook’s culture and why it’s prime for scams
• 02:22 – 04:13: DIY dentistry and health scams on social media
• 05:28 – 15:02: The frozen Hennessy scam story and lessons learned
• 16:21 – 21:46: Facebook Marketplace iPhone hustle
• 23:20 – 31:49: The four-named wedding videographer scam
• 31:58 – 32:47: Takeaways, rule of thumb advice for online purchases

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Takeaways & Advice

• Stranger Generosity = Red Flag: Watch for people who are "oddly nice" or offer discounts for no reason.
• Due Diligence is Crucial: No matter how good the deal, do exhaustive research and verify sellers through independent channels.
• Unregulated Markets = High Risk: Buying products or services on Facebook—especially those requiring professional expertise (braces, phones, wedding services)—is fraught with potential pitfalls.
• Avoid Large Upfront Payments: Especially to vendors with little-to-no established reputation or who pressure for cash.

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Closing Wisdom

• Laci: “Do your research, guys, because people are out here scamming.” (32:03)
• Priscilla: “You got to have your wits about you.” (31:58)
• Laci: “Stay schemin’!” (32:47)

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Stay cautious, Scam Goddess congregation. And as always, you can share your scam stories: scamgoddesspodmail.com

Transcript

[A]

What's poppin, Congregation, we are back for another installment of Confessions on Stitcher Premium. As always, it's me, Lacey Moseley, AKA Scam Goddess, and my co host, Priscilla Davies. Oh, that was, like, very chocolatey.

[B]

You have such a. I wanted to be sexy. Thank you. Thank you.

[A]

When people hear these, they're gonna be like, wow, Lacey, you're scamming us with your vocal fry this entire time. Because your voice is just so. Just chocolatey. Silky smooth.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Could I talk like that? I don't know how.

[B]

Okay, that's.

[A]

Is this how you do it? I look like I'm giving the mic a blowjob. I can't. It really does. It really does. I put two hands on the mic, then I sound better.

[B]

No, you nasty hoe. If I just move my hands up and down on the mic, does it. Will it make my voice clearer?

[A]

Oh, God. So, all right, guys, Today we're talking about Facebook. Facebook scams that the congregation would like to confess. Facebook is just such a. It's interesting because I have a Twitter. I spend more time on Twitter because it's just kind of like more. Oh, young foolishness. It's how I keep in touch with the girls. It's how I know what's ticking on the toxic. It's how I know what songs I need to be blasting. Keeps me young. But Facebook is where all my fucking relatives are. All the problematic ass people that I met in high school and just mess. Facebook is really America.

[B]

It is. That's a fucking fact. It sure is.

[A]

Twitter thinks it's America, but Facebook is America. Because on Twitter, there is the kind of dirty underbelly of weird trolls, faceless people, and alt right conspiracy conservatives and shit, right? But on Facebook, it's all your problematic friends and family. Like, I think if we had paid more attention to Facebook during the Trump election, we would have known that Trump was gonna win. Because I was on Twitter, like, damn, Hillary Clinton about to be president. And I went to Facebook and they were like, oh, she not. I was like, oh. Oh, that's true.

[B]

Oh, Facebook is like. This is like, literally a cesspool. And so. And so is America.

[A]

I mean, hey, you said it, and it's a fact. So this is an interesting Facebook scam that I didn't really know about. They be doing shit on Facebook. Like, there's a woman. I will probably talk about her on Scam Goddess, who. Who was doing braces on Facebook and was posting saying, I do braces. And I was like, bitch, how do you do Braces. That's not a.

[B]

With the rubber bands. With the rubber bands. People are doing. Yeah, yeah, people do. I saw some guy make his own dentures. He was like, corona. Coronavirus. I can't get to the dentist. And then he was like. He literally, like, showed how he made his own dentures.

[A]

I got them dentures, and they look good. Oh, my God. Can he eat in them? Can he eat in them?

[B]

Well, are they, you know, are they functional? I don't know. But, I mean, he was. He was blasting, like, it was the shit. And also he was saying, like, it's so easy, like, so actually he might. You know, we get scammed by the dentists. You know? We do.

[A]

Oh, hell, yeah. Dentistry is a scam. It's a painful scam. And we have to go there because if you let it rot too much, you die. So you gotta go in there and let them poke at your ass. It took me so long to find a good dentist, because you can just. I'm sorry, dentists out there, DDS's no shade, but they just be giving anybody a DDS. Because I've had some shiesty dentists where I was, like, convulsing in the chair. Tears. Have you ever had projectile tears come out of your eyes? Were you, like, not even crying? Just your eyes just shoot tears? Because I have. In a dentist chair, when I was like, please, please give me Novocaine. They were like, we know how much to give you. I was like, I don't think you do. Then they started drilling directly on my nerve, and I was like, what was

[B]

it, a male dentist?

[A]

No, it was a woman.

[B]

Oh, shocker. I found.

[A]

And I'm.

[B]

Female dentists tend to be a little bit more delicate.

[A]

See, I found the opposite interesting. I usually have a male gynecologist, too, because sometimes. And I feel like women, I do want a female gynecologist, but I have to find the right one. Because sometimes women be having a vagina. And. Well, women who have a vagina be in there just beating up on that shit. Like, I know what it can take. Can you be delicate? Like, can't we insert the duck lips?

[B]

Like, my God, you ever be, like, on the table and you just, like all this herkin and jerking and you

[A]

just hear that click, clack, click. The ratchet sound.

[B]

Yeah. Like, girl, come on now. It's like your parents doing the dishes on a Saturday morning, right?

[A]

This is not under the hood of a Ford Taurus. Like, can you please be nicer? God,

[B]

girl. I one time went to I think she was just a regular doctor. And I was like, you know what? Let me just get my pap here and tell me why. Her fucking assistant was a bitch I went to high school with, and then

[A]

she brought her bitch.

[B]

But it was, like, a chick that I, like, was, like, a year or two older, so I never, like, knew her like that, but I knew who the fuck she was, and I know that she recognized me. And then the doctor was like, oh, yeah, I need an assist. I need her in here to help me, bitch. I was so mad that I was up on that table and this chick from high school was, like, looking at my coochie.

[A]

I would have been like, I'm sorry, y' all gonna have to go get somebody else. Cause I notice her, she ain't about to be out putting my pussy news on Facebook, putting my pussy updates on the gram. But. So this is a Facebook scam, and I gotta find. I'm gonna find the image and send it to you. But. So it says, my daughter and friend were headed to a baby shower and decided to grab a couple of those frozen drinks. The girls have been advertising on Facebook. Did you know that they were advertising frozen drinks on Facebook? Because I surely did not.

[B]

I'm like, who? First of all, why? Who are the girls on Facebook? And.

[A]

And I didn't.

[B]

I had.

[A]

Why are we buying.

[B]

Did we get this person's name? No, I already have thoughts.

[A]

So she did call the letter Anything is possible. AKA Hennessy. Anything is possible. So we could call her Henny. Okay.

[B]

Hanni.

[A]

Hanny.

[B]

So that's my first comment.

[A]

Continue. Like, grocery stores, bars, you know, places you buy frozen drinks. Facebook.

[B]

And I love how she says it, like, oh, like, you know, like, you know.

[A]

You know the Henny that they advertise on Facebook? No, girl, we don't. And how. How am I supposed to get something frozen off Facebook?

[B]

And that's exactly what I was about to say right now. Like, bitch, this shit ain't melted by the time it gets from Facebook to your hand. Henny. Come on out, Henny.

[A]

So Henny said the drinks always look so cute and usually come with a mini bottle of whichever liquor your frozen drink is mixed with. When they got to the chick's house, my daughter said the lady was oddly nice and even lowered the original price on the beverages. So, see, that's another thing, guys. If it's too good to be true, it is. And also, why are you giving me a discount if I didn't ask for one?

[B]

Okay, okay. Especially, she says was oddly Nice right there. That's not nice.

[A]

If it's odd, there's something nice.

[B]

That's your little spidey senses going off, going, hmm.

[A]

Some may raise. That's odd. And I have a friend who actually, I used to work with this guy too. I think he's a rapper now. I heard he's a pret Soundcloud rapper, But we all used to work at this restaurant. And he was like a young kid. He skateboarded. He also sold drugs. So one of my friends didn't have health insurance at the time and would buy, like, prescription Xanax from him, like, to have. Because they had anxiety. Right? Okay. And he said one time he pulled up to the dude's house and he was like, oh, do you have the Xanax? And he would buy, like, one or two bars and break them up and, like, have them for a while or whatever. You know, some people don't have health insurance and they still have anxiety. So.

[B]

Hey.

[A]

And he said one time he showed up and the pills looked different than they normally did. And he was like, hey, I threw in a couple extra for you. My homie was like, free drugs, extra drugs.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

That's oddly nice. So.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And so he goes home and he Googled the number on the pillow. Turns out these pills were fentanyl.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

The stuff that's killing people and having them addicted. And it's really only supposed to be for cancer patients, and it's supposed to be in very, very small doses. So if my friend had taken these pills, he might have died.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it is supposed to be in very small doses. But also, like, fentanyl is a painkiller. I have anxiety.

[A]

Yeah. So this is also not. If you're gonna be a street pharmacist.

[B]

Come on now.

[A]

You gotta have the prescriptions, right?

[B]

Come on, now. Don't you understand?

[A]

Do better. Street pharmacist. You don't got no charts. You got at least a white jacket. We know you don't got a white coat, you don't got a white jacket.

[B]

Where's your periodic table? Where?

[A]

So that's just another example of, like, when something's too good to be true. If people are oddly nice, you need to be looking out, like, I wish the world was a nice place where people were just extra nice for no reason. But unfortunately, we live in America, and that is not the case. Okay. So they said that when they got to the chick's house, she was very nice and all this shit and lowered the price on the Beverages. Henny said that my daughter thought that they had hit a lick. Henny, you wild? Cause this is also your daughter, and you're saying, hit a lick. How old are you?

[B]

Yeah, I'm like, henny, I just. I need ages. I need all this. I'm assuming Honey's daughter is grown.

[A]

Yeah, of course. I would hope so. But also, like, I don't know, because if you're grown, then why are you going to a lady house to get frozen drinks? Like, I don't know. I think what she.

[B]

I think she's talking about, like, you know those people who, like, make, like, desserts and shit and post it, you know, and it'll have, like, a little Hennessy bottle sticking out of it. So, you know, she's trying to support black people in business, I think. I hope they're black.

[A]

True, right? They sound black, actually. I can tell from the profile photo of the email they black.

[B]

Okay. Hit a lick right there.

[A]

Right there. Really gave it away. I don't think lick has trickled down to the white community yet.

[B]

Also, Henny, right there.

[A]

Right there. Cause Henny is only for the strongest of black people, because boy, oh, boy, does it remove a layer of throat. Okay, wait, she sent a video of it? Okay, I'm.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Play the video for y' all so y' all can. So y' all can hear. This is them opening. What the fuck? So the reason they're saying what the fuck is because it was a Hennessy label that was wrapped around a bottle of brown vodka.

[B]

Okay, first of all, Hennessy. Is there such thing as brown vodka? That's my first question.

[A]

That was my first question as well.

[B]

What?

[A]

So they did. They did get a product, but it seems that it was cheap brown vodka instead of Hennessy. I'm trying to send you the video right now.

[B]

Please do.

[A]

But I'm out. Mm. I'm so deeply confused. So they bought the mixed drink, and then they got the extra shot of Hennessy, and it's actually just cheap brown

[B]

vodka, which does not exist as far as I know.

[A]

Yeah, that's why I'm like.

[B]

I don't.

[A]

Is there brown vodka? Let's look up brown vodka.

[B]

Yeah, let me. I don't think so. Okay, I see. I see a brown vodka. What you call it? I see a brown vodka, but it says infused with cognac.

[A]

Who is having vodka infused with their cognac?

[B]

Why vodka is turning brown now in a sort of if you can't beat em, join em sense. Distillers are shifting toward Barrel aged vodka and gin getting a darker whiskey like Hue. But that would be, like, better quality, though, wouldn't that? If they're. It says, oh, wow. And it came off so easily.

[A]

She put that shit on there with some Elmer's glue. Okay.

[B]

The stick one too. Not even the real one, right?

[A]

The shit that. Yeah, it didn't even. It came off so easily. No resistance. And you can clearly see the label underneath as if it was unscrewed. Right.

[B]

Let's see.

[A]

But I don't understand why y' all are buying alcohol on Facebook. I just didn't know that that was a thing that you could purchase on Facebook.

[B]

I, you know, I feel like I've seen, like, you know how people will send. Okay, now I see it. I got it. Oh, wow, that label. Your nails are cute, though, honey girl. This.

[A]

So I see a lot of people, like, fruity mixed drinks and the best ingredients to make drinks and stuff like that, but I don't see anybody just selling mixed drinks.

[B]

Well, I've seen. I've seen people do that, like, as a add on to, like, if they're selling seafood, you know what I mean? Or they're selling plates or something. Like, and you drink, but.

[A]

Or eyelashes. I've seen eyelashes with a mini bottle of alcohol. I saw that on Facebook.

[B]

I love it.

[A]

I know.

[B]

That was a black person.

[A]

You know what you need with your eyelashes? Liquor. Okay. They know what night you trying to have when you buy them eyelashes.

[B]

I actually would not mind some eyelashes with a bottle of liquor. I'm just saying it's a nice little, like, yeah, this girl. They done. I wonder how much she was charging now. That's the question.

[A]

Yeah, I don't have an answer to that.

[B]

Also, like, I'm just like Henny. Help me understand. Okay. Heading to a baby shower. Decided to grab a couple of those frozen. Okay. I guess for the. For the road. Okay, I get it. Like, they got it for the road. Okay. I'm trying to make this make sense, right?

[A]

It doesn't. And I don't think we can make sense out of it. But guys just be wary when you're purchased. Like, first of all, you know, you should not be purchasing no damn frozen drink from Facebook. That just don't even sound like it make no sense. I know people buy plates off of there. I know this is a community, I guess, but just, you know, if it's too good to be true. That's the lesson. It is.

[B]

The only redeeming quality of this, I would say, is you supporting black women in the business, black entrepreneurs.

[A]

And I'm like, in that case, if the drink tasted good, then I mean, were you really scammed?

[B]

That's the question. Did it taste good and did you get fucked up?

[A]

In the video, they were pretty much done with their frozen drinks. You can see them in the back. It looks like they really killed them. So I'm like, they must have been tasty, probably.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I see it.

[A]

Yeah, they drank, so maybe they were good. I don't know if y' all got scammed. It seems like. It seems like everyone had a good time. This next one is about Facebook marketplace. So instead of going to. So basically this is someone ratting out they daddy. So what do we want to call this person?

[B]

Ungrateful child? No, let's call him Bradley.

[A]

Bradley. So Bradley says instead of going to the Apple store and buying a new iPhone or trading in his old one for a discount, my dad went to Facebook marketplace and bought a brand new in a box iPhone 11 for $150 less than at the Apple store. Keep in mind, he's not hurting for cash. He has a cushy government job for over 30 years now. He just loves a deal. Some people just love a deal.

[B]

Yeah, I can't hate.

[A]

But you gotta be careful when deals look a little too good. He bought it from some random Facebook girl in the area and met up with her at the mall. But he said that she couldn't come to the meeting, so her boyfriend went instead. So they already doing a little switcheroo on your ass. It probably wasn't no girl to begin with. Okay.

[B]

Once that happened, I've sold things on Facebook, Marketplace, and on Craigslist and, you know, and I bought things as well. And it's like once motherfuckers start talking about, like, oh, it's not going to be me, or like, I'm sending somebody else, or instead of this place, they switch it last minute, I be like, no, thank you.

[A]

Right. Because obviously this is a setup.

[B]

For real.

[A]

Because you plan to sell this. So now you're all of a sudden you're not available to sell it. Sounds a little sus to me. Also, I feel like people on Facebook probably think that, like, if a woman is selling it or a woman's engaging in the marketplace, then it's less likely to be a scam than if it's a man. Maybe.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

I don't know. Women are just more trustworthy. So the boyfriend shows up. The boyfriend, which was probably the only person he checked the serial number of the phone, and he checked the website to make sure that it wasn't stolen. Everything was clear. He checked the condition of the phone. It looked brand new. He turned it on, poked around with some apps, and everything checked out. So my dad handed a big wad of cash to the boyfriend and went on his merry way with his new iPhone 11. That was several months ago. The phone was great. He was very happy with his good deal. He really liked his phone. But then last week, it popped up with a message that said that there was an error and totally locked down. He called his carrier with my mom's phone and was told that there was a lock placed on the phone and he would not be able to receive service until he paid this month's installment on the phone.

[B]

How fucking dare they. Oh, my God.

[A]

And they wrote this month's installment with little. So it turns out whoever originally bought the phone Got it on monthly payments, Flipped it for a lower price to him, paid for a few months, and then skipped town with the profits. He went back to the profile and it was totally deleted. So now he has this phone, which has no actual cell phone service, and it's essentially just a glorified ipod touch at this point because he refuses to pay monthly. Wow,

[B]

that is. That's. So. That's up. These types of scams piss me off because I'm like, dog, why would you do that to another person? Why would you look someone dead in their face and do that to them?

[A]

Dead in his eyes.

[B]

Dead in his eyes. Like, what I feel bad for.

[A]

It's a new iPhone 11. You have to ask yourself, why does this person have a discount on this phone? Why are they selling it for so cheap? You know, if they really wanted to get rid of a brand new phone, they could have gone to the iPhone store and traded it in or, you know, why, why. Why are they doing this?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

If the deal is too good to be true. And the guy said he checked to see if it was stolen. He checked to see if everything's on the.

[B]

Which is impressive. I was like, how do you even. What website did you. What. There's a website for that, right?

[A]

I mean, he do work at the government, so maybe you know about all the sites.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

You know, you work at the government.

[B]

Okay. You know everything.

[A]

So guys just look out for stuff like this. Like, you can't buy. You just can't buy nice shit for nothing. You know what I mean? Not an iPhone, not technology. Cause there's no reason for it to be discounted if it's Brand new.

[B]

And it was only a $150 difference, which, you know, it matters. That's a good difference.

[A]

But that's enough to bait somebody. That's enough to be like, I'll get this one instead of going to the Apple store. But you're still getting a big profit off it. Cuz that phone's like 1100 bucks.

[B]

Hell yeah. That's what I'm Damn, damn poor dad. I'm fucking pissed at this person. I wonder how many people. So I wonder if they've done this to a lot of people. If they just like take what like buy phones and then just like fucking scan them or he just tried to get rid of his phone probably.

[A]

I wonder if he like just got as many as he could from whatever stores. I mean stores are very persnickety about this kind of stuff. Like you can't buy a phone outright from a wireless carrier because they know about these scams. So. And they don't get money from the actual phone purchase, they get money from the service on the phone. And then Apple gets all the money from actually selling the phone, so. So most wireless carriers won't even let you purchase a phone outright from them. Like you have to have service attached.

[B]

Interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is fucked up. And honestly, this person deserves whatever's coming to him or them is. I don't know what this person was, but they fucking deserve it.

[A]

And they've left town.

[B]

So you know, deleted their whole entire existence on the Internet. That's up.

[A]

And then he never knew the girl cuz the girl didn't exist. I bet you that was a fake photo he was catfishing, showed up as who he really was and then deleted the whole profile.

[B]

Oh man, don't. It's up too that. It was like a long con too. Like he was like scoop, texting my friends, going on the Internet, living my up. What? Hello? Hello?

[A]

The phone just cut off. They repoed the phone from within.

[B]

So fucked up. Oh my God.

[A]

Also, I hate technology because this scam probably used to work out for all parties involved, but now they can just reach into your iPhone and stop it, right?

[B]

Fuck that. That's bullshit.

[A]

So guys, Facebook Marketplace, you gotta be wary. I bought my television off Facebook Marketplace and it was all on the up and up. It was like a couple who was just moving real quick. And they sold me a flat screen for 150. It's worked well for three years, like perfect. But you know, you don't always get so lucky. You gotta be careful. And it wasn't A switcheroo. She was who she said she was. They were moving when I got there, so everything was on the up and up. But that's not always the case on Facebook Marketplace. And you gotta watch out.

[B]

Yeah, be careful out there, guys.

[A]

So this last one is also about Facebook. There is a wedding videography business, and this is getting a lot of traction. And it actually went viral the other day. So I've been seeing it a lot of places. And basically. Oh, and this person who wrote in was scammed by this. I'm gonna call you Johnson. So Johnson says I was scammed by the wedding video entrepreneur scam artist name Jesse John Francis Clark. He put his full government in here with all the names. Guys, Jesse John Francis Clark.

[B]

Okay? You already know it's fucked up when you have four names. Like, come on.

[A]

Yeah. You have too many names. You are a criminal.

[B]

This is too many.

[A]

This is too many names.

[B]

And they're all pretty basic names too. Like, come on, dog. None of these are, like, fancy.

[A]

Jesse John Francis Clark. That's like my name being Rebecca Stephanie Lauren Taylor.

[B]

Mary.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Fun.

[A]

Hi, it's me, Rebecca Stephanie Lauren Taylor. Married. And I will be videography your wedding. Like, what? So basically in 2018 is when Johnson got scammed by him. Clark runs multiple fake online wedding videography businesses where he scams engaged couples across the nation out of thousands of dollars, but avoids prosecution because the victims are outside of Las Vegas jurisdiction where Clark lives. One of his scams went viral yesterday because he started harassing a client who asked for a refund after he lost his fiance in a car accident months before. Before the wedding. Oh, and I saw this story floating around.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And there's a link to it if you want to open it up.

[B]

Yeah, I see it.

[A]

But this guy wanted his money back because he can't have no wedding no more. He don't got no wife. Like, that's up.

[B]

Oh, God.

[A]

Yeah. Like, that is royally. And what's crazy to me is if you are a wedding scammer, you know, you've been just robbing people left and right, and that's your job. Why wouldn't you let one go? Like, I feel like if someone was like, hey, I had this horrible tragedy happen to me, I would just like, here's your money. Please don't mention my name in anything.

[B]

Right. Like, also, I don't know that that goes back to, like, you can't be greedy when you scam. I mean, that's where it takes you down. You gotta. Sometimes you gotta put the Shit back. Give it back.

[A]

Put it back. And it was $1,800. The guy, the widowed husband, says that he paid $1,800 up front to Copper Stallion Media, a Texas based videography and photography company, after multiple requests. He said the company has continuously refused to give him or his family a refund. And he says he understands that he signed a contract, but there obviously is not gonna be a wedding anymore. They can't hear back from this company. It's crazy.

[B]

So, yeah,

[A]

first of all, what am I giving you? $1,800 upfront for anything that you do? As soon as you put wedding in the title, it becomes a scam. Wedding dresses, a white dress don't cost as much as a wedding dress because when you put wedding in it, they're like, let's tack on 3,000 extra dollars because this is the most important day

[B]

of their life and that's the minimum they tack on.

[A]

So videographers, I don't know about how expensive they are. I've never had to pay anybody to work.

[B]

They are expensive. Like photographers and videographers are fucking expensive. When I used to work at this wedding venue, when I used to, like, bartend weddings and shit, like, those motherfuckers make money. I used to date a wedding photographer too, and he made money because now

[A]

I imagine, like, they've gotten even more complicated. Like, I watched Gabrielle Union's wedding video and it was a damn movie. They had drone shots.

[B]

And it's. Yeah, it's deep. Exactly. Like, you know, exactly. Drone shots. Because also remember, like, cameras are expensive as fuck. And it's not just the camera too. You have to have like, lenses. That's really where the money comes in, like buying all these lenses. And. And if you're a good, you know, wedding, you have to like stand out, right? So you have to have your shit be good. And in order to do that, you got to shell out for the, for the products, for the equipment.

[A]

And then it's like the most important day. So they're like, oh, we're gonna charge even more for this. And then we gonna get all the angles. And also I feel like this is probably grown as itself in an industry because back in the day, it used to just be somebody with a hand held video camera at the wedding and like, yo, say hello, y'. All. The first dance.

[B]

But even back in the day, they used to be adding like little effects and shit. The little like, you know, the stars coming in the white exact. Yeah, they did, they did. I've seen a lot of Wedding videos from the 90s.

[A]

They said, look, if y' all want this wipe and y' all want this sepia, y' all gonna have to pay this eighteen hundred dollars. Okay? And now I feel like with Instagram culture and Facebook culture where everybody wants to post like, you know, great videos and great photos of their excursions and vacations and weddings and events, that this is probably a booming industry. Cause now all the girls want to be Instagram girls. Even just the everyday girls.

[B]

Exactly. And your wedding is a special day. My question here is how is this guy still in business? I mean, we have the guy's full ass government. We know where the fuck he lives. We know what the fuck he's doing. He's getting articles written about him. How is he still in business? Is it cause he has four names?

[A]

I think it's cause he has four names and we don't know if any of those are legitimate. That's true.

[B]

Jesse John Francis Clark. I just, I mean, I'm saying that so the people know to look out for you. But how, how is this guy still in business?

[A]

And also like, if you're looking at a website for stuff like your wedding or things like this, you gotta look at reviews and people can fake reviews. You gotta go. You might have to do a deep dive on people and be like, let me go to their Instagram or let me go to their Facebook and look at their wedding video and see if it's real and see if it's there. Because you know, people can just lie about anything on the Internet. Anybody can make a website.

[B]

Mm.

[A]

Anybody can get on GoDaddy.

[B]

Okay. Anybody can have four names.

[A]

GoDaddy's probably a scammer's paradise. Okay, anybody can have four names. Guys, where I do wedding photography. Will I ever be at your wedding? No. Will I come with a camera? Absolutely not. Okay. Will a single photograph be taken? Not by me.

[B]

Not even a little bit.

[A]

But I guess, you know, the Internet's a big space, so you can keep scam, especially on Facebook, because there's so many people on Facebook. And yeah, articles circulate. This is probably the first time that he's getting his spot blown up because he did this to the wrong person. Like this person, this poor person is experiencing a horrible tragedy. You should have just gave them their money back and been like, and don't you tell anybody about my business.

[B]

I mean, but did they even know that it. Did they even know it wouldn't have. They wouldn't have perceived it as a scam if they got A refund. Right, Right. So, like, it wouldn't even. He wouldn't have to tell them, like, don't tell anybody. Just been like, oh, thank you, sir. And then this motherfucker would have been on the Internet, like, well, he gave me my money back.

[A]

Right? You could have had one satisfied customer.

[B]

Yeah. Damn. Why not just give the. I mean, I guess also too. Sometimes I wonder, but I guess maybe, you know, many scammers are like, like, strapped for cash, and I guess they can't. They don't. Maybe he already spent the money and can't give it back. I feel like if you're living a scam lifestyle, you're fucking reckless. You know what I mean? Like, so you just spending shit.

[A]

And also, a lot of times when you're scamming, it's like your next con is making up for the money that you lost on your last one, or you're, like, getting out of the hole. So it's like, he probably did already use that 1800 on rent and was like, yeah, I'm sorry, bro. Do you want me to film the funeral? That's a fucked up. So. Oh, my God. So fucked up.

[B]

I'm sorry, guys. I'm going to hell.

[A]

I'm going to hell. But I would imagine he probably did say something like that was like, look, we can't give you the money back. Like, I can't. He probably doesn't have it. You're right. Because I'm like, otherwise it makes no sense that you would not just return this poor person's money. They've been stricken by such a horrible tragedy, and that's what you get.

[B]

And also, weddings are like a long haul. Right? So, like, whenever you sign, whenever you, like, get the photographer, your wedding's not going to happen for three, four, five, six, seven months, you know, so.

[A]

Right.

[B]

That amount of time, that money was gone.

[A]

You're absolutely right. I think you're right. The money was just gone. Damn, guys. Well, watch out on Facebook. There's Facebook is a wild, wild place.

[B]

Yeah. Maybe you got to get. You got to have your wits about you.

[A]

Yeah. Don't let anybody do any switcheroos. And before you put down a down payment on something, at least have checked eight, nine sources to make sure that it's legitimate. Like, do your research, guys, because people are out here scamming.

[B]

That's a fact.

[A]

As always, guys, you can email [e-mail] if you want to snitch on your friends, families, any four named wedding videographers. We'd love to hear about it.

[B]

Scam Goddess spot. Only if their names are basic.

[A]

Right. And Scam got a spot on all platforms. And you can find me at Dival A C I Diva Lacey on all platforms. And you can find Priscilla where she wants to be found at Priscilla Davies,

[B]

actor on all platforms as well.

[A]

All right, congregation, stay skiing. G.