Con-Fessions: School Swindles

Summary

Scam Goddess: Con-Fessions: School Swindles

Host: Laci Mosley
Guest Co-Host: Priscilla Davies
Original Release Date: July 9, 2020

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Episode Overview

In this lively and hilarious episode, Laci Mosley and guest Priscilla Davies dive into listener-submitted stories of school-related scams. From high school reunion cons to inventive counterfeit currency in elementary school and entrepreneurial 90s poster peddlers, the duo explores how scams are born young—and sometimes, schools themselves are the scammiest of all.

The episode brims with insights into the not-so-innocent world of adolescent scheming, an examination of what constitutes a scam, and plenty of signature Scam Goddess laughter and asides. "School Swindles" also touches on socioeconomic commentary, and how the urge to hustle starts early.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Personal School Experiences and Starting Young (00:12–02:11)

• Laci shares her own high school journey, holding multiple class president positions.
• Reminisces on how she’d “run that motherfucker” (the school), relating her power to House of Cards (00:43).
• Confesses not running scams per se, but “being places I wasn't supposed to be most times.”

2. Laci’s Failed Reunion Travel & Mini-Flight-Booking Scam (02:13–04:53)

• Laci reveals her method for finding cheap flights: using third-party sites like Priceline or CheapoAir to compare, then purchasing directly from airlines for less.
  • “Find the cheap flight that you want, then go on the real site and you'll find the flight for the most part at the same price or lower.” (03:07)
• Tells the story of almost missing her high school reunion after booking a flight through a dubious third-party site that cancelled her reservation without charging her, causing a last-minute scramble and missing her own party.
  • “Day of, my bags were packed... It says, ‘Sorry, actually the deal you wanted is no longer available.’” (04:17)
  • Throws in, “Bitches were mad ‘cause you know a hoe on TV now.” (04:59)

3. Scam Story #1: The High School Reunion Heist (06:04–15:15)

• Listener “Gladys” relays a scam where a woman (dubbed “Jamie”) orchestrated a fake 10-year high school reunion:
  • Jamie creates a Facebook group, organizes polls, and claims to have put down a $1,500 deposit on a fancy venue.
  • Tickets sold at $25 each via Venmo (named “Mavs2010”).
  • Extra donations encouraged for those who couldn’t afford tickets.
• Jamie’s track record is revealed: found scamming in Facebook Lost & Found Pets groups by stealing and reselling cats ("cat flipping"). (08:46–09:44)
  • “She was flipping cats for $45.” (09:43, Laci)
• When suspicion arises, group members contact the event center—no payments were ever made.
  • “He emailed me a contract... total payments made were $0.00.” (10:58)
• Public Venmo transactions show money spent on personal items instead of an event.
  • “You left your whole bit more republic [Venmo public], so literally, it goes from everyone being like, reunion, yay... to somebody being like, thanks for dinner last night.” (11:48)
• Jamie is also discovered to be running fake GoFundMes and scam sob stories to get money from celebrities.
  • “If you’re the type of scammer who will scam $45 cat robberies to car crash fake GoFundMes to class reunions, you are a career scammer.” (13:04–13:26)
• Memorable “what if”: What if everyone had simply shown up to the venue for a non-existent event?
  • “All your friends are there... just go to another bar and talk shit about Jamie.” (14:25)

Notable Quotes:

• Laci (on Jamie’s scam): “Girl took everybody's money, never paid anything. Then a bunch of people started investigating the Venmo... used for all sorts of shit, like lamps and clothes and coffee…” (10:40)
• Priscilla (on Jamie): “Like, I usually stan a scammer, but goddamn, Jamie, I don’t fucks with you, girl.” (12:34)
• Laci: “How do you even think to rob somebody of their cat? I can't get over that.” (13:33)

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4. Scam Story #2: The Davidson Dollars Elementary Counterfeit Ring (15:23–26:11)

• Listener Devon details counterfeit "Davidson dollars" (school currency) in elementary school, which could be earned through odd jobs or good behavior.
  • “This already sounds like a scam that the school was running on students...” (15:54, Laci)
• Devon elevated the operation, becoming a judge in the school’s "justice system," adjudicating counterfeit cases during lunch.
  • “He has to take his... He's working through lunch. This little child in elementary school is working through his lunch.” (17:41)
• Using knowledge from a friend “at the bank,” Devon counterfeited low-denomination bills, cycling through jobs at the store and bank.
  • “We would wash it through the bank store.” (20:47–21:01)
• Teachers eventually increase currency security by switching to colored paper; Devon adapts by laundering fake bills for large denominations.
• Discussion on the wildness of the school’s system—child labor, kids acting as legal officials, and a rigged market.
  • “They were like, okay, we'll just have all the kids do the janitor's job. If we have all the kids do it, we'll save money by paying them in trinkets.” (22:01, Laci)
• End note reveals that Devon, who worked multiple school “jobs,” never got caught thanks to split responsibilities and inside information.

Notable Quotes:

• Priscilla (upon realizing Devon’s crime): “He’s laundering money. I can’t.” (20:49)
• Laci: “You or a loved one worked at Davidson Elementary and suffered injuries from unpaid labor…” (23:58)

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5. Scam Story #3: 90s Poster Hustle (26:18–31:27)

• Listener “Backstreet Becky” describes selling posters from teen magazines in the 90s:
  • Saved the Hanson posters, sold the rest (Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Andrew Keegan) for 25¢–$1 a piece.
  • “She knew her clientele.” (28:59, Laci)
• Anecdotal tangent about Andrew Keegan now reportedly running a cult; the hosts spiral into 90s nostalgia.
• Laci and Priscilla praise Becky for fair pricing and consider the scam “the Lord’s work.”
  • “She did it. She actually gave it—very fair prices. Very fair prices. Too fair, honestly.” (31:27, Laci)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Time (MM:SS) | Speaker | Quote/Highlight | |------------------|-------------|---------------------| | 00:44 | Laci | “I was running that motherfucker. Like, I would leave class... be in the teacher’s lounge. I’m sure teachers fucking hated my ass.” | | 03:07 | Laci | “[Third party booking sites] have to add in their cut... If you just go back to the real site with the flight number, you can get that flight for even cheaper.” | | 09:44 | Priscilla | “I literally just read about flipping cats.” | | 12:34 | Priscilla | “Jamie, damn, you ain’t right for this. There’s so many levels… Like, I usually stan a scammer, but goddamn, Jamie, I don’t fucks with you, girl.” | | 13:33 | Laci | “How do you even think to rob somebody of they cat? I can’t get over that.” | | 20:47 | Laci | “Because I couldn’t print on white paper anymore... we would wash it through the bank store with colored [paper].” | | 20:49 | Priscilla | “He’s laundering money. I can’t.” | | 22:01 | Laci | “Maybe they cut a staff member at this school... If we have all the kids do it, we’ll save money by paying them in trinkets.” | | 31:27 | Laci | “She did it. She actually gave it. Very fair prices. Very fair prices. Too fair, honestly…” |

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Key Timestamps

• 00:12–02:11: Hosts’ own school experiences—leadership, teacher lounges, high school politics
• 02:13–04:53: Laci’s flight-booking trick and reunion mishap
• 06:04–15:15: Listener story: High school reunion scam, $5,000 lost, cat-flipping sideline
• 15:23–26:11: Listener story: Counterfeit “Davidson dollars,” kids running their own justice system
• 26:18–31:27: Listener story: 90s poster resale side hustle
• Throughout: Social/political commentary on wealth, work, and the American economic rat race (esp. 24:45–25:53)

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Tone & Takeaway

This episode blends Scam Goddess’s signature irreverence (“Stay schemin’!”), vivid storytelling, and spontaneous social critique. The hosts celebrate cleverness, lament the sometimes heartless nature of scams, and ultimately reinforce the truism: in schools, as in life, hustlers start young—and sometimes, the grownups aren’t the only ones running cons.

Key Message:
Everyone’s got a scam—or has been scammed. Whether you’re running reunion cons, laundering elementary school currency, or just selling posters to your crush-crazed classmates, school can be both a great equalizer and home to its own flavor of hustle.

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“Stay Schemin’!”

Out there in school? Stay in it—but maybe rob the school as well. Think about it. (31:47, Laci)

Transcript

[A]

Welcome to another edition of Scam Goddess, hidden in the premium. And as always, I'm Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess.

[B]

And I'm Priscilla Davies.

[A]

And we're here to read your listener letters and get some more tea. About scams. This episode is about school scams. You guys started young and we're proud of you. It was. I. I'm trying to think if I ran any scams. In high school, I was senior class president and class president for a long time until they made me give one up. I basically thought that I was like in fucking. What's that show with that creepy man on Netflix?

[B]

Oh, oh, House of Cards.

[A]

Kevin Spacey House of Cards, bitch. I thought I was in House of Cards, okay? I was running that motherfucker. Like, I would leave class like my free period, I'd be in the teacher's lounge. I'm sure teachers fucking hated my ass. They're like, bitch, get out of here. This is our. I was like, look, I need some Colombian drip as well.

[B]

I'd have been so mad if you were in the teacher's lounge. And I was a teacher. That's where they go to get away from yalls asses.

[A]

I know, and I love to be in there and I love to be in everybody business. We had a teacher who used to teach sports marketing, which in high school, I'm like, how's that even a class?

[B]

How. That's a legit class.

[A]

And he was sleeping with the Spanish teacher because him and his wife was getting a divorce. Honey. And we started to notice that him teaching like, became more and more about his divorce and less and less about sports marketing. He tried to tell us where to. He was like, because when you get a divorce, they take half in Texas. So you know, you really got to put your assets in different.

[B]

Like make sure you get a prenup, you know what I'm saying?

[A]

So what does that have to do with the Lakers? What? Huh?

[B]

Sir.

[A]

He was messy. I loved it. I loved the mess at my school. But yeah, I was. I don't think I ran any scams though, other than just like being places I wasn't supposed to be at most times. No.

[B]

What were you gonna say?

[A]

Well, I was just gonna get into it. This first school scam touched my heart because I was class president and I did plan a 10 year reunion this past year actually for my high school. And I planned most of it remotely. I flew home to Texas one time because I was already see my family. And then I realized the day that I was supposed to Fly out to Texas to go to the reunion, that I hadn't actually booked a ticket. I booked on a third party website and they said, don't make that face.

[B]

No, I just didn't understand. That was a confused space.

[A]

Parts coming down. You gave me the hardcore come again phase. No, it was because I was on a website, a third party website. I think it was like Cheapo Air or something. And then what I like to do is this is a little scam. Go on Priceline, Cheapo Air, any third party site, and then find the cheap flight that you want, then go on the real site and you'll find the fight for the most part at the same price or lower to actually be lower, because the third party sites have to add in their cut on the back end. So they get that little $20 upcharge, that little $40 upcharge. So if you just go back to the real site with the flight number, you can get that flight for even cheaper.

[B]

Brilliant.

[A]

So I was. So I was doing this. I was on Delta, and this is something y' all should know. Every airline site has third party sites advertising on that bitch. So if you see something that looks like a deal or something on the side, it may not be a part of that website. So I clicked on one of these joints because it was like, here's your flight and it's only $200. And I was like, oh, bitch, yes. And so I clicked on that, put in my credit card information, put in all my information, and then I got an email which I thought was a confirmation email because it was like, your flight, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, has been. Has been confirmed or something. And then I got another email that was like something else. But I didn't open either of them because I was like, I'll wait till my flight. That's what I do. I leave them on red.

[B]

Same.

[A]

So. Well, here's a lesson for leaving it on red. Because, bitch, the day of my bags were packed. I was getting ready to go to the airport. I was gonna check in online. I click on that shit. It says, sorry, actually the deal that you wanted is no longer available. Your card has not been charged.

[B]

Oh, wow. They were like, we never had no business with you. Not not never know how. Get on, off our site, good day,

[A]

and don't come back and don't tell your friends.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

About what happened to you.

[B]

We don't know her.

[A]

I was a little shook because I was like, damn, they got all my information. I hope these bitches is legit. And they just Couldn't find my flight. So I had to like let bank of America let the girls know. Hey y', all, watch out, watch out for any suspicious charges. So I didn't get to go to the reunion that I planned. And I was gonna say, I was

[B]

like, did you, did this already happen, this reunion? Cause yeah, and you didn't go this past year and you didn't go.

[A]

And bitches were mad cause you know a hoe on TV now.

[B]

So they were like, just get a private jet. The fuck?

[A]

I hate you. I was literally having a FaceTime so I could see everybody and be like, so sorry I'm not there. And just make sure everybody's enjoying the party and everything. And we had it at this. And while I hear the bitch in the back talking cash shit. She was like, so she plans the whole thing and doesn't even show up and doesn't realize the FaceTime is right there. I was like, hey girl. She was like, oh, hi,

[B]

messy. I love how Lacey patches into her high school reunion.

[A]

I wish I had one of those iPads that was on wheels so I could roll around. Why do we only see that on tv? I've never seen them in real life and I feel like right now we could use them.

[B]

Right? That's a fact. Carrying this heavy ass laptop everywhere I go.

[A]

Right. Well, this is a school scam that revolves around a high school reunion. What's the name for this person? They actually didn't give me one. Okay.

[B]

I would say Gladys. No, Gladys.

[A]

Gladys.

[B]

Gladys.

[A]

Which is also Gladys.

[B]

It's Gladys. Just Gladys in Spanish. There we go.

[A]

So Lacey, this girl just scammed my entire school graduating class with a fake 10 year reunion. She's a genius. This year, 2020 is the 10 year anniversary of my graduating class. And I guess this girl. Oh, I'm not gonna say you putting they names in here. You ain't put your name in here. I guess this girl, I'll call her Jamie. Jamie noticed that no one had put together any plans for a reunion. So she saw her opportunity to make some money. This girl wanted to out the scammer cause she was giving me her government. She said that she created a Facebook group and invited everyone from our class. She then got everyone involved planning this thing. Polls about what it, when it should be and where and what the theme should be and everything. This is what I did for real planning my high school reunion. So. Wow. She then said that she booked a fancy event center and she had to put down a fifteen hundred dollar deposit out of her own Pocket. She was selling the tickets for $25 that she said would go towards the deposit. Catering, DJ decorations and all that other shit. This is exactly what I did for a legitimate reunion.

[B]

It sound. Sounds legit so far.

[A]

I'd like to go right. It sounds cute. Fifteen hundred dollars. And you know, this probably. I don't know, they don't mention what city they're in, but fifteen hundred dollars was probably. That's about what we paid to book the country club. So it's probably gonna be cute. So she created a Venmo account called Mavs 2010 or something for people to pay for their ticket. We also created a Venmo account. Damn. And a PayPal. A bunch of people paid and some even sent extra money to help pay for someone's ticket if they couldn't afford their own.

[B]

Damn.

[A]

So people were invested. And 10 year reunions, people get invested. You know, when you get married and you got your kids and your picket fence or whatever the fuck, you be ready to stun on these hoes who played you. So everybody's probably getting real hype. People starting to work out, People start getting their facial care routine. Bitches was in Sephora, like, give me the whole aisle.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

All the urban decay bitch about to stunt. I'm gonna put my boots on these bitches next, honey. Okay? So I know the hype was rising. So she ended up getting caught because someone posted in the reunion group that there was a post in a Lost and Found pets Facebook group about this girl Jenny running scams. So some of them went cats.

[B]

Cat scams. Running.

[A]

What the fuck is a cat scam?

[B]

I believe it and I've heard of it before.

[A]

You know what, what if it's like, you know when you see like lost dog and they put like rewards, like, what if this was just snatching a photo down and then going to your local pound and like find a look.

[B]

Like there's so many cat scams. I just read about somebody who's stealing grown adult cats and reselling them. Can you imagine? I would be so mad if someone stol my old ass cat and then resold that bitch.

[A]

Stealing adult cats?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

That's insane.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So she. This is actually they told us what she was doing, so. Oh my God, Priscilla.

[B]

What?

[A]

You were right.

[B]

Oh, this is what she did.

[A]

She would literally steal people's cats and claim she found them as a stray and say she took them to the vet to scan for a chip. But there was no chip, so she was giving away the cat for free. If someone was Willing to cover the $45 vet bill. And she was flipping the cats.

[B]

I've heard of this.

[A]

For $45.

[B]

I literally just read about flipping cats.

[A]

How have you heard about this, Priscilla? I could do this with no one else.

[B]

It was on the interwebs. And, you know, it's in my, you know, highlighted sources. Scams. Come on.

[A]

I'm dying. So this bitch was flipping cats for $45. I'm weak. But also, she really took her scam game up from 45 to starting at 1500. That's okay. So everyone in the group is now realizing that she might have scammed us and no one could get a hold of Jamie. I called the event center. She claimed to have booked and asked if they had a contract with this person or under our high school reunion. I explained what was going on and that we might have been scammed, and the man emailed me a contract that Jamie had started with them. It clearly shows a 1500 deposit, and total payments made were $0 and 0 cents. Girl took everybody's money, never paid anything. Then a bunch of people started investigating the Venmo for math.

[B]

She wrote it out that so we could know it was exactly zero dollars and zero cents.

[A]

She wrote literally dollar sign zero. 0.00000,000. Just so you know, there's no fractions

[B]

of cents, as in, we did not get a dime. She put not a dime down.

[A]

So then they started investigating the Venmo for Mavs 2020, and it was being used by all sorts of shit, like lamps and clothes and coffee, like. But all of her social media disappeared and no one can find her. We end up totally. So we ended up totaling how much money she got from everyone, and it came out to almost five grand. Also, girl, why didn't you put Mavs 2020 on Private Venmo? I guess she needed people to see that other people were paying. You left your whole bit more republic. So literally, it goes from everyone being like, reunion, yay, Mavs 2020. Can't wait. Can't wait to see you guys. To somebody being like, thanks for dinner last night, Ruth. Chris was popping. This is money for lamps.

[B]

Okay? That's where you. That's where she fucked well. And her cat flipping scam.

[A]

Yeah, she ended up flipping. She probably could have gotten. So needless to say, we're not having a reunion this year. Aww. And through this, she was also found to be running a bunch of other scams, like inventing fake sob stories about her sister being in a car crash. And not being able to pay the bills to try to get celebrities on Twitter to give her money. My favorite part of this scam is what would have happened if she didn't get found out. Everyone would just show up to the event center on the reunion date and be like. They would be like, what reunion? That event doesn't exist. And it's hilarious to me. And she says, like you say, shout out to a queen. She really sees the golden opportunity there.

[B]

Jamie, damn, you ain't right for this. There's so many levels. Like, I usually stan a scammer, but goddamn, Jamie, I don't fucks with you, girl. Ah, this ain't cute. Let me tell you. First of all, Jamie, these are literally your classmate. Like, these aren't strangers in the street. These aren't shady old men trying to get in your panties. These are your classmates. They must have did her dirty growing up. Maybe that's what it is.

[A]

I don't know. She's a career scammer. If she's flipping cats for $45 and doing sister car crash posts, then she's in it. She was like, any opportunity. I think if you're the type of scammer who will scam $45 cat robberies to car crash fake gofundmes to class reunions, you are a career scammer.

[B]

She's just escalating nonstop. Her FBI file must be huge. Fuck. Come on, Jamie.

[A]

How do you even think to rob somebody of they cat? I can't get over that. Like, where did you. Like, you were walking down the street.

[B]

Can you?

[A]

You were walking down the street. You were just like, hmm, I bet

[B]

I can get a lot for that little nigga right there.

[A]

Come here, whiskers.

[B]

Can you imagine? Like, ooh, is that an orange tabby?

[A]

Like, that's horrible.

[B]

That's just. And it's a dangerous thing, too. Like, a cat will fuck you up if they want to.

[A]

Right? She probably got all types of scratches. I hope she got, like, flea and tick and rabies shots, because this is a. This is an extreme profession.

[B]

She really.

[A]

But also, I wish that they hadn't caught her, because I would have loved for everybody to show up to the event. There obviously would be no reunion. But then, you know what? All your friends are there.

[B]

Y' all all there.

[A]

You could just go to another bar. You could just go hang out and have your reunion and talk shit about Jamie.

[B]

Yup. And she would've deserved. So here's my question. Did Jamie split after high school? She left town? Or do People know where this hoe lives.

[A]

Clearly, they don't know where Jamie lives. Cause if they did, they would be pulling up to the crib.

[B]

God. Jamie. Jamie.

[A]

Shout out to Jamie.

[B]

Sh.

[A]

Jamie.

[B]

You. You do what you got to do. You do what you got to do in these streets. I mean, hey, if you got to steal a cat, you know, con a celebrity, con your own high school friends, hey, if you need that money, take it.

[A]

Now, what happens at the 20th year reunion? Like, Jamie gets a. Jamie gonna come back.

[B]

Yo, what if Jamie organized the 20th and everybody's like, oh, she's gonna be good this time.

[A]

Oh, I love it. So we'll move on to this next scam. This next scam is an oldie. So shout out to y' all who were in school 25 years ago. This person says, hi, my name is Devon, and you can use my name, because this is 25 years old. Okay, Devon, I'm gonna use your name then. Back in my elementary school, we had these things called Davidson dollars. This sounds like something that happens 25 years ago.

[B]

I'm like, that's pretty legit.

[A]

The money was named after the school and had the school mascot, a dragon, on it. We earned the money by doing odd jobs around the school school and behaving in class. This already sounds like a scam that the school was running on students because, like, what kind of odd jobs are you having the students do? Like, all right, if you mop up the kitchen, that's three Davidson dollars.

[B]

Go ahead and clean up it up. Put the sawdust down.

[A]

That's 1.5 Davidson dollars. Like, y' all done turn these kids into employees. I hate America. I hate the economy. How you gonna put these little children to work like this? That's messy. So some teachers would give them out for making good grades. And this day, Devon was elected into the school justice system and would work as a judge during his lunch hours.

[B]

This whole school is a scam. I want out. They got the kids doing their own judge work. Come on, now. These motherfuckers are running the school. What the fuck? Where are the adults?

[A]

I feel like the teachers were just, like, taking long lunch breaks or leaving. It's like, you get 10 Davidson dollars to proctor the exam today, Toni.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

The hell Ms. Swanson's gonna be in her car smoking a doobie.

[B]

Okay, Ms. Swanson. What does proctor mean?

[A]

Ms. Swanson? She's already gone.

[B]

She's gone?

[A]

Yeah. So this is. This school is bizarre, to say the least. So he was a judge during his lunch hours and he saw different cases where people would counterfeit Davidson dollars and use them at the school to redeem class prizes. He would then sentence them to detention and whatnot. What is whatnot, Devon?

[B]

I mean, also, I love the fact that he has to take his. He's working through lunch. This little child in elementary school is working through his lunch. Anyway, talk about they got these kids counterfeit. David's I'm done. He had to adjudicate I'm done.

[A]

They got these kids working like Raven Simone. They were like, you starting at 3 and you will never stop.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

So he would give them detention and whatnot. I'm very curious as to what whatnot is, but here we are at this school.

[B]

It could have meant a lot of shit, right?

[A]

After getting a few cases and understanding how they got caught, I decided to give it a try. W corruption. Corruption in the justice system. Oh, this is such a microcosm of America. Like, they were like, we gonna get these young capitalists on here quick. Davidson, Dallas. Like, I stabbed my classmate and stole all his Davidson dollars.

[B]

This shit is wild.

[A]

So Devon said he tried to. He decided to get his hand in the game and go dirty. He said he had a friend that worked for the bank.

[B]

They have a bank.

[A]

And I got to see how the money was made. So I took the knowledge I had and I printed a few one and five dollar bills because they were nothing and anyone wouldn't think to question. And they were printed on plain white paper. Wow. Counterfeit. We starting the babies with counterfeit in elementary school.

[B]

Elementary.

[A]

So after a few months of doing this, teachers and principals caught on to the students using fake money to buy things. So they changed all the money over to colored paper and double side printed the money. I happened to get the inside knowledge before the switch because of my friend, the friend who works at the bank.

[B]

This nigga is doing too much. This is literally fucking much. Devin Davin, Devon, come on now.

[A]

Coincidentally, my term was coming up and I was up for re election.

[B]

I hate this story.

[A]

Is this made up? Even if this is made up, it's very funny, but this is just insane. So he said he didn't have much time to print the money. I tied with another young lady and wouldn't make as much being a judge. So I decided to go bigger with my counterfeit Davidson dollars. I loved having inside knowledge and I needed my friends to be closer to me because he was my bestie then still to this day, one of my best friends. So they got on the scam together and they are still Tight. I love it. He was also in the court system as my deputy. Our deputy. What? Our deputy. Because I had to share with the other. What the hell? Okay. So because he had to share with the other girl. This was the deputy child. This is complicated. So he said that he got another job at the student shop to prepare for his pivot, because. What? I'm just gonna keep reading, y'. All. I can't. So. Because I couldn't print on white paper anymore, and it was getting phased out, we would wash it through the bank store with colored.

[B]

I'm gonna go now. I don't want anymore.

[A]

This nigga said he's what?

[B]

He's laundering money. I can't.

[A]

In Ella.

[B]

We would wash it at the motherfucking store. You get what? Erasers, pencils.

[A]

Is he a criminal now? I need to know because this just shows you that scammers are born, honey. You know, like, you are just born.

[B]

They're not made, they're born, he said.

[A]

So at this point, we would exchange my small bills for larger bills. We never got caught because my mom moved in the middle of fifth grade and I just had. Stop. The things we could buy were snacks, little toys. But we also had book sales and a student market day where we could get clothes and jewelry. I bought my mom a hideous purple dress and jewelry once that she never wore, but kept it for years.

[B]

I love that.

[A]

Devon was, like, out here criming, and he was like, here, I got you something nice, mama from the school store. He's throwing Davidson dollars at her. Like, treat yourself, okay?

[B]

Got my mama a house.

[A]

Also, like, how is the school funding all of this basically free shit that the kids are buying with fake money? I'm starting to think, like, maybe they cut a staff member at this school.

[B]

Oh, they. They did.

[A]

And they were like, okay, we'll just have all the kids do the janitor's job. If we. If we have all the kids do it, we'll save money by paying them in trinkets. Davidson dollars.

[B]

Okay? We don't need a dean here. Let's just have the kids. They'll adjudicate their own problems. I can't believe it. This. First of all, I wanna go to Davidson. I wish I had gone to Davidson.

[A]

And he says, side note at the end, the way kids got caught was because there was a water gun in store. That was an astronomical amount of money. When kids went to buy it, teachers would step in and ask about it. If you were keeping up with your grades or had multiple jobs, there's no Way to prove. So basically they're saying, like, so if you were keeping up your grades and you had multiple jobs, there's no way to prove that you stole your Davidson dollars or counterfeited. So he always kept multiple jobs because he was like, no, look, I'm paid up out here, okay? I work in the Justice Department. I got a homie at the bank.

[B]

I'm in the.

[A]

Also proctest. I work with the special needs kids on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I teach them shapes. So. So I have multiple jobs.

[B]

This is terrible.

[A]

But I guess if you earn this gun. But if you ain't have no job. So basically, the teachers were like, the irs. They gonna keep one shiny thing in there and swoop in like Uncle Sam. Like, where you get all that money to buy that water gun? You ain't got no jobs. Your grades are bad, Percy. You get straight Ds.

[B]

You were talking in class last week. I kicked you out eight times. You don't deserve this Nerf gun. The hell? This school was wild, Devon. Like, you might be in for some back pain. You might want to put out a suit against your elementary school because they owe you for all this that you did have.

[A]

You or a loved one worked at Davidson elementary and suffered injuries from unpaid labor.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

It's probably making these kids get in the air ducts. They're like, it's 12 Davison dollars if you get in the air duct.

[B]

OK? Oh, my God. We've been having a rat problem. If you bring back a rat, that's eight Davidson dollars.

[A]

So in short, if you went to Davidson Elementary, y' all go ahead and get y' all back pay. Cause y' all been working since the beginning. It's not right. It's not okay. I love that everybody was scamming everybody, though. The teachers, scamming the students.

[B]

The students scamming the school was a damn scam.

[A]

It's basically America, a migrant system of America.

[B]

He learned a lot in that school during.

[A]

During the pandemic. There's a point where, at the same time, 40 million Americans were unemployed and Jeff Bezos was on a track to be the first trillionaire. Whoo.

[B]

Let's not even get. Not to mention what he does to his employees, right?

[A]

What happened to the trickle down? What happened to, like, if we don't make billionaires pay taxes, they gonna hook it up? They ain't hooked up nothing.

[B]

They never do. They never do. They never have. And it's crazy that they keep. Like, people still sign up for that shit. Like, they never Have.

[A]

I don't want to be a hater. I don't want to be a hater. And maybe this will be your motivation out there, scammers. But the chances of you making a trillion dollars in your lifetime are extremely, extremely, extremely low. Don't let these billionaires and trillionaires tell you, like, you gotta be poor your whole life. Cause maybe you gonna be a billionaire like them. Maybe. And then maybe you can have some rights. Like, bitch, I'm tired of waiting for rights,

[B]

okay?

[A]

I ain't made a billion dollars. And I got four jobs.

[B]

What's going on?

[A]

I got four jobs. Where's my billion dollars?

[B]

Devin had 12 jobs, okay? And he still ain't a billionaire, okay?

[A]

He wasn't even a billionaire in the school dollars, in the Davidson dollars. He couldn't even make a billion of those. And he was counterfeiting, okay?

[B]

This whole. That was a great scam. Oh, man, there's so many levels to it. So many levels. Brilliant, Brilliant.

[A]

The flavor. All right, guys, we got time for one quick last one on this episode. So I wanted to share with you my little scammette from when I was enterprising and broke as a seventh grader. We'll call you Backstreet Becky.

[B]

Backstreet Becky.

[A]

You'll see why in a moment.

[B]

So.

[A]

And yes, I'm about to age myself because this scam is extremely 90s. I love an old school scam. I love that we're getting into these. So today's Gen Z ers have no idea how serious the poster game was in 1997. Oh, I believe that. I remember I saw a tweet recently. I think it was by Gaby Dunn, and she was saying, remember back in the day when we used to hang posters up on our wall of our favorite hot celebrities, like we were trying to solve a horny murder? Pictures of all these beautiful children on your wall. I never did that. I was out. I'm a little outside of the poster phase. I'm, like, right outside of it. So I never had posters up on the wall, but my cousins did when I was a kid. Like, they would have, you know, the Jodecis and whatever Negro put oil on his body and danced in the rain.

[B]

The two K's, the Y two Ks, any two K, really, any two K.

[A]

Any boys group, anything called Boys Hot. Anything. 97 degrees. All the temperatures.

[B]

Was it 97 degrees?

[A]

Was it 92 degrees?

[B]

It was 97 degrees.

[A]

98 degrees.

[B]

98. 98. It was 98.

[A]

90.

[B]

I think it was 98 degrees.

[A]

So it was a popping time for posters. So she was a huge. Becky was a huge Hanson fan, and spent every dollar that she could scrape together from the couch cushions on Teeny Bopper magazines that came out every Tuesday. She said she would spend $3.50 on each magazine, but since it was full of posters of other celebrities that she didn't care about, she would take the magazine apart, keep the handsome posters for herself, and then sold the rest of the posters to kids at school. She said she would sell each picture for 25 cents to a dollar, depending on the size. And she said she would make easily over $5 per magazine. So that's like, you know, like a $50 profit. This is. This is the 90s. Money was worth more. You could probably get a whole Coca Cola for $1.50.

[B]

You could.

[A]

You probably could get four.

[B]

She was in seventh grade.

[A]

No, you could get three.

[B]

She was in seventh grade. A dollar fifty. Well, a dollar fifty was good. It wasn't a good day's work.

[A]

So she said she knew which girls were crazy about Justin Timberlake, which ones wanted the Backstreet Boys, which ones were horned for nsync.

[B]

Some girls. So she knew her clientele. Okay, bitch.

[A]

She knew her clientele.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

She had a corner on the platform. Preteen Horny Market. She knew some people wanted all the Andrew Keegans. I don't even know who Andrew Keegan is.

[B]

Oh, God. Andrew Keegan. Oh, yeah. I would have taken one of those. You don't. Girl, look him up. What was he. What'd he do? He was on. But, like, was he in.

[A]

Let me Try to look at his face.

[B]

7th Heaven. Look him up. I think he lives in, like, Venice right now and runs a culture

[A]

Stop.

[B]

I think that's the one. Yeah. I think he's the one that runs a cult in Venice now.

[A]

He's an American actor. He was first recognized as Zach Dell in a film. I don't know what the film is.

[B]

You don't recognize him looking at his. You don't see his picture?

[A]

Let me look at his face. He was in Party of Five. Seven Heavy Things I hate about you.

[B]

Ten things.

[A]

Everybody was in that fucking movie.

[B]

This nigga, he was that nigga back then. He was like. He was so fine.

[A]

He was the guy who always plays, like, the smug rich kid who probably got $50 in their pocket for no reason.

[B]

That's very specific. But yeah. And he now runs a cult in Venice. Yeah, that's right.

[A]

I would join that cult if he steal this. Fine. He's actually not as he asked about.

[B]

He's still pretty cute. Yeah. I ran into him, and he gave me. In front of the cult. He gave me these cult eyes, like, hey, you want to join our culture with his eyes? I was like, I'm doing my headshots. I gotta go.

[A]

Listen, I would at least gone to an orientation, you know what I mean? Like, I'm just trying to see what it's about. So she knew her market, and she did this for a long time. She says, I'm sure this is illegal, but because I was kind of scamming big publishing companies, I call it a scam. It. I've since given up my life of scams. Oh, okay. Well, you know what, Becky Backstreet. I like this scam. You were giving joy to the children. You know, some of us grew up with parents who didn't let us read magazines. You did. I only saw magazines in the grocery store.

[B]

She did the Lord's work. Cause you're absolutely right. Like, some of our parents went by us shit like that. Like, some of these hoes had to, like, you know, do a lot for that money to get those posters and sneak them into their houses, you know? That's a lot of work. And she really did the Lord's work. Good for you. And she didn't even. She didn't. Price gouge. That's another thing.

[A]

She did it. She actually gave it. Very fair prices. Very fair prices. Too fair. Honestly. She should have been doing a dollar a little too fair, irregardless. But I still. I appreciate it. All right, guys, that brings us to the close of another Scam Premium episode.

[B]

Already. Yes.

[A]

These go by really quick. They're only half an hour, and I'm pretty sure we're over time, so y' all welcome. Our producer's like, shut up. Chelsea's like, stop talking. Stop riffing. It's over. She turns our sound off. She's like, it's finished. But all right, guys, you know, if you're out there and you're in school, stay in school. Maybe rob the school as well. Think about it. All right, scammers, thank you.