Con-Fessions: Swindling servers

Summary

Scam Goddess: Con-Fessions – “Swindling Servers”

Host: Laci Mosley
Guest: Priscilla Davies
Release Date: March 18, 2021

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Episode Overview

This bonus episode of Scam Goddess dives into listener letters that share personal experiences with workplace fraud, worker “scams,” and wild grifts involving everyday employees—from coffee shop supervisors duped by phone scammers to complex restaurant ticket-fixing rackets. Host Laci Mosley and guest Priscilla Davies bring their trademark comedic energy to recounting, analyzing, and riffing on these schemes, all while encouraging listeners to “stay schemin’”—especially against capitalist systems.

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Key Discussion Points & Scams

1. The Coffee Shop Corporate Scam

(00:24 – 14:53)

• Letter from “Dale” (actual name anonymized): A supervisor at a major coffee chain (Caribou/Starbucks) recounts being targeted by scammers impersonating corporate staff and FedEx, pressuring him to pay for a supposed missed delivery.
• Emotional Distraction: Dale’s draining interaction with a difficult customer left him vulnerable, and the scammers exploited that frazzled state.
• The Scam Mechanics:
  • Scammer calls the store pretending to be “Mike from Corporate,” requesting the manager’s name and claiming a FedEx shipment needs payment.
  • Builds urgency and confusion by “patching in” supposed calls from FedEx and the manager (all played by scammers); asks Dale to pay a $2,000 “outstanding balance.”
  • Attempts to extract funds from Dale’s personal cards and the store’s card, using overwhelming tactics to break down resistance.
• Red Flags & Takeaways:
  • Multiple calls and requests for manager info.
  • Pressing for personal payment, rapid-fire requests, and emotional manipulation.
• Aftermath: The real manager enters, promptly recognizes the scam, and hangs up. Dale is left feeling ashamed but relieved.
• Tone:
  • Laci: “When you’re on a phone and something don’t sound right, just hang up. That’s the beauty of phones—you don’t even have to walk away!” (07:32)
  • Both urge workers to do only what's in their job description; taking “initiative” for giant corporations usually just makes you a mark.
  • Priscilla: “You are entitled to your fucking time... If people are rushing you, it’s not good either way.” (13:18)
• Advice:
  • “If someone is asking questions above your pay grade—just say ‘it’s above me’ and hang up.” (10:27)
  • Don’t supply employee names or pay questionable “corporate” invoices.
  • “Anytime anyone calls you for money...you’re the bank, you don’t need to answer a single question!” (12:31)

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2. The Doctor’s Office Spoofing Scam

(14:53 – 20:14)

• Letter from “Julian”: A listener nearly falls for a phone scam in which the caller spoofs a legitimate doctor’s office number, tries to fish for information, but doesn't have an actual pretext.
• Scenario: Caller (with a legit-looking number) claims Julian called them, knows Julian’s name, but can’t identify what doctor’s office or any real ties.
• Julian’s Defense: Plays dumb, asks questions, and eventually hangs up. Calls the real doctor’s office who confirms they have no info on Julian—proving the first call was fraudulent.
• Scam Tactics:
  • Use of number-masking technology (spoofing) to appear credible.
  • Casual knowledge of recipient’s name to establish false confidence.
• Quote:
  • Laci: (as scammer) “We’ve been on the phone for 20 minutes, bitch, open your wallet!” (19:49)
  • Priscilla: “Playing dumb is a great strategy—when you play dumb, you force them to come out and explain what the hell they're trying to do.” (19:09)
• Lesson:
  • Always verify strange calls, especially when they ask for your personal details.
  • Playing for time and not offering information can stall or expose a scam.

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3. The Golf Resort Server Grift (“Swindling Servers”)

(20:31 – 31:32)

• Letter from “Blue”: Blue writes about their partner “Bob,” a server at a golf resort, who seems to be bringing home suspiciously large stacks of tip money—prompting the discovery of a complex meal plan scam.
• The Scam—Breakdown:
  • Golf resort guests on “all-inclusive plans” get meals up to a set dollar value (e.g., $80/night). Many don’t use their full allotment.
  • Bob (server) manipulates the point-of-sale (POS) system:
    • When cash-paying guests (like “Skippy”) settle their tabs, Bob reallocates parts of their order onto the all-inclusive guest’s ticket (e.g., “Bentley”), staying under the $80 cap.
    • The actual cash from the now-reduced Skippy ticket disappears (pocketed by Bob), but the kitchen inventory and resort oversight sees all-inclusive meals as just “fully used.” The register ends up balanced but Bob pockets the extra money.
• Confusion/Complexity:
  • Both Laci and Priscilla take several minutes (and some laughs) unraveling the scam’s mechanics, highlighting how employees can obscure theft via comped-meal caps.
  • Quote:
    • Laci: “Yo, what a journey. What a fucking... I’m sweating!” (29:21)
    • Priscilla: “Blue, you need to leave. Bob might be robbing you—have you counted your change lately?” (31:09)
• Relationship Dynamic:
  • Blue only learns the details after moving in with Bob and noticing a sudden lack of funds, suggesting Bob might be “double-dipping” scams—at work and at home.
• Final Words:
  • Laci: “The math ain’t mathin'. As you can see, we just tried to math it for about 10 minutes.” (30:30)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Corporate America and Worker “Theft”:
  • “Capitalism is a scam. If you work at corporate America, you should at least be stealing some erasers, some pencils—maybe a filing cabinet.” – Laci (00:18)
• On Phone Scam Tactics:
  • “He was like, 'How much do you have?' Oh God, y’all need these coffee beans and they cost whatever you have. That's the exact dollar amount—no worries.” – Laci (06:14)
• On Setting Boundaries at Work:
  • “If anybody calls with questions out of your pay grade, just say, 'It’s above me,' and hang up!” – Laci (10:27)
  • “Don’t take initiative—just do the bare minimum!” – Priscilla (11:25)
• On Scams and Emotions:
  • “Being frazzled will fuck you up. We've talked about a lot of scams that start with frazzlement...take your time.” – Priscilla (13:18)
• On Playing Dumb to Deter Scammers:
  • “When you play dumb, you force them to come out and explain what the hell they’re trying to do.” – Priscilla (19:09)
• On Sorting Through the Golf Scam:
  • “Are you enjoying this journey? I figured it out! Here it is…” – Laci (28:19)
  • “The happiest place on earth—that’s me.” (re: her ‘Disney World’ coochie, riff on relationships) – Laci & Priscilla (22:36–22:43)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:24 – Introduction to "robbery at the jobbery" letters; workplace theft as anti-capitalist resistance
• 01:19–09:03 – Dale’s coffee shop scam (callers posing as corporate/FedEx, emotional pressure, advice)
• 13:18–14:53 – Takeaways on not being rushed, always asking for things in writing
• 14:53–20:14 – Julian’s “doctor’s office” phone spoof scam, importance of playing dumb
• 20:31–31:32 – Blue’s unraveling of the resort meal plan server scam; confusion, revelation, relationship warning

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

• The episode leans into the comedy of ordinary people finding (and falling for) scams, the mental/emotional load of customer service jobs, and the little victories workers claim back from “the man.”
• Laci and Priscilla echo sympathy for anyone conned while highlighting how emotional distractions and stress are tools scammers use.
• They encourage listeners to value themselves, slow things down, and “just hang up” or “play dumb” if something feels off.
• Workplace grifting is portrayed at once as dicey, funny, and (sometimes) a way of fighting the system—if with consequences.

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Closing Advice

• Trust your gut: If a work request feels odd or comes with info you’d never be expected to know, step away.
• Protect your info: Don’t give out names, payment info, or personal details on the phone—especially if you weren’t expecting a call.
• Play for time: Don’t hesitate to slow down, double-check, and force written requests.
• Watch your “roommates”: Sometimes the schemer is in your own home!

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Stay schemin’ and confessing, congregation!

Transcript

[A]

Robbery. Hello, and welcome back to another bonus episode. Bonus content.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Of Confessions. My name is Lacey Mosley.

[B]

And I am Priscilla Davies.

[A]

And we are here to read your listener letters. As always, if you would like to snitch on your friends and family, that's scamgodesspodmail.com. just make sure your bag is retired so that we don't fuck it up. All right, guys, so today we are talking about robbery. Robbery at the jobbery. So this is a lot of letters coming from you guys, talking about how you steal from your jobs, which is where most of my letters come from. I'm proud of you guys. Capitalism is a scam. If you work at corporate America. At corporate America. If you work at corporate America, you know, you should at least be stealing some erasers, some pencils, maybe a filing cabinet.

[B]

100%.

[A]

Roll one of those bitches out of there because you deserve coffee. Take the Keurig and all of the everything. Yes.

[B]

Get up in that supply closet.

[A]

Right. If you have to be in an office. You know what I mean? Like all the lacroix, they belong to you. Yes. So this first letter, Priscilla, give me a name.

[B]

Let's go with Dale. Dale.

[A]

I like that. He sounds like a white man who mows his own lawn.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

Yes. Dale says hello. Scam goddess. Forewarning. The story is long. I'm sorry. I' supervisor at a large coffee chain. Let's call it Caribou Coffee. Ain't that the name of the coffee place?

[B]

No, I. Yeah, it is.

[A]

I said, let's call it Starbucks. Like that's a name of a coffee place. So one morning, I had just had an awful encounter with a customer. She was pissed. I told her that her medium ice latte in a large cup with extra milk and ice is a large. She said, can I get a medium iced coffee, but put it in a large container and put a large amount of coffee and also a large amount of cream, but it's a medium.

[B]

Oh, God. This is harkening back to my serving days where motherfuckers would be like, no ice, thinking that they were going to get, like, something that was 10 extra soda.

[A]

Yep. Or my favorite line is, make it strong.

[B]

And I'm like, I mean, do you

[A]

want to pay to make it strong? Because that's how we make it strong here. I understand what you mean. Make it strong.

[B]

That's how it works, buddy. That's how it works.

[A]

Make more money appear into my hand. So this woman is clearly on the grift, and I appreciate her for that so he's pissed, right? That homegirl is tripping. Rightfully so. So he's worked there for X amount of years and he knows how to do his job. He says the woman told him, oh, this is like a career for you? That's so sad.

[B]

How's she disrespecting someone? She's trying to.

[A]

You know what's sad? You not ordering the large coffee. Like, who's sad here? Because one of us can afford a large coffee and the other of us cannot, so.

[B]

Or maybe both of them can't. And that's why he's working at Caribou Coffee.

[A]

No, listen, listen. If you love it, it can be a career. That's so fucking rude. Did you fight this lady afterwards? Did you say, come outside? Or did you, like, reach through the window?

[B]

I hope so. Right?

[A]

So it says, I let this woman get to me. And I was in the back crying when I got a phone call from corporate. Oh, I'm sorry.

[B]

I remember those days. Being in the back crying, Corporate on your ass.

[A]

That's what you do at a corporate job. You go in the back and you cry. Why they don't have a room set aside for this yet? I don't know. It's not like people feeling good at their corporate job. You know what I mean? At least give us an area, some tissues.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

At least get that.

[B]

Poor Dale.

[A]

I'm so sorry. So he's in the back crying and gets a call from corporate. The man said his name was Mike and asked to speak to my manager. I said she wasn't in yet and I could leave a message. He asked, what's her name again?

[B]

Wow.

[A]

And I told him, tracy. He said I need. He needed to give me a FedEx routing number. For a delivery that we were getting this morning. After I took it down, he said that my manager was finally calling him back and to hold on. This is where things got really convoluted. He acted as if he was on the phone with my manager at the same time. He asked if she had told me about the delivery, and I said no. He said, oh, Tracy says that she's sorry she forgot to tell you. Then he says, oh, FedEx is trying to call you right now on the store phone. Can I call you back on your cell phone? This is like a red flag. Number 10, right? How would he know FedEx is calling? But I was so thrown off from the earlier deal, you know, dealings with that mean customer. So I gave him my number and we hang up. I get a. On my Cell phone from Mexico. Corporate Mexico. But I digress. I answer, and then the store phone starts ringing, and it's FedEx. So now I'm talking on two phones at once. Oh, I love this scam. We got you with the distraction. He was like, I'm calling all your phones. I'm. I'm at FedEx, Mexico.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

FedExy. And. And I love. I love all of the distractions happening here. Yes. So it says. I tell my. Okay, so now I'm talking about two phones at once. The man says that the payment for our delivery didn't go through, and we still owe like, two grand and some change. I tell Mike in the next part, and he gives an Oscar level performance. He goes, oh, my God.

[B]

Hold on.

[A]

Okay, Tracy. Tracy. Yeah, the payment didn't go through. Tracy. Okay. Yeah. Hey, Dale, Tracy said that you can pay for it and she'll pay you back as soon as she gets in.

[B]

Oh, my God. What?

[A]

Dale says, I don't have that much money. And Mike, the guy on the phone says, well, how much do you have?

[B]

Oh, my God, I can't. Did you not watch the Scientology documentary?

[A]

God? Also, like, how we go from $2,000 to. Okay, well, what you got on you for the shipment right there?

[B]

Come. Oh, God.

[A]

Y' all need these coffee beans, and they cost whatever you have.

[B]

Whatever you have.

[A]

That's the exact dollar amount. No worries. Okay. So I told him I don't think that's okay for them to be asking me to front that much money. He says, okay, ask if they take American Express. What?

[B]

What?

[A]

They don't. Then I ask if we can use the store card. He says to try it. The FedEx guy says it was declined. That's what Mike says on the phone. Mike tries again to get me to pay for it. I say, no, and then ask if we could do a partial payment on the store card. But we do, and that goes through. Then he's trying to get me to pay the rest myself. And I start crying because I was so overwhelmed, still upset from earlier and mad that my manager was asking me that. He goes, are you crying? Calm down. It's okay. I say, yeah, I'm just upset about other things. He goes, this is the second time this week that I've made someone cry. Am I mean? And I go, oh, no, it's not you.

[B]

Oh, my God. Now you're comforting this guy.

[A]

He's making people cry because he making their money go away. No. He's like, this is the second time this happened to me, you know, I stole something. I mean, I had somebody cover a shipment earlier this week as well.

[B]

They, too, cried, Dale, you should have just folded up your apron and got the hell out of there.

[A]

You gotta just. When you're on a phone and something don't sound right, just hang up. That's the beauty of phones, is you don't even have to walk away. You don't have to give an excuse.

[B]

You can just.

[A]

Just hang up. Do you know how many times I get phone calls, and when I pick up, I say, hello, and they say, this call is being monitored.

[B]

Quality done.

[A]

We're done, and it's over and I'm free.

[B]

Okay. And then I'll block the number afterwards.

[A]

Right? Okay. You're not calling me with no quality assurance if it's automated when I pick up. No, I don't even pick up the phone and say hello anymore. I pick up and wait for other people to talk.

[B]

The silence.

[A]

I'll sit there in silence forever.

[B]

It's a great technique.

[A]

Also, the biggest red flag here is homeboy was like. What's your manager name again?

[B]

Oh, I. I mean. But Dale was over. Dale. Was this your second week?

[A]

Dale was emotional. Look, Dale had Karen cuss him out and insult his life story.

[B]

Overwhelmed. Poor baby. Dale was throwed. He was throwed.

[A]

I understand. I'm so sorry. So then the manager walks in and asks, and I ask if he wants to talk to the person on the phone, and he says, sure. I tell her that Mike from corporate wants to talk to her. She looks at me crazy and asks, who? And I was like, you know, the guy that you've been on the phone with this whole time, Mike. You know, Mikey Mike, the one who makes people cry. But it's not his fault, you know? And that's when my stomach started to sink. She gets on the phone and promptly hangs up and says, yeah, that was a scam. I said, okay, well, you need to cancel the store card.

[B]

Oh, I forgot you.

[A]

All of this happened in an hour, and someone suggested that the mean lady from right before was on the phone, but I don't know. I think it was just really bad timing. And I'm not sure if I learned anything from this. Normally, I wouldn't have fallen for this. It just happened last week, and I'm finally starting to feel less ashamed. What happened? Thank you for the pod. Oh, thank you. Yeah. You were in duress. You were distracted. He was calling from multiple lines. We got a landline, a cell phone.

[B]

You know, I mean, I have a few questions here. Were there Any other employees in this store.

[A]

I mean, clearly this person has access to the store card. They must at least be upper. You not a manager. Right, so.

[B]

Exactly right. So he's not a assistant manager. I'm right. Like the bookkeeper. Like, I'm like, he can't be the

[A]

bookkeeper if he make a coffee, Right? But then again, I don't know. I was a servant. I used to be whipping up creme brulees when the staff was drunk.

[B]

True, true. This could be one of those raggedy Starbucks. Yeah. I just feel like I want to tell Dale. You should have asked for help. Like, ask for help. Somebody near me, please help me start screaming. Yeah, like, help, help, please liter. Like, if you literally, if you have an emergency whistle, blow it. You know what I'm saying?

[A]

Now's the time. I mean, look, if you guys work in a corporate job, first of all, I appreciate the dedication to your work. However, if anybody calls you with some questions that are out of your pay grade, that's when you just say, it's above me, and you hang up. You say, I'll take a message, but don't try to solve no extra problems. Did you come to work and they said, okay, you gonna make large coffees but charge mediums. You're gonna wipe the counters down, and also you gonna do the logistics for the company's deliveries. Because if they didn't say that.

[B]

And here. And here's the company card. I don't. I don't think that that's what happened during your interview, sir.

[A]

No, I think you taking a lot of initiative. And personally, I don't believe in initiative in corporate America. I don't think that that should exist. You are a cog in the wheel. You just make sure your wheel turns, baby. Don't. Don't get out here initiatizing. Don't get out here initiarizing. Don't initiate nothing. Don't have no initiatives.

[B]

Just do the bare minimum.

[A]

The bare minimum. Now, look, if you're interested in upward mobility in your scam company, okay, perhaps maybe you tried. But if you punch it in and you punch it out, don't you ever.

[B]

It's just too much. Dale, they were asking too damn much of you. I mean, next thing you know, he was gonna be opening the saf.

[A]

They were like, can you hack into the mainframe of Caribou Coffee? Dale,

[B]

I keep thinking Caribou is a real coffee shop. I'm like, and this shit isn't even a real coffee shop.

[A]

That's where I've been to a Caribou. They have them in Pittsburgh. They playing.

[B]

This is Dale. Are you from Pittsburgh?

[A]

Right? I am. Confusion. Oh, Dale, I'm so sorry. And you really gave up Tracy like that. If somebody ever asks you, what's somebody named? Don't tell them.

[B]

And there it is. Like, that's like one on one. If someone asks you, like, who is this or who works what shift or when do they get off? That's not. Don't answer. That's illegal.

[A]

Anytime anybody calls you for money, you should always be like, okay, what's your social? What's the last four? What's your name and date of birth? Like, you're the bank. You don't need to answer a single question when people are asking you for money.

[B]

Also, like, Dale, you're working in nine to five, minimum wage job. They like, how did you get. How are you ready to pay these $2,000 out of your pocket? What?

[A]

Also, Dale, I understand that this lady, this bitch coffee lady, you know, she threw you. She asked you questioned your life choices probably made you not feel valuable as a human being. So here you were with an opportunity to prove that you had value. Value that they wanted to take from you, values that they wanted to remove from your pocket. And you tried your best. I get it.

[B]

Being frazzled will fuck you up. We have talked about a lot of scams that start with frazzlement. You know what I mean? Once you're frazzled, it's hard for you. That's why once I start feeling frazzled in a situation, I try to take my time and breathe and remember, I'm entitled to my fucking time. You are entitled to your time. You don't owe anybody an instantaneous answer. You can take a breath, you can think. You can take what feels like forever to you is 12 seconds. You know what I mean? Like, take your time. You that time. Your time is your fucking time. No one is allowed to impose upon that. And if people are rushing you, there's usually. It's not good either way.

[A]

Exactly, which is why you should only field offers that are written. If anybody asks you to do something, if they call you, be like, oh, I'm driving. Text me all this so that you have time to read it. You have time to figure out if you want to do it. And this goes for everything in your life, okay, your husband proposed. Be like, oh, my God. Can you also text me, right, the terms and conditions of this marriage? Just text me real quick how much debt you got?

[B]

Okay? Like, give me all the information and you can always tell people. Okay, yeah, let me just think about it. That's like, no one is ever going to be like, what? And if they are, that's another fucking red flag.

[A]

Exactly. And yes, Caribou Coffee is real. I knew it was real. One of our producers, Judith, just hit me up and said that Caribou is real. That's what I thought. I was like, this Caribou Coffee's a real place.

[B]

So, guys, you know exactly where this happened.

[A]

Try calling your local caribou and asking for Tracy and see that she still has $2,000. Okay. All right, guys, we're gonna move on to our next work related grift. Guys, we have the Dr. Duper. All right. Hello from Frisco. Oh, shit. Okay, Frisco, Texas, in the house. I am from Frisco, Texas. So shout out to you.

[B]

Shout out to Frisco.

[A]

So it says, I had a really eerie experience yesterday with a spoofed number. Trying to scam me. Someone called me from a doctor's office. Oh, this is the reverse. So now we got the doctor scamming the patients. Okay.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Someone called me from a doctor's office, and the app that I use to block and scan unknown numbers verified it as legit. Okay, you already got the app. Okay, I don't even have that. So you got the scanner app. And they said, oh, these girls are good. They're calling from Dr. So and so, Maryland physician's office. Yes. So. Oh, wait, can you give me a name for this person? Because I certainly did not ask.

[B]

Oh, yeah, let's call them. Julian.

[A]

Julian. So. Right. Julian says that they did all the work of, you know, checking the numbers and whatnot, and everybody said this was legit. But the caller didn't leave a message when they called. Shortly after looking up the number and seeing that it was to a doctor's office, they happened to call back. I picked up because I wanted to know why they were calling me. I was confused because I had never been to this doctor before. The person on the other line knew my name. I did not offer that information. They specifically asked for me and said that they got a missed call from me.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

This number. Right. This number was from Orlando, and I haven't lived there in years, so there would have been.

[B]

You just have happened to also be from Orlando.

[A]

Right. So Florida, big scam state. One of the biggest. So says I haven't lived there for years, so there would be no reason for me to call them even if I had needed anything. We went back and forth Awkwardly for maybe another minute with me just being super confused and telling them I hadn't called them. And eventually we just said goodbye and hung up. Luckily, I found this super fucking weird and decided to call back on the number and got through to the real doctor's office. So they were using one of those VPNs you can use to like scramble your number and call people.

[B]

Wow. So it's a scrambling, meaning that it's a real number if I was to call it back.

[A]

So what it is, is like they can hide their number and appear as a legitimate number when they call your phone. So if you call a legitimate number back, it will lead you to the real place. But when they called you, it was like a mask. It was masquerading to, you know, be that number from that address. It's like if you write incorrect forwarding address on mail that you send to someone you know, or return address, rather, it's like you didn't actually mail it from there.

[B]

Right. Sneaky deaky.

[A]

Right? So when they called back, I said, I told them I got a weird call for them and asked them if they had my info on file. And they asked me for normal information that a doctor would ask. Name, date of birth, etc. They said they didn't even have my information on file. So at this point, I was absolutely sure that someone has just gotten my name and number and called me from a spoof number. After thinking the call through again, I don't think the original caller had even said what office they were calling from.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

So this call and say, hey, it's me, your doctor. Your doctor, Dr.

[B]

Happy.

[A]

Yeah, you know me, your doctor. You. You know when you come into the doctor's office and then. And then my homeboy, the nurse, he be like, get on the scale. And then he weigh you and then he asks, you know, you fill out that form. And then when you sit down, you know where you sit? You know where you sit on the little be that we have, you know,

[B]

them like highlights magazines for children.

[A]

Right. You know that fish tank I got in it? You know, the fish tank.

[B]

And then.

[A]

Yeah, and you know when you get in the doctor's office and you sit and you know, I'll be having that white paper for you, girl. That it roll over the table. You know, I'll be having that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, it's me. And I'm gonna need some payments.

[A]

Yeah, you know, I'm just calling about some payments. You know how we do over here at the Doctors is we gotta get, you know, Payments.

[B]

I wonder, like, okay, so this is. You know, Julian, you employed a great strategy here, okay? The strategy of playing dumb, okay? When you play dumb, you force the other person. This is a great tool to use whenever someone's basically being shady or, like, inappropriate with you. You know, when you play dumb, you force them to come out and, like, basically explain what the hell they're trying to do. And so that's why this conversation never went anywhere, because you continuing to play D. She had nowhere to go with it unless she was gonna say, okay, God damn it, I'm here to scam you.

[A]

I'm here for robbery. God, just give me your money. Shit.

[B]

What the fuck? Oh, my God, you so stupid.

[A]

We've been on the phone for 20 minutes, bitch. Open your wallet. God damn. Oh, my God.

[B]

She's like, you know what? I gotta go.

[A]

They go home. It's like, baby, how was work today? Oh, my God. It was just. I had the worst victims today. So many questions. Where am I? Who are you? Why do you want my money?

[B]

It's like, how did you get my number?

[A]

Are you outside of my window right now? You know, just like, give me the weirdos, right? All right, guys, and our last scam. From a job or from somebody else's job? We got a little waiter scam here. So I need a fake name for this person.

[B]

Let's call them Blue.

[A]

Blue. I like that. So Blue says, oh, honey, here's a good one. Says, I'm gonna fill in a bunch of the names all made up because it gets tricky to keep track of what happened. So there's Bob, the young guy I dated. Bentley, the golfer staying at the resort. And Skippy, a local that came in to impress his friend on a date. If you read this one, maybe you'll have a better name. No, we gonna keep these names. These names are fun. Blue. So Blue says, when I first started dating Bob, he was a server at a golf course restaurant. Bob always came home with big. I mean, big wads of cash. That was, of course, tips. He wasn't particularly good at keeping track of his money and preferred to pay things in cash, which I thought odd, but didn't question. I finally convinced him to keep a spreadsheet of his tips so that he had a better idea of what income he had and what he could spend it on. It seemed like a lot in tips, Hundreds per night. But I had never worked at a server. I tipped 20%, and I wasn't a part of the resort circuit. So what do I know about golfers? And the tips that they leave, right? I don't know nothing about that. But if my man is coming home with money, I know about that. Is he spending these tips on you? Is he tipping you for being his. His partner? Cuz that's what I need to know. And if he's not tipping, you gotta help yourself to some tips. Listen, any guy that I've dated, and it wasn't serious, you know, have I, you know, rifled around and maybe, like, took some souvenirs home?

[B]

Oh, my God. That's grand larceny. But go ahead.

[A]

No, that's called souvenirs, okay? Yeah, my coochie is like Disney World, okay? So when you ride some rides, you know, I gotta get some Mickey Mouse ears.

[B]

I mean, that could be interpreted a lot of different ways. Your coochie being like Disney World. I mean, that's one way to interpret it.

[A]

Only the pos. Only the good ways, okay?

[B]

Oh, the good ways.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

What is Disney World saying when you hear your family? No, that's Olive Garden. What they say. A whole new world.

[B]

No, magical place. Some minorities, sometimes the most magical place on earth or something like that.

[A]

Magically delicious.

[B]

No, that is. That's like a cereal.

[A]

Okay. No, it's like the. The most magical place on earth.

[B]

On earth. Yeah, that's me.

[A]

Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's me. Yeah. So.

[B]

Oh, it's happiest place on earth.

[A]

Happiest place.

[B]

I've clearly never had a childhood. I'm a feral child, y'. All. I just have to admit it, right?

[A]

You know, Disney slogan, there's one black

[B]

princess, we ain't worried about that.

[A]

So, yes, the most magical and happiest place on earth. So, you know, I take some souvenirs. Y' all should take some souvenirs as well. So back to the golf scam. Anywho, the resort had weekend getaway plans that included a room, meals at the hotel, restaurant, time on the greens, etc. When a guest on a plan was dining, the scam kicked in. To the best of my knowledge, here's how it worked. The meals included with the plans were up to a certain dollar amount. Let's say $80, our plan. So basically, their guest, one of the guests who came in, his name is Bentley, he orders a meal that was $55. And another patron, Skippy, pays cash for a $70 meal. Some or all of the cash, I was never clear on how he cooked. The receipts that Skippy paid goes into Bob's pocket. So basically, Skippy, who you remember, was described earlier as A local that came in to impress his friend on a date. He's the one who comes in after he gets these plans, right. And orders like a meal that's less than $80. Skippy pays cash for the $70 meal and then some or all of the cash, which is not clear, goes to Bob's pocket. Now the books need to be cooked a bit, right? So some of the items that Skippy ordered get moved over to Bentley's ticket, being careful to stay below the $75 mark. So basically this is a lot I know. Which they didn't write it very well. Sorry.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Sorry.

[B]

Blue. So basically I'm literally taking notes right now. I have like, I have a whole chart. Like it's bad.

[A]

It looks like we're trying to solve a murder. Now there's random string going everywhere. So basically what happened was Skippy is a scammer. Bentley is an honest, hard working golf resort attendee.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So Skippy on a plan skipper came in and give me the everything for $80.

[B]

And what's Skippy's character, who is he playing?

[A]

He's just a regular person, regular Degla coming to get his resort plan meal and his golfing.

[B]

He's a regular, regular degular scammer.

[A]

Okay, so what's happening is, is that the boyfriend, Bob blues boyfriend, has figured out that anybody on a plan, if they don't order up to the $75, which is basically what is covered in their meals included plan.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

They would add extra ticket items to get it up to the 80.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Then they would move those ticket items afterwards on the POS system.

[B]

Okay, starting to make sense.

[A]

Yes. So that they could put them on Skippy's check. So basically it's so complicated.

[B]

So wait, so Skippy's not a to put it on Skippy's check. Isn't he the victim then?

[A]

Not technically. So everything that could be moved to Bentley's ticket was cash in Bob's pocket, which gave Bob several hundreds in quote unquote tips. So basically, Skippy,

[B]

we're gonna solve this. Guys, we're so close. We're so close.

[A]

Skippy over here paying for his meal in cash. Okay. And Bentley is on a prepaid meal plan, but you still have to ring up each individual ticket item for his prepaid meal plan because they inventory the food. So let's say Bentley came in and he just said was like, I'm gonna have a sandwich and I'm gon have a Sprite. And let's say that comes out to $25 cuz it's expensive right at this place. Now he has a ticket that says he can have a free meal up to $80.

[B]

Okay. We don't want to keep it at 75 for easier.

[A]

Well, 70. Well, okay for $80 is the tipping point, Right?

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So what happened was, is they're like, thank you Bentley for your meal. Bye Bentley. And when Bentley leaves, they open up Bentley's check and they add a bunch of to it that Bentley didn't order. But as long as it's under 75, $80, the restaurant doesn't care because that's included in his thing. But really what they're doing is moving ticket items off of Skippish check and on.

[B]

No, off of Bentley's check, off of

[A]

Bentley's, off of Skippy's, on to Bentley's. Because Skippy is paying in cash and he is in on the scam. I promise this is accurate.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So then they'd be like, okay, we voided out thing that Bentley ordered because it's covered price wise, right? So then Bentley, if he left like a fifth, or let's say he left a $10 tip on his meal, right? Okay, that now just is all cash. This is so complicated, but I promise you that I made it make sense.

[B]

That's all cash. Because the way I'm thinking about it is like, you know how you can like split things off of tickets and pull things off of tickets? That's what it is. But then my question is, why not just like what you call it? Void the split off. Why are they now putting it onto Bentley's check?

[A]

Because I got it. Because basically Skippy thinks that he's okay. I was wrong. Now I figured it out. Fuck. Are you enjoying this journey? I figured it out. Here it is.

[B]

I used to wait tables.

[A]

It took me a minute. So Skippy ain't in on the scam.

[B]

That's what I thought. This whole time I was like, are you sure, Skippy, you're. I feel like you're condemning Skippy and he doesn't deserve this.

[A]

Skippy ain't another scam. Skippy just don't. Skippy don't have a prepaid meal plan. Let me cross that off of this fucking journey. So Skippy ain't got no meal plan. So Skippy paid in cash, right? What that means is let's say Skippy orders $70 worth of food. Now Brantley over here only ordered like that $25 sandwich, right? But he got a meal plan that says he can order worth $75 of food, but he didn't do that. So Bob, basically, after he closes the checks of Skippy and Brantley, he moves Skippy's meal ticket items over to Brantley's check.

[B]

That way, whatever Skippy paid in cash,

[A]

he can keep the difference. There we go.

[B]

We understand the scam.

[A]

Yo, what a journey. What a fucking hot.

[B]

I'm sweating.

[A]

I'm tired. Did you guys hate that as much as I did?

[B]

I mean, it makes sense, though. Now that I understand it, it's a great scam. Yeah.

[A]

So Bob never let on to the scam while he was working there. It wasn't until he was living with me and I questioned multiple times why he was barely able to support himself that he actually confessed. Or in other words, it was a lengthy argument about how he needed to start bringing home some cash rather than concentrating on throwing shade at his co workers. Okay, so what I don't understand is, isn't Bob making cash? It seems like he was stealing.

[B]

And this is where I'm confused. Again. Exactly. Like Bob is the one that's hustling here. Unless Bob wasn't good at it.

[A]

Seems like Bob was also hustling you, because I'm confused. Y' all start living together, and now he barely making money. I thought he was coming home with wide fulls of cash, and it doesn't look like he got caught.

[B]

Blue.

[A]

Blue. Now, you wrote this very confusingly. And then at the end, we are confusion one. Blue, I'm gonna tell you to break up with this man.

[B]

That's number one if you haven't done that already.

[A]

The math ain't mathin'. As you can see, we just tried to math it for about 10 minutes.

[B]

We did not give up Blue. And we're still not quite sure what's going on here. So did Blue have anything to do with the golf, or was it he's just dating the guy from the golf?

[A]

Blue is just dating this dude. Okay, so Blue wasn't golf, and Blue wasn't restauranting.

[B]

Okay? I mean, Blue.

[A]

Well, good job to Bob because he scammed his job, and you because y' all done moved in together. I'm guessing Bob is not ponying up his part of the rent or the utilities. So good luck with that.

[B]

Yeah, Blue, get it together, Boo.

[A]

Blue, you need to leave. Bob. Bob might be robbing you. Have you checked your purse? Have your counted your change lately? Have you gone through your trinkets and seen if Blue is taking some souvenirs? As I would. Yeah, maybe check count your Brit of filters cuz Blue seems like a petty thief. How many light bulbs you got? Maybe check cuz Blue might be stealing those as well. In addition to too.

[B]

Very true.

[A]

All right, guys, well, that wraps up another episode of Confessions. As always. If you'd like to find me D I V A L A C I D Valacy on all platforms. If you'd like to find this podcast scam Goddess Pod on all platforms. If you'd like to find Priscilla at

[B]

Priscilla Davies, actor on IG and Q o t Desert on Twitter.

[A]

What was that again?

[B]

Q o T Desert. Like.

[A]

Like Queen of the desert. All right, congregation, stay scheming and confessing.