Fraud Friday: Love Fraud w/ Scottie Beam & Sylvia Obell

Summary

Scam Goddess Podcast Episode Summary

Title: Fraud Friday: Love Fraud w/ Scottie Beam & Sylvia O'Bell
Host: Laci Mosley (Scam Goddess)
Guests: Scottie Beam & Sylvia O'Bell
Release Date: March 14, 2025

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1. Introduction to Fraud Friday

In this episode of Scam Goddess, Laci Mosley welcomes listeners to "Fraud Fridays," a special segment where she revisits classic episodes from the Scam Goddess vault. The focus of this installment is "Love Fraud," featuring guests Scottie Beam and Sylvia O'Bell, who delve into a harrowing true story of deceit, manipulation, and the relentless pursuit of justice against a prolific con artist.

2. Unveiling the Scam: Richard Scott Smith

Richard Scott Smith, the central figure of this episode, orchestrated an elaborate scam spanning over two decades, deceiving at least a dozen women and amassing over $1 million through fraudulent marriages and business ventures.

• Initial Encounter and Deception: Richard Scott Smith met his victims through curated singles groups, presenting himself as a successful real estate agent and deeply religious man. His tactics involved rapid progression in relationships, love bombing, and the promise of future financial gains.

  "Soon into their courtship, Richard told her he was looking for someone to help with his business, Prestige Corporate Living."
  — Laci Mosley [23:14]

• Manipulative Business Ventures: Smith enticed women to invest in his fake business ventures, promising significant returns from impending lawsuits and financial windfalls. He fabricated stories about medical malpractice suits and other lucrative deals to convince victims to part with their finances.

  "He promised that she would be paid back once he received the 1.2 million he was due for the sale of another business."
  — Laci Mosley [32:17]

• Expansion of the Scam: Over the years, Richard married multiple women simultaneously across different states, leveraging each marriage to siphon funds from unsuspecting victims. His deceit extended to holding fraudulent titles and manipulating legal systems to avoid detection.

  "He has reportedly swindled at least a dozen women over a million dollars."
  — Laci Mosley [54:13]

3. Victims' Journey to Discovery

• Gene Hansen and Lisa Linton: Gene Hansen married Richard Scott Smith, only to discover his existing marriage to Lisa Linton through Lisa's dedicated blog. This revelation exposed Richard's pattern of deceit and led to collective efforts to hold him accountable.

  "Gene realized that this wasn't true and was only one of Richard's many lies."
  — Laci Mosley [33:10]

• Sabrina's Harrowing Experience: Sabrina, another victim, fell prey to Richard's scam, losing $95,000 before recognizing the deceit. Her experience underscores the emotional and financial devastation wrought by such fraudulent schemes.

  "By the time Sabrina got wise to Richard, he had already conned her out of $95,000 and skipped town."
  — Laci Mosley [54:27]

4. Formation of the Revenge Squad

Faced with inadequate support from law enforcement, Lisa Linton and other victims collaborated to form a Revenge Squad, hiring bounty hunter Carla Campbell to track down Richard Scott Smith.

• Carla Campbell's Role: Carla took on the case pro bono, driven by a sense of justice and the determination to prevent Richard from victimizing more women. Her efforts culminated in Richard's arrest in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2018.

  "Carla agreed to take on the women's case pro bono. She said she was going to do it for free."
  — Laci Mosley [62:16]

• Legal Outcomes and Challenges: Despite Richard's arrest, he received a lenient 10-month sentence and was released on probation in 2019. His continued freedom highlights systemic challenges in addressing and prosecuting such intricate scams.

  "As of today, Richard Scott Smith is a free man and apparently still trying to date and defraud women."
  — Laci Mosley [63:33]

5. Systemic Failures and Societal Reflections

The episode critiques the systemic shortcomings that allow scammers like Richard to evade long-term consequences. Victims faced apathy and victim-blaming from authorities, exacerbating their plight and hindering their pursuit of justice.

"Several women also remembered being told verbatim by police, 'You should have known better, honey. And I hope you learned your lesson, sweetie.'"
— Laci Mosley [62:16]

6. Practical Advice for Listeners

Scottie Beam and Sylvia O'Bell offer invaluable tips to help listeners protect themselves from similar scams:

• Due Diligence:

  • Google Verification: Always research potential partners thoroughly. A simple online search can reveal inconsistencies or red flags.

    "Don’t just go by what someone tells you; observe and verify."
    — Scottie Beam [47:11]

  • Social Media Scrutiny: Analyze social media profiles for authenticity and consistency. Lack of genuine connections or frequent changes in stories can indicate deceit.

• Red Flags in Relationships:

  • Rapid Progression: Be wary of relationships that move too quickly, with grand gestures followed by financial requests.

    "He’s moving quick because you’ve got to move quick."
    — Sylvia O'Bell [47:45]

  • Financial Boundaries: Never share financial information early in a relationship. Protect personal data to prevent exploitation.

7. Scammer of the Week: Airbnb Fraud

In a special segment, the podcast highlights a prevalent Airbnb scam where fraudsters list unsuspecting homeowners' properties to rent without authorization. Victims face unauthorized bookings, property invasions, and potential privacy violations.

• Case Study: Jeff Branch Jeff Branch discovered his Los Angeles home listed on Airbnb at $450 a night without his consent. Despite reporting the issue, Airbnb's response was inadequate, leaving the listing active for weeks and causing significant distress.

  "They must not actually do anything to verify the address to make sure the person listing the property actually owns it."
  — Scottie Beam [68:10]

• Protective Measures:

  • Verify Listings: Always cross-check property listings through official channels and visit the property if possible.
  • Secure Home: Regularly monitor online platforms and secure personal information to prevent unauthorized access.

8. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

The episode concludes with a call to vigilance against scams and a reminder of the emotional and financial toll they exact on victims. Laci Mosley, along with guests Scottie Beam and Sylvia O'Bell, reinforce the importance of awareness, resilience, and proactive measures to combat fraud.

"All things being equal, staying informed and cautious can save you from falling prey to elaborate schemes."
— Scottie Beam [49:50]

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Notable Quotes:

• Laci Mosley:
  "As of today, Richard Scott Smith is a free man and apparently still trying to date and defraud women." [63:33]

• Scottie Beam:
  "You gotta just see, like this also dating apps, guys. A scam." [25:25]

• Sylvia O'Bell:
  "I would like to know where all of these people were in January 2021." [61:14]

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This episode of Scam Goddess serves as a compelling exploration of love fraud, illustrating the devastating impact of deceitful practices and the resilience of victims seeking justice. Through engaging narratives and actionable advice, listeners are empowered to recognize and protect themselves against similar scams.

Transcript

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Scottie Beam]

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[Sylvia O'Bell]

Wait.

[Scottie Beam]

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[Sylvia O'Bell]

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[Scottie Beam]

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[Sylvia O'Bell]

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[Judith Kargbo]

I'm gonna leave you to it.

[Scottie Beam]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Scottie Beam]

Terms and conditions apply. What's poppin, congregation? It's ya girl, Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess. Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays where we release older episodes from the Scam Goddess vault. That's right. Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind the Paywall. Enjoy this episode from behind the Paywall. And as always, stay scheming. Scams. Cause Robbery and fraud. Scam ca. Robbery and fraud. Scam Goddess. What's poppin, Congregation? Welcome back to another installment of Scam Goddess. It is I, Lacy Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Good to see y'all. Can y'all see me? I'm just with you. Y'all having a good day? You having a bad day?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

You got gas?

[Scottie Beam]

I don't got gas. Anyways, guys, I am very. Yes. Excited, and I truly am. I know I say this every single time, but we get the best guests on this show, and I know that y'all are gonna go up for today's guest. And we have two guests.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Okay.

[Scottie Beam]

Double homicide. And I'm very excited. Today we have two guests on the show. One is an influential media personality, and the other one is an unfiltered journalist. Together, they host the okay, now listen. Podcast on Netflix. Strong Black Lives. Brand honey. Yes. And you can catch the reality TV show Get you a me on the still watching Netflix YouTube channel. Get you a me is a show where Scottie and her bestie, Sylvia, will be giving men advice on how to land women like them. Just a time for conversation, y'all. And congregation, please welcome Scottie beam and Sylvia O'Bell hi.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Hello. I love that intro so much. I love your voice. I'm have to add.

[Judith Kargbo]

Oh, thank you.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm having an unfiltered journalist to my bio.

[Scottie Beam]

I said, that was a good word.

[Judith Kargbo]

Thank you for that.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Thanks for that.

[Scottie Beam]

I love that for you. Yo, I gotta. Okay. Get you with me. I gotta watch it. I'm gonna watch it because I'm so excited. I know Tristan. He's a very dear friend, and I know he directed. We love Tristan. Yes.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Tristan know everybody, child.

[Scottie Beam]

Yes. I know Damo. So I was like, okay.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Oh, so you were Aggie.

[Scottie Beam]

Honorary. Honorary. Honorary.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Okay. I'm gonna say you start naming aggies, I'm gonna be like, all right, you got one?

[Scottie Beam]

I could keep instant. But I know them because when I moved to Los Angeles, one of my friends, Cody out here, he actually put me on the first podcast I ever did. And I had to ask him. I was like, where the real niggas at? Like. Cause, you know, I was in Hollywood, and I was like, well, you know, everybody was being very Hollywood. I was like, where are, like, the nice, real normal black folks? And then he pointed me in the direction of Tristan and Jojo and all of them, and we've been friends ever since.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

So I love that when somebody asks, where the real N at, they get pointed to Tristan. He'll love that. I'm sure he loves that.

[Judith Kargbo]

It's right up his lap. Ally.

[Scottie Beam]

Tristan, go ahead, make the merch. I'll let you have that one free for you.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Oh, my goodness. I will never hear the end of this.

[Scottie Beam]

Tristan. Oh, my goodness. Well, guys, I have to ask you. And either one of you can go first if you're expecting. But what is your relationship with scams? Do you like them? Do you hate them? Have you ever been scammed? Do you run any statute of limitations? Provided, you know, what's the deal?

[Judith Kargbo]

I don't know of any scams. I think the biggest scam had was probably when a nigga wore his, like, hat in the pool. And that's how I knew that he had a receding hairline. That's a scam. Niggas with hats are scammed. So that was some scamming shit. But other than that, like, I don't necessarily know any scam.

[Scottie Beam]

You got hatfished. Damn.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Oh, child, the hatfish is a common offense.

[Scottie Beam]

Well, now they got weaves.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They got man weaves, so they got beads. You know, sometimes they'll try to make that Beijing blend like it's a little higher hairline than it's supposed to be.

[Judith Kargbo]

It's the only scam that I know.

[Scottie Beam]

They've been using concealer. Look, half vision is funny to me in a pool because you know how misogynistic men love to be on Twitter. Like, if she really want to know if she pretty, throw her in the pool.

[Judith Kargbo]

He jumped in the pool. That's how I knew it was bad. That's when I figured out, oh, I've been scammed. He jumped in the pool with a fitted on.

[Scottie Beam]

I said, oh, he's swimming underwater with the fitted on.

[Judith Kargbo]

Absolutely, yes.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

You know, this is. I'm crying. I now imagining men trying to have sex with a fitted on like a baby. Like, it's natural, right? Because I don't want you to see it.

[Judith Kargbo]

And I feel like it's been done. And I want to tell my ladies that you deserve better. Please, God, do not lay in bed with a man.

[Scottie Beam]

Y'all take a shower together. He got to fit it on. Still no, Please, Chad. No, this can't be it.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yeah, that's the only scam I know. That's my only relationship to scam. Oh, so that's a good one.

[Scottie Beam]

So have you ever been scammed, or do you have a relationship with scams?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Well, but listen, men aside, because I don't know how much time we have.

[Scottie Beam]

Every man is a scam.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Niggas aside. I mean, also, there's obviously all the Internet scamming that's trying to occur today. Sometimes I'd be like, y'all, this is the best y'all got. That is not a challenge. Fi is not challenged. But, you know, definitely there's the, you know, the emails of people who just are in need or. But not really, you know, and they just want your bank information. There's the callers who claim that they're the CIA or who FBI, people who will never call you up like this on an automated account. You know, like, there's those run ins. But I think I've essentially, I feel like I've managed to be pretty scam free. I will say the last time I felt like I got away with a little bit of a scam, even though it wasn't like a nothing crazy. Cause, you know, I'm not about to confess no crimes on a podcast, but I did the other day. Honey baked ham, right? It was Thanksgiving. Honey baked ham is a popular place where people get hams and turkeys and stuff.

[Scottie Beam]

Turkeys are expensive now.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Like, yeah, but. So we didn't get the whole turkey, but we got the ham. Cause we're more of a ham family than the turkey family. As you should be. Anybody should be, right? And we were like, who wants to go through all the trouble? Like, you know, like, let's just get a ham from honey baked Ham. So we went to go pick one up. I had done a reservation child. The line was around the corner, around the parking lot for people waiting in line to get their honey baked hams that they had already pre ordered. I said, I know this ain't the line where people who already reserved the pam sure was. I promise you. I cut that line. Like, I walked in like I was a doordash delivery person trying to pick up. I was like, excuse me, excuse me.

[Scottie Beam]

Oh, I'm so sorry.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Excuse me. Doordash. Gotta, gotta, got a delivery. Gotta pick him up. I got to the register, the little side where it said doordash. I said, hey, I have a reservation. Can I get the. Can I get the turkey? She was like, I got you. I tried to pay when nobody was watching. Got was in and out in about 10 minutes flat while everybody else was in that line for hours. Because what I was not about to do was spend hours waiting for no ham.

[Scottie Beam]

Now listen, I'm with you on that, Sylvia. Lines are bad for my self esteem. They cut a line. Self esteem.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That's my top scamming thing is figuring out a way to cut a line.

[Judith Kargbo]

I do have a top scamming. Sylvia knows this story. I think I was waiting to see.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

If you was gonna tell. Well, I don't know which one you go tell.

[Scottie Beam]

That's a good friend. She was like, I ain't gonna snitch on you.

[Judith Kargbo]

I just remembered as soon as. Like I said, oh, yeah, duh. You remember back in the day they used to send you these checks, shopper checks. You could go in and you act like you shopped.

[Scottie Beam]

Mystery shopper. Yeah.

[Judith Kargbo]

What is it called?

[Scottie Beam]

Mystery shopper.

[Judith Kargbo]

Mystery shopper. Right. And they send you that fake little check.

[Scottie Beam]

Mm.

[Judith Kargbo]

This is back when I was broke. Guys chasing the decimal meter.

[Scottie Beam]

Like when you need. That's when you start being like, maybe, maybe.

[Judith Kargbo]

So it was a fake little check, but it looked real. So I said, let me just go ahead and put this in the ATM and see what happened.

[Scottie Beam]

Oh, no, I know what happened. Don't tell it.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Wait, I don't think I knew this one.

[Judith Kargbo]

Oh, you know this one, Sylvia? I just knew this one, child. They froze my checkings. They froze my savings. They froze me. They froze my lunch, my dinner.

[Scottie Beam]

They froze the icebox where Chase said, shut it all down.

[Judith Kargbo]

They froze.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Chase said, cut the cameras. Dead ass.

[Scottie Beam]

Dead ass.

[Judith Kargbo]

And I was like, oh, you can't do that. They was like, ma'am, you knew that this wasn't a real chat, ma'am. This fat cat.

[Scottie Beam]

It was like, why are they acting like they don't know you, Ma'am? I'll give y'all my money, ma'am. Now you. We go together. Chase. We go together. That was. That was.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That was all the respect they have for you. That was the best. They said that. You know, you lied to me.

[Judith Kargbo]

They looked at me like, bitch, you better be happy that we ain't called the authorities. Get your ass out of Chase. You can no longer.

[Scottie Beam]

They chased you out of Chase?

[Judith Kargbo]

They sure did. I haven't chased since. Yep. I had to move my child out to TD Bank. She gave me a second chance at.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That's why you at TD Bank.

[Scottie Beam]

Not TD Bank. We'll give you a second chance.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I thought she was not. You banned from Chase.

[Scottie Beam]

They said, we don't walk in here. You walk into Chase, they got a picture on the wall of Scottie. They said, if you see this woman.

[Judith Kargbo]

Mind you, it was like, for $110, like, it wasn't that crazy.

[Scottie Beam]

Also, Chase is fucked up for that. Why they victim blaming? Why they victim blaming? Okay, you gotta get. And you deposited a check. I see nothing wrong with you believing in a check, okay?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It could have been the honest mistake. Maybe you thought you was the check and you put the other one by accident. You know that's right.

[Scottie Beam]

Nah, Chase. I mean, Chase ain't that.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Ooh, that's funny. No, I thought she was going to the New Jersey Transit 1. That's why I thought she was.

[Judith Kargbo]

That's not scamming. That's just stealing from the state.

[Scottie Beam]

But no, listen, that's not a scam. Public transportation in New York and New Jersey should be free. Should be free. It should be free.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It should be free.

[Judith Kargbo]

Okay?

[Scottie Beam]

And they be trying to run up the Metro car every time I come back. The Metro card is more expensive, but the Metro is not giving expensive.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It's not improved a thing. Where are this budget? Where is my money going? Cause it's not going to the subway, right?

[Scottie Beam]

The same rest got the apartment complex right by the J train, like an.

[Judith Kargbo]

Outlet in the NJ Transit. So how come y'all ain't got no extra outlets yet? Y'all ain't got no cup holders, no.

[Scottie Beam]

Wise or no files?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

All they got is that blast in. That AC be freezing you be freezing.

[Judith Kargbo]

Your ass some niggas still take cash, you understand? NJ Transit still take cash. Yes. So Sylvia's talking about I will hide my ass in a motherfucking bathroom before I pay for a damn ticket.

[Scottie Beam]

Amen. Amen.

[Judith Kargbo]

It's too expensive.

[Scottie Beam]

That's called reparations, okay? They're not gonna give us reparations. We gonna have to take em wherever we can get. Okay? And that just sounds to me like some reparations. Okay.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

For the community.

[Judith Kargbo]

Okay?

[Scottie Beam]

I'm not mad at it. Well, let's get into our first segment here. What's hot in fraud? This is where we warn our listeners about a popping scam and the zeitgeist. More often than not, we get your letters as always. Snitch on your friends and family. Scamgottischodmail.com Just make sure the scam is retired because we don't wanna. What? Yes. Fuck up your bag. Amen. So I need a fake name for this person. Sylvia Scottie. Any fake name. We don't care about gender on this show.

[Judith Kargbo]

Andrea.

[Scottie Beam]

Andrea. Oh, Andrea sound like she do her taxes. That's a classy name. So Andrea says, I worked for redacted cable, Internet and phone service provider for you. Better redact when I would go to service calls, right? So when I would go and do service calls within 30 minutes of my own home, I would always leave customers the number to a burner phone so that they could call me directly if they had issues. And they could pay me $50 instead of paying redacted $70 and having to wait. I know that's right. Because them cable windows, like they, they really are disrespectful.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They're ridiculous.

[Scottie Beam]

They must 8am to midnight. What kind of window is that?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Exactly? Exactly. I hate, I hate, I hate activating cable.

[Scottie Beam]

You don't have to leave your house, right? You don't have things to do. You don't have a job. Okay, yeah. Wait all day. So he said he gonna come in 30 minutes or less like Domino's Pizza. I'm not mad at this scam so far. So then Andrea says what I would do is leave a small time bomb inside of their house so they would have to call me usually within about a month. During this time I made between 500 and 1500 dollars extra a month doing side jobs that usually took 10 minutes or less.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Wait, hold on, wait, wait.

[Scottie Beam]

This is involved. Andreas.

[Judith Kargbo]

A time bomb?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

What does that even mean?

[Scottie Beam]

What does it mean?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

What is a time bomb? Who I look like?

[Scottie Beam]

I don't know what the time bomb. I don't know what it is.

[Judith Kargbo]

Why she ain't getting no description. I need to know what the hell the time bomb is.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Not me. Not me. Googling time bomb.

[Judith Kargbo]

Let me see. Time bomb.

[Scottie Beam]

Cable time bomb.

[Judith Kargbo]

I don't know what the fuck that was.

[Scottie Beam]

What the hell is a cable time bomb? Now you got me like Beck. Like that's the only time bomb I know. Tick, tick. 9A.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Nah.

[Scottie Beam]

Nah. I don't know this time bomb. So maybe he must be doing something when he's always something.

[Judith Kargbo]

He must be doing something very much something.

[Scottie Beam]

Very much something to the cable boxes or to the Internet that he knows is gonna like short out or isn't gonna last very long. And then he knows that they're gonna have to hit him up on the burner and then he gonna pull up and fix the problem that he made. Now she. He.

[Judith Kargbo]

Now I say I love that you already knew it was a man.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

And that's what I'm saying. I don't see no woman doing this to families. They got mothers and children and shit. Right? I maybe want to watch Pet Patrol. Can't watch Pep Patrol.

[Judith Kargbo]

Right.

[Scottie Beam]

Can't watch Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol. That's the bootleg version.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Tell me nobody has kids in this podcast episode without telling me. Pet Patrol.

[Judith Kargbo]

Pet Patrol.

[Scottie Beam]

Pet Patrol. The explorer. Like that's three different shows.

[Judith Kargbo]

Dr. Pepper.

[Scottie Beam]

Clues.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Clues. Clues.

[Scottie Beam]

Clues. You know, it's a little cop and they look for clues. And it's a pig and it's Britney.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Whatever.

[Scottie Beam]

Whatever them kids are talking about.

[Judith Kargbo]

That's Peppa Pig. Peppa pig. That's Dr. Peppa pig.

[Scottie Beam]

Dr. Peppa pig.

[Judith Kargbo]

Dr. Peppa pig.

[Scottie Beam]

My thing is, I had a cousin who used to install bootleg cable until he got caught. And that's a benevolent scam because he would come do the Boulevard Cable. Charge you a one time fee. Now you got Skinemax. Showtime. If the weather. Right. And you know that's a kind scam.

[Judith Kargbo]

Andre.

[Scottie Beam]

I don't know if I fuck with you over here. Like messing people's stuff up purposefully and.

[Judith Kargbo]

Then giving them a discount. That's fucked up.

[Scottie Beam]

I don't like that.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I don't like scamming people. I'm only here for scamming big corporations that deserve it. You know what I mean? Or like the rich from the rich. Like Robin Hood from the rich.

[Scottie Beam]

You know what I mean?

[Judith Kargbo]

Absolutely. 100.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

But messing with the people who are just trying to get by probably didn't get paid that day because they stayed home from work to fix what you Started and you taking their money.

[Scottie Beam]

Well, now he said he does it in 30 minutes or less. So like dominoes. Okay? So he still.

[Judith Kargbo]

That takes time. I still gotta be home for it.

[Scottie Beam]

And he charging $50. That's cheaper. Here's the thing, I. Andrea, I love you. I love you for listening to the podcast, but I gotta read you. I gotta read you just a little bit. I gotta open the book. I gotta open a weed in the library, just for a second, pull out that book. If you had done this and then people called you and they had real problems and it wasn't something you manufactured, I would be with the shits. But the fact that you are over here breaking people's stuff, that's crazy. And then coming back and fixing it, that's like the windshield, like, that's like if. Safe flight. Like, safe flight repair, safe flight replace. Like if they came out and just started throwing bricks in niggas windows and, oh, dad, oh, you need me.

[Judith Kargbo]

Ah, shit.

[Scottie Beam]

I'll be there in five minutes, right? That's so tragic. I just happened to be here, right.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

With a car full of windshields.

[Judith Kargbo]

It's even more disrespectful that you say it's 30 minutes or less because I still gotta be home the whole day for you to be there. And then you take care of it in 30 minutes. And how many times are you fucking up my cable? He's probably done it to the same person numerous times.

[Scottie Beam]

I hope not. Then what? Andrea, I hope you were not double dipping. I hope you would at least if you were doing it just one time. Or at least let the houses be opulent.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Were the people rich?

[Scottie Beam]

Like, did they get several cable boxes? And you were like, oh, y'all got money? Like, I hope. Oh, man, Andrea, I can't respect that.

[Judith Kargbo]

I can't respect that.

[Scottie Beam]

I can't. I don't know about that. I don't know. I don't know if I like that, Andrea. But I still like you. Keep listening to the podcast. Tune in like, and subscribe. And then let your baby listen in the other room. Multiple streams that's what we want. Lemonade sings a pet insurance customer review.

[Judith Kargbo]

My new puppy swallowed a bone.

[Scottie Beam]

Still a good boy, though. And boy, was I glad that I had lemonade.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I was baby back quickly and efficiently. Everyone was so nice.

[Scottie Beam]

Get this pet insurance and get a'[e-mail].

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[Scottie Beam]

And we are back. And it's time for my favorite segment of the show, Historic Hoodwinks. This is where I will wear Gail, Sylvia and Scotty with a famous con caper group of criminals squad. Maybe we like him, maybe we hate him. I have a feeling we might not like this guy.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Let's see.

[Scottie Beam]

Damn it. So I picked this scam for you guys because of get you and me. And I know that y'all are out here getting men together. And this is a man sorely needs to be gathered. So that's.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Well, that's what we do. Who you gonna call, right?

[Scottie Beam]

Buckboy Busters. Nigga Busters. No. What is that entire. What is y'all? What is yalls Kit? When you show up, then is it like Dax Durags?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

You laugh, but we had a kit. In one of our episodes when we went to a nigga's house room Raider style. We had a black light, we had magnifying, we had gloves touching on flashlight. We had flashlight flag lights. We had a lot of tweezer tongs.

[Scottie Beam]

Remember room Raiders? What toxic time in MTV reality television shows. And it was beautiful.

[Judith Kargbo]

It's not beautiful Time.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

We were trying to restore the feeling. You know what I mean?

[Judith Kargbo]

Yes, that's very true.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I love that.

[Scottie Beam]

It was like, let me go through your shit and see if I want to date you Wild. Also, I love Next bus. Did y'all ever watch Next? The most disrespectful dating show.

[Judith Kargbo]

Fuck with Next. I love that show. I love that show.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

See, Bring that shit back, right?

[Scottie Beam]

Forget the Bachelor. We want Next. Okay? Right.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Quick and dirty.

[Scottie Beam]

They be like, I love to work out. And they be like, I don't like to work out. Next. Next.

[Judith Kargbo]

And they think they gotta get their ass off the bus.

[Scottie Beam]

Do the thumbs down in the face. And then I always love the little walk of shame that they did where they filmed. And they was like, I ain't like him anyway.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Anyway. Right?

[Scottie Beam]

He didn't even have all his hair. Talk about next. He wished he could get with me. This show is so. Like, they would be so mad just.

[Judith Kargbo]

Cause I'm an actor.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Whatever.

[Judith Kargbo]

I'm out Whatever.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I just wanted to give my five minutes of Showtime.

[Scottie Beam]

Whatever.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm gonna find my man, gonna find me now that he saw me on mtv.

[Scottie Beam]

They had to all be actors. Maybe some of them were, but, like, most of them had to be.

[Judith Kargbo]

I mean.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I mean, most contestants on most things are actors just trying to get seen.

[Judith Kargbo]

Trying to get seen. And then a lot of them, you see them in different shows, and you're like, where's you in a different dating show you're trying to get on? You see, working, right? Eliminate.

[Scottie Beam]

Eliminate love to recycle through people. That was my show that was like, X rated. Cause it came on real late at night, and they'd be in a hot tub and they would blur out stuff. I was like, ooh, I'm grown now.

[Judith Kargbo]

That was a good time in history.

[Scottie Beam]

It was so good. And Cheaters is also fake, y'all. Sorry. To expose the scam. One of my homies, Tone, he was on Cheaters. And I was like, tony?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Not sure Tony wasn't cheating. Maybe Tony was the camera's dead ass.

[Judith Kargbo]

You about.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It's like telling Scottie Santa ain't real. What you talking about? Cheetahs is fake.

[Scottie Beam]

Cheetahs is fake, Scotty. I'm sorry.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

How you know that every episode is fake, though? Every episode they be fighting, though.

[Judith Kargbo]

Like, they be fighting. No, hold on, hold on, hold on. You mean to tell me, first of all, I be seeing the aunties in there that be over the age of 50? You mean to tell me them they are actors that you're telling me, and I'mma show you one. I can show you one after this show that I know is real. Scotty here, my girl did not sign up for any of that. I know for a fact it's a real story. They was in North Carolina. That's how I know they real.

[Scottie Beam]

Yo, if you were on Cheaters, tweet me. Tweet. Scottie, tweet one of us and tell us if you was on Cheaters. Cause I need to know if it is ever real.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Cause I know for a fact. I feel like Scottie about to cite real episodes to you. That is her shit. Okay. All right. We're moving on.

[Scottie Beam]

Moving on. Moving right along. It's not good weeks today.

[Judith Kargbo]

We hate to see it.

[Scottie Beam]

Go ahead. For over 20 years, a man named Richard Scott Smith conned a series of women, many of who he ended up marrying for over $1 million. One million of them. Thanks. He was mostly unknown and did not meet justice until a team of victims, documentarians, and a Bounty hunter took the case. Oh, no. You telling me this man with this.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Face, he scammed how many women into doing what?

[Scottie Beam]

Now how would you. How would.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

How would he get money from, like, he looks. That man's got a receding hairline. Is that a soul patch in the middle? He looks like a flavor saver at the top of his head.

[Scottie Beam]

I don't know. The front of his hairline. Start at the nape of his neck.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Like, he looks just like the thumb.

[Judith Kargbo]

Right?

[Scottie Beam]

He got a face like a thumb. Where's the chin?

[Judith Kargbo]

He'll have no chin. It just all run down.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

He'll have no chin.

[Scottie Beam]

Give us chin, sir. You owe us chin.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

All forehead, no chin, you hate to see it. He looks like. He looks like he'll kill you. Like, what woman was falling in love with this? I'm trying to figure this out.

[Scottie Beam]

And also, like, a man like this, he would have to pay me to even say hello. Like, I'm not giving him any money.

[Judith Kargbo]

First of all, I'm running away just based off the look. Yeah.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

The glass eye, the glassy over eyes. Like I have no emotion deep inside.

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah. It's giving. Like I'm going to be chopped up in your freezer next to the meats. I don't. Right. I'll be next to the honey baked ham. Yeah. I'm not trying to be in there. Nah. Yeah. It's not giving anything, actually. I mean, he got a lip, though. He got a little bit of lips.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Lacey, don't do this. No, no.

[Judith Kargbo]

That's what I don't. I don't appreciate. Don't sit here and try to give us.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

You're giving more than it deserves. Don't give it more. Way more.

[Scottie Beam]

Got a little bit of lips.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Please. I don't want to talk about his lips because now I'm imagining him kissing people and I don't. I don't want it. I don't want it.

[Judith Kargbo]

Make it stop.

[Scottie Beam]

Whenever I used to use dating apps, I would, like, look at the man's picture or a woman's picture, and I would lay down and I would hold it up so I could see if I would ever want this person on top of me.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yes.

[Scottie Beam]

Yep.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yep.

[Scottie Beam]

And I feel like if I held this picture up over me laying down, I'd be like, ah.

[Judith Kargbo]

If more people. If more people did that. That is hilarious. I feel like it would keep you from actually, like, wasting your time.

[Scottie Beam]

Right?

[Judith Kargbo]

I like that.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That is hilarious.

[Scottie Beam]

Cause sometimes he be swiping. Cause you like, eh, I ain' But I'm Like, I gotta just see, like this also dating apps, guys. A scam. If anybody says they work in consulting, they don't got no job. I hate. That's not a real job. Okay, consulting. What? Consulting? Where?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Shout out to the 20 people who actually consult in any city, but the rest of them are lying.

[Scottie Beam]

And I'm sorry to y'all. Sorry to those consultants, but they stealing. They lying on y'all. They saying they do their job. It's one of those jobs you don't have to really prove anything. It's the kind of job where you don't really have a job. They're like, no, I just moved to her.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Exactly. There's nobody who could verify their.

[Judith Kargbo]

That's how I found out about the consulting. Is Hitch.

[Scottie Beam]

Hitch.

[Judith Kargbo]

I was like, this nigga don't do nothing. This nigga don't do nothing but just team vibes other people vibes. Just talk to people. That's it.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

He's a glorified wingman and he got.

[Judith Kargbo]

And that's why he said, that's why I get to charge so much. Because.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Because nobody knows what I do.

[Judith Kargbo]

Don't nobody know.

[Scottie Beam]

And I love it. And I love that for him. So the beginning In August of 2015, Gene Hansen flew with a man named Richard Scott Smith to get married in Las Vegas. They had met through singles group and immediately hit it off. This is the same man. So then next to him is Gene. Okay, so Gene is giving me 2000's eyebrows, but that's okay. She did them up a little bit. She looks very smitten. And you know, they taking a selfie. He's holding the camera, so he's definitely giving like vibes of like a man who's committing. Cause you know, non committal men, they run away from cameras. They act like they and get out and they see a flash.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

He took this a full usy. They took right here.

[Scottie Beam]

Yes. And they look like they're in a diner. It's giving diner. I see some things behind the fridge. The fridge is visible. So, you know, the restaurant's not too nice. But, you know, it's cute. I'm not mad at it. So they met through a singles group. So this man was going and shooting fish in a barrel. A singles group.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They met in a singles group.

[Judith Kargbo]

What is that?

[Scottie Beam]

So a singles group is where when you're single, like people do them on Facebook. They'll do them, you know, online or Craigslist, wherever. And they'll be like, hey, come to our singles group. We're all single. You can come here and you can definitely meet single people. Whereas, like, you know, you go to a bar or whatever, you just like rolling the dice.

[Judith Kargbo]

Right, right.

[Scottie Beam]

But all singles group. Curated.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Curated singles.

[Scottie Beam]

Curated singles group. Also, it means that probably people are intentional about getting in a relationship. Because.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Yeah, you can find eager, vulnerable, lonely people. Victims you hate to see. That's what he's going for.

[Judith Kargbo]

Damn.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That's what he go.

[Scottie Beam]

I see.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Well, no, that's what he's. Obviously, those are the ones he's looking for. He's like, you gotta be real deep, deep, deep in your singleness to go to a singles group.

[Scottie Beam]

You being a real unfiltered journalist right now. Wow.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I am. I was single for. I've been single for what, six years? You ain't seen me in no singles group.

[Scottie Beam]

I'm singles.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I have done the apps.

[Scottie Beam]

I've been thinking about a singles group, but now I'm like, well, never mind then. Cause y'all, like, singles gonna be there?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It depends. Is it a black singles group? I would trust that more.

[Scottie Beam]

That don't make no difference.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

No, but I mean, at least, like, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about.

[Judith Kargbo]

Singles group or just show up. What you should do is just like, if they meet up at a bar or whatever, you can't necessarily say you found this. Like, just don't look too desperate. Just be like, hey, I'm here for the singles group. Like, come in. Be like, oh, what's going on here?

[Scottie Beam]

Ok. Act like you're not there for the singles group.

[Judith Kargbo]

Like, you're not there.

[Scottie Beam]

You just went there to pick up the. Don't take a name tag. Don't sit down.

[Judith Kargbo]

Right. Just go to the front and say, pick up for Larce.

[Scottie Beam]

And then doordash.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Not my doordash scale. Doordash.

[Scottie Beam]

We start looking around and see what you can see. That's a good flex. That's. How do you make yourself, like, have some status at the singles group? You be like, you go to singles.

[Judith Kargbo]

Group and find your love. That's true.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Wow.

[Scottie Beam]

That's true.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Yeah. I mean, like, I like. Yeah, I've heard of, like, speed dating and, like, mixers and stuff like that. I guess it was just like the formalized term of singles group. And then what? That couple looked like the neighbor. Like a neighbors and get out. It was giving and get out.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yeah, that's true.

[Scottie Beam]

And she did need to. She needed to.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

And it was so I was a little, like, afraid of just Regular people going to those type of meetings, if that's what's there, if that's the material.

[Scottie Beam]

I don't know if match.com maybe because we're still in the pandemonium. They probably don't do this, but they. Match.com used to do single group nights out. And I remember when I was bartending in New York city one time, Match.com canceled the singles group thing, and they canceled it through us. Cause they were hosting it here. And I'm like, damn. I just know people gonna. It's gonna be some lonely bitches showing up tonight. And I'm gonna feel so bad. Girl, I was making mint juleps and Cirocs and all types of stuff for.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Free for my poor queens.

[Scottie Beam]

For my son, the beach. Here you go, sis. Sip up. Sip up. I'm so sorry. It's on the house. I'm so sorry.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

No, it's on the house.

[Scottie Beam]

There's nothing worse than going to a singles meeting. And it. Damn, that feels like a sign from God.

[Judith Kargbo]

That hurts.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They were down bad. They were down bad that night.

[Judith Kargbo]

That would hurt. Yeah.

[Scottie Beam]

Soon into their courtship, Richard told her he was looking for someone to help with his business, Prestige Corporate Living. I don't even know what that means. The company leased apartments and subleased them to renters around the area. Gene agreed to join the business. Now, y'all done just got together, and if you are a man, and I have to say this because I feel like, especially in the black community, we, as black women, are trained and told by so many people, like, you know, you build with your spouse, you build with your partner, and y'all go. Y'all grinding together.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Team.

[Scottie Beam]

No sleep and love. And listen, if you are a cisgendered man, don't call me until the house is built. And it better have furniture and it better be paid tick. Okay. And it needs to also be paid for.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Okay.

[Scottie Beam]

I don't want no mortgage either.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

She said she was like a turnkey, nigga. Thank you.

[Scottie Beam]

A turnkey.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Anybody looking to refurbish or rebuild or.

[Scottie Beam]

You know, taking down the walls?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm not looking for a product.

[Scottie Beam]

I'm not remodeling the kitchen.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

What you said is we called them Bobisha the Builder. That's what we call them on our Bobisha the Builder. We ain't building.

[Judith Kargbo]

I'm not building a damn.

[Scottie Beam]

No, you gotta come with it. I'm coming with it. I'm in therapy. Like, get your stuff together. I build my own furniture, child. Hello. Hello. So you know, when A man asks you to invest in his business. Cause normally, like that's a prideful thing for cisgendered men. Like, why is he asking for your coins already?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Like, especially so early, like, how long, how far into it was it that he asking her to invest in his business?

[Scottie Beam]

So he promised that she would be paid back once he received the 1.2 million he was due for the sale of another business. So here's another scam he talking about. He got money in transit. He said the money on the way around the corner, it's 15 minutes. GPS say the money gonna be here in eight to nine business years. Like, what?

[Judith Kargbo]

Did my girl see how this n was living in the first place? No.

[Scottie Beam]

Was he giving millions? Cause he was not giving millions in his opinion.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm about to say. Cause if somebody got million dollar deals coming and coming in their way, all netting willy nilly, they should be living their quality of life should reflect that.

[Scottie Beam]

He wasn't giving thousands, he wasn't giving hundreds. Right.

[Judith Kargbo]

And judging by that photo that we just saw, that's a diner. So. No, that is giving absolutely hundreds. I'm not even gonna give him thousands, just hundreds of dollars. So yes, go ahead.

[Scottie Beam]

It's giving. Like, do we even get a napkin with our silverware Is giving. They just put a fork on the.

[Judith Kargbo]

Table, Hot water for the silverware. That's what it's giving.

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah. No, absolutely not. Jean soon came to realize that this wasn't true and was only one of Richard's many lies. But by the time she left Richard, she was so far in debt that she had to borrow money to file for bankruptcy. After going $700,000 into debt.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It wasn't $700,000 USD into debt for that hairline.

[Scottie Beam]

For that, for that matter. He gotta have something. Maybe he know how to do some things in the boudoir.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

No, can't be. Ain't no maybe.

[Scottie Beam]

He blooming in the boudoir.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

What? My girl Anna from Bling Empire say, ain't no dick in the world worth that. Okay. 700,000.

[Scottie Beam]

There's nothing he might be getting married to be. Full of magic, Michael.

[Judith Kargbo]

No. Nope, nope, nope, nope.

[Scottie Beam]

So it wasn't until after the wedding that Gene learned that he was still married to a woman in Georgia. So wait, he got some exes down in Georgia?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Like, wow, not to the peaches. Not only did he take her $700,000 in debt, he was also married this whole time?

[Scottie Beam]

Yes, fully married. That woman that he was married to was Lisa Linton, and she married Richard in April of 2012. Let's look at old Lisa. Okay? Lisa's giving the same brow all kind of.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm about to say they look like they all get their brows at the same place, right? Scott, he said these are not the same white woman.

[Judith Kargbo]

They're not the same white woman.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It's the same. It's a different white woman. They just also got them 90s.

[Scottie Beam]

Them 90s brows, where it's like 11 hairs in a straight line.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It's giving pencil.

[Scottie Beam]

11 single hairs.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It's given a pencil fill in.

[Scottie Beam]

But you know what, Lisa, we not gonna drag you, because you are the victim.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

You're a victim here, too. Okay, Lisa, we gonna drag your browist, whoever they are.

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah. That's what's in the wrong. We will fight whoever does your brows.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

You know, they still tweeze. It's given that they tweeze still. They probably don't even have somebody. Nobody's really doing that. These women are just tweezing too much.

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah, she ain't seeing no thread or she getting her brows done at the nail sal. Cause you know, they'll be like, come on to the back, and we'll wax everything. I'm like, if you put your coochie wax the same place you put a pedicure, you down bad. Don't do that. Don't do that.

[Judith Kargbo]

You just hurt somebody's feelings.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Cause I see them do it. I see them. I see it happens. And I be at a nail salon like that.

[Judith Kargbo]

She probably go to Sally's. She go to Sally's to get that done.

[Scottie Beam]

You can go to Costco and buy milk and a casket, but you cannot go to the nail salon and get everything done. Okay. If they say doing everything or super.

[Judith Kargbo]

Cuts, Supercuts does eyebrows.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It's giving super cuts. It has given super cuts. Super cuts.

[Scottie Beam]

Can't even do the cut. Super. You definitely don't want to let them near your face.

[Judith Kargbo]

Well, no, Them white people love them white people. Much respect to y'all white people. Yay on this show, but y'all niggas love super cuts, so y'all have to. This is definitely a super cut family.

[Scottie Beam]

Maybe they know how to cut back with this hair. Okay. But I'm not walking into a super cuts with these naps. It's just not gonna happen.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It's not happening. But she got him in the chokehold. Like, he hers for real.

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah, she was.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

He been on the Internet. He been on the Internet on the Internet with other women, and you can.

[Scottie Beam]

Tell he got a skill Set here. Cause you can see both of her hands. So he taking the photo. So he was like, baby, come over here. Let's take a photo. You know I love you. Now give me some money. I'm gonna put this on Facebook. Let the girls know you took.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm about to say this. He not have. He must not be posting these on his. Or he got multiple Instagrams and Facebooks. They must not be posting.

[Scottie Beam]

She posted it on Facebook, and she changed her status to in a relationship and in love and dick down and married.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Cause she's apparently his wife.

[Scottie Beam]

Oh, yeah. And also married and natur. Okay. And she had to let the other single girls know, like, you could never.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Have a man, but they could. But the gang was.

[Scottie Beam]

So their marriage has never been legally dissolved or annulled. After learning that her husband was still married, Gene granted an annulment in 2019 in the Johnson county district court. So she was granted an annulment because they were like, well, we can't do the polygamy joke, you know, so. Can't do the bigamies. So on the other hand, Lisa, who was the real wife, right. After only a few months of marriage, she discovered that he was married to yet another woman, but as of 2017, hadn't been able to get an annulment or a divorce. So the women. Yes, the third woman. We're on woman number trace. Okay.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Do the courts not check for marriage certificates when you file for one?

[Scottie Beam]

If it's in a different state, you know, it's kind of messy.

[Judith Kargbo]

They can't. They can't.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I didn't even. Was it not like a federal office that they run these files through? They never been married, so I don't know how this works.

[Scottie Beam]

You just gone down to the courthouse, and it's in the same line where you pay your traffic tickets and go to traffic court. It is, because I had to go to traffic court, and I wore a suit. I thought I was about to be Annalise Keaton.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm dying. If it's them same people, if this them same people, they never go. Scotty gonna have to get married in a different state than New Jersey. That DMV and her got beef. You hear me? I got beef with New Jersey's DMV as well. So you. Marriage is hard enough. You trying to tell me that you also gotta make sure that your man ain't marrying women in other states?

[Scottie Beam]

Yes. And, like, that's something I never thought to ask a man. Cause I will ask. I will ask a straight man. I'll be like, is there anyone in this world who thinks that you're in a relationship with them? Like, I'll ask him that, but I didn't know I needed to ask. Is there anyone in the continental US.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That you're married to? No. Make it international, including. I know what my uncles do across, you know, across the Atlantic. But I know that within America. I didn't know that in these United States that don't seem to be too united. Ain't nobody. That's wild.

[Scottie Beam]

Nah, that's right.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

All right, continue, child.

[Judith Kargbo]

I'm trying to wait for the part Lacey, where he get his ass beat, but I'm assuming so.

[Scottie Beam]

Lisa says she was lucky because she left Richard and froze her accounts before he gained access to any of her finances. I know that that's right. I know that's right. Joint.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

What? Joint. Nothing.

[Scottie Beam]

Right. Joint. Joint who? Joint where? My mama always said, my money is my money. Your money is our money.

[Judith Kargbo]

Mm. That's right. She right about it.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

She ain't right about it.

[Scottie Beam]

So it was her difficulty with both a marriage with Richard and her inability to get it voided that prompted Lisa to start a blog about him. Oh, no.

[Judith Kargbo]

That's right.

[Scottie Beam]

A woman scorned. She done got on the Internet.

[Judith Kargbo]

Not the bar.

[Scottie Beam]

Why? She got a picture of it with a huge sign that says crook underneath in red letters.

[Judith Kargbo]

They put my. They put this man. Hold on.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

What? The children are not safe by him. Please message me for more info. It's the black and white jail suit costume that she got him in.

[Scottie Beam]

She got him in his face. She ain't got no damn Photoshop. She done did this on Microsoft.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

She did the best she could with what she had. She said, I am no web engineer. You hear me?

[Scottie Beam]

Right? But you get the point, though. You get the gist. She went to GoDaddy.com and said, Let me ruin him. Wait, let me read this author.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

She has his other aliases up in here. Child. She didn't even crop her battery in. Time out. The photo, the screenshot.

[Scottie Beam]

Wait, Go up. I need to see this author thing. So she got a picture of his mugshot right next to author. So obviously she using a template because.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It'S giving blog space.

[Scottie Beam]

It's definitely blog space. It's giving. Yeah.

[Judith Kargbo]

This is blockspot.com.

[Scottie Beam]

It says about me. It's giving, Xanga. It's giving.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yes.

[Scottie Beam]

And it says, I am just another woman who was victimized by Richard Scott Smith, aka Scott Smith. Aka Richard Smith. All the AKs. All right, Barbara. And then if we scroll over, it says, I mean, how terrifying is this mugshot?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

But what's killing me is, okay, that.

[Scottie Beam]

Mug shot is terrifying.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It is, actually. You married that. You married him.

[Judith Kargbo]

This is around his neck.

[Scottie Beam]

Guilty. What did he plead guilty to? Scroll down. Richard Spot Smith pleads guilty to identity theft in Johnson County, Kansas, and admits to violent probation regarding his domestic assault case in Polk County, Iowa. So he over here. Here doing domestic abuse, too. Oh, Richard, you got a lot of nerves in probation.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

So this man. So you mean to tell me that Meek Mill can't pop a wheelie, right? But this man.

[Scottie Beam]

But this man.

[Judith Kargbo]

Go ahead.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

But this man been violating probation across the and the Midwest, and they. And they just let him run free.

[Judith Kargbo]

And they let him run free.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Nobody coming and nobody come get him.

[Judith Kargbo]

And between him and Meek Mill, this nigga looks terrorizing, right? So scared of this man.

[Scottie Beam]

If anyone belongs behind bars, like, the most like, terrorizing thing that Meek Mill has ever done was eat french fries in a pool with pool water on.

[Judith Kargbo]

Oh, my gosh. Please, please, please.

[Scottie Beam]

This man, Richard is a menace. So it was only through discovering that blog that Gene found out that Richard was married to Lisa. It was also through that blog that Gene and Lisa discovered Richard's other wives, girlfriends. And that may have been Richard's eight or ninth wife.

[Judith Kargbo]

Hey, question, guys. How are y'all finding this blogspot.com?

[Scottie Beam]

Google.

[Judith Kargbo]

Oh, I guess y'all looked up his name.

[Scottie Beam]

They just Googled his full name. I think everybody should Google somebody, but.

[Judith Kargbo]

I feel like this is on the fifth page of Google. Like, this is on the seventh. This ain't on the first page.

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah, Richard Scott Smith is a very basic name.

[Judith Kargbo]

So you had to go through the linkedins, the Facebooks, the everything to get.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

To this blog post. Would you imagine meeting a man and Googling him and finding this fucking page? I would be.

[Judith Kargbo]

I would have passed out.

[Scottie Beam]

I would be dead.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I would be dead. You hear me?

[Scottie Beam]

So in addition to finding Lisa, Gene also found out that Richard had been seeing other women. He became engaged a month before they were even married. Like Gene, the woman was also involved in Richard's business, which we know is not a real business, and continued to be involved with him even after his marriage to Gene, unaware that he was married. In September 2015, while the woman was on a business trip to Des Moines, Iowa, Richard physically assaulted her. The woman called it a terrifying incident, which she thought that she might be killed. That's so fucked up. Richard was arrested for domestic abuse and then put on probation but that didn't prevent him from continuing to con women. And we see that he was arrested. We saw his mug shot. While little is known of Richard Scott Smith's family history, his aunt told documentarians that he was raised by his grandparents until the age of nine. At nine, his verbally abusive alcoholic mother took him back and vanished without a trace. His mother passed away when he was 32, leaving him to carry for his 12 year old sister Tony. Tony said Scott was jumping from woman to woman and telling them that I was his daughter. He used me as a tool to play at their heartstrings. Oh yeah, single dad. And you know, single dads get all.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

The love women do. Be like, oh, but I thought like when they have a baby, oh, it's such a cute baby in a stroller. I know you could be walking around with a full 12 year old. He probably was like, my wife died, I'm taking care of her.

[Judith Kargbo]

Okay, yeah. If you act like maybe 12 year.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Old woman, there's no woman there.

[Scottie Beam]

So he putting some razzle dazzle.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

He put some simp. He going for the sympathy widow card or something.

[Scottie Beam]

He putting Larry's on it.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

The way. If I was a little sister, I would have been sliding a little napkin note across the table.

[Scottie Beam]

Now look, if I was a little sister, I would have been going with it. I would have been like, I love you, daddy, brother. I mean, daddy, listen, I'm trying to get the bag. If she got the bag. I know my daddy. Don't we know Richard broke. So I'm going be over there like, daddy, can I, can I have $20.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

For some ice cream? Like, can I have $50 for my silent. I mean for some ice cream.

[Judith Kargbo]

My silence.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Silence for my silence. Code word for silence is ice cream. We should be on a court here. I'll be right. My allowance would be hefty.

[Scottie Beam]

Hefty. Okay, okay.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

A hefty allowance robbery.

[Scottie Beam]

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[Scottie Beam]

And Frau. So he would present himself as exactly the sort of man that the woman was looking for, regardless of how far it was from the truth. To one woman named Tracy. He was a real estate agent who owned a company and was deeply religious. I'm a sidebar here real quick. Everyone out there, no matter your gender, he, she, they, them, non binary icons, Never under any circumstances tell someone that you're dating in the beginning what you are looking for in a partner. Never do it. Don't do it. Because a lot of people will be what you asked for just long enough to get what they want. Don't do it. Just observe. Ask them questions, see who they are. But in terms of scamming, if you tell people what you want and they want something from you, they'll be it just long enough till they get.

[Judith Kargbo]

That's a great piece of advice.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

You know, that's interesting. I think the only caveat I would add is the reverse, which is don't be quick about it. Because I always feel like people will show who they are eventually if you give them enough time. That's why scammers got to work quick. You gotta be, move slow. Like if you come in with your intentions, move slow. Don't marry that man in 90 days. Don't be giving him no money in 60 days. You be watch him for like a year.

[Scottie Beam]

Ain't no such thing as whirlwind romance. That's a tornado, sis. That's a tornado. That's not a whirlwind.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Watch, Watch what he has.

[Scottie Beam]

You need to get into the basement and duck.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

And consistency. Listen, all of that, do the driving.

[Scottie Beam]

All of that, all the stuff. Stuff.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Google, definitely Google. Check the marriage, the marriage license sites in other states.

[Scottie Beam]

If he got Instagram, she got Instagram, they got Instagram. Check, check them tag photos, see what's going on in them tags. Okay. Because that's where it must be.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yeah, so.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Or if they, or if they, or if they have no tagged photos, that's.

[Scottie Beam]

Also a sign they turn tags off.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Take that off. Turn them tags off while the tags is off.

[Scottie Beam]

Now why the tag off? So for another woman, Sabrina, he made her feel like she was his world. Even getting her name tattooed on his back. So wait, wait. Oh, Sabrina. That's the same eyebrows. Why Is he targeting women with these eyebrows? Y'all drawing your eyebrows? The eyebrows.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Thin self esteem. Why? It's like they.

[Scottie Beam]

No, no, my eyebrows are a little thin. I just be. I draw them on one brow at a time like everybody else.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Fill them in a little Anastasia dip brow. I'm no.

[Scottie Beam]

Y'all feel. Fill in your brows. Fill in your brows.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Cause filling them in that scammers are looking for eyebrows.

[Scottie Beam]

I'm scared. So he got the name tattooed on his back. So my question is, all these other women who are married to him, when they see Sabrina, not the teenage witch on his back, like, what is he telling them? Like, oh, that's my mama, my grandma.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

My wife who died. All the stories. I would like to see her. That's what you should say. When they tell you that, ask who the woman is and then ask to meet that woman.

[Scottie Beam]

For both women and many others, he started saying I love you shortly into the relationship. Soon after that, he'd move in and buying expensive gifts with bad checks and making grand promises in those early days. Move in. He a hobo. Sexual. Why he moving in with you? Why you not moving in with him? Why you not getting a place together? Hobosexual.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That's what I'm saying. Too quick. He's moving quick because you got to move quick.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yeah, but then I don't know, because sometimes, especially at that age, I don't know what age that is, but that to me, is older.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They're older.

[Scottie Beam]

And they do move faster when you're.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Older, and they do move faster, but you.

[Judith Kargbo]

So they move faster. And then once you feel like, you know, you know, you know, people do that. And so I can't really be mad at them for doing that because they.

[Scottie Beam]

Of a certain age, it's like, we don't got time to waste. We don't have to think.

[Judith Kargbo]

I've been through the niggas. I've seen the niggas, I've dated the niggas. I've married some. Like, now here we are.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I feel like just do your due diligence, though, is all I'm saying.

[Judith Kargbo]

But they don't do it. That's what I'm saying.

[Scottie Beam]

Right.

[Judith Kargbo]

But they're at the age. I don't know what age that is, but that's older. They're not on Internet looking for whatever. And even, you know, we talked about back in the day where your grandfather had about six, seven different kids on seven different blocks. So that's true. I'm saying. Yes, I know. Like, you know, they should Be. But shit, they like, 60 years old. They can't be over here looking at shit and trying to make sure that their man isn't on Facebook with other women, Sabrinas and all this stuff like that.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Poor them.

[Judith Kargbo]

I feel bad. This is really.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I mean, that's why I'm sad.

[Judith Kargbo]

The impact in me is getting really sad. I know.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I get it. But type of child, a niece, a nephew, somebody be like, hey, just look this person up. That's like, for the older people listening.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yeah.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

If you're worried, tap the millennial or Gen Zer in your life and have a recon for you. They could get it done before Thanksgiving dinner is over at Christmas.

[Scottie Beam]

You got any Gen Z in your life? You got any tiktokers in your life?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They can do more than teach you how to TikTok. Honestly, save you from this.

[Scottie Beam]

If you just made a TikTok and were like, hey, Gen Z, I need to figure out if I'm down bad. Can y'all look up this man? You have about 13 comments in 7 minutes. With all his information, social and everything.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They tell you every city faster than the FBI.

[Scottie Beam]

Okay, okay, the FBI and I be on TikTok, like, mm.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That's why this reminds me of Dear John. Y'all watch them Dear John shows the series Dear John, where it's like two different seasons, but it's about con men, con women. It's like, exactly this situation. But it's like. But the kids are always the ones who try to tell their mama, but then the mama think that they hating or they just upset or just, this.

[Scottie Beam]

Is your new daddy. Now.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Listen, Uncle Rich. And they're like, you know, they think they blame it on some parental daddy issues. And they're like, no, he's crazy. I'm just.

[Scottie Beam]

Mama need love, too. Eventually, he would convince his new victim to grant him some form of access to their finances. And obviously, he's giving them gifts. So that's kind of like the small investment to get the larger investment, where you look like you're rich, you're giving nice gifts, and then you're asking for money, and people are like, well, you got money. You've shown me you have money. So if you need some money, that don't work. If they got money, they got money. If they need your money, they don't got money. He used a lie, and he would repeat it often, that he promised to pay them back once he received the multimillion dollar payout from his medical malpractice suit. Oh, this is a different one. He ain't even talking about the business no more. He said, I had a knee surgery, but then I came out of the operation room and I had one titty. They gave me one implant. So they left a towel in my booty, so they gotta give me my money. Like, he lying. So once he completely fleeces women of their life savings, he vanished for days, never to be heard from again. Over the course of 20 years, Richard has used 10 different Social Security numbers, 43 phone numbers, and 58 registered addresses, mostly operating across the Midwest, which, you know, like the Midwest. They're not fast like that. They're not on America. The Internet's like that. Since his first wife in the late 90s, he has reportedly swindled at least a dozen women over a million dollars. It wasn't until Lisa Linton began her blog that his victims finally had the ground to fight back. Has this man victimized you? As they became aware of each other, Lisa and several of Richard's other victims tried to warn new victims. But for many, it was already too late. He had already got them got him for their coins. In August 2016, concerned which was her 8, wrote Sabrina from Kansas City, if you're able to get this message, know that the car you just leased under your name for Blank, or whatever he's calling himself these days is the first step in putting you in financial hardship. Be careful with Richard. We know who you talking about. Opening new accounts under your name with him telling you that he will pay off the balance. By the time Sabrina got wise to Richard, he had already conned her out of $95,000 and skipped town. 95G. Like, his job is being a gigolo.

[Judith Kargbo]

Damn.

[Scottie Beam]

But you don't know you getting gigoloed. You thought you were getting married and you was getting gigolo. Also, like, they got so much money.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

To be scammed out of in the first place. Child, this pay gap is real, but also like, I'm like, give it to the people who know what to do with it. If y'all just gonna let people scam.

[Scottie Beam]

40 cents on the dollar.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Tell you. But also, like, where? I just can't. I mean, it just be. It is sad because it speaks to, like, people's deep, deep desire to be loved and not be alone, that they're just willing. They just go dumb. Like, can you imagine? I can't imagine a man asking me to open a bank account with him. Like, not my husband. Even if a man in his neighborhood, like, not that he wants to join something or do a join, but like, in My name, his money, or, like, just leaves his car and not like, I just. What?

[Scottie Beam]

Like, there's no way to make my coochie dry up faster. I'm talking Aaron. I'm talking tumbleweeds. I'm talking Candace Owens. Edges dry. Been asking me for money.

[Judith Kargbo]

That's true.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Don't ask me for.

[Judith Kargbo]

I'm not. I'm just not in the business of giving money. You have to go to the gy.

[Scottie Beam]

No, after that.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

And, you know, listen, I will even say, like. Cause I understand that's a personality thing. We're built a little differently than a lot of women.

[Scottie Beam]

Right.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

So I'll even give you borrowing money. Maybe I don't. I itch.

[Scottie Beam]

If we've been together for a long time, if we're married for a long time and you come across financial strife, then obviously, like, I'mma hold you down. I think that's a different situation.

[Judith Kargbo]

Most definitely a monthly.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

That's what I'm saying. Like, this is not that. This is because he got to be at a fast rate to be hooking all these women back to, like, within three months.

[Scottie Beam]

How.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

How are you already giving them all your financial information within 90 days?

[Scottie Beam]

And also, how do these women all not know that he was cheating? Like, I get to a certain extent not knowing if someone's cheating, but if someone is cultivating relationships, which I'm sure he's a love bomber. He's giving a lot of gifts. He's spending a lot of time with them up front. Where is he saying that he's at when he done moved into your house, but he already pursuing his next grift? Like, what is. Where he say he's at?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Yeah, where is he? Where do you think he is?

[Scottie Beam]

He on a business trip for business?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Like, it seems like he's ghosting some half of these women, but then it's like, why are you not filing for. I don't know. I don't. I don't understand. I guess it's just like, they're like, by the time they realize what's happened, I would have. What? You didn't realize that the first $10,000 or the $20,000, he got all the way to $95,000.

[Scottie Beam]

And where is the million dollars? Did he show you paperwork for the lawsuit? Did he. Did you meet his lawyer? Okay, does he have an abogado? What happened? Did he at least have a neck brace?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Okay, you don't have to be like.

[Scottie Beam]

This every time you file for medical mass practice. No matter what they did wrong, you got to Get a neck brace. It really sells it.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Now you're teaching them how to do it more, right?

[Judith Kargbo]

Do not.

[Scottie Beam]

You messed up on your toe.

[Judith Kargbo]

But my problem is with this is. Okay, yes, he's terrible. He's a fucking terrible person. When does he have the time to spend the money that he stole from the women? If he's putting it into another woman?

[Scottie Beam]

Well, he probably not putting it all into another woman. And hopefully he was still taking care of his sister daughter and you know, his sister daughter.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

It just don't sound like he's a good saver after the first 95k woman.

[Scottie Beam]

Why you have to keep going so retrospectively? Sybrina said in a documentary, the best way to get over a guy is revenge. And I'm sorry, it is. Rick, you lying sack of shit. You fucked me and I am fucked. Buddy, I'm coming after you. Not Buddy. You know, you done made a white woman mad when she starts saying stuff like, buddy, pow, pow.

[Judith Kargbo]

All of them, child.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm just trying to figure out how he.

[Scottie Beam]

It's a bunch of malarkey, all these. When they say malarkey, you better be scared.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Cause you know there's a few, at least a few Karens in this number. And these Karens will. They will call the cops on somebody for just walking jaywalking across the street. But ain't none of them called the cops on this man yet. Ain't none of them called the enforcements on this man.

[Judith Kargbo]

He's not black.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

How. Like, how has he gotten away? Like, ain't nobody called the police about this.

[Scottie Beam]

He ain't.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

If I was a white woman, I'd be calling the police. You're right. I know it's refrain I say every time I get, someone, please call 911, but tell them I have been robbed down.

[Scottie Beam]

The money in my account, and he's stealing from my kids. Like, what did.

[Judith Kargbo]

What's the revenge that you gonna get, sweetheart?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Yeah, what you doing?

[Scottie Beam]

She doing a documentary. She doing a documentary.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Oh, the documentary is her revenge.

[Judith Kargbo]

Girl, that's not gonna get you that money back. How you gonna get that fucking money back? You get the money back.

[Scottie Beam]

You can't get money from the Stone. He ain't getting no money back.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Girl, if middle America was watching these documentaries, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in now politically. Why do you think they gonna watch a documentary on Showtime about this?

[Scottie Beam]

I mean. Cause this is mess. This isn't about politics. It's not about poverty. It's not about socioeconomical issues. It's about mess.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

But you would have to be watching. You would have to seek out a documentary in the first place.

[Scottie Beam]

I mean, this is real life, Maury. So Carla Campbell, the bounty hunter. All right, we getting close to the end here. So in 2017, filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing began searching for a story to go after and happened upon Lisa's blog, thus beginning the production of Love Fraud. So this is a television show, Rachel, if y'all want to watch Love Fraud. Get into. Yeah. Rachel and Heidi reached out to some of the women on the blog who expressed frustration at both knowing where Richard was and receiving mostly apathy from police. So they did try to call the police, though there was a current warrant out. So they was like, hello, 911. It was like, 911, what's your emergency? I'm being robbed by a man. Okay, what is his description? Like, they were like, we don't care. We don't care. So Sabrina said in an interview, unless he kills someone, the police don't give a shit. Several women also remembered being told verbatim by police, you should have known better, honey. And I hope you learned your lesson, sweetie. Now you should have known the police are not very woman friendly in the overall general perspective, okay? That's just not their bag. They don't like women or minorities. So eee, not gonna happen. Because, like, I mean, Google domestic assault and police and look at that percentage. Cause it's bad. It's up there. And like, it's like, who gonna call the police on the police? Okay? So because they were finding so few leads and receiving so little support from the police, the Love Fried filmmakers hired a bounty hunter named Carla Campbell. Now, you know Carla Campbell got to be a Karen. But I like that Carla Campbell used her Karen ness for good. She said, I'm going to Karen for good. And is she shooting a flamethrower here? What's happening? There's an American flag behind me. There's a fire in the she wearing thin blue line stuff. Okay, we know she raised.

[Judith Kargbo]

She went to the capitol. You know, she went to the capitol in January.

[Scottie Beam]

Carla was definitely at the capitol.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I would like to know where all of these people were in January 2021. I would like to know where everybody involved was.

[Scottie Beam]

But can I just say, if I was a racist and I saw this photo, it would be fired. Like I would. This would get likes on the gram. She got an American flag behind her. She got a gun. She got on automatic of body armor, and it's a fire behind her. That's Lit. This is a lit photo.

[Judith Kargbo]

That is a great.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Listen. It's an advertisement. She know her audience.

[Scottie Beam]

She know her audience, and she understood the assignment because, I mean, I'm scared. So after hearing about Richard's crimes, I.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Feel like I'm about to go to jail. The longer I look at this photo, any minute, I feel like my life is in danger.

[Scottie Beam]

I'm afraid. Let's get it off the screen.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Because honestly, Trigger, I'm like, I can't even find.

[Judith Kargbo]

I'm really afraid, right?

[Scottie Beam]

And as always, guys, we'll post these photos on scam goddess pod Instagram. So y'all can also be afraid, but also be afraid. After hearing about Richard's crimes, Carla agreed to take on the women's case pro bono. She said she gonna do it for free. Oh, that means she's just petty. She was like, no, I'm gonna do this on the strength of pettiness.

[Judith Kargbo]

She newly divorced, right? She's trying to get that.

[Scottie Beam]

Listen, Carla might be a racist, but she done listen to some Mary J. Blige. She said, I ain't gonna cry no more. I ain't gonna shed no tears. I'm gonna light your shit on fire. Love this for her. So she said, this the bounty hunter. These girls, they struck a chord with me. It's just like, they need my help because they've got nobody else. Carla also said, if Richard Scott Smith came in here and robbed me like these other women, I'd be in prison. I slit his throat and watch him bleed to death and admit to doing it, because I am not gonna let him do that to somebody else. Damn not. You gonna kill him and watch him die. Damn. It took many months of effort on the Revenge Squad. They got a name now.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Squad.

[Scottie Beam]

The Revenge Squad.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

The Revenge Squad, but not the revenge squad.

[Scottie Beam]

In 2018, Richard was tracked down to Knoxville, Tennessee, and arrested for identity theft and forgery. He was sentenced to 10 months in jail and released on probation April 2019. According to Lovecraft, 10 months. 10 months. That's all he got? 10 months.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

10 months.

[Scottie Beam]

And he probably writing letters to some bitch in jail.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

10 months. I thought, nigga, that cop got with a dime bag. Who in jail longer than 10, longer.

[Judith Kargbo]

Than 10, you still in jail.

[Scottie Beam]

That's the same according to Love Fraud filmmakers. As of today, Richard Scott Smith is a free man and apparently still trying to date and defraud women. I feel like he should be barred from marriage. I feel like he should be.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I'm about to say, is there not.

[Scottie Beam]

A limited, like, you know like, you.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Know how, like you can't get a driver's license if you got. How is driving? Like, how you is more strict than marrying? Like, I just feel like if you.

[Scottie Beam]

Get a certain amount of DUI's, you can't have a license. I feel like if you have a certain amount of fraud marriages, they should.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Have been after the first time you got caught being married in two states, you shouldn't be allowed.

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah, I feel like be on a war or email.

[Judith Kargbo]

You should also be on a list. Like, you know how they right.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Just like a list. Yeah, like a sex.

[Scottie Beam]

Like a no fly list, right?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Yeah.

[Scottie Beam]

No marriage, no fly. Sex offender list.

[Judith Kargbo]

Wherever he goes, they send it to all the women.

[Scottie Beam]

Just wherever he moves to, he gotta go up and down the block and tell everybody he can't marry.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Or at least like when you try to file a marriage license, a warning pop up to the woman behind the computer. Like, hey, let's just know this nigga done did this twice before.

[Scottie Beam]

She down bad. She down bad if she needs to. Okay? So according to the Love Fried filmmakers, you know, he out here. He was last seen in Kansas in August 2020. Since finding Richard, Carla has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has to retire from bounty hunting. Though she's still very invested in finding Richard and bringing new charges against him, I think that's gonna keep her alive. She set up a GoFundMe to pay for a chemo of his known wives. I gotta go DMX on this. There was Ellen Tracy, Sabrina, Carla, Gene, Lisa, Angela, Jennifer, Holly, Michelle, Rebecca. I met her at her ice cream parlor. Crystal and Sandy all still looking for justice.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Damn.

[Judith Kargbo]

Wait, that's it.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Not. You said they names. She said, I will say your names, ladies.

[Scottie Beam]

I will say your names. I hope y'all get some justices, but I don't think you will. You gonna have to just go to therapy and move on. Because Richard ain't got nothing to give you but penis and problems and dick.

[Judith Kargbo]

Mm. Ain't nothing else you can do, sweetheart.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Damn. That's how it ends. Cause at least Lacey could have got them an address and they could have rolled up together. Like, I want to put and be his ass. I know some of them got brothers. Yeah, some of these 12 women got to have men in their family who can be shit.

[Judith Kargbo]

Especially like them dudes that got the sunglasses, right? Sunglasses.

[Scottie Beam]

Yep, yep. If they got gas station sunglasses, they bout that violence, like, throw it.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Throw them in the back of that. Pull them in the back of that pickup truck that I know they got.

[Scottie Beam]

They Love to throw hands.

[Judith Kargbo]

The American flag on it and the Confederate flag.

[Scottie Beam]

They love to toss hands.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Okay.

[Scottie Beam]

They love to toss.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They need to pull up on him like they pulled up to the Capitol. Look at this. Hello, ladies.

[Scottie Beam]

Yalls. Only justice is gonna be. Richard. Come outside. Ain't nobody finna jump you like. That's.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Sometimes you gotta get your own justice. That's what. But they don' Take a page. They don't know that they're not black. Sometimes you gotta go get your own justice.

[Judith Kargbo]

Cause there's this country coming.

[Scottie Beam]

This country is that money is going up.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

This country is set up for white men to be able to scam us all. That's the way the system has been set up, Rip.

[Judith Kargbo]

And it sucks that the Karens had to find out this way, but, sweetheart, bad for them.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Hate it had to be like.

[Scottie Beam]

Hate it had to be y'all. And it's time for Scammer of the Week. This is where we highlight an honorary charlatan, grifter, boondocker, worthy of our praise. Or maybe not. We'll see. So, Scammer of the Week. A family in Los Angeles was shocked to learn that their home was listed on Airbnb after strangers arrived at their doorstep saying that they had rented it. The owner, Jeff Branch, never listed the property. Still, there was a listing with photos of their house address, calling the home a modern masterpiece and listing it at $450 a night for the whole villa. Branch immediately messaged and called Airbnb. He was told his case would be escalated to a specialized team. According to Branch, Branch. Someone said they'll be in touch with you tonight. And then nothing. Y'all know I don't like Airbnb. Fuck Airbnb all day. I love to drag them. They ain't shit. They also racist. And so just know Airbnb can't help you. The listing stayed up for weeks. And several weekends later, another stranger showed up to the home saying she had rented the house. Airbnb listed that the host identity was verified, but they allegedly don't actually do anything to verify the address to make sure the person listing the property actually owns it. It wasn't until CBSLA reached out to Airbnb that the listings were taken down. And this is how Airbnb works. They're like, if you're not gonna get on Twitter, if you don't got no followers, if you're not gonna give us no smoke, we will just let it rock. We'll let the racism rock. We'll let the bullshit rock. I hate Airbnb. Fuck Airbnb. It's a scam. But if you're gonna rent from Airbnb, Bamboozle. If you're gonna rent from Airbnb, that's.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

A second B stand for Bamboozle.

[Scottie Beam]

Then it looks least when you see a property, one, check how many reviews they have. Two, Google the property. Or if you can get on Google Images, try to see what you can see. Also, if the property is new and it looks too good to be true, it's not. It's not true. Because a lot of people will put up a picture of somebody else crib and be like, rent this out. And then you give them the money and then they disappear.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Wow. Or now, I saw a whole video yesterday showing people how to find secret hidden cameras in people's Airbnb. Like how people hide them in the smoke detectors or in the alarm clocks and film you in the bedrooms and bathrooms, night vision style, too. And I said, what the fuck? Like, I had never even thought about that.

[Scottie Beam]

They be filming you.

[Judith Kargbo]

Also. They be having roaches. Please just go to a hotel. That's all I got.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Hotel me down, please.

[Scottie Beam]

Because also, are they cleaning them sheets? Like, are they washing them towels?

[Sylvia O'Bell]

They not. They not.

[Judith Kargbo]

They not. They not. Please.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I would like to have the maid. I would like to have the maid services number. You know, like, sometimes you guys see them coming, I want to see them leave.

[Judith Kargbo]

Exactly. Get your Lysol. But that's the whole thing.

[Scottie Beam]

Need to smell like bleach. I need to almost get bleach poisoning when I go in. But, guys, that brings us to the end of an epic episode. Scottie, Sylvia, y'all are amazing. Please tell us where you would like to be found, what you would like people to watch, all that.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I mean, I don't know how many scammers are in the audience. All do you know? Respectfully. Respectfully, you can find me at SylviaObel on Instagram and Twitter. Please don't try to take my Instagram or Twitter. I have friends at both companies who can get it back for me.

[Scottie Beam]

Please.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

So don't you. We both do. So don't. It's not us. We not we. Not to be more.

[Scottie Beam]

Don't be scared. It's got to be Scud. Jude is our super producer. Done got everybody scared. Talk about they gonna get robbed.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

She said, careful what you share. I said, well, now, Judith earlier, I said, huh?

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah, Judith, we putting you on blast.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Listen. But yes, watch. Get you with me on YouTube. I think that's the main plug. It's still Netflix. Still watching Netflix page. It's called get yout With Me. It's right there. You know, run it up, links in the bios.

[Scottie Beam]

And obviously you've heard these women are very entertaining. So watch them get these men together. And, Scottie, where would you like to be found?

[Judith Kargbo]

You know, don't find me. You know, I'm here with y'all, and that's the importance of staying in the present, right? Staying in the present. Let's be present. You know, I loved it here. My name is Scottie Beam. I am not gonna tell you where you can find that.

[Scottie Beam]

They gonna find it.

[Judith Kargbo]

But yes. And to the people who are stealing from the man. And y'all can follow me. Follow me. If you stealing from the man.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

I got my fist up. Y'all can't see.

[Scottie Beam]

Amen.

[Judith Kargbo]

Steal from them corporations, sweetheart.

[Scottie Beam]

It's gotta be my whole influencer talking about y'all can't find me.

[Judith Kargbo]

Girl, please don't go 5.

[Scottie Beam]

Please don't find you.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

Please don't find you.

[Scottie Beam]

I want you to find Visa style.

[Sylvia O'Bell]

She literally in the dark right now. Like, please don't find me.

[Judith Kargbo]

Please don't find. I'm literally sitting in the dark. Cause I'm the only person that's probably East Coast. So I'm sitting here like, damn, don't stop fluffing me.

[Scottie Beam]

Yeah, the sunlight said bye.

[Judith Kargbo]

Yeah, bye.

[Scottie Beam]

And guys, if you want to see the horrifying photos. Scam got us pod. Follow us on Instagram. Follow us on Twitter if you want to find me. And my shenanigans. D I V A L A C I Diva link on all platforms. All episodes of A Black Lady SketchUp, Season 2 are streaming now on HBO Max if you want to see my comedy. Also I currently on Paramount. First season is streaming right now, and we're shooting the second season. I don't got no air day for y'all. Stop asking. But I love y'all. All the merch is out. Please get into it podswag.com because give a gift. You know, buy a gift for a loved one, because I'm gonna switch it up pretty soon. All right, congregation, stay scheming. Yeah, I've got it. This has been an Earwolf production in association with Team Coco. Scam got us stars and is hosted by me, Lacey Moseley, AKA Scam Goddess. It's produced by Judith Kargbo, engineered by Marina Paiz, and researched by Kalen Brandt. Stay scheming. This has been a Team Coco production in association with Earwol.