Scam Gumbo w/ Solomon Georgio (Fraud Friday)

Summary

Scam Goddess – "Scam Gumbo with Solomon Georgio" (Fraud Friday)

April 3, 2026 | Host: Laci Mosley | Guest: Solomon Georgio

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Episode Overview

In this lively, laughter-filled classic episode re-released for Fraud Friday, host Laci Mosley welcomes comedian Solomon Georgio for a truly scam-packed conversation. They swap hilarious personal scam stories, riff about the wildest cons, read listener scam confessions, and break down news of audacious pandemic fraud. Along the way: scams in corporate America, creative ways to "borrow" from Amazon and Audible, Venmo phishing, and a truly legendary woman who tried to drop her own charges by posing as a prosecutor. The episode is a warm celebration of the everyday art and audacity of the scam.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Meet the Guest: Solomon Georgio (02:01–05:15)

• Laci introduces Solomon as a "comedy icon and cult-leader-in-waiting," eager to hear his personal connection to scamming and hustling.
• Notable Exchange:
  Laci: "If you wanted to be evil, you could be a guru." (05:15)
  Solomon: "That's my full fallback... cult leader."

2. Childhood & Family Scammer Origins (05:30–09:54)

• Solomon reveals a family legacy of scamming:

  • His father, a self-described "drifter" (hobo + opportunist).
  • Solomon's own youthful caper: forging his mom’s signature and embezzling $850 to run away to LA and chase stardom.
    • Quote:
      Laci: "What did you need the $850 for?"
      Solomon: "I ran away to Los Angeles and tried to be a star." (08:42)

• Laci shares family stories: childhood theft, a mom who's a serial hustler, and working unauthorized "Chili Fridays" at Dairy Queen.

3. Early Employment & Workplace Scams (10:07–12:41)

• Solomon details a six-month office supply store embezzlement scheme, pocketing $5,000 by exploiting lax bookkeeping.

  • Quote:
    Solomon: "Anyone who works in a corporate setting that doesn't steal – what are you doing?" (11:39)

• Discussion about low-level workplace resistance:
  “Steal a stapler!” “Take all the post-its!”
  Solidarity with customers getting away with small cons.

4. Customer Service Hustles & Climbing the Ladder (12:41–14:51)

• How to maximize customer service interactions by always politely asking for a manager or supervisor, because "the person paid the most money just wants you gone."
• Laci recounts wrangling with Bank of America while in London until she got a manager who could actually help.

5. Scam Warning: VRBO & Pandemic Travel Cons (14:59–16:32)

• Laci relays her experience with a scam on VRBO—fake home listings, money lost, and her Twitter crusade against VRBO’s policies.
• Con-Travel Tip:
  Watch out for brand-new listings with no reviews; they're often scams.

6. "Hot & Fraud": Pandemic Farming Loan Scam (19:25–30:47)

• News segment: the wild story of a Cleveland-area family fraudulently creating 72 "agricultural" companies (with no sign of farming) at three addresses to obtain $7.2 million in COVID relief loans.

  • Memorable Commentary:
    • Laci: “Did y’all just drive by like, are these [bleep] farming?” (22:19)
    • Solomon: “Not a plant, not a succulent!” (23:08)
    • Both agree: the real scam is government mismanagement, not the audacious applicants.

• Spirited discussion on the ethics of scamming the government and the overarching scam of taxes.

7. Listener Letters: Real-World Scam Confessions (From 33:10 onward)

a) Venmo Phishing Scam (33:33–41:34)

• “Flavor Magazine” writes in about an attempted Venmo phishing attack, sharing step-by-step how the scammer worked, and the right call to ignore.
  • Solomon: “Only emails! This text message makes no sense. Scam vibes.” (35:18)
  • Word to the wise: if it feels sketchy, never hand over info.

b) Amazon & Audible Hacks (43:26–46:14)

• “Calypso Jenkins” details two mini-scams:
  • Abusing Audible’s “return for credit” to read books for free.
  • Using Amazon Fresh’s "returnless refund" to get free groceries.
• Celebrated by Laci:
  “I need my money more than they do. And... you ain't never lied.” (45:39)

c) Coupon Forgery at Sonic (47:05–49:26)

• “Maxine Vasili” relates a high school hustle: copying and distributing free drink coupons for homework and cash, building her own tiny coupon ring.
  • Laci: “I’mma get 72 ocean waters, like our first scammer family.”

d) The Value of Photoshop Skills (47:54–49:26)

• Anecdote about Photoshop not just being for art, but scamming, too!
• Laci and Solomon riff on the hilarity and ingenuity of homegrown coupon fraud.

8. Scammer of the Week: The One-Woman Legal System (54:34–58:43)

• Case Profile: Lisa Landon from New Hampshire, accused of impersonating a prosecutor (and judge, and clerk) to get all her own criminal charges dropped.
  • Laci: “She was like, 'Oh hey, I’m the prosecutor for my case. She ain’t do it! I mean, me didn’t do it!'” (54:37)
  • Solomon: “She’s the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the victim...I want to watch this one woman play!” (56:16)
• Brief real-talk moment: Lisa’s motivation included fighting guardianship for her child, but the consensus is: not a sustainable plan!

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the audacity of scammers:
  Laci: “If y’all had just done, I don’t know, 4...10...but 72?” (25:01)
• On scam hierarchies:
  Laci: “There are tiers of apps to transfer money. Venmo is the middle class.” (41:41)
• True con wisdom:
  Solomon: “If you work in a corporate setting that doesn’t steal...what are you doing?” (11:39)
• On the news and scam coverage:
  “News is just niggas that show up and say whatever!” (52:07)
• On scamming Amazon:
  Laci: “Saffron cost $20, and it’s a little tiny thing...if you order it and then be like, ‘Amazon, I’m unhappy with my saffron,’ what they gonna do?” (45:44)
• On family legacies:
  Solomon: “My dad’s a drifter. That’s the original scammer.” (06:07)
• On modern scams:
  Laci: “We don’t need no hateration or no holleration. Honestly, my favorite word that Mary J. Blige made up!” (47:57)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------|-----------| | Guest intro & scam backgrounds | 02:01–05:15| | Family scam heritage | 05:30–09:54| | Workplace scams and corporate theft | 10:07–12:41| | Customer service hustle tips | 12:41–14:51| | VRBO scam and pandemic travel warning | 14:59–16:32| | "Hot and Fraud": PPP/Farming scam news | 19:25–30:47| | Listener Letter: Venmo phishing scam | 33:33–41:34| | Listener Letter: Audible/Amazon hacks | 43:26–46:14| | Listener Letter: Coupon Photoshop scam | 47:05–49:26| | Scammer of the Week: Courtroom chameleon | 54:34–58:43|

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Episode Tone & Vibe

• Language/tone: Playful, irreverent, unapologetically Black, communal, conspiratorial, full of laughter and mutual affection. Laci and Solomon trade barbs and encouragement, elevating everyday scams to the realm of folk art and community wisdom.
• Atmosphere: Like being part of a group chat with very funny, very smart friends who are open about hustling where hustling is justified.

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Summary Takeaways

• Family and environment can birth resourceful scammers and lifelong hustlers.
• Some scams play the line between clever survival and out-of-bounds—especially when targeting big corporations or government.
• Scams thrive in times of crisis and chaos (see: pandemic funding).
• Stay sharp: phishing attempts (like the Venmo scam) get more sophisticated, but the rule stays the same—never give info to the sketchy.
• Never underestimate the community’s creativity—with a little Photoshop, even lunch can be a hustle.
• Whether hilarious or jaw-dropping, the stories always boil down to people doing what they gotta do…and sometimes, the system being exactly as broken as it looks.

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Final Word:
As always, Laci closes out encouraging the “Congregation” to send in their own stories and, above all…stay scheming!

Transcript

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[Lacey Mosley]

What's Poppin Congregation? It's your 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 ca.

Scam cause robbery and fraud. What's Poppin Congregation? Yo, it's your girl Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. And let me let y' all know up top A is tired. Okay I'm a black woman life is horde. 70% of us get fibroids. And mine are enlarged and I'm fully dying. But I'm here because I love y' all and we gonna keep it positive and upbeat. Hunty. Listen, y' all know the drill. Say it with me. I am so. What? Yes. Excited. And it's like, I heard you. Like, we in the car together or we on the phone together. Are we in your AirPods together? You see me, you feel me, I'm here. Give me a hug. Thank you, guys. I'm so excited for our guest today. Honestly, truly. Because I snagged this icon superstar. Fucking funny as hell, man. In the middle of the night, I slid in his DMs, thirsty as hell. And you were. And he's the first person I asked because I wanted him so bad. And I was like, oh, I hope. And I was going to copy the messages because I'm a scammer and just send it to somebody else if he said no. But he has said yes. Yes, honey. He has a house special on Comedy Central. And when I tell you, I've seen this man do comedy in person, In a mask, 20ft away, outside, and it was hilarious. And also Conan o', Brien, bro. You've seen him on his shit. Like, he's so amazing. Guys, we have the king, the incomparable. Also fine as hell. Like he deserve it. Like, God damn Solomon Giorgio. Goddamn.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Hello. I am so damn happy to be here. Lacy, this is just. This is just you. You have no idea how wonderful I think you are. So therefore, to be. To even get the appreciation, it's. I'm on cloud cloud nine. Is it cloud nine? I forget which cloud nine.

[Lacey Mosley]

Honestly, cloud nine 10. In 2020, we need to be on cloud 30 because child is rough out here. I am fully dying. But when I tell you, Solomon, like, before I even saw him in person. Step my life up, Step my game up. Like, we're part of this group that Nicole Byer called Skate Gang. And we all skate outside. And it's been this thing that we started in quarantine. Cause it's like, okay, bro, we gotta do something.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, we gotta, you know, have something that's not related to work, something that's related to joy. And it's just us having fun as adults. And Solomon got these fire ass skates. They were silver, they look like Nikes and they're cute as fuck. And he put them in the group chat. And I was like, tell them what's the website? What's the website? I need them. And that's how I got my pink light up.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Skates is, you know, I know we got. We're match. And the thing is, I've only been to the skate gang once. I only got to go that one time. I've been busy ever since.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love it. Booked and busy, booked and busy.

[Solomon Georgiou]

But I just want to make sure I leave a little bit of inspiration behind, you know?

[Lacey Mosley]

You did. You left more than enough. Like when I tell you I got those skates and then people reached out to me and were like, where'd you get them? Where'd you get them? Like, oh, my God. And I was like, let me tell y' all about my guru. Listen, I'm not a nexium, but, Solomon, you could be a guru. If you wanted to be evil, you

[Solomon Georgiou]

could be a guru. I plan on. That's my full fallback. Like, that is hands down, cult leader,

[Lacey Mosley]

is my fallback career. Yes. So, Solomon, do you have any relationship with scams? Have you ever been scammed? Have you ever done a scam? Like, I always want to know. Do you like scams? Do you hate them?

[Solomon Georgiou]

I am a full on scammer, hands down. You're talking about. I'm talking high end scams. I'm former embezzler kind of scams. All right. Yes, my skin is black, but my collars are white.

[Lacey Mosley]

Velvet rope scammer. I love to see it.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, I don't know how or when I figure it out, but my fam. Well, first of all, my dad's a drifter. So that's the original scammers.

[Lacey Mosley]

What that means drifter. What do you mean?

[Solomon Georgiou]

A drifter is pretty much just a homeless person on the go. It is somebody who just goes from town to gets whatever he can. And that's how he.

[Lacey Mosley]

He's a hobosexual?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

He's. It's like when you start fucking him and he's like, now I live here.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yes, okay, exactly. That's how I was born.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love a hobosexual. One of my friends is a hobosexual. And I was like, you don't live anywhere, do you? Like, you just live with the women you fuck?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Okay. Oh, my dad barely ever lived. It was like living with a bachelor. Like, the man got a two door car while I was growing up. That's the kind of person he was.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yo, when you get a two door car and you got K, you are saying, fuck them kids. Six, I'm leaving. He was like, fuck them kids. He was like, listen, one of the kids can get in sometimes. But maybe never a king, since two

[Solomon Georgiou]

door Oldsmobile, color supreme would wear his tracksuits in it. And not a single child could fit in.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, I'm sure you. I'm sure your dad. I'm weak. God. I'm sure your dad caused a lot of childhood trauma. However, I credit him for your flyness, because that all sounds very fly to me. A Cutlass tracksuit, a two door car. Even though you got six kids. He was like, one of y' all gotta get in the trunk. Actually, three of y'.

[Solomon Georgiou]

All. We did, too. Oh, yes. This wonderful bachelor that I called my father, he definitely raised a bunch of scammers and schemers. And I actually even at one point took. Embezzled money out of my own mother's account.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes.

[Solomon Georgiou]

And took $850 out. I walked in with just her deposit check, her forged signature.

[Lacey Mosley]

Nicki, you bowled 850?

[Solomon Georgiou]

I was. It was like 1999. That was like a lot. That was like, that's a huge amount of money.

[Lacey Mosley]

Today I would notice 850 leaving my account.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Well, here's the thing, is that back then, they don't just notify you. And I just went in with the deposit slip.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes, with her.

[Solomon Georgiou]

No withdrawal slip. And I signed. I forged her name, forged a letter. They didn't even call nobody. They just trusted my little black ass. And I was like, how? And I was like. And ever since then, I was like, you. You're going to scam as much as you can until you don't.

[Lacey Mosley]

What did you need the 850 for?

[Solomon Georgiou]

I ran away to Los Angeles and tried to be a star.

[Lacey Mosley]

To be a star, honey. And you did this?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's worth it, honestly. Your mama should give that as a testimony.

[Solomon Georgiou]

20 years later. I did it. After I moved back home.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. Solomon, no. Okay, listen. My mom is like this. It's kind of weird with my mom because my mom could also have been a cult leader. She's so smart. She gives me so many quotes. She could write so many books. She has. She's been published. She's a genius. And she's also just like. It's like, I love her, but I'm also afraid, you know, because she's a strong black mama. And I remember when I was a kid, I stole money, like change out of her purse, the bottom of her purse, because my friend in quotes scammed me and told me she had money for lunch money. And I was like, I've always been a generous hoe. So I was like, oh, let me Help you like, blah, blah, blah. Turn out this bitch. She just wanted the money, and she scared me. But I got my ass whooped one time because my mama saw me stealing out of her purse, and I was like, oh, I couldn't even come up with nothing. I think I was like, I'm looking for chapstick.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Never scam a scammer.

[Lacey Mosley]

My mom is a scammer. My mom has more jobs than any Jamaican has ever had. My mom used to sing background for Kirk Franklin. She.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I love her. I've had, like, before doing this career, I had, like, 70 jobs, bruh.

[Lacey Mosley]

The hustling spirit. You're giving me that energy, and it's like, giving me life right now. She used to work at a Dairy Queen, and they would have Chili Fridays, which, honestly, this is a franchise, right? Chili Fridays, where my mom would just make chili that she just made. It wasn't nobody at Dairy Queen had said yet. The dairy. The Queen. Nobody approved.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Just freestyle chili. I like this.

[Lacey Mosley]

She's a queen, bro. So, yes, yes, I'm on the same wave as you, but also, I love that the bank just let you ride.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, I. And it's not even. That was just the first time, the ultimate time, the first time. This is the one that I will never. I worked for an office supply chain store that I will not say by name because I do not want to be sued by the statue of limitations.

[Lacey Mosley]

We love a redacted office supply store, honey. We live for redacted. We live for a redacted.

[Solomon Georgiou]

But I may or may not have at one point in time done bookkeeping for a place that had. The cashiers were very terrible at counting their monies, and it was consistently over. So I just skimmed off the top over the course of six months and may or may have not made $5,000.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, my God, Solomon, I know you're a genius, because who does bookkeeping? That's like, everyone is over every month. You know what?

[Solomon Georgiou]

I believe this is my money now,

[Lacey Mosley]

and it was your money.

[Solomon Georgiou]

And 100%. That's the thing is anyone who works in a corporate setting that doesn't steal. What are you doing?

[Lacey Mosley]

What are you doing? Like, listen. Corporations are the fucking devil, especially in America, because we give them so many tax breaks, we give them so many allowances. They kill people, literally. If you want to become a billionaire, you have to kill people indirectly or not directly. It's just what it is. I promise you guys. Like, if you work at a corporation, if you clocking in nine to five, if you in your Gray cubicle. And you working and typing and eating your, you know, Panera salad for lunch. Steal a stapler.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yeah. You are working for the ultimate thieves.

[Lacey Mosley]

Take all the post it notes.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Steal from them. And also, here's the thing is if you work in customer service for a corporation, let customers get away with shit.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Hands down. That is why.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes.

[Solomon Georgiou]

That's why I'm like, when I call customer service, you are in for. I am not backing away from Jack Sh. I walked. I got a free iPhone that I cracked myself. That's the kind of person you're gonna get when you get me on the phone.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, Steve Jobs cracked my iPhone from the grave.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It's like, first of all, why are you trying to defend this $1 phone that you could easily replace. Let me talk to the person that's in charge of you.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, I joke about Karens on this show so much, but let me speak to the manager. Be changing lives. One, be nice to your customer service person. Because when you're in customer service, all their job is is to hear people be mad at them. So if you're nicer to them, it helps you a lot then if you ask. Because if they're dumb, if you start to feel like this dumb, you can just be like, let me speak to your manager. I was in London, and I was working in London at the time. And bank of America is a raggedy bitch that will shut your credit card off. And your cards, they'd be like, oh, you had a. A gas station that's 12 miles from your house. We thought that wasn't you. You don't like beef jerky, right? We shut your card off. And so I was in London, called them niggas 345011 times and was like, hey, I'm in London for three months. Come on, y'. All. I go to a ATM randomly in Leicester Square and it shuts off. And at the time, I was 20, so, like, I was young, I didn't know how to get other money. And I called bank of America and they were like, oh, sis, we're not gonna be able to reactivate your car for a few days because we gotta do some blah, blah, blah. And I was like, for the first time, let me speak to your manager. And the manager got my card activated immediately.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yes, that's so how they all work. Here's the thing is that every time, like, I think there's. They definitely set certain rules for that person at the lower ranks. And I'm like, I know you can't do Nothing. But I know there's five motherfuckers down, do some shit. So let's not waste time with each other. Bring me to the next person. I don't even like. I don't even like. Depending on the issue, I barely talk to the first person. I'm like, let me speak to your supervisor. Then I'm like, let me speak to your supervisor. Let me speak. I will talk to the regional manager. I will get to the CEO if I have to, but I'm gonna get what I want.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. Let me speak to the king of bank of America. Put bank on the phone. That's his name, right? Bank. And his middle names of. And his last name, America.

[Solomon Georgiou]

What you got to do is keep going up to the chain of command where somebody's getting paid so much money that they rather just give you what you want than even be bothered.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. And sometimes they be protecting them. Like, vrbo, I'm a shade you Verbo, because y' all know I fought with y' all on Twitter. They have scammers on there. And I guess this is a random scam tip, but I know a lot of y' all are getting stir crazy and tired of being home, and you want to go somewhere, and maybe you do it safely, quote, unquote, by being at a house and whatever. Vrbo has a bunch of people on that site who have photos of places that are really nice that they don't own. Because vrbo, when you pay for something, they get the money pretty quickly. And then if it's a scam, they, like, it's too much. It's like, too much time between when vrbo can retract the money so that you can make off with some shit. So just so you know, if you go on Verbo and you see a house that's nice and there's no reviews, do not book it. Especially if it's recent. If you see it's like, oh, new place. And it's posted, like, two or three days after, you know, before you're looking. Do not book it, because those people are scammers and they don't own those houses. And it happened to me, and I had $3,000 tied up for a damn.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yeah, damn. See, this is why I don't try new things. I just stick to my old. Like, check out this new app. I'm like, let me hear this out.

[Lacey Mosley]

Don't try new things. That's the lesson.

[Solomon Georgiou]

All right, guys, Let your friends do it first.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love it. My mom was always like, would you jump off a bridge if your friends jump, too. And I was like, yeah, if they jump first. And I look, they was cute and they was alive.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Like, my friends have been decoys for so many things, right?

[Lacey Mosley]

They jump off and I look down and I'm like, yeah, good. Then I'm gonna jump off the bridge.

[Solomon Georgiou]

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Cut. Let's get into it. First part of the podcast, what's hot and fraud? So today. So what's hot and fraud? Normally you guys know, and if you don't know, if you're new, we talk about scam that's popping that we want to warn you about or we read a listener letter. But today this is going to be a wild kind of different episode. Because, honey, I told y' all, I'm dying. So today, hot and fraud is going to be a news alert.

[Solomon Georgiou]

That's news alert. I love that question mark.

[Lacey Mosley]

Can I tell y' all that I blame part of the coronavirus deniers on the fact that since 9 11, when sweeps were through the roof and newscasters were getting awards for crying on live television and shit, the news realized, oh, if we extra scary niggas gonna watch. So since then, the news has been like, you might die tonight, more at 11. And it's like, so it's trained a lot of people to be like, okay, well, we didn't die tonight. Like, why should we listen to the news? Like, why? So I know that people are saying coronavirus isn't real, but when I tell you I've had so many family members pass like, bruh, it's real. So how did I get on that tangent? Oh, because like,

[Solomon Georgiou]

yeah, I get it, but coronavirus is real. I think that should be the main takeaway, is that coronavirus is not a scam. So.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, yeah, I know I said that. Because what we're talking about in hot fraud is a popping coronavirus scam that I love. I love these people so much. They're my best friends. So, a single family house on Forestview Avenue in Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Okay, Cleveland. Cleveland rocks. I know. The Drew Carey show, that's all I have, shows no. No signs of farming activity, you understand? Soon, the only things growing on this 18 acre plot are trees, shrubs, and grass. But 20 companies registered at that address with names like Organic Ohio Berries LLC and Garlic Farming llc, have won government approval for loans and grants intended to support the small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. They said, y' all giving farm loans. Hold on, hold on. And listen. I have. I feel jealous because I have a plant. I have one living plant in my house. So I'm a farmer. I'm a farmer as well.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I feel like I should grow a plant. I feel like, wow. And no one's gonna check Euclid.

[Lacey Mosley]

They were like, Here you go. 20 businesses, same address. Here you go.

[Solomon Georgiou]

That is amazing.

[Lacey Mosley]

In all, the owner of the Forestview home and his family members created 72 companies with aggregations sounding names at three Cleveland area addresses, then used them to get approval and loans for grants totaling $7.2 million from the small Business Administration's Economy Injury Disaster Loan Program. State and federal records show there's no sign of agricultural activity at any of the locations. Which is hilarious to me because I'm like, did y' all just drive by? Like, are these niggas farming?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Not a plant, not a succulent.

[Lacey Mosley]

They said, we saw not a hoe, not a rake.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Nothing is happening here.

[Lacey Mosley]

We didn't see a plow, and we definitely didn't see a tractor.

[Solomon Georgiou]

We're like, well, first of all, defy small farm. Really? What does that even mean?

[Lacey Mosley]

Not a straw hat, not a scarecrow,

[Solomon Georgiou]

not a pumpkin in the front yard. It is just. I just feel like if you walk in the door, there's a tumbleweed that just blows right through.

[Lacey Mosley]

They ain't even seen no tumbleweeds. It was like, what a tumbleweed is at. God damn. We've been sitting outside for 12 hours. We ain't seen not a weeb, not a tumble.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Does an empty house with 12 owl figures staring at you.

[Lacey Mosley]

There's no sign of agriculture activity at the locations or that any companies were active before February 1. A requirement for the pandemic.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, my God.

[Lacey Mosley]

None of them were registered by the Ohio Secretary of State's office before May.

[Solomon Georgiou]

So they knew this then?

[Lacey Mosley]

Well, they didn't know. What happened was, is everyone who was applying for the aid just got automatically approved, and then $7.2 million went away. And they were like, wait a minute.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I feel. I feel like there were so many holes in this scam that it is not the scammer's fault by any means.

[Lacey Mosley]

Honestly, they shouldn't be charged if you go let somebody take out 72.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yeah, well, if you are automatically approving loans instead of doing the minimal amount

[Lacey Mosley]

of research, they said, listen, I understand. They were like, I have fibroids. I can't read these loans. Like, I'm Tired.

[Solomon Georgiou]

No, I know that somebody typed in the same address 72 times and didn't even think about it once.

[Lacey Mosley]

I honestly, like, these scammers are my favorite people. Because the audacity. If y' all had just done, I don't know, 4, 1, 10, y' all was like, nah, 72. Like, 72.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It makes sense. Go big. Because I guarantee they didn't think it was gonna work. Probably 72 times.

[Lacey Mosley]

And then when it did, they were like, I don't know. Let's do a little mo. I don't know. Okay, what? 50. Okay. What? 62. I don't know. OkayS, what? 6?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yeah. There's no way our government can be this stupid.

[Lacey Mosley]

Our government is dumb as hell. You heard it here first. The niggas are dumb. Oh, my God, look at. Donald Trump wouldn't be president if our government wasn't dumb. And also, he wouldn't be president, and you wouldn't be watching debates on television. Remind you, America is the most. Nuke your country, destroy your family, foot on your neck, ass country of the world. And they asked Donald Trump, in a debate, if you lose, are you gonna leave? It's not his choice. Why would we even ask that?

[Solomon Georgiou]

That's my favorite. Like, everybody people just like, well, I don't know if he's gonna do what he say. I'm like, you don't have to worry about that. He ain't got no choice.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. The fact that they were like, so you did lost and are you willing to pack your shit and go, no.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Grab that bitch by the weave and pull her out the damn house.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yo. I have to just pull over for a side note that I was reading about the Trump administration because people have been begging me to do, like, a whole Trump episode because I did one about how he was stealing money from cancer of children. But there's so much more. And so I was, like, reading it and there was a part in the article that was like, well, Trump's people who work for him really like him. Like, his three nannies are like, he's so nice. And his hairdresser is like, I have been with him for 15 years, and he's wonderful. And I'm like, bitch, I know you a scammer. You've been doing this raggedy ass hairstyle for this nigga for 15 years.

[Solomon Georgiou]

That's the thing, is that he is a scammer, but he is also the ultimate patsy. Like, he is the easy. He's a. He's a the easiest mark. Like, this fool scammed, but he Got scammed worse than all.

[Lacey Mosley]

I can't. Okay, so to wrap up this whole 7 million dollar fake family farm situation, a lawyer for that family said that, okay, yeah, we had scam, basically, but we repaid most of the loans.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Do they pay back the loans with the loan? Because that'd be even better.

[Lacey Mosley]

That would be amazing. It would be fantastic. So the loans are the latest sign of the mismanagement of SBA's 212 billion dollar disaster relief program, which agencies and inspector general warned in July was beset by potentially rampant fraud. So I just want to say, when I saw this article and the news, I first saw it on Twitter, and then I did a deeper dive. But on Twitter, there were a lot of comments that were like, I tried to get a loan and I got denied, or I. Da, da, da. Like, I didn't know, like, people were doing this. And I felt bad for the people who really needed the money. However, the scammers also really needed the money. If you go into scamming, you need coin.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Well, first of all, when I heard that they lived in Euclid, Ohio, I'm like, hands down, you need to. You need money to get the fuck out of there. Because I don't know.

[Lacey Mosley]

I wish I could. I wish you guys could see Solomon. But he, like, literally, like, pulled his jacket and was like, you. You got to get out of there. Like, I was afraid, fully afraid of Euclid, Ohio.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I don't know what's happening there, but it seems. It sounds like. It sounds like the city. Somebody would leave to join a cult.

[Lacey Mosley]

Absolutely, yes. I feel like they would be like, okay, I give you money every week, and then we. We kiss on the lips. Yeah, I'm describing Nexium. Like, they would do it. So, guys, I don't even know what the warning is here for this because, like, honestly, scam the government. Fuck them. You got $1,200 loan. This entire. Not even loan, but, like, this stimulus, whatever. This entire pandemic. And we've been in a pandemic for, like, over six months now, right? How much money has Uncle Sam? How many times have you walked out of your job and like, damn, it was a good day, and then Uncle Sam reached in your pocket and was like, for me, like, how many shakedowns?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Look, Honestly, I believe 20. 20 should be the year that we all decide not to pay taxes, bruh. I feel.

[Lacey Mosley]

Can you get a three pointed, like, hat and just start the fucking Boston Tea Party again, bruh?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Seriously, that's what. That's how We. That's how you start a revolution. You wanna be like, oh, you ain't gonna do what we want. Well, come get this money, right?

[Lacey Mosley]

Come get it. Come get. Come get this.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Come get this money.

[Lacey Mosley]

Cause we've been sending it to you, but now we like, come get it,

[Solomon Georgiou]

come get it now.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, man. God, it sucks here.

[Solomon Georgiou]

You better show up to my door with some universal healthcare, otherwise the money ain't leaving my house.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's what I'm talking about. I'm so mad at this point. I'm like, look, I'm paying all these taxes. We live in Los Angeles. I'm like, every time they seal a pothole, y' all need to write some niggas names on that. Like, Tommy sealed this pothole. Or Jake J sealed this pothole. I'm like, I need to know where the money going. Cause I'm confused again.

[Solomon Georgiou]

The ultimate scam. Taxes.

[Lacey Mosley]

It is even during the whole election, like, oh, we got to count the votes that Trump is trying to sue and all this shit. I'm getting emails from the Biden Harris campaign that are like, oh, can you send some coin to help with this? And I'm like, I already gave my money to the government. I gotta pay for the next president. How much I gotta pay for a president?

[Solomon Georgiou]

What's that? What is all this money going to? I just need. I want receipts. Receipts as well.

[Lacey Mosley]

I would love a receipt. Robbery.

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[Solomon Georgiou]

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Hey, y'. All, it's time for historic hoodwinks scam. It's not gonna be historic with hoodwinks today. Cause I told y' all I'm dying. Today we're gonna read your listener letters on air and we're gonna get Solomon's amazing opinions on the chicanery y' all been up to. Yes. Oh, my God. You grabbed your head. You are. Oh, my God. I wish people could see you. Jesus.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I'm just.

[Lacey Mosley]

He's so hot and so expressive and it's just also these teeth. Wow. It's just. It's great. So sorry y' all can't see that, but I know normally in historic hoodwinks, and if you're new to this show, just know normally. What we do for the over a year that we've recorded this podcast is I will regale you guys with a historic hoodwink and I'll get opinions on everyone's shenanigans. However, today, because a hoe is tired, we're gonna read your listener letters. So today, the first listener letter in Solomon. I'm gonna need you to give me fake names for everybody.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I'm happy to do that. I'm prepared.

[Lacey Mosley]

So I need a fake name. Any fake name you want.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Let me think of.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes, the deep thought.

[Solomon Georgiou]

We'll start with Flava Magazine.

[Lacey Mosley]

What magazine?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Flava Magazine.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm weak. So Flava magazine says.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, it makes me happy already.

[Lacey Mosley]

This is a scam that was recently tried on me. Happy to say I didn't fall for it, but wanted to give people a heads up. Okay, Flavor Magazine. I first got a call from a New York state number. I didn't pick up, but when the same number texted me the following. Hello, Venmo, Here we are. Trying to contact you, but we have had no luck communicating due to our unusual activity on your account. Please contact us at this number for more information. I've never got a text from Venmo. Same sis.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Wow. I would cover up the camera on my phone at that point. I'm like, I trust nobody.

[Lacey Mosley]

Only emails, and this text message makes no sense. Scam vibes. So I didn't respond or call back that smart, because Venmo, look, Mark Zuckerberger, which I like to call him that because Lil Booy who's problematic and horrible and he's a rapper, was, like, got deleted off Instagram. They took away his account because he was problematic as. And showing porn and. And, you know, transphobic and homophobic and too much in gay people's business for my opinion. I was like, you are in gay people's business. Like, get out their business. He was tweeting Mark. Okay, first of all, Mark Zuckerberg. I can't even say his real name anymore. Zuckerberg doesn't have a Twitter. And he was tweeting him like, hey, Mark Zuckerberger, I give you $100,000 to reinstate my Instagram. They're like, nigga, no. What are you doing? Anyway, so I always call Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberger now because I love it.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, $100,000. Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Well, meanwhile, he be buying his kids groceries, and the groceries consist of Flamin Hot Funyuns, honey buns that he puts in cereal. It's just. It's a struggle.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It sounds like all the food groups to me. Just finish it off with some Robitussin and you have a full day.

[Lacey Mosley]

He hitting it with the pyramid. The food pyramid, which. The food pyramid was a scam. Them niggas just want us to buy rice. I hate.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It was like, what, 90% grain? Why am I eating so much bread?

[Lacey Mosley]

One bread was like, let's make a pyramid.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It was like fruits and vegetables had to share a tear. But bread had a hole.

[Lacey Mosley]

Why? Why?

[Solomon Georgiou]

And also, dairy took up a big, big chunk of that. You're like a huge chunk. The thing that makes us all shit too much. You think that's necessary every day?

[Lacey Mosley]

Drinking the milk of not a human. Oh, it needs to be necessary every day.

[Solomon Georgiou]

That's part of a healthy diet. Okay?

[Lacey Mosley]

Everything is a scam.

[Solomon Georgiou]

We're all just blowing our asses out here.

[Lacey Mosley]

I just want you guys to think about if, like, the cocaine industry was, like, regulated and they could put out ads to be like, cocaine affiliate your diet. Like, that's what Dairy is doing.

[Solomon Georgiou]

That's what it did. No, that. Those milk ads. It was a campaign. It was not even a milk company. It was just milk in general. Was like, hey, got milk? And you're like, the fuck is this, right?

[Lacey Mosley]

The little white line over people's faces. It was a scam. They're like, got cocaine? You need it. You need cocaine. It's like, no, you don't. You don't need it. It's bad for you.

[Solomon Georgiou]

And dairy is now one of the worst polluters in the world. So there we go.

[Lacey Mosley]

And it's sad, it's weird and funny. Cause it's the worst polluter. Cause it's like methane farts.

[Solomon Georgiou]

We gonna die cause of cow farts.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, I was hanging out with. With my beautiful white lady friends who are rich the other day, and we had this conversation that at the end of the conversation I was like, damn, this is a very rich white lady conversation. Because one of them was like, look, I try not to eat meat, but like, if I do, I just need it to be sourced from like, a place that's not abusing animals. And I was like, oh, so you want them animals to be happy when they get murdered?

[Solomon Georgiou]

I wasn't to see it coming.

[Lacey Mosley]

I don't want them to want to die. I don't want them to be like, oh, my God, finally, the slaughterhouse. I want them to be like, what's happening? Ah. Like, you named me.

[Solomon Georgiou]

You love me.

[Lacey Mosley]

Why are you doing this? I want them to have an existential crisis before they're murdered.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I want to taste the fear. I want them to have a whole personality. I want them to know they're missing out.

[Lacey Mosley]

I only want to eat the pig from. What's that? Charlotte's Web. I only want to eat the pigs from Charlotte's Web.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Can you make sure their kids see them die?

[Lacey Mosley]

That makes me feel better. Because it's like they were happy and they're with their family before they died, like, surrounded by their loved ones. Yeah, I need that.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I need that.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm fucking weak. So he says. The next day, I got another call and a text from a different New York City number. This time I tried to do a little. Little investigation. I love it. You love scams. And I love you for loving them. So I asked, what kind of unusual activity are you talking about? And so this is a sketchy ass conversation that happened. Hello, Venmo here. We're trying to contact you, but we've had no luck communicating during unusual activity. The same thing we said before Me? What kind of you? Unusual activity?

Them?

Yes. Hi. My last name. They used his last name, which he's not giving us because obviously scam was magazine.

[Solomon Georgiou]

But go ahead.

[Lacey Mosley]

They said, right, it's magazine. So they said, hi. Hi, Ms. Magazine. Flavo Magazine. Hi, Ms. Magazine. Oh, God, I love you, Solomon. So this is Anderson Lewis from Venmo verification department. There's an alarm going off that somebody by the name of Tyler Thompson is trying to use your Venmo account as a bridge. Do you recognize this person by any chance? Me?

No.

Let me ask you. Were you trying to send money outside of the US as of now? Me? No. Okay. If you don't recognize this person and it was not you, the one that was trying to perform this transaction, let me make sure that we do proceed to validate and secure your Venmo account. Okay. That's where the scam came in. They talking about, okay, let me just validate your account then, because this crime's happening. Oh, so Ms. Flavor magazine started to get freaked out and said that, oh, they had my last name, and they told them they were going to call the FBI.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yes. This is like that IRS scam.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Like a. Like a different.

[Lacey Mosley]

Right, Messed up, same shit. Same shit. So she said that at the end that she did get a real email from Venmo right after saying someone was attempting to sign into her account. She changed her password, and the calls and texts stopped. Be careful out there and warn your boomer parents like I did, because this is the time type of scam they would fall for.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Also, if you.

[Lacey Mosley]

If you.

[Solomon Georgiou]

If you are susceptible to scams, don't have Venmo, don't listen.

[Lacey Mosley]

I've talked about this on an earlier podcast with Langston Kerman, where there are tiers of apps to transfer money, and Venmo, for me, is the middle class. It's the one that I feel like everybody knows Facebook is like, hey, do you love QAnon? Do you think babies are getting shipped on Wayfair? Also Venmo, like, so everybody has Venmo, so I get it. And it's. It's. It's a good scam because I'm sure it works on a lot of people. But as I always say, if something feels weird and someone wants information or money from you, I don't care how cool they are. I don't care if they sound like your cousin. Like, Solomon sounds like my cousin. I would probably send him my money on fimo. He'd be like, solomon, if we finish this podcast and you'd be like, hey, sis, that was a great podcast. I'm about to send you my audio. What's your Social Security? I'll be like, yeah, here you go.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Like, I would get it, but I'd find a better way.

[Lacey Mosley]

You're like, this shit is too basic for me, but I would rob you, but it would be more fun.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I want you to. I want it. I want it to be nice and flamboyant. I don't want to be like, yo, give me your Social Security.

[Lacey Mosley]

I want flamboyant. For a scam is hilarious. But moving on to the next listener letter, this one says, lacey, I have two scams currently running against Amazon because frankly, I need money more than they need my money. You ain't never lied. Two scams. Amen. Amen. So they say the statute of limitations is not up on these scams, but I thought it might help my fellow Americans by letting them know. Know these little tricks. Give me a name, Solomon.

[Solomon Georgiou]

We'll go with Calypso Jenkins.

[Lacey Mosley]

Calypso Jenkins. So Calisto Jenkins says 1. Did you know you can listen to an entire audiobook on Audible and then return it for a credit and use it on a different book? This is the nerdiest ass scam I've ever heard. Not you out here stealing. Becoming by Michelle Obama. Which honestly, can I say, Becoming by Michelle Obama is the book that every black woman received from their auntie. Like, I have Becoming. I didn't buy it. It's an auntie purchased book.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Like, you only have one copy.

[Lacey Mosley]

Truly, I don't know how I only have one. I feel like I posted about it and they were like, oh, well, send it back. Send it to somebody else.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, you got, like, just one cousin with ten books. Ten book comics.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, however many becomings you have is how valuable you are to your family. Do you have 10 becoming by Michelle Obama books? You're the most valuable.

[Solomon Georgiou]

You became the most.

[Lacey Mosley]

I was like, listen, aunties. I became. I read it and I became. I've already became. It's cool.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I don't want to. I can't become twice.

[Lacey Mosley]

They're like, no, sis, keep becoming. Like you were so far behind. You gotta keep becoming. You gotta continue to become. You ain't came yet. I know you did. You thought you did. He says, that was it. Calypso. Calypso says that I've traded in the same credit a number of times and they haven't caught me yet. If you order groceries on prime now on Amazon Fresh, you can get what they call a returnless refund because there are no physical facilities for you to return things to. If you're not happy with something, you can return it in quotes and they'll refund you the money. With barely any questions, I've saved myself a ton of money and gotten all sorts of free food because, again, I need my money more than they do. I love the mantra of a scammer being like, I need my money more than they do. And Whoa.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It is 100% correct in the situation, though.

[Lacey Mosley]

I don't need my money more than they do.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Look, let's be honest. Saffron cost $20, and it's a little tiny thing, right?

[Lacey Mosley]

Feel it and it's delicious. And if you order it and then be like, Amazon, I'm unhappy with my Saffron, what they gonna do?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Nothing.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love Calypso so much. And also, I love Calypso because the end of this email is just in all caps.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Bye. I just feel like she's just typing, like, I gotta let these bitches know.

[Lacey Mosley]

Be my best friend, Carisso. Be my best friend. God damn, I love you. All right, we have one more letter before we get out of this story.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Hook.

[Lacey Mosley]

This one says, hey, hello, Lacey. For legal purposes, the C mail is all a joke.

[Solomon Georgiou]

This may or may not have occurred at a time or a place in the previous or the past or the future.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's all jokes. Allegedly. Allegedly. That's how we did the Shaun King episode. We were like, allegedly, Allegedly. Allegedly. My name is Lacey Mosley. Allegedly. We putting allegedly everywhere. Okay, Shout out to my lawyer, Grace. A tween. Allegedly, Allegedly, my lawyer. So I need a name for. Hey, hello, Lacey.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Maxine Vasili.

[Lacey Mosley]

As soon as you said Maxine, I thought, Maxine Shaw, attorney at law. Yes, but also, Maxine Vaseline is. Is fantastic. So this has to be a black person, because Jesus. I, I. You guys know if you listen to this podcast, I try not to read everything beforehand. I really try to be like, oh, I wouldn't be surprised with my guest. So I did have to read a lot of this beforehand, and I'm still shocked. So this says, let's get crunk up on. Have some fun in this dance arena. Not you putting on your boots and doing the Mary J. Blige dance into my goddamn email inbox. Maxine, I love you.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, I love that song too, because it's. It's. All those words are scams.

[Lacey Mosley]

We don't need no hateration or no holleration. Honestly, my favorite word that Mary J. Blige made up. We don't need no holleration, but there's a lot of holleration on the this show and on this episode specifically because of Solomon. A lot of holleration. So that's what we're doing. So I just wanted to directly shout out how Photoshop has changed and shaped my life of scams to this day. My first foray. Oh, come on. Word foray.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Quoting Mary J. Blige and then getting right into the foray of it all.

[Lacey Mosley]

The foray of it all. Honestly, it's the foray for me. So my first foray started in high school when I got a free large coupon drink at Sonic for good grades. Am I smart? Question mark. I didn't want this to go to waste. I scanned the Photoshop, then onto a nine page document and started mass producing them. I would trade them for money, homework and money. Had a small coupon ring going, ooh. Sonic said you can get a ocean water for free for being smart. And he was like, like, bet I'mma get 90.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I don't get it. I want to do whatever I can.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'mma get 72 ocean waters. Like our first scammer family.

[Solomon Georgiou]

So we got a coupon scammer.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. And honestly, I love this because remember those ultimate couponing shows where it's just a bunch of hoarders who get hard rock hard on getting coupon discounts? Oh yeah, this is the same.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It is the same, but it's not. It's more fun because those, those people were terrifying.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh my God, I love this so much. There's some more to this story, but we unfortunately are going to run out of time. Gonna just stop it there. But I'm gonna read the rest of the story on another episode, I promise you guys. Woo. This is the saddest part of the episode because this is when I'm soon gonna have to let Solomon go.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I'm sorry.

[Lacey Mosley]

And I don't want to let him go. I want to grab him through my computer and. Yeah, it's just, it's been wonderful. Here we go. Scammer of the week. This is where we highlight a charlatan who we love or hate. Sometimes we hate him. I find out during the episode, I'll be like, damn, this nigga trash. But this one, this one I feel like is actually wonderful.

[Solomon Georgiou]

So let's, let's judge. Let us judge.

[Lacey Mosley]

Let us judge. I love that. Solomon, you're gonna be a judge on some TV shows soon because not only do you give energy and comedy, but you do give like elevation. Like, you should be judging people.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Yeah, I really. I bring the best out of people. I don't want to, but they do try hard around me.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love it. Wait, what is your birthday? Is that rude? Just tell me what your sign is. Cause that's what I want to know.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I'm a Capricorn.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, you're a Capricorn. But you give me huge Leo energy.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I have no idea what that means.

[Lacey Mosley]

I had it till birthday time, and I'm going to figure, I'm going to do your chart.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Well, good luck, because I was born in a refugee camp and my mama ain't going to both remember what time that was.

[Lacey Mosley]

Not. The time was like, they brought the guns out. No, no.

[Solomon Georgiou]

She's like, I got like, mom, what time was I born? Bitch, just be happy you alive.

[Lacey Mosley]

You right. You right. You can't ask what time you was born. I know I was born at 2:18pm on July 4, but I was born

[Solomon Georgiou]

on Christmas, and it was still a hot day. That's how you know it was hot.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay, word, word. My mama was making potato salad, so that's how I knew. She was like. I made it taste like. I was like, Oop. A baby. I was an anti. Oop baby. They thought they was gonna turn up for July 4th, and I was like, no, I'm gonna turn up.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I'm here to bother you.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm gonna turn up as well. We all gonna get lit. Bring the potato salad to the hospital. So scammer of the week. Jesus. Ooh, Lord. Scammer of the week is a woman who allegedly. We gotta sprinkle some allegedly on this.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Allegedly.

[Lacey Mosley]

But it is a news article. Charge it to wbrz, which. That sounds fake, but it is a new source.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It sounds like a place. Yeah, that's. That's.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's a local news from around the corner. Can you imagine if news was like your homeboy and they just came out on the block and was like, so today, news for my apartment. Like. Like, that's really what news is. We just trust news people. We be like, oh, yeah, they said it, so it's true. They just niggas news people.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, just. That's. They have to do. They have to do research. Don't. Like, we can't just. If they just showed up, like, you want to take a guess on what's happening today?

[Lacey Mosley]

Hey, I'm from the news. What happened over here? I saw y' all congregating. Did something happen up from the news?

[Solomon Georgiou]

So I just took a walk around the block. So here's today's news.

[Lacey Mosley]

I used to love industries that can't be setups, like startups. Like, you know, we're entrepreneurs technically because, you know, you're so talented. You do podcasts, you do comedy, you do all this shit right? And you started that shit up yourself. You're a genius. But like, you couldn't just entrepreneurially get into news.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Look, first of all, I think you can. I think people do. Because no one I know that has a journalist journalism degree is on the news. So I don't know if they're. I don't know if people on the news.

[Lacey Mosley]

Facts. My girl was like, I'm going to cosmetology school. Now she be on Fox 4, like, more at 11. I'm like, what happened? I don't remember.

[Solomon Georgiou]

You go to a real college?

[Lacey Mosley]

What's going on? I had a truly real friend. Her name is Chelsea. Shout out to Chelsea. I fucking love you, girl. We did acting school in Pittsburgh and we used to be. Cause we had this crazy ass picture, like, teacher who. I won't say her name because I actually was going to. She would have us doing these exercises before we started play rehearsal that were like, okay, now we're all humping the floor and we're humping the floor and we're moaning and we're like, now she work on the news. Bitch, how you get some news? How? How? I love it.

[Solomon Georgiou]

You didn't remember nothing back then.

[Lacey Mosley]

Shout out to that acting teacher. Also acting. Teaching a scam. But also very good. I learned from the best. So. So a New Hampshire woman is accused of pretending to be a prosecutor and submitting paperwork, dropping stalking and drug charges against herself according to an indictment handed down this month.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Wait a minute.

[Lacey Mosley]

It.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Against herself?

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. She was like, oh, hey, I'm the prosecutor for my case. I. She ain't do it. I did I say I ain't do it. I meant she ain't do it. We should drop all the charges against me. I'm. Excuse me. Her.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, my God. This is

[Lacey Mosley]

so. Her name is Lisa Landon, which. That's a scam name in itself.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Once you hear the same consonant start like, that's okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's robbery. Your name robbed me. Your name robbed me already. I don't have my wallet. What happened? So Lisa Landon, 33, was arrested after she allegedly. I gotta sprinkle them. Allegedly submitted false documents in three separate court cases last November and December under the guise of a prosecutor and some incident instances. She even used an electronic court system to file documents.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay. Now, officials first became suspicious when a state forensic examiner who was scheduled to evaluate Landon's competency for the trial, noticed that her charges had been dropped and questioned if they should move forward with the evaluation. So somebody showed up and was like, hey, I'm here for the evap. And he was like, oh, she not in the system no more. Are we doing this?

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, my God.

[Lacey Mosley]

So the indictment also says that Landon falsified a decision from a retired New Hampshire Supreme Court judge and waived filing fees. So she was also like. And also, we cannot charge her. I mean, me. I mean. Oh, damn. I did actually meet her.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I love all of this.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love her.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It's layered. It's all. First of all, you're the only person. She's the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the victim. It's just. I wanna.

[Lacey Mosley]

She shows up as the victim. She's in a neck brace. She's like, yeah, me hurt me a lot. I need money in this.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I wanna watch this one woman play. I want her to play every part.

[Lacey Mosley]

I want her to have a civil case where she's like, hey, but also, I need money from me. Hurting me. Even though legally we didn't charge. I just want.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I just heard an empty courtroom. Sitting in every position, going back and forth.

[Lacey Mosley]

A queen. A queen. I'm a rule.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. Sustain.

[Lacey Mosley]

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. I didn't. Oh, my God. So I'm not the horror. Courtroom is her. I'm leaving. The whole courtroom is her.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Jesus runs to the jury to take a nap. Whatever you gotta do.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm weak. So she faces charges now of false personation. Cause obviously she false impersonated herself a lot. All the time. She was like, false personation. That's what I do. Like, I ain't never been me. I'm always you. I love it. She has six charges of falsifying physical evidence. Now, I do wanna say this. She's also accused of filing an order on behalf of. Of a relative to halt guardianship proceedings involving her child. And that, for me, like, I think that obviously, I talk about all the time scams. People are desperate. They need things like, you don't want your baby to get taken away. So I understand fully. Putting on a powdered wig and pretending to be a judge to keep your baby. I get it. I get it.

[Solomon Georgiou]

It ain't gonna work, though.

[Lacey Mosley]

It ain't gonna work. But listen, I get it. But also, if your family was like, you shouldn't have this baby. And also, you was imprison, impersonating Everybody. You probably shouldn't have a baby like the baby's. I'm glad the baby gonna get rescued, to be honest.

[Solomon Georgiou]

No, I'm sure. Yeah, the baby. I'm glad the child is being cared for. But Lisa Landon, wow.

[Lacey Mosley]

Lisa Landon is a queen running the game. Oh, ran it. She. She usain bolted that shit. They was like, we ain't never seen nobody run this fast. God damn.

[Solomon Georgiou]

I would like. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she wrote that article

[Lacey Mosley]

O. Lisa laughing more at 11 she did all report on herself. And on that note. Jesus Christ. Solomon Georgiou, this is. Oh, this episode has been fantastic. Jesus.

[Solomon Georgiou]

Oh, it was so fun for me.

[Lacey Mosley]

You wore me out. God. Where do you want to be found? That's what we asked on the show. Is there any place you want to be found?

[Solomon Georgiou]

I'm across the board. Solomon Giorgio on my Twitter, on my website, my album, everything you can find me. Just. Just type the whole name into Google and if you. If you don't, if you see another Solomon Giorgio, let me know. I'll kill him.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay? Sorry I'm shrieking yalls ears so much this episode because this man kills me. Guys, as always, like you heard in this never done before episode of Listener Letters. Email us with your scams and frauds. Snitch on your friends and family. Just make sure that the scam is retired. It's scamgottispodmail.com if you want to find us on any platforms at scamgoddesspod. If you want to find me and my ratchet ass. Divalacy D I V A L A C I Diva Lacey D I B A L A C I On all platforms. I've never said it twice. What's happening? I told y' all I'm dying. Let me stop congregation. Stay scary. Scam Goddess this has been an Earwolf

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[Lacey Mosley]

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