Scam Goddess
with Laci Mosley
September 12, 2022
EP. 155 — See Ya Money Disappear as a F.A.P (Fine Art Partners) w/ Chelsea Devantez
Guest Chelsea Devantez
What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, Chelsea Devantez joins us to discuss Inigo Philbrick, a young art dealer who took the fine arts world by storm with a few Ponzi schemes. Plus, an LA rapper who rapped about committing fraud has plead guilty! Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/inigo-philbrick-intelligence-report-2020-1800972
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10819073/Made-Chelsea-star-led-lavish-life-Inigo-Philbrick-faces-years-jail.html
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/25/inigo-philbrick-jailed-art-fraud
https://www.tatler.com/article/inigo-philbrick-art-dealer-arrested-vanuatu-south-pacific-art-fraud
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-06/rapper-accused-of-fraud-agrees-to-plead-guilty-but-will-nuke-bizzles-career-fizzle
September 5, 2022
What’s poppin’, con-gregation? It’s the re-release you all have been asking for, the Shaun King episode part one with Ashley Ray. You know what episode this is. Buckle up, because we’re talk about a true scamming King. We recently reunited for a part two cause, he’s still at it. Check it out. Stay schemin’!
Sources:
https://medium.com/@deray/on-shaun-king-351bd812318c
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/darrensands/shaun-kings-days-as-a-pastor-mirrored-his-later-successes-an
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9180389/the-shaun-king-controversy-explained
https://www.thedailybeast.com/shaun-king-keeps-raising-money-and-questions-about-where-it-goes-3
https://newsone.com/playlist/growing-list-of-shaun-kings-nicknames-that-have-gone-viral/
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2733874-everything-you-need-to-know-about-kevin-durants-twitter-fail
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-bachelor-madison-prewett-instagram-bought-followers.html/
August 29, 2022
What’s Poppin’ con-gregation? This week, Sydnee Washington joins the show to discuss how the social media platform Triller launched a series of partnerships to support Black creators only to come up short on paying the content creators. Plus, a French physicist apologizes for passing off a piece of sausage as a star. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/01/triller-app-black-creators-pay/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/16/timbaland-triller-verzuz-lawsuit/
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2021/09/president-donald-trump-commentate-evander-holyfield-comeback-vs-vitor-belfort-triller-fight-club-boxing
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-05-20/triller-umg-reach-deal-ending-fight-over-payments-to-artists
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientist-etienne-klein-posts-webb-telescope-image-star-actually-slice-chorizo-apology/
August 22, 2022
What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, Sam Sanders joins us to discuss Bishop Lamor Whitehead, who garnered initial sympathy for being robbed during a livestream of his sermon. Now, his integrity is being questioned after past crimes have surfaced. Plus, the TikTok viral Pink Sauce is called out for not being FDA approved. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.thecity.nyc/brooklyn/2022/7/29/23284458/brooklyn-pastor-lamor-whitehead-pleads-for-sympathy
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/nyregion/lamor-whitehead-bishop-robbed.html
https://www.curbed.com/2022/07/bishop-lamor-whitehead-real-estate-holdings-default.html
https://bestlifeonline.com/news-robbed-pastor-whitehead-life-details/
https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/tiktok-viral-pink-sauce/
https://www.eater.com/23284219/pink-sauce-tiktok-color-expert-reactions
August 15, 2022
EP. 151 — Fraud Family Values w/ Josie Totah, Alycia Pascual-Peña & Yasmine Hamady
Guest Josie Totah , Alycia Pascual-Peña & Yasmine Hamady
This week, actresses Josie Totah, Alycia Pascual-Peña & Yasmine Hamady join the show to discuss Richard Ayvazyan and Marietta Terabelian, the leaders of a family fraud ring that collected $18 million in pandemic relief for 151 sham businesses.
August 8, 2022
What’s poppin’ con- gregation? This week we got Amy Aniobi & Grace Edwards discussing Dr. Ruja Ignatova, the once famed crypto genius known for her new currency, OneCoin, who ended up stealing nearly $4 billion before disappearing in 2017. Plus, a woman has been writing fake Russian history on Wikipedia for over ten years. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3185141/inside-ruja-ignatovas-crazy-rich-life-missing-cryptoqueen
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-4bn-onecoin-scam-how-crypto-queen-dr-ruja-ignatova-duped-ordinary-people-out-of-billions-then-went-missing-trqpr52pq
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3184333/missing-crypto-queen-ruja-ignatova-new-anna-sorokin-shes?module=inline&pgtype=article
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50435014
August 1, 2022
What’s poppin’ congregation? This week, Demi Adejuyigbe joins us to discuss Kane Gamble, a 15 year-old who wreaked havoc on several US government officials sometimes with just his phone. Plus, the Orlando Museum of Art is under fire after displaying 25 fake Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-investigating-claim-of-hack-on-cia-director-email/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-and-dhs-secretary-emails-hacked/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4xav5m/teen-who-hacked-cia-email-is-back-to-prank-us-spy-chief
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/01/22/hack-social-engineering/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-43840075
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/20/two-years-detention-for-uk-teenager-who-cyberterrorised-us-officials-kane-gamble
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ekk5/kane-gamble-cracka-back-online-after-a-two-year-internet-ban
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/19/british-15-year-old-gained-access-intelligence-operations-afghanistan/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/30/orlando-museum-director-fired-fbi-raid-basquiat/7780681001/
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando-museum-of-art-director-told-art-expert-who-had-doubts-about-basquiat-exhibit-to-stay-in-her-limited-lane-31912843
July 25, 2022
What’s poppin’ con-gregation? Jonathan Van Ness joins us to discuss how Margaret Keane didn’t know that her husband, Walter Keane was taking credit for her famous “Big Eyed” children paintings popularized during the 1950s and 60s. Plus, find out how one woman found a stack of 70 Chase bank credit cards in her mailbox. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/deception-effects-1.4628704/how-margaret-keane-helped-deceive-the-art-world-1.4629030
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/margaret-and-walter-keane-art-fraud
https://www.keane-eyes.com/item/limited-editions/exhibit-224/
July 18, 2022
What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? Ashley Ray joins the show to dissect how so called “civil rights activist,” writer, and company founder Jeffrey Shaun King is still out here scamming. Also, a worker in Chile accidentally got paid 286 times his salary. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.blackenterprise.com/shaun-king-daughter-kendi-has-a-word-family-move/
https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens/status/1407733142769831944?s=20&t=XD6Se6jkQmSc6OPoI2L_bw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwxI_DE4S0A
https://jezebel.com/samaria-rice-asks-shaun-king-accused-grifter-how-the-1847160251
https://www.yahoo.com/video/shaun-king-asks-assistance-move-153036273.html
https://www.newsonyx.com/update-shaun-king-accused-of-clothing-line-scam/
July 11, 2022
What’s poppin’ con- gregation? This week, we got Eric Mosley discussing how a psychic conned Vera Pratt, a well-traveled heiress, out of her inheritance under the guise of curing her of demons. Plus, one wife of former California State Senator is in hot water after a Bay Area news organization discovered she plagiarized her book from Wikipedia. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/santa-clara-woman-jean-mccorquodale-plagiarized-wikipedia-for-book-she-was-paid-millions-to-write-report-says
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/us/23florida.html
https://www.courant.com/sdut-florida-family-charged-in-40-million-psychic-scam-2011sep01-story.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2011/08/17/psychic-scam-busted-by-feds-in-florida/?sh=2b33c9ac7b22
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/rose-marks-psychic-family-matriarch-found-guilty-on-14-counts-of-fraud-6531594
https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/rose-marks-fort-lauderdale-psychic-behind-17-million-fraud-sentenced-to-ten-years-6459931
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2013/11/04/convicted-fortune-teller-s-younger/6837074007/
July 4, 2022
What’s poppin’ con-gregation? We got Priscilla Davies joining us to discuss Elisabeth Finch, a former TV script writer who allegedly lied about her health status and used other people’s trauma to write story lines in Grey’s Anatomy. Plus, a retired Atlanta Police Sargent says that a con man used his business, to defraud a DeKalb County church out of tens of thousands of dollars. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/greys-anatomy-elisabeth-finch-truth-lies
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/greys-anatomy-elisabeth-finch-jennifer-beyer
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/retired-officer-fighting-clear-his-name-after-fraudster-took-out-loans-under-his-companys-name/5VRBZRQRU5CFRCKJMOBWPEHMVE/
June 27, 2022
What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week we have comedian Nimesh Patel on to discuss James Hogue, named one of Time’s Top 10 Imposters, this runner turned bike thief fooled an Ivy League school into thinking he was a student but was really a 31 year old con man. Plus, the Red Power Ranger has been arrested by the FBI because of COVID fraud. Stay Schemin’!
Sources:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/03/the-runner
https://www.aspentimes.com/news/famed-con-man-who-lived-in-ajax-shack-arrested-again-in-aspen/
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/strange-case-james-arthur-hogue
June 20, 2022
What’s Poppin’ Congregation? This week, we have comedian Kevin Fredericks to discuss the baddest bitches of pirating to have ever sailed the ocean blue, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Plus, a family of scammers from Queens, New York, who stole a house from a dead man in 2010 are finally caught. Stay Schemin’!
Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
Sources:
June 13, 2022
EP. 142 — The Queen of Cons w/ Miranda Cosgrove & Nathan Kress
Guest Miranda Cosgrove & Nathan Kress
What’s poppin con-gregration? It’s the iCarly, Scam Goddess crossover we’ve all been waiting for! We got Miranda Cosgrove and Nathan Kress discussing Cassie Chadwick, who at the turn of the 20th century became one of the US’ foremost accomplished fraudsters. Plus, a Florida man is charged with 114 counts of various fraud, after he was caught in an alleged decades-long scheme to defraud Florida State’s Division of Unclaimed Property. Stay Schemin’!
Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-high-priestess-of-fraudulent-finance-45/
https://www.wrhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Cassie-Chadwick.pdf
June 6, 2022
What’s poppin’ congregation? This week, we have the hosts of Not Another True Crime Podcast, Sara Levine & Danny Murphy to discuss Elizabeth Swaney, who proudly made it to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, without doing a single trick in her sport. Plus, the FDA demands Alex Jones stop advertising questionable dietary supplements as coronavirus treatments, threatening legal action if he doesn’t. Stay Schemin!
Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
Sources:
https://everything-everywhere.com/elizabeth-swaney-and-the-power-of-just-showing-up/
https://olympics.com/en/news/elizabeth-swaney-unlikely-halfpipe-hero
