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Scam Goddess - Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

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"Laci Mosley is a hilarious and wise rule breaker and Scam Goddess reminds you there are many ways to ‘live your dream.’" —Amy Poehler

A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning "Scam Goddess" podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world—and how the scammer mindset has affected her own upbringing, career, friendships, love life, and more.


From an early age, comedian and actress Laci Mosley knew her path would be riddled with scams, cons, robberies, and frauds. Little ones. Ones that didn’t hurt people or get her in trouble. But ones that would get her where she needed to be. "You see," she writes, "everyone’s a scammer and everything’s a scam. Some people are better at it than others, but we all do it. The system wasn’t built for people like me. Scamming saved me and has taught me how to navigate a messy and unfair world while looking out for myself, too."

In Scam Goddess, Laci recounts how her scammer instincts have guided her throughout her life—from a religious childhood in rural Texas, to a stint as a city bartender at what might have been a drug front, to swindling her way past the gatekeepers of Hollywood—recounting the greatest true-crime scam stories that inspired her along the way. Whether it’s by the beauty industry, capitalism, or the people we date, we’re all getting scammed. In this book, Laci identifies the secrets to flipping the script and coming out ahead.

About the author

Laci Mosley is a Black American actor, comedian, contributor on ABC's The Con, and host of the podcast "Scam Goddess," which has been named Best Crime Podcast at the 2022 iHeart Radio Podcast Awards, Best Crime and Justice Podcast at the Webby Awards (2x), and a Top 10 Podcast of 2022 by Time magazine. She has starred in Paramount+’s hit reboot of iCarly and NBC’s comedy series Lopez vs. Lopez. She has also appeared in A Black Lady Sketch Show on HBO, Florida Girls on Pop, Kenan on NBC, Single Parents on ABC, Better Call Saul on AMC, and Insecure on HBO.

Summary

A hilarious essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the wildly popular, award-winning "Scam Goddess" podcast, in which she dives into the wildest scams she's encountered and examines how this work has enlightened her to the scams present in all areas of life

Foreword

A hilarious essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the wildly popular, award-winning "Scam Goddess" podcast, in which she dives into the wildest scams she's encountered and examines how this work has enlightened her to the scams present in all areas of life

Product details

Authors Laci Mosley
Publisher Running Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 26.09.2024
 
EAN 9780762484652
ISBN 978-0-7624-8465-2
No. of pages 256
Subjects Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire

Crime & mystery, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, True Crime, Relating to African American people, TRUE CRIME / Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, Crime and mystery: women sleuths

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