She Built a Fraud Empire. Now Laci Mosley Is Taking Scam Goddess Everywhere.

Three days ago, Laci Mosley dropped the first full-length video episode of Scam Goddess on YouTube, and the subject was a podcast host scamming his own listeners through AI-generated content and fake merchandise.

There is no better thesis statement for what this show has always been about.

Scam Goddess started in 2019 as a comedy podcast on Earwolf with a deceptively simple pitch: Laci Mosley, comedian and self-described fraud obsessive, breaks down real scams and cons with a rotating cast of funny guests. She called it "true-crime adjacent, with all the fun of true crime without the murder." That description undersells it a little, but it captures something real: the show found a lane that didn't exist and filled it completely.

Seven years later, Mosley has turned that specific obsession into a franchise spanning podcasting, publishing, television, and live touring. The first full-length video episode dropping on iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell's Big Money Players network is just the latest chapter. But if you haven't been paying attention to this show, now is as good a time as any to start.

What the Show Actually Is

The format is reliable in the best way. Mosley brings on a comedian or cultural figure, puts them through the story of a real scam (historical or current) and the conversation goes wherever it goes. Past guests include Conan O'Brien, Jameela Jamil, JB Smoove, Nicole Byer, and Miranda Cosgrove. The guests don't need to be fraud experts. They just need to be game, because Mosley is meticulous about the research and does enough of it for the whole room.

The appeal isn't shock; it's the comedy of recognition. Scams, at their core, rely on the same human vulnerabilities every time: status anxiety, the desire for a deal, trust extended too quickly, fear of missing out. Mosley has a gift for naming those vulnerabilities out loud, which is both funny and genuinely educational. Audiences come for the fraud and stay because they feel smarter afterward.

TIME Magazine named Scam Goddess one of the ten best podcasts of 2022. The audience had already figured that out long before the recognition arrived.

Where It Goes From There

The book came out in 2024: Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes. It did what a podcast book should: extended the show's sensibility into a different format without trying to just be a transcript of episodes. Mosley writes the same way she talks: funny, sharp, not performing intelligence but definitely having it.

The TV show followed. Scam Goddess on Freeform and Hulu premiered January 15, 2026, and shifted the format into something closer to investigative. Mosley travels around the country to bust active cons: religious scammers, fake royalty, Ponzi schemes, the kinds of fraud that destroy actual people's lives while managing to be structurally absurd. The show keeps the comedic point of view but the stakes are real. It works.

She's also run a sold-out national Live Nation tour. Which, when you step back and look at the full picture, means a Black woman with an obsessive interest in financial crime has turned that interest into something that operates simultaneously as podcast, book, television, and live performance. That's not a career pivot. That's a media company.

This Week's Episode and Why It Matters

The first video episode of Scam Goddess, now part of iHeartMedia's Big Money Players network, premiered August 18. The guest is comedian Langston Kerman, and the subject is Jonathan Dupiton, host of the "Rich and Unemployed" podcast, who ran a con involving AI-generated advertising, fake social media content, and merchandise connected to his show.

There's something fitting about the fact that Scam Goddess' video debut digs into a podcast host as the mark. Black podcast culture has spent years building trust with audiences who showed up precisely because independent creators felt more honest than mainstream media. That trust is the thing a scammer like Dupiton exploited. Mosley covering it isn't meta commentary; it's exactly what the show has always done, following fraud wherever it shows up, including inside the communities that feel most familiar.

Kerman is sharp company for this episode. His own podcast work means he's not coming to this conversation from the outside; he understands how audiences form around creators, and why that attachment becomes a vulnerability.

New episodes drop every Tuesday. Classic episodes get rereleased on Fridays. The video versions live on YouTube.

Why This Is Worth Your Attention

Black women have been doing the structural work in podcasting for a long time (hosting, producing, building audiences, doing the actual labor that makes shows run) and converting that work into media franchises on the scale Mosley has built is still rarer than it should be.

Scam Goddess didn't get here because Laci Mosley waited for permission to expand. She found something specific, built a genuine point of view around it, and kept extending the format into every medium that could hold it. The TV show didn't replace the podcast. The book didn't replace the TV show. The live tour didn't replace anything. They all coexist because the core idea is simple: fraud is fascinating, and comedy is the right lens for it.

If you've been sleeping on this one, the video debut is a clean entry point. Subscribe wherever you get podcasts, then pull up Tuesday's episode on YouTube. Langston Kerman is a good hang, and the Dupiton story will make you want to go check your emails.