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Scam Goddess (2025)

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Scam Goddess

8 reviews
5/10

Host is annoying, needs to realize this isn't a podcast

I enjoy hearing about scams, and the show is entertaining - but the host is grating. She makes inane comments that are often repetitious of the interviews we just heard. The stories are fascinating, but the host embellishes too much with her own commentary and her way of talking sounds weird for television - it turns out she has a podcast by the same name, which is why she keeps narrating as if it's a podcast/radio, versus the imagery on screen.

I think the show has potential if two reigns in the host to narrate and avoid the overly dumbed-down narration. Show has potential to be a good series documenting scams.
  • soulfx-1
  • Feb 20, 2025
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5/10

Great show just needs a different host

In my opinion, Scam Goddess has the potential to be a great series. I'm on the second episode and already know I'm going to end up binge watching the first season in one day. The only factor that could deter me from watching the show, is the host. Lisa Mosley seems to be more interested in herself than the story. During her own interviews, she would cut the person off after asking them a question and talk over them. It just seems like bad acting on her part as if she's applying or trying to show off for a bigger role somewhere. I hope the series doesn't end, because I'm interested in the topics, but hopefully they can find a journalist or someone more interested in the story and not themselves.
  • shawnnagardner
  • Feb 13, 2025
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1/10

American Greed, but make it boring and goofy.

Sad attempt to recreate American Greed, but add a goofy host and boring, pointless interviews. Host wears a multitude of silly outfits and wigs. First episode she pretends to not know Ronald Reagan. The show completely fails at delivering the story with excitement. The graphics are childish, and unpolished. I've been a huge fan of American Greed for years, so I was hoping for that same gritty delivery of stories. But instead, it's a goofy retelling with an unnecessary host. The host isn't funny, but instead her delivery is corny and unqualified. Throw in a bunch of glittery outfits, wigs and hats as she completes for attention instead of focusing on the story.
  • kcgvfrqt
  • Jan 19, 2025
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10/10

Unlike you haters, I adore this host

I just finished bingewatching this show and have to say that this host has my whole heart. Laci brings so much humanity to such a cold a sociopathic topic.

Instead of focusing on solely the scammers story, Laci gives us an fun yet thorough history lesson on the communities these monsters preyed upon, giving us deep context into how these a**holes created their scams, and why they were successful.

Giving air time to victims, and truly taking the time to empathize with them seems healing for the victims. I've never finished one of these episodes thinking "what a dumb**," but instead see myself in them- which also scares the s**t out of me. Laci truly makes the user realize, this could happen to anyone, and these as*holes can pop up anywehere.

And for those of you saying the graphics are goofy and childish.. they're so perfect for my adhd dopamine seeking brain. To each their own I guess. I ate this up! Also coming for her wigs and clothes is crazy.. are you mad she's cute?

Spoiler alert, the outfits slay.
  • imdbfan-6238182191
  • Mar 6, 2025
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8/10

Be wary of small town clerk/treasurers...

I love that this series begins with a little known small town scammer that deserves a much bigger audience than it had. All the Queen's Horses was the first to document this huge scam, and it fully deserves this follow-up in episode one. Let it be a warning to all small towns who let one person control all the money in a town for decades with no oversight. That is most small towns, by the way. It is midwestern niceness that allowed this to happen, and it continues to happen to the unwary chummy boards of every small town in America. Auditors do nothing they aren't told to do, and since the client is the town itself, no firm looks into anything too closely, so don't expect auditors to find fraud, they will say it is not their job. I laud the host of this new show as well as the hero who discovered the scam, and just warn that whistleblowers are too few and far between. Great start to this show!
  • susiewtsn
  • Jan 15, 2025
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10/10

Very informative as we discourage Greed all over

This documentary is very informative and allow each of us to be more alert when it comes to scammers in general. If I had to be blunt, this world has suffered enough at the hands of hackers, scammers along with every single seed of villainy poisoning our world. It would also help amplify our awareness of what these scammers are capable of and for us to do the right thing and put an end their crime spress. Sure it may not be exciting to some but it help us all to be aware of these con artists and bring them to absolute justice and drive their deception out with the utmost prejudice. On top of that scammers don't deserve to be part of society. Not now nor ever.
  • saiboro2
  • Jan 30, 2025
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8/10

Excellent show from a human perspective - excellent host.

This show has excellent cases that are covered thoroughly and from the perspective of the victims and also the perpetrators (if possible). The host is truly outstanding. She is relatable, compassionate, kind and speaks freely to get to the bottom of things with a true journalistic spirit. She is a human covering cases that affected humans and she does it in a captivating way and with real empathy.
  • kkovs81
  • Aug 1, 2025
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Absurd, Not A Serious Show

The host decides to "pretend" she is some sort of detective. She is not. I was a detective, over 50 years ago, so I know of what I speak.

This young woman just has a camera following her around, behaving as though she's done serious research. What she's actually done is to interview people on camera (people on camera - in the 21st century - are suspectible to the dazzle of fame, so they like being talked to. In the first segment, all people are doing are telling Ms. Mosely parts of her past. This is NOT detective work. Putting on a cowboy hat to blend is is absolutely the move of an amateur. A Detective works differently, but this is a tv show, so, instead of serious research, the episodes are fast-changing shots, which some people mistake for genuine excitement. Those of us who actually did the behind-the-scenes work (BEFORE the crime, not after it) would not be wasting time talking to people. She merely rehashes what is already a done deal, since she has the facts of the case. And she dresses up in the first epsiode complete with cowboy outfit. The woman is an idiot, but then, frankly, the people watching this have no smarts about how much she is nothing more than someone telling you a story. And if you like that, and want to believe that she's "getting to the bottom of things" (even thought the perpetrators have already BEEN convicted), you are the kind of person who values entertainment over actual detective work.

If you're watching this, believing it to be anything other than entertainment (which is all it is), you're just buying into the tendency of the younger generation to believe that this person is actually DOING investigating, which has already been done. EVERY fact she tells you would be found in the prosecuting attorney's files. IMDBfan refers to people not liking this as "haters." Whoever they are, I would suggest that they are gullible and ignorant. This is not REMOTELY how true exposes work, and given I was both a detective and a reporter between 1971-1974, the "hater" is the fool who gives this a 10 rating. I cannot stress how foolish her entire show is.

She does nothing. She mugs for the camera, makes statements at moments, muggingm and KNOWING the camera will stay on her, and not pan around the room to witness the people she claims suddenly got "tense" (you notice the camera does not pan around to confirm her 'hypothesis.' It stays in a tight shot ON HER).

She's a con artist of sorts herself, behaving as though SHE is "going to get to the bottom of this." (The "bottom of this" was all done before the trial, which is what to the subject convicted) Her behaviours are those of a not-even-gifted-amateur trying to fake her audience out (since they likely have not heard this story before). She's doing NOTHING, kids.

Pure Fiction. Pure Nonsense. Pure Drivel. But hey, waste your time since, clearly, you dialed this up. Gullible people. Her conclusions are simplistic and obvious.
  • Tarntarow
  • Aug 27, 2025
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