The Fake Cancer Workplace Scam

What's popping Conggregation? It's your girl Lacey Mososeley, AKA Scam goddess. Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the Sam 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. That's f is What's up, cononggregation, It's Suig Girl, Scam Godddess back for another installment of Yes, Scam Godddess. I named the show after me. I'm Lacey Mosley and I'm so excited to have our amazing guest here. He is bicoastal and thank goodness was here filming his new Netflix show that he's also producing with his comedy group Astronomy Club. Astronomy Club on Netflix, y'all. He's also one of the three amazing hosts of Black Man C't Jump in Hollywood, which one of my favorite podcasts, which I recently got to do and what's out E everybodys Jonathan Ba. What Yeah ye. Hey, Oh I love that. I love the extra. I had it come in hot. I need it. and I truly need it Truly, the people who listen to this p our congregation, they're always like, you guys are really wired. Why Are you yelling directly into the microphone? Just turn your sound down T down. You know what it is You're playing with me You've been listening to this for a while Right? You know you gotta turn this down when you start listening to it. You know I would be ragging. Theyitt it. Oh gosh, so wait, John, what's your relationship with scams Oh man, I was trying, I was thinking about this on the way over here. I was like, because here's the thing. I'm definitely a person who Make sure I'm not getting scammed. You know what I mean? Like, right? Yes. Yeah. so that's a home for a lot of scamers. Yes Yes. I was born in New York. I grew up there. I also grew up in Jersey and then went back and like I was like, you know, I'm always looking for the scams I don't think I scam people, but I definitely look for shortcuts sometimes. You know what I mean? Look for shortcuts. a rebrand L that N nearilying laong. I'm just looking for a shortist around the law. Listen, you know, I you know it's in the bylaws or something, you know, if it's not there in black and white, you know, maybe there's a way to skirt around it and I'm like, hey, you know what I mean? You sound like a scammer, John. Thoseose are the words I'm I don't cheat people out of money. Okay, yeah. I don't do that. That's what I don't do. Yeah, I don't do that either. Yeah. Maybe the gvernment But everyone else, no, no, just kiding government. I know you're listening. I'm paying y'all every penny that you deserve. I hope you know. Okay.y. donon't Lauren Hill trruly, the richest people in America are scamming the government antly It's so deeply supped to be real about it. It's the middle class who' actually out here doing the work for that are billionaires, likeike your money is in some fucking island. Yeah like, you fucking assho. When you get a little when you get some money and you like if if you have your own business or you become like a S corp, like a lot of us people have to do in the entertainment business, you realize How much of a scam it all is. It's like you can just start writing things off like left and right. Everything. write off every single thing. Everything that you were using before, but you ain't getting no tax return for that ' like, all of a suden my cell phone bill is a business expense. Oh yeah, it is. And ear rings and it gym membership. My nfk subscription, all of it. Everything. The only thing that I'm a little mad about right now and I'm probably gonna leave my accountant is that he's like not shady enough. Like I he's lazy as fuck. likeike not only is he not getting me returns on shit, like he told me when I went to Georgia to shoot my show, they were gonna to take six percent of my income, six percent. My lawyers get five, right? Georgia's taking six. Okay yeah. I'm like, y' a't even help me with shit for y'all taking six percent, y'all got to do some paperork or some bitch. You better come out here and put on a mus fuck swimsuit, Georgia. Florida girls. The funniest thing about that is six percent is low compared to what some states try to take for you. Like New York City but I don't li in Georgia. No,ah. So it's like Kaly getting theres.. Georgia' going gonna pull up function.y. getting it really if you're working You know what I mean? You? I don't even understand. Well so I was talking to him about it and I was like, Yeahes, so what can we do about this? And he said like, What do you mean? what can we do? you don't pay It getid of your ass. I a better call Sul ass lawoy. Are you fuck kidding me? I want you in cheap shoes.. Cheap suits. I want you constantly sweating. That. That's right. I need to know I'm getting the best stretch.bsolutely the la. Tax accountants should always be looking at ways to scam the government. Literally That's what we pay you for it. I was like, this is lazest f. I can go just pay them what I them you. Honestly, sometimes I like with the first tax account I had U we had a four black Maybe I shouldn't say this, but anyway, I won't put anybody el had it, ye you had. We had it, you know for business and I was just like so scamous. What is this person doing for us at all? 'cause I'm doing all the work, I'm plugging in all the expenses. I'm doing all the write offs. And then I just give it to this person. they're like, great And then they send it in I was like, wait, what I just pay you for? That'll be eighteen hundred dollars I was like, wait, what did I pay for? He wass like, I emailed it to. I'm like, N I can do that with turbo teax. like, right? I was like, I'm going back to the block L this. I'm must be at HRR block like, all right, y'all, this is might let us see. This might Tammy? Tammy, is that your name? What do you do for the non tax months? Oh, okay, you work at a craft store. Wonderful. Now get down on these things Beause I'm sickking this shit. man. So full transparency, my wife is the spokesperson for H andR block. Hell, yeah, see, and I love them. I would also like to be the spokesperson. y'all hear. I'm tryry to get everybody Texas lent. All right, let's get into it. So the first segment of this show is called was Hot and Fraud. So we like to prevent our congregation from getting scammed. Andl this is by me. If it's a scam that I'm offering, I fully need everyone toicipate Right, right. ye. That's right We don't cheat people. we don't che exactly. But we get the m. Yeah exactly. You see Charatha came in here at try be all C time. I thought about this on my way over here like Hm scams, something I'm not familiar with. I've never never done it. Here's a full blown scammer. Full blown. I'm calling it. So we also have people sending little messages. Guys, if you've retired a scam or a scam's been run on you and you want to share to our podcast audience please scam guys at Gmail dot com And today we have a listener who wrote M. I never say the listeners' names, but you'll know who you are. I'm gonna call you Shandy. Okay, Sandy. All right. What' I say? Shandy So she says, when I was a little girl, we didn't have a lot of money growing up. So my parents couldn't afford to send me to fancy dance classes, but I was able to join the dance team at my church for free. Hallelu. We were called Daughters of Zion. Okay I know all about it. Z all about that. What do you know about that?ot that I know specifically about daughters of Zion, but I know about I know about the church lingual. I'll just say that. wit how do you know You were deep in it. You were deep Oh yeah, I deep in it. Did you do any performances as a church? I was since I was in fifth grade, I was acting in the church doing play and I went to Times Square church which is a I mean, I don't they don't call themselves a mega church. They don't have other locations, but there's about eight thousand people that go to that it's pretty large It's a really large and they actually the church is inside what used to be a Broadway theater. So it's like a full Broadway theater. Oh work. you're getting that experience. There's a church out here like that that's in like an old performance place It had like old timey like Greek kind of pictures of like painted on the walls. Yes, yes, yes. So they instead of just painting the walls of the church, they had somebody put clothes on the people. Like they hung drapery and like stapled it over the naked bodies. I was like, Oh shit. And that church is a mega church. Right. I was like, if you to paint these damn walls with this money out and gave y' I go into every. Like where is where my benevolence go? 'cause it didn't go to Sherman Williams, like I asked it to. Wow way but I actually know a little bit because Draw told me that you are like big on the church. Y ch. Yes. I mean, I had a whole faith journey that happened and I'm not I've learned to separate Christian culture from like the principles of Christian that I respect. Rinna, you've got to do that. But it's hard. It's a hard process. especially if you just if you go to church every Sunday, sometimes on the Tuesday night prayer session or the Friday night youth service, you know, you're in it. Yeah, that's a lot. You're in. I try not to get to know people at church because I want to have everyone stay pure in my heart. Right. You know, I don't wantan to be in the gossip in church and be like, you know, I saw her account love the offering. okay? It was the love offering. I thought she' she some in the packet. You know what I mean? Like I don't want tona be so deep in it that I know p m up But yeah, okay, so you performed at the church. I performed I performed at the church. What kind of plays A you mayabbe Jesus? Oh, I mean, I was never by Jesus, but wait, I definitely was Jesus at at one point. Okay I U I played the deevil once. Please I was say it was f. It's the devil's la. right, hold on now Let me explain this now It was actually a play where it was like, I guess because the devil's advocate had come out recently. So it was like a play it was kind of like that where it was a person was on trial and the person who was on trial was a Christian. And God was the judge andesus and I was the prosecutor. The devil the He got the witness. No,'s the prosecutor. He's like this person' guilty, you got something to hell And Jesus is a defender. Okay. you understand Yes, no, I fully understand. I was in high school. I was in high school. Oh no Was that in high school I think I was in middle school. Oh even better. And yeah, it was this huge before like and you know, I had to be like You had to be like, you Yeahah, this person did this and this person did that and this were they doing that? you were like, Oh you know like they were having sex They were marrying some ch. This is a spicy part And you know, they cursed out their mom. You know what I mean? All the white kids are going to help , you know, all these things. And then the of course the end of the play is like the person's like, wait, but you got saved then You good, bro. Oh, I love that., that's what I'm banking on. that like when I get older or at least that I'll have like a couple seconds before I die I can be like, I'm so sorry. Purified. You know, Gta get it. Gta get it. So this girl, sheandy She was in the daughters of Zion. Yeahah. Yeah, yeah, that was a tangent guys. We're back. So Shandy, the daughters of Zion. And this was like a conservative church in the south in the nineteen nineties. So I have a full picture of this. This is the kind of church I went to. At one point, two famies showed up to our church who said that they were Ukrainian refugees. There were two moms, sisters or old friends, I think, and they' daughters. The two of them were about fifteen or sixteen, and the other two were my age, seven or eight. The girls who were all very legitimate gymnasts and dancers joined our Rinky Dink little church dance group These women would take their daughters around to local churches, put on a dance performance rib dance was all the rage at the time. Yes, it was very lit in the nineties. Rrib dancing. tell a harrowing story of a fleeing violence and collect an offering from the congregation She said she got really close to these girls, and they attended her birthday parties. We had sleepovers, and they were my friends. And one day they just disappeared. They left town with no explanation. About a year ago, I asked my mom, whatever happened to the Ukrainian girls? And she told me this. They would go around the whole country dancing at churches and collecting cash offerings, then move on to the next. They weren't refugees. and those girls, my parents later learned, that they weren't even their daughters and none of them were rel. Oh damn You love to see it. That's Okay that hurts That hurts because you know those people were just those people were trying to help somebody else. But they did help them. I guess you're right.'re right. look they did. They did The story wasn't the actual story. Maybe these women are from Wisconsin. Maybe they're just great actors and dancers from New York who realize they could take their show on the ro. But did they not anoint y'all With a ribbon dance in his name? That's true. You know, Isn't that worthse? That's a good point. A love offering? Right I mean, they became friends like, you know, they sounds like they befriended some people Exact relationships. Right Y'all have a sleepovers. those sleepovers were fun. You got to learn dance moves from trained dymnists. They probably went to the Olympics after that. That's how they make their money on the off season. Right. They they go do traveling. I guess if you think about it, like if they just were living off that money and just for whatever reason they're like, this is the work. this is our work. Our job is this Is it really that bad? I mean, what's the difference between that and what we do? We're entertainers and we're like, hey, I'll entertain you, give me money, please and I'll give you entertainment. Right I think that's what happened here. That's true I'm sorry you lost your friends like that girl 'cause they just packed up in the middle of. That's sad ' were you were just a kid and you just wanted to hang out your friends You like when of she just calling for a sleepover and they're like none. Like Hey, is S Lan over here Let's go see Barie Live. Oh li All the windows are open. all doors are open. They just gone. Never to be seen again. Really? You probably never even knew their real names. Oh, I wonder if she knew their real names. Yeah. That's exciting, justust hanging out with somebody who got a different identity That's the kind of stuff I meant E's dating in LA. You don't know the fuck you're dating. They just tell you whatever. Actually, especially in New York, you don't know who the fuck you're dating because. Everybody got thirty seven thousand jobs. Everybody walks everywhere. so you're really not seeing anybody get out of any vehicles. You don't really know what anybody's life. Oh, interesting. That's right. because you can't you can judge somebody based on what the vehicle they they driving Now you can I will say that. like a lot of people drive around their mortgages. And I went on a date once with this guy who was driving like an S class Mercedes Benz and it was really nice. And we started talking and he had mentioned something about a payday loan He's like years ago I took out a payday loan. And I said, Ohh my God, you took out a payday loan. I said, So is your credit like really shot now? because those are predatory. And he was like, yeah, I'm working on rebuilding it. I said like, arere you leasing vehicle? He goes, yeah, I' leasing. I was like oh, I bet that payment's really high, huh? He was like, yeah, it's pretty high. I was like, whereere do you live right now? He's like, oh, I'm moving my friend, he's with his wife and his baby, but I'm about to move out and get my own spot. I was like, Okay, so you have three roommates, and one of them is a child and you're driving a b that you can't afford and your credit is shot ! Amazingly! I'm Annise Keaton of Dayton Brokenness. I come in with my briefcase and I wobble walk over and I find out if that neg is broke. Okay? Like I said, you rck clean, but go But Okay.. No, that was amazing. No way I was okay, you were doing Who was that? What was whoing that song? Of course Of course, I blink the name immediately when you ask me. Stay by, bye. It's going come to us. Is a birdman? It's birdirm. Birmanly I stay fly. I other people Chicken head.. You ride clean, but your gas tank is all me. Right. So up in the club, no decent shoes on your feet. Hey, listen. You gotta listen to those lyrics, ladies, though though D't say I never gave you anything. Sot. All right guys, and we're back with my favorite segment of the show as I say every week, historic Hoodwings. So this is when I'm gonna regale John with an infamous con and we'll just get his thoughts. Obviously, I love this guy He's from one of the countries that really just perfected scamming in such a magnificent way, Nigeria. You know, when you think about The origin When you think about ground zero for fraud, you know, two places come in mind for me. One is Brooklyn, New York, and the other one is Nigeria, the country. That's true That's true. List, shout out to all my Nigerians, Omo Nigra. I love y'all so much. It's no shade, it's just we know. We know. it. And also we're proud. and I'm proud of this man. and I think by the end you'll be proud of him too. So this is Nigerian scammer, Emmanuel Wood. So he has an in in front of the last name, Wood. It's in W UDE, but I have so many Nigerian friends, so I know that you don't pronounce the in. Wow W. your culture. Like what? you know what I mean You are so I Fu fu. Also I'm black. I need to say that every show. If you don't know yet, I am black. So I'm allowed to say all these things because I don't know where I'm from in Africa, okay. probablyrobably somewhere where they could dock a boat, you know? That could be anywhere on the west. So this is my culture. You're right So this is Nigerian scammer Emmanel Nude. Oh my go, I said the in. No.e! set yourself. Okay. Oh my go. So Emmanuel is a fraud artist. fraud artist. Wow, that's look at that. Fraud artist. P some respect man name. And former director of Union Bank of Nigeria. He's also known for defrauding Nelson Skagucci, a director at Brazil's Banco Norste, based in San Paulo of two hundred and forty two million Wha of them thingss. c. I did not think that was gonna be million. Like m I was like, ooh, twenty forty two thousandars. That's respectable. Million? Oh, did you not hear fraud artist Okay. Honestly, my bad. My bad. You thought we were playing Okay? Okay, let's go.ight, Let's get it, okay? Okay, this is the haall of fame right here. Absolutely. So accompl his handsome accomplices I don't need to read off their names, but you know I can pronounce them. We just need another handsome. Handsome and well out there. Okay. So, once upon a time, before he carried out the largest or excuse me the third largest banking scam in history Three. Yes. Top two and I'm not number two would have been better in me. Well, you should have scammed a little higher So He was an average guy who worked as a director of the Union Bank of Nigeria. In addition to regular income that his job gave him, it also gave him access to a lot of classified documents and information. Information is key.ation Paramount. We all know scammers, when you start to really work inside a business, you always learn what the cracks are. You know what I mean? You know if they're gonna notice if you take twelve staplers home or not. you start to figure that stuff out, and then it starts with the staplers and then you're like, oh, I may take home these forms. You know, I'm gonna take a whole filing cabinet home to my house. You know what I mean? L why do you need a fileing cab Why go? Why don't I? For all these files I don't steal Look, I gotta get organized, okay? I started stealing a couple of files I don't know if this is a scam artist or a clut I love the sleepoat that I run out of my home So, in nineteen ninety five, after he quits his job as director of the Union Bank of Nigeria, Wood used information from his former job to pretend to be Paul Oguma Woma Oh, Paul. So So Paul, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Then the fake governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, so this is Emmanuel pretending to be Paul. R convinced Nelson Skagucci, a director of Brazil's Banco No to buy steak in Nigeria's newest airport. I love the accent at the end. Nigeria is going to have a new airport And it is going to be so nice. you want to put your plane there? Absolutely. Yes. I'm gonna get canceled by the Nigerian community. Fight me. No don't, please you're fashal. If the Brazilian bank director got it on the ground floor when the airport was being built, he would get about a ten million dollars commission as well as dividends on his airport investment. There So it's like, Listen, I know that there are no contracts. I know I can assure you actual contontracts are the building. have But the building is going to be there and if you get in on the ground fther, you will making so much money I cannot actually provide you with any forms. Okay, so no forms. Oh no, I do not have any phons for you today, but listen to me Yeah Ten million dollars That's a lot of money. Yeah. I want you to give me two hundred and forty two million. Right, okay wait, hold on. So my investment My investment is twenty four times the amount I'm gonna get back. Miss, but sure you are' not thinking about the money that you stand to gain. got you, got you. Okay yeah, yeah., don't miss this opportunity. someone calling me right now, hold on. I gotta be honest, you're so handsome. don't know I don't know if it's because you're hands, but I think we gott to do business together. Listen, has the handsome man ever deforded you out of two hundred forty two million dollars? Never ever and this will not be the first that it happens. So eager to cash in on this sweet deal just like Jonathan just showed us. Horny skaguci. Horag. paid wood, one hundred ninety one million dollars in cash and fifty one million dollars in outstanding interest. Despite the lack of a physical airport, which was promised which take several years to approve because of construction, in nineteen ninety seven, the money trail started to chirp up. So two years later, they're like The money trail. That's what gotem. Not the fact that this airport didn't exist and there was no construction crews or not. Askaruji, my friends, why are you calling me today? Hey, yeah, I drove by that lot that you said we were gonna start building that airport in. There's nothing there. Yeah, no no. You must not look closely enough there is a sign on the ground that says airports coming soon.. No, actually I did see that sign. It was written in crrayon Yeah, Fred Cay And it feels not as legitimate. Oh, did you see the picture of the airplane on the suand? Yeah,uh? Yeah, I just thought, you know, it has been two years now So airports t have you ever built an airports cary? I have not These sexy hands that I have have builed at. I have sexy hands. Okay. You know what I'm going give you some more time. Exactly how it happened. the phone call guys. Yeah, that was I'm so lucky to have those transcripts So that year, Spanish bank Santendnder just happened to make a move to acquire Banco Norestre. That's Cargucci's bank. But during a deep dive on their books, which I hope was like a deep seccession style dive. Do you watch seccession?f course I do. I love secession. It's just like empire, but with like a little bit better research Like because on emmpire, they have to keep everything vague. I always talk about this like I think that instead of like L Danos going out and like getting information on how businesses are run, they just stick with like very vague first. Yeah, right We've talked about this. like the company. But on seccession, they're like, the quarterly reports are down and like Kend' doing cocaine and being sad. Oh, so good. So I hope it was like that. I hope this was like a seccession style deep dive. But in this deep dive, they found out that two fifths of the bank's capital was registered to undisclosed accounts in the Cayman Islands. This, of course, was Wood's colossal taking of now three hundred thirty millionars. Wow Also, Can we talk about the fact? that the Cayman Islands are pretty much onlyn know for like embestling money. I mean, that's their brand. That's their brand. And I've been there so many times. and the funny thing is like when you go to lots of islands, especially in the Caribbean, everyone is like super duper friendly because tourism is just such a huge export for them. R. So they're trying to get your money from the gate, you know, all the way back to before you leave, right But in the Cayman Islands, they're not like that 'Cause they don't need your fucking money 'ause all they do is launder money. They's bitch like, why are you over here? Welcome to the Caymans. Go the fuck home. Are you a millionaire? No, to get the fuck out rise out, Bch. No, you can't handle plantain, holdies not sa of you. Could you ask back on that carnival cruise ship, you raggedy bitch Y They're ninetine. Be they're like, we don't have to be. Oh my God, it's so real. It's so real. Beause the banking industry is like keeping them completely afloat. They're like, arere you a rich white billionaire? They raise the fuck up, Sandra. We're not braining your daughter's hair They are me Sorry if you're from the game and. Wait if're from the gamlines,e tweet me and tell me I'm right. That would be incredible. I heard y't like tours and I've expericed it as. I also I'm black from They knew immediately. They knew immediately. Also, I could be from there. Again, the diaspora. I will reiterate this throughout the show to legitimize my horror accents. okay. The fraud was o, this is the other thing that I want to point out. Tw fifths of the bank's capital H guy Scaraguchci You invested And they let you people And they let you do this Two fifths of all your bank's money. That's why. In an airport you've never seen. Did you even visit the lot where an airport was supposed to be at? No, he definitely didn't. this is. The other thing that I think about with these stuff with these kind of things is like people have W Too much money. When I drop five dollars I open my wallet and I'm like, whereere fight house go? I start tracing my steps. I start asking people, Hey man, do you see fight house on the street? I start I turn over couch cushions, you know, I'm in the car looking in the cracks. just going let three hundred million dollars and then two years after two years, then they go. Wait, move. There's a littleiterally is coming out of John D There is some money It was a little bit of money. W Scaro, can you come here? Y. Hey Pam. So we were just digging through these books. I Santaner I'm from my sparent actually. The people of Santaner were digging through the books and we just have a couple of breotas for you. Donis Radenerro, where is the money? Yeah you had over a triillion dollars and now it's three. It's only nine hundredill. Yeah. That's not what we were promised when we saw, okay, oh, you gave it to a sexy African Okay. Oh Oh it's okay This also nineteen ninety five, so I imagine technology is just so trash. Like whenever I think of nineteen ninety five, I think of the movie ghost. That's true. People typing on computers. for some reason there was like green letter. Damn but that's man, nineteen ninety five. This was ninety five. Yeah. That means that money was even more than it is now. Yeah. God. Yeah. Wow. So why do they make a movie about this, dude? I think they are going. Okay, they better They made a movie about some white dude who just scammed a a couple of banks But like right? likeike that dude, Leonardo Capri, like, how much money did he steal? I don't know. Definitely not two in forty. Exactly N not a flex like this. he's not number two. He ain't number two. So the fraud was uncovered after the december nineteen ninety seven joint board meeting. So they had a meeting. Everybody pulled up to the meeting. What an uncomfortable meeting. Yeah You might not just give him water first. Yeah, yeah, you can have a little water. let's get to it. Pchware is all our money So this led to a criminal investigation in Brazil, Britain, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United States. I mean, if the US ain't get parts, then are you really even doing crime? now? World police and world criminals. That's true. We are the good cy and the bad guy. That's right. Hey, nobody can police your crime if you to police We belie God. It's a huge problem. Laugh to keep from crying. Unfortunately for the Brazilian bank director, the Abua airport, Abuja That was the name Abuja. It's good name. That sounds like a nice airport. T responded to Abuja Abuja at ten AM. Yes. It was a complete fiction. Tada But by the time he figured it out, Wood and his accomplices had already fled with the money. D. Well of course Oh really good. Ls here, head start Listen, Lista, we are only two years behind. We will find them. We go find them, okay? Like Liam, Nisa hopped on a plane five minutes after his daughter was ten. Y'all waited two years. Y'all werein't getting that shit back. I don't care how many people you neck chopp. You're not getting that money back. So Wu got away with it until two thousand four. W. So just to do that quick math that's seven years.even years of just afterfter they found out Luxury. Whoa. When he was brought before a Buchja High court and charged with eighty six counts of fraudulently seeking advanced fees and sixteen counts of bribery We' gonna get into these bribery y because they are fun. sixixteen counts. So however, after rumors that Wood handsomely bribed the court staff that also charged him with bribery, the case was thrown out. at forty two million dollars. You ain't liking nobody else have of money. We already know this. peopleeople who are rich, don they don't go to prison. But you know, it's always white people who are rich you don't goight E exactly. So I love. You love to see a black man. You love to see it skate away like this. You truly do. was in so he was was in Neria, right. That's another thing, right? So he's in his home He's in his home country. They were just like And everybody like What you did is so wrong Is that money you are putting on my table you know I cannot take that Okays on a rs on goingt leave this. Well hundred a thousand dollars here. I amm going to have to charge you with one more count of bribery for trying to grab me, but then I will throw all the charges out I'll charge you and then I will throw out the char. I' out those charges. So According to Nige, the group pleaded not guilty and were warned not to bribe court officials after the alleged money was going around. So basically they went to court and they were like, Hey, hey, don't bribe anybody. Don't bribe me. Don't you come into my chambers and give me a suitcase full of money Don't you do it? if you Try to give me two hundred fifty thousand dollars That would be wrong. Especially if you left it at three two one Maplewood drive in unmarked bills that were clean But don't do that. Don't do that So in july two thousand four, Judge Lal Gumi threw out the case again, claiming that since the crime did not take place in Abuja, he had no jurisdiction and said that the proper place would be Lago's High court. So he got bribed probably was like, you know what? actually? this ain't none of my damn business I need to mind my business. You know, as a officer of the court I need mind my business. I need to mind my business. My mom always told you mind your own business. So this ain't my business. An African proverb So he as soon as they are let out and they assume they're, you know, free, the defendants were immediately rearrested as soon as they stepped outside of the courthouse. So they didn't get much freedom. Damn okay So in the Lagos trial, Wood attempted to bribe Why not? Well, didn't we tell you to stop bribing people? He got endless money. like what else is he about to do? We told you don't bribe nobody else. Damn! I love it because they couldn't find his money. so like he's still able to bribe people She just showed up to court in like rose horses and like a full gold suit. They're like,, whereere's your money at? He's She's like, I do not know. but I know I could find some of it for you. And I o So so then Wuch attempts to bribe Nuha Ribadu. I'm probably not saying that right now. I'm so sorry, who was then the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the EFCC, with seventy five thousand dollars cash. Okay, so here's my issue with seventy five c. too low, man. You came in wayame too l Your offer was offensive. That was offensive. That's probably why it didn't work out Like you stole two hundred and forty two millars. Yeahah, you can't be brabing dollars thousand now That's too low. that's trying to give me's gonna give him seventy five dollars. Like, hey, make this go away you going to jail now. Just on pettiness. So he refused obviously because it wasn't enough money.nt enough money. And Wood was charged with attempted bribery again, as well as an attempt to kidnap a prosecuting witness So Oh wait, what? Where didd that come from? escalated quickly Who are he paying now So he was like, fine, you don't want to take my seventy five thousand dollars. I'm gonna pay that to somebody else who go kidap me ye. God damn. seeventy five is all I'm giving. That's my finalw.'reike, you can't play hardball when you trying to go to jail. During the trial, there was a bomb scare that caused the courthouse to be evacuated, curious. Okay. H. I don't know what the plan was with that one though. You just That's only gonna get you like two hours. bomb siffin dog. What she tried to accomplish with. That reminds me of that Dave Chfel gift where he's playing the president and he sits down at the table and like tosses over the pitcher of water and runs. L this was Wons's like Scooby doo ass trying to escape Im w. I thought you was go get to Canada B. L, What are you doing? You didn't build your fake airport, so you got to fly out the regular one, Leg what? Bab . So Emmanuel ander be, Lord Jesus. You're doing really good. You're doing really well. I'm not. I started. I put the in there. It's supposed to be Zer B.. There we go. Fuck. So Emmanuel and Zerb Golly I like it. we're gonna go with it guys. Pleaded guilty after testimony in hopes of a more lenient sentence. and were're sentenced to twenty nine yearsars in prison collectively with Wood receiving five concurrent sentences of five years, totaling twenty five years. And O'ali receiving four. So O'cali only got four years Wood got twenty five years. I don't understand why the sentences are consecutive. I guess what they're trying to do is to make sure you can't plead out and not serve all of them. I think they just because they wanted him to go to jail for a long time for what he did. Yeah, but here's the thing So the entirety of Wood's assets were confiscated to be returned to the victim. And ten million dollars fine was imposed to be paid to the Nigerian federal government. Okay. So o wa, he got his ten million Aeria ll pay you is, damn y'all He didn't scam y'all. He scammed Brazil. They're like, and you know what? giveive us ten million as well because we know you got it. I mean, we had to put you on trial That expensive. Yeah, that cost ten million dollars. And what about that bomb threat that we gave you the cell phone to call in for? That costs ten million dollars are expensive. So Mood filed a lawsuit to recover his seass assets after they were released from prison after he was released from prison. Do you want to guess what year he was released? Well, clearly it was not the twenty five years sentence he was supposed to serve. I want you give me a ballpark guess of how many Okay, so he went to prison say well like two thousand five? two thousand Yeah, like two thousand four two thousand four Uh, I mean. Okay, you know, white collar crime, they probably get out in like three years, but I'm gonna add three more ' he's black, so six. But he in a black country. Oh, that's true. So let me subtract to I love the racis of math. I love Okay, Gw everybody's b. Okay, four years. Wow, you're close, but no cigar. He got out in two thousand Six J I was in the cling for less than two years Cia A king. So he filed a lawsuit after doing less than two years in jail to recover his seased assets once he was released from prison on the grounds that some of the assets were acquired before the crime was committed. He was like, okay, some of that money was mine is basically what he's. interesteresting. He has already reclaimed at least fifty two million dollars The scam was the third largest banking fraud scam in the world. ized advanced fee fraud syndrome, meaning that now when people want money up frront, which I've talked about on an episode with Lauren Lapkin, reimursement, I't do reimbursement. I don want reimbursements. I want my money upfront. But now that's a nerve wracking thing for people because they worry like what if I give you three hundred million dollars for an airport and you never build it? Right, right, right So advance fee fraud is a type of fraud in which businesses and indivuals are required to pay an advance fee. It's pretty self explanatory. The targets of the fraud, which include businesses and individuals, receive a solicitation with someone posing as a business or representative of the government promising large sums of money will be deposited once they reach their target. To ensure this, the recipient of the letter is asked to pay a certain percentage of the total amount And it's always like a wire or a transfer. Anytime somebody tells you they don't wire you money, like immediately become afraid. Right, right And this type of fraud is sometimes called four hundred e nine fraud after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal code. So now he has his own crime name after him I'm proud of him. Hall of Fame. Emmanuel, you have a crime named after you and you are full on free and a full on millionaire. to Emanuel, a king. I mean, seriously, I'm just thinking about all of the You know, not to make this about race, but like seriously though, mad like movies made with like white people scamming people and they don't even come close to what this dude did. And he's free. And he's free. He got out in two years just like any other white person would. M, that's amazing. That's truly, that's inspiring Right. I mean, he stole fifty two million dollars, but honestly, those people probably shouldn't have had that much money to begin with. Right. They're hoarding it. To be honest, he was' hoarding it. Is he not redistributing the wealth? He's out here paying every government employee. bribing everybody. I want you to think about the little girl whose daddy is a judge and that Christmas, she got that doll that she wanted or that beyonce tickets that she wanted. You know what I'm saying? You think about how many blessings Eanuel created for the people his life that they scammed. that he bribed. I love it. Now one person did get kidnapped, maybe Yeah, Was it threatened to kidnap or I think it thought be threatened to kidn attempted kidnap. Yeah. Yeah, which is not even that bad. As a woman who walks down the street, I'm pretty sure I been people have been attempted to kidnap me every day. And I'm doing okay So what bad did this really do? This went by really fast, Jon. I mean, so fast. We reached the last segment of the show. I'm sad. Oh I am too. So this is scammer of the Wek. Okay. So this is when we pick like one honorary Charlatan who's worthy of our praise. and just we just share their exploits with the world I love it So this year's scammer of the week is Jeffrey Wall of Freeport A main concert promoter who raised over three million dollars from investors, allegedly fal tell falsely telling them that the money was going to be used to host Christian music festivals and that profits were guaranteed. Okay right back in the Christian world. Christian coachella O, R' aoella You know you can be as problematic as regular cooachella. There's just like maybe no drugs and sex, but you can wear a flower crown and or an Indian headdress. That's right, you can lift those praise hands in the air. Can we drink wine and call it communion? You can sip You can sip some coee. have a sip of they probably could serve white cllaws. Listen, you can get high on the Holy Ghost. Okay You heard of here first Dath So The Lighthouse Eents LLC gotta Aven LLC, founded by Jeffrey Wall, described itself as a Christian ministry that promotes, organizes and hosts music concerts and festivals. Wall solicited investments from companies through emails. One which read, beccome a financial partner with our summer festivals. Help us spread the message of Christ. plus earn twenty percent on your investment Wait, so I can save people and make this money? Yes I can serve both masters. We can not it. We get sanctified and we getting dividends amazing. The twenty percent on your investment is trash. So regulators say that Wall did not disclose his company's poor finances and growing dues. Instead of Christian concerts, investor funds were allegedly used to pay off his existing debt know what scam he was doing for this. I love that he just did a whole scam just to pay off some debt from his last scam From his last scam.. When you're like a career scammer, you're always looking for your next income fill. Right. So now he was like, I'll just send out email unsolicited emails And this worked it worked. it worked So The defendant's actions constitute what is known as affinity fraud, which refers to investment scams that prey upon members of identifiable groups such as religious or ethnic communities. In this case, the defendants defrauded investors who shared Wah's religious views. So I guess he found, oh wait, is this the guy This is Wall Ohm my wow. Look at his bland ass family Oh my Godd, If these people walked past me, even after staring this photo, I'm like Kiki Palmer. I could st at this for two hours and I'd be like, I don't know this man. It's truly the most Like generic looking. I've never seen a more generic looking family They should all be scammers. I would never remember any of their faces. wow I'm forgetting them as I look at them Like I'm staring at them and it's them forgetting. It's like I could be friends with them for years and then I could see them in a Starbucks while I'm waiting for coffee tonight. I truly want to know the backstory of like what what that debt was, you know what I mean? Right. You might be murdering people. Yes, absolutely olutely. I encourage you guys to look up Jeffrey Wall and just look at his face. Like these people, I can't So he just emailed He just emailed people and he got the money? Yes,. He was sending out unsolicited emails promising Jesus and twenty percent And you know, Jesus only asked for ten This morning Jesus was It's the stal. Is what I'm g. I will multiply your loaves and fishes. Literally what the emails said Christian Coachella. Christian Coachella. All your favorite Christian artists? Yeah, who are our favorite Christian artists? I like So this is like Christian like this is like Christian Rod. I'm assuming Christian know, this is like Chris Tomlin Okay, this is like Sean McDonald. doeses he still make music I don't know, but I think so. You know, I love I do love that song, takeake my hammer. Take my hand to the proming, L you wanna wear say but can'ot do it all on my own. I need you. You wouldn't need anything the need to be Lself I h, I know that I need you. Listen, I'm from Texas, okay? so I had to listen to Christian prcess Absolutely. It was forced upon my ears. but I loved it. I would totally like do Molly and And we're a flower cowd in the Seattle that and that and that and and that. We're the only black person there Oh I know it was a scamp We it was a scam when we saw that one black lady on Molly in a headdress. Oh man. Oh man. But okay, so this is something that happens a lot and it happens with different groups. It happens with a lot of hate groups as well. groups that kind of hate like gay people or hate you know what I mean? Like they get scammed by Heike look, we also hate who do y'all? Hry, hold on. , Wh do you hate specifically? We So here's the thing.reold we're holding a rally, the Kan rally. Okay. We're gonna take down all of these blacks and Jews and queers. and all we need is a small investment of one hundred dollars and you will get twenty percent off You will get twenty percent return on your investments once the white race has taken back supremacy. As soon as we get the supremacy back. As soon as we get the supremacy back, We going get you your twenty percent on your investment. I promise you Okay, just wait for the day. prromise you that what's his name Duke something David D. Wait until David Du Listen, we promise you forty acres and a mule. That's right. White reparations Just give us a hundred dogs and you going get your white reparations? I would love. We need to run this scam, John. White reparations. And we just hit up racist groups and we're like bllack people have always said they needed the forty acres in the mle, but we know we need it. We know we need it. Our dary miltter dress is like whitey and G mail dress at Gmail. comot Definitely a white person had Gmail. com Caucasians Oh yes, but as soon as we do get this subirmaccy, we will give you twenty percent return of your investment, okay?. All right. All right. We have reached the end of the show. That's so Isn't that crazy? That's so crazy. Well, I have to ask you, John, where Well actuallyually, there's one more thing. that So this was a two partarter and I was gonna not read the other part. I was just gonna to save it from Shandy. But since we have a little bit of extra time and I know you guys will be pissed at me if I leave early, I am gonna read this Please do. So this is also from Shandy. She said this is a scam that happened in her adult life She says, I once worked with a woman who faked having cancer for four full months. She stopped coming to work, She said she was undergoing chemo treatments, She started wearing a head wrap and even waxed off her eyebrows. Now that's commitment. The employer paid all of her insurance premiums, so somehow they were able to check up on her progress and once they got suspicious and discovered that she wasn't sick at all She was just sitting at home collecting her VP level paycheck and waxing off her eyebrone So she pretended to have cancer just so she didn't have to go to work. L literally just so she didn't have to go to work. First of all, people just call out sick She's trying to call out dad. Like My question about a scam like that is like how do you what was the end? whereere was the exit? You know what I mean? Like how'd you think you were gonna get out of that Like were you just gonna come back and maybe like have short hair wigs and then like eventually have a long hair. You have to keep up this story literally for the rest of the rest of your life you have to keep telling people that you beat cancer and you never did. And this is a scam that I don't know if I commend this one just because there's so many people who have this disease and cannot afford treatment. So it is really fucked. And also you're at a VP level position, which means that you've ascertained a certain amount of skills ake your job just just quit not. But then you went and got you some nir and you went down to the black hair care store and got you some scarves you probably got it it's also a lazy scam too. It's just like She just tellld people she had cancer and their wax their Sve their head She didn't save her head. I think she just p just wax her eyebows. just push her head in the head. So then what are you doing when you're not at work? What' your balld face I don't know. I guess she's just living her life man, what a boring person. This is trash. like honestly, you know, I love scamps, but I will have to condemn the scamps Just for me. lazy, not inventive U there's a lack of ingenuity here. also you know what I mean? There's a lack of forethought to the end goal. likeike what was gonna happen this I also want if you're gonna commit that hard to having cancer, like, you gotta milk that for more than just She must be milking it other places because otherwise how is she going out? Like what is she on a bunko night and they're like do you think she continued the scam outside of that life? Do you think she got like, you know, people like buying her things or just feel sorry for her She had to have. I mean, I dont I don't know if she would need this She having eyebrows If you're not like, I don't know, like a nineteen year old fat boy, like why don't you have eyebrows, mana'? Like people are going to ask. Yeah I truly don't. Sis for this scam. I'm gonna condemn this scam and maybe from here on out, maybe I will do one scam that I condemn. but this one is one that I definitely could that you cond Just to balance things out ' I am getting a lot of emails that are like, Lacey, you really motivated me to start doing fraud. I'm like, Oh no Oh, the opposite of the Lord's work Listen P put that on me. Okay Because anything, a good scammer can manipulate any narrative to fit their own. Okay. I'm distancing myself from this. I'm not a scammer. I do not do these kinds of scams, okay? These scams are petty, man. My scams are small. I go to Chipotle I order some chips. I walk away from the counter and I come back and I say Can I get a side of salsa? and then they give it to me for free? But I had a if I ordder chips and salsa, I had to pay an extra dollar for that That's beautiful. See, that's a little shortcut. Look at that. That's for everybody to know. to Chipotle You want chips and salsa? Ordered chips walk away from the county walk away. Now walk far. gott to walk. You gott to walk away. Don't walk don't walk I can still see you and then turn around And then and then just come then you come right back and say, Actually can I have a side of salsa? And they go, Ohh yeah And what kind? And then you tell ' them what kind and they give you the side salsa. I'm gonna up the scam one Get the chips Walk away Shave off your eyebrows The sal. And then they go,? I have cancer. they just fell off. And then they give you a free burrito I appreciate that scam more than this woman's scaming her job like this. But thank you so much, Shandy. You are a wealth of scam information. Guys, we've reached the end of the show. John, I just have one question. Y. Where do you want to be found? I don't ask where people can find you. I wantanna know where you want to be found. I like that 'cause they could find me in places that I don't wantan to be found. Exactly. Yeah, like my house You can find me or I would like you to find me on Twitter and Instagram, at John Braylock, JONBR AYOOCK. My podcast, of course, Black Men can't Jump in Hollywood. Please listen to that on Apple or Spotify or wherever we listen to your podcast. And of course the show astronomy Club on Netflix which depending on when this comes out, it comes out december sixth. So if it's past then Go watch now and if it's not past then, then december sixth P it in your calendar, baby. All right.. Oh my go, that was such a good plg. I love that. Gys. As per usual, you can find me, Lacey Moseley at DIVA LACI on all platforms. And if you'd like to contact the show, scam goddess scam goddess pod at gmail dot com onlyly retired scam guys. 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