Scam goddess: lessons from a life of cons, grifts, and schemes - laci mosley

A hilarious, 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 didnt hurt people or get her in trouble.

But ones that would get her where she needed to be.

You see, she writes, everyones a scammer and everythings a scam.

Some people are better at it than others, but we all do it.

The system wasnt 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 its by the beauty industry, capitalism, or the people we date, were all getting scammed.

In this book, Laci identifies the secrets to flipping the script and coming out ahead.