Corsicana, Texas is home to four things: Exxon, the Navarro Cheer team, the largest fruitcake manufacturer in the world, and the embezzlement of said largest fruitcake manufacturer in the world. Over the course of 10 years, Sandy Jenkins, Collin Street Bakery's executive comptroller and sole person in charge of all accounting, wrote 888 checks from…

Question of the scam: We all live for an experience or at least a 4-day vacation - but what if your experience was at a religious-themed theme park? Would you spend $1,000 to attend a Christian version of Disneyland? Scam City is back for season two with “Leave Room for Jesus: How Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker Scammed Evangelists Out of $150 Million”! …

Question of the scam: We all have a friend who seems to know someone who knows someone. So imagine that your homegirl presents you the opportunity to “win” a contest for a million dollars. You have to decide three things: do you do it, yes or no? Do you take your money upfront in a lump sum or in small payments of $50,000/yr for 20 years? Finally, …

*Spoilers Ahead (even though you already know the story since you listened to our "Make That Money, Don't Let It Make You" episode, right?!)* In this very special bonus episode of Scam City, Taylor and Cass discuss Lorene Scarfaria's masterpiece, Hustlers starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Lily Reinhart and Keke Palmer. Digressions include Cons…

In March of 2019, the internet was #SurvivingCardiB. The hashtag, an obvious play on Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly docu-series, was in response to an old video of Cardi admitting to drugging and robbing men back in her dancing days as a means of survival. Before the cancel could set in, a bunch of people said that Cardi’s behavior, while not ok, wa…

With her oversized black sunglasses, Supreme athleisure, and Rimowa suitcase, Anna Delvey (real name Anna Sorokin) posed a German heiress and scammed hoteliers, influencers, NYC elite, and the damn SWISS BANK in order to social climb in Manhattan. Landing in 'Merica at the age of 28, Sorokin, the daughter of a former truck driver from Russia, migra…

At the age of 19, Elizabeth Holmes promised to disrupt the multibillion-dollar blood testing industry with her revolutionary finger-prick tests. The flashy Board! The turtle necks! The deep voice! The generational white wealth! It all helped to create a facade that at the age of 19, while most of us were playing flip cup and making questionable dec…

Applying to college is a laborious task. For most people it means sobbing while you re-write your common app essay 19 times or questioning if losing your sanity is worth your parent's ability to flex to their friends with where you're pursuing a fancy piece of paper. Unless you're one of the kids wrapped up in "Operation Varsity Blues", a scam in w…

Welcome to Scam City, a new podcast where two regular girls who love a good story about a conman (or con woman) break down the wildest scams and what led to its downfall. Join pop culture writers Cass Alcide and Taylor Davis every week for dissections, reflections, and deep dives into scams.