Scams rule everything around us. Cass and Taylor, your sisters in scam, unpack the most notorious grifts and biggest downfalls.
Scam City
Claim This Podcastby Cass Alcide & Taylor Davis
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Scams rule everything around us. Cass and Taylor, your sisters in scam, unpack the most notorious grifts and biggest downfalls.
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March 14, 2022
Slicing Up the Fruitcake Fraud: Sandy Jenkins Embezzles $17 million from Collin Street Bakery
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 O.P.P. (Other People’s Pocketbooks) totaling $17 million. Why? So that he and his wife, Kay, could live that jet-set life, drive lavish cars, and buy out a Neiman Marcus. Stealing from a #SmallBusiness is anything but sweet. Especially when you’re in a small town and everyone is in the business of being in everyone else’s business. Question of the Scam: You're are a scammer and millions of dollars have fallen into your lap, you waste no time spending this money on lavish luxuries (as scammers do!) BUT people in your small town begin to question where this money came from. What's your lie? In each episode, Cass and Taylor rate the scam! Here are this week's results. OVERALL RESULTS Taylor: 1, 4, 3 Cass: 5, 1, 4
September 19, 2021
Leave Room for Jesus: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker Scam Evangelists Out of $150 Million
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”! The apostle Paul called himself the “Chief of Sinners,” and then Jim Bakker said hold my beer. Between 1966 and 1987, beloved televangelical, Tammy Faye Bakker, and her husband, Jim Bakker were peddling the good Lord’s Word for profit and power on through their own religious network, PTL aka Praise the Lord/People that Love. Endeared by millions of viewers across the country and world, their meteoric rise to Evangelist celebrity status was made possible by the faith and generosity of countless believers, who tuned into PTL’s television programs and donated to its telethons. What their viewers didn't know was that they were paying for the Bakker's life of luxury which included multiple houses, expensive cars, an ac-equipped dog house and more money than God, until their empire all came crashing down amid sex and financial scandals. Digressions include The Surreal Life, Bet Uncut, waterslides and whether or not Kanye is the new Jim Bakker. Follow Scam City on Instagram.
November 26, 2019
Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game - How Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson McScammed $24 Million from McDonald's Monopoly
<p><strong>Question of the scam: </strong><strong>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?</strong></p> <p><strong>Do you take your money upfront in a lump sum or in small payments of $50,000/yr for 20 years? Finally, do you pay the $50,000 finders fee she’s demanding to her and all of the “someones” involved upfront or ask that you have a year to pay them back?</strong></p> <p><strong>Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game - How Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson McScammed $24 Million from McDonald's Monopoly </strong></p> <p>It all began in 1987 with a little nationwide Monopoly game McDonald's cooked up, which saw customers feverishly collecting game pieces attached to drink cups, french fry packets, magazine ads and...selling on Bay. The game promised lavish vacation, cars, and the chance to win $1 million, but no one ever actually won anything more than a double serving of fries, and that's because the game was rigged for 12 years by a former cop named Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson. In deep dive published by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions">The Daily Beast</a> (most recently optioned to be the blueprint for an upcoming film chronicling the grift a la <a href="https://anchor.fm/scamcity/episodes/Make-That-Money--Dont-Let-It-Make-You-The-Real-Life-Hustlers-at-Scores-e4sqh8">Hustlers</a>) Uncle Jerry had insider access to the pieces while working as director of security for Simon Marketing, the company in charge of producing the game pieces. What started as just stealing one small fry piece, turned into a network of scamming with accomplices that included the mob, psychics, ex-cons, drug dealers, strip club owners, housewives, and a Mormon family, all guilty for falsely claiming more than $24 million in cash and prizes.</p> <p>Digressions include Titanic, The Wolf of Wall Street, Black mothers asking about your "McDonald's money," and why this grift could've only been executed by a white man. </p> <p>Each episode Cass and Taylor rate the scam! Here's this week's results.</p> <p>OVERALL RESULTS </p> <p>Taylor: 2.6 </p> <p>Cass: 3 </p> <p>Follow today's sponsored brand, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_by_santos/">By Santos on Instagram</a> and don't forget to visit <a href="https://www.by-santos.com/products">By-Santos.com</a> to get a discount using the code featured in this episode! </p> <p>Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scamcitypod/">Scam City on Instagram </a></p> <p><br></p>
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