Fraud Friday: The MIT Blackjack Team (w/ Chinedu Unaka)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Chinedu Unaka (Abbott Elementary, Insecure) joins the Con-gregation to discuss how a group of MIT and Harvard students in the 80s perfected card counting and took to casinos, making over $57 million dollars. Plus, a former British Airways pilot is sentenced to a year in jail after he falsified his flying experience. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 04/18/2022) Laci’s book is out now! Order “Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts and Schemes" here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laci-mosley/scam-goddess/9780762484652/?lens=running-press Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Chinedu Unaka: @chineduunaka Research by Kaelyn Brandt SOURCES: https://web.archive.org/web/20050113100211/https://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,324,00.html https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27519748 https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/10/3223068/mit-mike-aponte-blackjack-card-counting-defcon https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/31/pilot-jailed-lying-flying-experience-get-british-airways-job/ https://www.businessinsider.com/british-airways-pilot-jailed-faked-resume-flying-experience-pressed-button-2022-4 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/race-ethnicity

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0:00.0	What's Popping congregation? It's your girl Lacy Mosley, aka Scam Goddess.
0:04.8	Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the Scam Goddess
0:12.3	vault. That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring episodes from the Schem Goddess Vault.
0:13.0	That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind the paywall.
0:18.0	Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall, and as always, stay scheming.
0:23.0	Schemum.
0:24.0	Schemum
0:26.0	Robberry and
0:30.0	Schem
0:32.0	Schem Sca'cam, hard, robbery and fraud.
0:40.0	Scamp goddess.
0:42.0	What's pop in congregation? Welcome to another installment of scam goddess. It's me Lacey Moseley
0:46.9	aka scam goddess here to talk about robbery, fraud, chicanery criminals. Those of the Lai Khan Artistry as we call it
0:56.3	If you listen to this podcast you know that I'm very yes I'm very excited I keep saying I'm going to change that but maybe I won't maybe we'll just
1:03.9	stick here together I don't know let's see but I really am excited I love we have
1:08.3	people in the pot who I know in real life and our amazing comedians today we we have hilarious comedian actor writer on the show
1:15.2	along with Candice Thompson he co-host the Spotify original podcast nosy
1:19.8	neighbors where each week they review the wildest neighbor's stories.
1:23.6	Come on next door.
1:24.6	Also, you'll see him in the upcoming feature film reboot House Party coming out July 28th.
1:30.9	Congregation, please welcome Shinnadu.
1:33.0	Unaka?
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