The Fake Texas Oil Tycoon (w/ Brandon Kyle Goodman)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

If you got unemployed roommates, put your headphones ON as today things get a lil' raunchy with Brandon Kyle Goodman, the host of the new "Tell Me Something Messy" podcast from iHeartMedia's Outspoken Podcast Network. Brandon helps us discuss Alan Todd May—a career criminal who started out committing check fraud and ended up hoodwinking investors out of millions by pretending he was an oil tycoon. Stay schemin'! This story was primarily reported by Charles Bethea in his 2024 New Yorker article “The Fake Oilman”: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-fake-oilman Signed copies of Laci's book are back in stock on Podswag: https://www.podswag.com/collections/scam-goddess/products/signed-scam-goddess-lessons-from-a-life-of-cons-grifts-and-schemes Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Brandon Kyle Goodman: @brandonkylegoodman Research by Kate Doyle. SOURCES: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-fake-oilman https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/txn/PressRel12/may_sen_pr.html https://www.courthousenews.com/dallas-man-gets-20-years-for-7-million-scam/ https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/dallas/press-releases/2010/dl120610.htm https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-fugitive-alan-todd-may-captured-florida-leading-posh-lifestyle-flaunting-wealth/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/alan-todd-may-once-a-fugitive-always-a-con-man-gets-20-years-for-ripping-off-investors-7131761

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0:00.0	Scam!
0:02.1	Cards.
0:04.8	Robbery and fraud.
0:09.0	Scam.
0:11.3	Cards.
0:13.5	Robbery and fraud.
0:17.3	Scamp goddess.
0:19.5	What's popping congregation is your girlarral Lacey Mosley,
0:23.6	aka Scam Goddess.
0:25.5	And I'm back with another installment of the podcast
0:28.4	all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it.
0:31.7	Y'all, I'm back in the States.
0:34.7	It's ghetto here.
0:36.4	But we're back and we're here.
0:39.1	Yes.
0:40.3	And y'all already know that I'm very what?
0:43.6	It's been over five years.
0:45.8	Yes, excited, thrilled, elated.
0:48.9	We have a friend on the show.
0:50.4	Y'all already know when my friends come on the show what it's going to be.
0:53.3	But beyond being
0:54.7	my friend, my guest today is a host TV writer and actor who you may know their work on Big Mouth,
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