The Tennis Match Fixer w/ Sona Movsesian

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The world's worst assistant Sona Movsesian (Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend) joins the Con-gregation to cover Grigor Sargsyan—the man who paid top pro tennis players to lose on purpose while running the biggest tennis match fixing ring in history. Plus, Sona tells us how she scammed her way into co-hosting Conan's podcast. Stay schemin'! This story was primarily investigated by The Washington Post's Kevin Sieff in his article "Game, Set, Fix": https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/tennis-match-fixing-itf-grigor-sargsyan Buy Sona's book "The World's Worst Assistant": https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675609/the-worlds-worst-assistant-by-sona-movsesian/ Buy Laci's book “Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts and Schemes": https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laci-mosley/scam-goddess/9780762484652/?lens=running-press Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Sona Movsesian: @sonamov Research by Kaelyn Brandt. SOURCES: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/tennis-match-fixing-itf-grigor-sargsyan https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/tennis-match-fixing-gambling-investigation-belgium/ https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/38913580/five-tennis-players-suspended-link-match-fixing-syndicate

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0:00.0	Scam. Cards. Robbery and fraud. Scam. Cards. Rob Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess. This is the podcast
0:25.0	all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it. If you've been following me,
0:29.0	you know I'm coming from Ireland. Okay, so we're doing something different. I'm on a different
0:32.4	time zone. That's my scam right now. And if you know anything about this show, you know I'm very what?
0:38.7	Yes, excited, thrilled, elated, especially because today's guest is from the team Coco family.
0:46.8	Yes, we've got another family member pulling up.
0:49.4	It's a family affair.
0:50.4	You may know her as the co-host of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast.
0:56.1	She also used her experience as Conan's longtime assistant to write a New York Times best-selling book called The World's Worst
1:02.4	Assistant, which is a hilarious how-to guide for becoming a terrible yet unfirable employee. I know
1:08.8	that's right. That sounds like a scam to me. I can't wait to ask more.
1:11.7	Congregation, please welcome.
1:14.3	Sona Moseccian.
1:15.8	Oh, Sona, I'm so happy to have you here.
1:17.9	I'm so happy to be here.
1:19.1	You have such a lovely voice.
1:20.8	I was instantly soothed when you started talking.
1:24.0	It's just like when you started speaking, I'm like, ah, this is nice.
1:28.0	You're just setting up a really nice environment.
1:30.6	Oh, well, thank you.
1:31.6	This has actually been a point of contention.
1:33.6	Some people are like, we love your natural voice.
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