Without expecting it, this was probably the best self help book I’ve read with actually hopeful and helpful advice. Maybe the best scam was the scams we made along the way. And in this book we get all the scams from Scam Goddess, Laci Mosley. Body scams! Confidence scams! Family Scams! Romance Scams! Both directly from her life and from the public realm. 

I have really enjoyed Scam Goddess the podcast, but did not expect to find myself relating so hard to Laci's people pleasing tendencies at the outset of the book, a theme that repeats itself throughout. She talks about her days as an over-achieving student and how she feels that in order for people to like you, you need to have something to offer them. I had never thought about it that way and that really stuck with me, and is also part of how someone find themselves more likely to get scammed.

While I think it would be incredibly easy to become cynical in the face of scams, Laci advocates for the exact opposite. Empahsizing throughout that while "This book is about how to spot scams, but it's not about becoming cynical to the world, it's not about turning away from an opportunity to pay it forward...Everything is a scam, but not everyone is a scammer. Be vigilant, but don't close yourself off from the world and the people in it." 

I had the distinct pleasure of listening to this as an audiobook and obviously Laci is an amazing narrator of her own book. I love her as a podcast host and she does not disappoint in reading her own memoir either. 

Thank you so much to NetGalley and to Hachette Audio for the advanced copy of the audiobook.