1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: My dad thinks he's getting married to an Egyptian princess 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: and it's getting scammed for a million dollars. He won't 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: listen to us. 4 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 2: The Egyptian princesses, they'll get you. I mean to think 5 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: about Cleopatra. She convinced Asander the Great to basically give 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 2: up the army for some sweet. 7 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: Sweet poonte exactly. I mean, you know, they're so good 8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: at emails too. You know, Cleopatra was known to be 9 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: the greatest emailer of all time. So you know, yeah, yeah, 10 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: a little bit of background about my father because I 11 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: feel like it's relevant. My dad is not a smart guy. 12 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: That's the background. 13 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: That's how we're kicking things off ladies and gentlemen as 14 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: an idiot. My dad is very trusting and has taken 15 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: what his friends have told him over his own dang family. 16 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: They're all playing poker with him and just like taking 17 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 2: all of his money. 18 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: About a year and a half ago, my mom thought 19 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: my dad had a girlfriend. Well, we found out he 20 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: was on some sketchy website he put in his email 21 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: and now is in correspondence with none other than an 22 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: Egyptian incess. And this is the classic Egyptian princess scam, 23 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: which I didn't know was a classic, but you know 24 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: the Nigerian Vegegerian prince, that's all times, all time classic. 25 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: He had thought he married and gave her about one 26 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to help her get inheritance. What thousand dollars? What? 27 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: Also he thought he married her? What was he on? 28 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: Zoom in like an Egyptian courtroom? Like what what is 29 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: going on here? Nowhere? My dad had taken some documents 30 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: to my brother and asked him if he thought they 31 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: were real, and surprise, surprise, my brother told him they 32 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: were not. Shock her. 33 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 3: Did you actually think an Egyptian princess would reach out 34 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 3: to you via email? 35 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 2: Do you get married? 36 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: He still wired the money. My dad had this woman 37 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: call and talk to my mom to try and convince 38 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: her that she really wasn't my dad's wife or girlfriend, 39 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: that she just wanted to be a part of the 40 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: family and give them money. 41 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 3: Dad's going to give her money so she can give 42 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 3: the family money. 43 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: He said. 44 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: This money's only traveling in one direction. 45 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like the Great Euphrates. This is going 46 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: to one person and everyone is in denial. Oh, we 47 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: all sat down. My siblings' parents and I and laid 48 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: out to my dad that he was scammed and he 49 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: would not be getting his money back, et cetera. My 50 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 1: dad broke his phone. Why no idea, he could have 51 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: just changed his number. He bought a new phone and 52 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: changed his phone number. We all thought that this was 53 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: the end until January. My dad called and told me 54 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: that he continued to send this woman money, totaling and 55 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: guess how much, Samuel. 56 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: And he's just like twenty five. 57 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: Thousand dollars more three hundred thousand dollars four ounds. My 58 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: brother and I meet with my mom at his house 59 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: and we start getting the rundown of what the heck 60 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: happened here. My mom said that even though we all 61 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 1: told him he was being scared, he still didn't believe 62 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: us at all. My mom would keep telling him he 63 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: was getting scammed, and he would tell her that he 64 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: couldn't wait to get his money so he could laugh 65 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: in all of our faces. 66 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 2: Oh God, no, bro, you're still thinking you're getting that money. 67 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: Oh. At some point, these people and my dad convinced 68 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 1: my mom for a while that it wasn't a scam. Dude. 69 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: Even the mom got sucked in. 70 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 2: How good. Are these scammers high? You're convincing the mom too. 71 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: My dad cashed out all of his stocks, his sweet 72 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: coin collection. He pawned all of his guns, including a 73 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: nice rifle that belonged to our great grandfather, and he 74 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: convinced my mom to get a second mortgage because they 75 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: were about to be rich. 76 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: No, you've really got the mom into. 77 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: Oh my god. My parents paid off their brand new 78 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: truck and travel trailer. My mom dipped into her four 79 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: oh one k. They totally wiped out all of the 80 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: savings that they had. When the money didn't come back, 81 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: my mom told my dad that she was one hundred 82 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: percent done and saying that he was being scammed. So 83 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: finally she sees it now. This didn't stop my dad. 84 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: He ain't a quitter. He used the titles of the 85 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: truck in the trailer he paid for to borrow against them. 86 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: He borrowed ten thousand dollars from his best friend, and 87 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: then he maxed out all of his credit cards buying 88 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: gift cards and did the same thing with my mom's 89 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: credit cards. I'm truly like at a loss. When my 90 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: mom got her statements, that's when she found out that 91 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: he was still giving money. She told him that he 92 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: better tell us kids, or she would do it herself. 93 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: So he called and told us. He seemed to really 94 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: believe that he had been scammed this time. We are 95 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: all super duper mad. He ruined not only his life, 96 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: but are moms too. They have to file for bankruptcy 97 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: and lose everything they've ever wanted. 98 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 99 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: Time went on, and I was trying to forgive my 100 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,679 Speaker 1: dad a bit because I do love him. My mom 101 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: called me and told me that my dad was telling 102 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: one of his clients about being scammed, and she also 103 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: knew someone who had been sam and had some of 104 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: it recovered, and my dad got that person's contact INFOE 105 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: and was in the process to see if that guy 106 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: could help. My mom was so excited about it that 107 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: she told my sister on her birthday and asked me 108 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: not to tell her before What if this is another scam? 109 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: Flash forward to last Monday. My dad called my husband 110 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: asking if he could come down and help fix his 111 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: computer that the Microsoft tech support called and showed him 112 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: all the stuff wrong with his computer. Hmmmm. My husband 113 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: asked if he had installed anything, and he said no, 114 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: but he let them remote into his computer. Oh. My god, Like, 115 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: why this dad is completely unprotected. He's going around doing 116 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: anything on the internet. Like if he had just simply 117 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: used Guardio, he would have protected himself from phishing sites, 118 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: email scams, like everything. He would have been good. But 119 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: he was not good at all. But if you want 120 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: to make sure you don't end up like this, check 121 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: our bilink to protect yourself. My husband told him to 122 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 1: turn off. We went over to their house so my 123 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: husband could take a look at it. He's trying to 124 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: see if they could just clean it and avoid reformatting. 125 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: While my husband was waiting, he notices an email from 126 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: Alex and can tell immediately it's another scam. He looks 127 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: at the website where he sent the email in so 128 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: incredibly fake. I could tell as soon as he showed me. 129 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: So he calls my dad outside and shows him how 130 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: fake it is. My dad asks, extremely surprised at this information. 131 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: He still doesn't get it. My husband explained to him 132 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: how he's on a sucker's list. Now. My husband told 133 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: him any real company can't ask for money for seven 134 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: business days after they recovered the money. But my dad 135 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: had already given five thousand dollars from his business checking 136 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: account The fake website had fields for bank account and 137 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: routing numbers that he put in there. My dad came 138 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: inside and told my mom that the website was fake. 139 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: My mom had a very nonchalant attitude about it and said, oh, well, 140 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: nothing we can do about it now. Well, there was 141 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: no way my husband was going to be able to 142 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: recover his computer, so we decided to take it home 143 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: to reform at it. My husband looked through his emails 144 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: to make sure there wasn't anything else getting potentially scammed. 145 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: And here's a few highlights. The alleged arrest for the 146 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: recovery scam for his money was a completely blank report, 147 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: and he thought he was going to get back two 148 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: million dollars even though he only lost three hundred thousand h. 149 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 2: This guy's set a suckers, I feel. 150 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: Seriously. The documents the guys were sending from the original 151 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: scam were so bad that you could literally google them. 152 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: The CEO of the Bank of America wasn't even the 153 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: same person anymore, and his name wasn't spelled correct and 154 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: the dates were totally off. My dad sent three brand 155 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: new iPhone xrs. What are you doing to someone? He 156 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: had given them his Social Security a picture of his 157 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: driver's license and his parents full name, and here is 158 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: the kicker. Before my dad sent the recovery scammer the money, 159 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: he had asked my brother what he had thought, and 160 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,239 Speaker 1: my brother told him the exact same thing my husband 161 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: told him. He warned him, but my dad still did it. Anyways, 162 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: I called my mom and told her not to believe 163 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: anything my dad says and to check with my husband 164 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: in the future. She told me that she knew as 165 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: soon as they started asking for money that it was 166 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: a scam, but he didn't believe her. And at this 167 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: point she just doesn't care anymore and is trying to 168 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: get the bankruptcy pushed so she could divorce my dad too. 169 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: This is just a rough situation. I'm worried that my 170 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: dad is going to do something that is going to 171 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: hurt their bankruptcy filing and continue to get scammed and 172 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: get them in legal trouble. Is there something my mom 173 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: can do to take away his ability from doing any 174 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,719 Speaker 1: of this? Is there anything we can do to stop him? 175 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 2: Man is on a wild chase to literally give away all. 176 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: Of his money. He wins the oscar for most scammed 177 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: human of all time and also it's. 178 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 2: Like crazy that just like he went his entire life 179 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,839 Speaker 2: of making money without getting scammed and then all of 180 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 2: a sudden, it's just like. 181 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: Everything is gone coming bro that suckers Listen, they're hammer, 182 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: which is like it's just so sad because it's like 183 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: it compounds how tragic it already like he's already been 184 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: hit so hard and they're going to keep going. 185 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, and he probably it's probably easier to suck gram 186 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 2: Incus now he's already lost so much. She's just like 187 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 2: anything to help. 188 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 3: My roommates stole all of my stuff, So I stole 189 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 3: something worse, her identity. 190 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pretty that's a pretty strong thing 191 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: to steal in identity. Theft is not a joke, Jim. 192 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 3: Back when I was in college, I had a roommate 193 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 3: that I had met intro week over the summer. We'd 194 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 3: hit it off, decided it would be perfect, and it 195 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 3: was until it wasn't brought my TV from home and 196 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 3: my parents paid for cable for the room. If I 197 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 3: came home and she was watching TV, I didn't mind. 198 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 3: Then I just asked for the remote and she'd tell 199 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 3: me her show was on in three hours, and I 200 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 3: couldn't use my own TV. 201 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: Excuse me, broh, her parents got the TV. 202 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 3: She can't use her own TV. 203 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: Come out, Come on next. 204 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 3: I had a storage bin full of snacks I'd buy 205 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 3: when my mom would send me some money, just cereal, 206 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 3: granola bar, you know, college craft. I go home for 207 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 3: a weekend, and then she would eat everything everything I'm 208 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 3: talking literally every single food item in the bin and 209 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 3: then leave me with nothing popper in the window. She 210 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 3: wouldn't even tell me she had done it. I just 211 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 3: find everything empty and no. She never offered me money 212 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 3: or replaced anything. I tried talking to her about it, 213 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,559 Speaker 3: but when that didn't work, I decided to get Petty. Petty, 214 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 3: We're bad. 215 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: We love it. 216 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 3: She'd leave her ID everywhere, and I started taking it 217 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 3: and hiding it so she would have to get a 218 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 3: new one from the office. It costs twenty dollars every 219 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 3: time she had to replace it. I must have stolen 220 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 3: at least four hundred dollars worth of her ID cards 221 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 3: and she never realized. She just thought she kept dropping them. 222 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. 223 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 3: At the end of the year, when we moved out, 224 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 3: I packed up and was out. 225 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: First. 226 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 3: After I had moved out, all my boxes and cleaned up. 227 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 3: She left to go somewhere, and I left all of 228 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 3: her misplaced ID cards on the desk on her side 229 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 3: of the room. 230 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: Dude, that's like your joker card, you know what. Yeah, 231 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: it's like, ah, I have done the deed. I have 232 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: done the crime. Now you see it, Now you see it.