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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You are about to hear a feature that was created
to expose the scammers, thieves, and con artists among us.
The dialogue and temperament about to be used by Hollywood
Hamilton does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of iHeartMedia.
This is Fraud Friday this week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
On Fraud Friday, a lot of people are going to
be able to relate to this one Facebook Marketplace. I
know Samantha, I know Marie. Both of you use Facebook.
I've never used Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, a couple of times. I've bought some things on it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
There are over one point two billion monthly buyers on
Facebook Marketplace. I guess it's the largest online marketplace in
the world right now, isn't that incredible? Yeah, my friend's
whole living room is from Facebook Marketplace. Actually, I've got
Rosalie out of the Bronx. Rosalie, are you there? Yes,
I'm here, Rosalie. What part of the Bronx you're from?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Morris Park.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Rosalie is a grandmother of three. One of her grandkids
had a birth day recently. And why don't you walk
us through here on fraud Friday? What type of trap
you were caught in on Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Rosalie, I was scored on the trap. I tried to
order my grandson a processor for his gaming system, and
I was scammed out of eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What kind of graphics processing card was it? You have
in front of you?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yes, I'm reading it. It's an RTX fifty ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Is that a good one? An you play good? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It just makes video games stuff look a lot better
than sometimes the consoles.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Actually, Rosalie, why don't you walk us through exactly what happened?
Of course, you you messaged the guy on Facebook marketplace,
you agreed to meet up. Tell us how all this
went down.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We agreed to meet up at the Starbucks. The system
usually course twelve hundred dollars, but he was telling it
for eight hundred. I knew my grandson would be very excited,
and I thought it was a, you know, a good deal,
so I agreed to meet him at Starbucks. I gave
it to my grandson and it didn't just send him
a bit ripped me off because it didn't even work.
(02:06):
Oh and I paid him in cash.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's the old one. Things are too good to be trivial,
too good to be true.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Not only are you out eight hundred dollars? But you
know your grandson's disappointed because now you know the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I've been trying to get a hold of this guy
for about three weeks already. He just avoids my messages.
He doesn't reply at all.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay, so here's the deal. You were dealing with a
guy on Facebook marketplace by the name of Stan. That's
the guy you were That's the guy that ripped you off. Rosalie.
We have found a guy with a profile name of
Mitch who is selling the exact same thing in bulk Oh.
He's also using the same terminology, the same language, the
same description, the same type of words, jargon, terminology. We
(02:53):
think we have our man here. We think it's the
same guy in the same geographic region. We've been doing
some research right right doing it. He's still doing on
a marketplace. He obviously changed to help with sam We
actually found the guy. How'd you get his number? Though?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yes, how did you do?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We said we wanted five of them, so that's what
like four grand So obviously the guy's gonna give me
his number. He's not going to pass.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Nice, very nice to Anthony and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Rosalie, is this your number? Nine one seven six nine
eight seven? Is that your phone number?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's your cell?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yes, that's my number.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Okay, Anthony, do me a favorite text the profile picture
of this Mitch from Facebook marketplace. Could you text it
to our right now really quick?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, get this picture, Rosalie, and and take a good
look at it and see if it's the same guy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I doubt If it isn't worry, I doubt it. Let's
he would maybe he's the same never, let's see, pretty dumb,
he'd be surprised.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I don't think that's that's not him.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, well we didn't think so. We just wanted to
make sure. All right, we're going to be right back
with you. Certainly, because you met the guy at Starbucks,
you're definitely gonna know the guy's voice. Correct. Please tell
me you think you're gonna be He was.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
A little hyper, a little excited.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Okay, Well that's distinctive. That's distinct We can go on.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You're listening to Fraud Friday with the KTU Morning Crew.
We'll be right back with part two when Hollywood and
Marie make the call. Buckle up because things are about
to get rough. Welcome back for part two for this
week's Ford Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Hello is this Mitch?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah a Mitch.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
This is Anthony from Facebook Marketplace. I'm calling you about
the graphics cards. Are you the guy that was asking
for five of them? Yeah? So I'm eager to do
this right away. Just a couple of questions before we meet.
So these this is the RTX fifty nineties, right, you
know it? Okay? And do you have any more than five?
Or just is it just five? Or what's the how
(05:06):
many do you have? Exactly? I might have a few
more coming in. I got you, okay, So we'll stick
with the five, okay. And you can't do anything better
than four thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Not on five of them?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, Okay, okay, okay. So where where do you Where
do you want to meet? Where are you at?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Are you anywhere are your queens?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I mean I can be over there for this kind
of deal. I live in stateon Island, but I can
be in Queen's no problem. We're in Queen's. I'm by
a target by Queen's Boulevard. Stan, what time do you
want to meet? Can we do six pm?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
He didn't even hear me say you didn't even hear me.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Sist didn't even catch He's too busy at this time.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I want you to come in right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Definitely the guy that's his voice.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That's him, that's that's definitely Mitch is the guy that
you met at Starbucks. Okay, listen to me very carefully, Mitch.
My name's Sean Hamilton. I'm a private investigator here in
New York City, working very closely with the NYPD. We've
taken on the Rosalie account because as obviously, you're running
some sort of con, some sort of scam with these
these graphic processing cars from me.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Your graphics card didn't work. I know it you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Okay, let me let me Rosalie. Let me let me
talk to them. Let me talk to them. Mitch. Listen,
here's the deal. We've run your phone number. Uh you
know do you know this? Do you know this woman?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What woman? Listen? I met you and the bron it's Starbucks.
I picked you eight hundred dollars for that card you
sold me a card that didn't work.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know what you're talking about. I've never met you,
don't know who I am. Look, listen to me. Listen
to me Mitch stan whatever your name is. We've identified
your voice as the person that pried to pull a
con a scam over on this rosalie. Just last week,
you ripped off eight hundred dollars on a graphics card
that doesn't work, and now you're trying to unroad five
(06:52):
more right now, lady, I don't know, Mitch. Mitch. This
is the way it's gonna go down. This is the
way it's gonna go down. Mitch. I'm gonna ask you
one more time. We want you to turn the money.
Doesn't want to report you. She just wants her money back.
We need you to return the eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You're a sloppy con artist. We figured it all out.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm all right, yes, Murray, do me a favor. I
want you to call Letitia James, State Attorney General, and
I want you to get ahold of Craig over there.
And I don't even want to talk to this guy
any long. You do not how you're gonna ask me
for money because you're selling crap merchandise and you know it.
We've been in communication with Facebook. We ran your profile.
(07:31):
What exactly do you want from me? Right now? We
can't we have your phone number. You you look idiot.
You're such a moron. You actually gave Anthony here at
the agency your phone number because you were looking for
a high volume number. You were looking for four grand.
So you actually broke a cardinal rule that no scammer,
no criminal would ever give out its phone number. Mitch,
(07:52):
you're an idiot.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
We have If it gives eight hundred dollars, I'll let
it go, or you're going to jail out.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I mean, you gave your number out. I'd like my
client to get her eight hundred dollars back. That's what
we want from you.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Give Rosalie back her money.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm uncomfortable with meeting anyone right now. Okay, so you're
saying no, you're saying no.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Would you consider venmo?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Absolutely, we'll take your venmoa. Pay attention, all right, pay
attention down at Samantha for seven repeat that, please, Mitch,
right now. We don't have much time left.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Just all right, it's Samantha.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
What was the number?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Okaya? Okay, Now we're gonna wait for the are you
sending now? Are you sending? Are you sending it? Now?
All right, it's gonna take a minute. It's gonna take
a minute. What were you think You thought it was
in graphics card that's it? Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah
it was a big number. I know, I know, so
you can. It's that the cardinal sin for any scammer
or any Thiefel Samantha, let me know when you got
(09:01):
the money. Nope, I got it, I got it, you
got it, I got it, all right on it, Rosalie,
we got it. Three hundred dollars. Uh, Mitch, I'm gonna
tell you something right now. We know who you are.
We're gonna be working very closely with Facebook marketplace, with
the Facebook people, and we're going to be keeping our
eye on you.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's really said. There's people out there like you. That's
scam people.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Okay, okay, he hung up, he hung up, He hung up, Rosalie,
he hung up. I'm so glad you got the money.
Let's have a great big camp. Right, Yeah, we got that.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Can Have you been a victim of fraud? Have you
been taken by a scam? The Hollywood Hamilton Show and
the KTU Morning Crew would love to hear from you.
Text us at six nine three five. That is six
nine nine three five. This is fraud Friday,
You are about to hear a feature that was created
to expose the scammers, thieves, and con artists among us.
The dialogue and temperament about to be used by Hollywood
Hamilton does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of iHeartMedia.
This is Fraud Friday this week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
On Fraud Friday, a lot of people are going to
be able to relate to this one Facebook Marketplace. I
know Samantha, I know Marie. Both of you use Facebook.
I've never used Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, a couple of times. I've bought some things on it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
There are over one point two billion monthly buyers on
Facebook Marketplace. I guess it's the largest online marketplace in
the world right now, isn't that incredible? Yeah, my friend's
whole living room is from Facebook Marketplace. Actually, I've got
Rosalie out of the Bronx. Rosalie, are you there? Yes,
I'm here, Rosalie. What part of the Bronx you're from?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Morris Park.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Rosalie is a grandmother of three. One of her grandkids
had a birth day recently. And why don't you walk
us through here on fraud Friday? What type of trap
you were caught in on Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Rosalie, I was scored on the trap. I tried to
order my grandson a processor for his gaming system, and
I was scammed out of eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What kind of graphics processing card was it? You have
in front of you?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yes, I'm reading it. It's an RTX fifty ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Is that a good one? An you play good? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It just makes video games stuff look a lot better
than sometimes the consoles.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Actually, Rosalie, why don't you walk us through exactly what happened?
Of course, you you messaged the guy on Facebook marketplace,
you agreed to meet up. Tell us how all this
went down.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We agreed to meet up at the Starbucks. The system
usually course twelve hundred dollars, but he was telling it
for eight hundred. I knew my grandson would be very excited,
and I thought it was a, you know, a good deal,
so I agreed to meet him at Starbucks. I gave
it to my grandson and it didn't just send him
a bit ripped me off because it didn't even work.
(02:06):
Oh and I paid him in cash.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's the old one. Things are too good to be trivial,
too good to be true.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Not only are you out eight hundred dollars? But you
know your grandson's disappointed because now you know the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I've been trying to get a hold of this guy
for about three weeks already. He just avoids my messages.
He doesn't reply at all.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay, so here's the deal. You were dealing with a
guy on Facebook marketplace by the name of Stan. That's
the guy you were That's the guy that ripped you off. Rosalie.
We have found a guy with a profile name of
Mitch who is selling the exact same thing in bulk Oh.
He's also using the same terminology, the same language, the
same description, the same type of words, jargon, terminology. We
(02:53):
think we have our man here. We think it's the
same guy in the same geographic region. We've been doing
some research right right doing it. He's still doing on
a marketplace. He obviously changed to help with sam We
actually found the guy. How'd you get his number? Though?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yes, how did you do?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We said we wanted five of them, so that's what
like four grand So obviously the guy's gonna give me
his number. He's not going to pass.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Nice, very nice to Anthony and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Rosalie, is this your number? Nine one seven six nine
eight seven? Is that your phone number?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's your cell?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yes, that's my number.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Okay, Anthony, do me a favorite text the profile picture
of this Mitch from Facebook marketplace. Could you text it
to our right now really quick?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, get this picture, Rosalie, and and take a good
look at it and see if it's the same guy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I doubt If it isn't worry, I doubt it. Let's
he would maybe he's the same never, let's see, pretty dumb,
he'd be surprised.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I don't think that's that's not him.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, well we didn't think so. We just wanted to
make sure. All right, we're going to be right back
with you. Certainly, because you met the guy at Starbucks,
you're definitely gonna know the guy's voice. Correct. Please tell
me you think you're gonna be He was.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
A little hyper, a little excited.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Okay, Well that's distinctive. That's distinct We can go on.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You're listening to Fraud Friday with the KTU Morning Crew.
We'll be right back with part two when Hollywood and
Marie make the call. Buckle up because things are about
to get rough. Welcome back for part two for this
week's Ford Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Hello is this Mitch?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah a Mitch.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
This is Anthony from Facebook Marketplace. I'm calling you about
the graphics cards. Are you the guy that was asking
for five of them? Yeah? So I'm eager to do
this right away. Just a couple of questions before we meet.
So these this is the RTX fifty nineties, right, you
know it? Okay? And do you have any more than five?
Or just is it just five? Or what's the how
(05:06):
many do you have? Exactly? I might have a few
more coming in. I got you, okay, So we'll stick
with the five, okay. And you can't do anything better
than four thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Not on five of them?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, Okay, okay, okay. So where where do you Where
do you want to meet? Where are you at?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Are you anywhere are your queens?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I mean I can be over there for this kind
of deal. I live in stateon Island, but I can
be in Queen's no problem. We're in Queen's. I'm by
a target by Queen's Boulevard. Stan, what time do you
want to meet? Can we do six pm?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
He didn't even hear me say you didn't even hear me.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Sist didn't even catch He's too busy at this time.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I want you to come in right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Definitely the guy that's his voice.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That's him, that's that's definitely Mitch is the guy that
you met at Starbucks. Okay, listen to me very carefully, Mitch.
My name's Sean Hamilton. I'm a private investigator here in
New York City, working very closely with the NYPD. We've
taken on the Rosalie account because as obviously, you're running
some sort of con, some sort of scam with these
these graphic processing cars from me.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Your graphics card didn't work. I know it you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Okay, let me let me Rosalie. Let me let me
talk to them. Let me talk to them. Mitch. Listen,
here's the deal. We've run your phone number. Uh you
know do you know this? Do you know this woman?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What woman? Listen? I met you and the bron it's Starbucks.
I picked you eight hundred dollars for that card you
sold me a card that didn't work.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know what you're talking about. I've never met you,
don't know who I am. Look, listen to me. Listen
to me Mitch stan whatever your name is. We've identified
your voice as the person that pried to pull a
con a scam over on this rosalie. Just last week,
you ripped off eight hundred dollars on a graphics card
that doesn't work, and now you're trying to unroad five
(06:52):
more right now, lady, I don't know, Mitch. Mitch. This
is the way it's gonna go down. This is the
way it's gonna go down. Mitch. I'm gonna ask you
one more time. We want you to turn the money.
Doesn't want to report you. She just wants her money back.
We need you to return the eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You're a sloppy con artist. We figured it all out.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm all right, yes, Murray, do me a favor. I
want you to call Letitia James, State Attorney General, and
I want you to get ahold of Craig over there.
And I don't even want to talk to this guy
any long. You do not how you're gonna ask me
for money because you're selling crap merchandise and you know it.
We've been in communication with Facebook. We ran your profile.
(07:31):
What exactly do you want from me? Right now? We
can't we have your phone number. You you look idiot.
You're such a moron. You actually gave Anthony here at
the agency your phone number because you were looking for
a high volume number. You were looking for four grand.
So you actually broke a cardinal rule that no scammer,
no criminal would ever give out its phone number. Mitch,
(07:52):
you're an idiot.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
We have If it gives eight hundred dollars, I'll let
it go, or you're going to jail out.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I mean, you gave your number out. I'd like my
client to get her eight hundred dollars back. That's what
we want from you.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Give Rosalie back her money.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm uncomfortable with meeting anyone right now. Okay, so you're
saying no, you're saying no.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Would you consider venmo?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Absolutely, we'll take your venmoa. Pay attention, all right, pay
attention down at Samantha for seven repeat that, please, Mitch,
right now. We don't have much time left.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Just all right, it's Samantha.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
What was the number?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Okaya? Okay, Now we're gonna wait for the are you
sending now? Are you sending? Are you sending it? Now?
All right, it's gonna take a minute. It's gonna take
a minute. What were you think You thought it was
in graphics card that's it? Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah
it was a big number. I know, I know, so
you can. It's that the cardinal sin for any scammer
or any Thiefel Samantha, let me know when you got
(09:01):
the money. Nope, I got it, I got it, you
got it, I got it, all right on it, Rosalie,
we got it. Three hundred dollars. Uh, Mitch, I'm gonna
tell you something right now. We know who you are.
We're gonna be working very closely with Facebook marketplace, with
the Facebook people, and we're going to be keeping our
eye on you.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's really said. There's people out there like you. That's
scam people.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Okay, okay, he hung up, he hung up, He hung up, Rosalie,
he hung up. I'm so glad you got the money.
Let's have a great big camp. Right, Yeah, we got that.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Can Have you been a victim of fraud? Have you
been taken by a scam? The Hollywood Hamilton Show and
the KTU Morning Crew would love to hear from you.
Text us at six nine three five. That is six
nine nine three five. This is fraud Friday,
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