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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.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Here we go, this week's Fraud Friday, the Hollywood Hamilton
Show on the k T Morning Crew. I've got Madeline
on the phone with me right now, Marie. Yeah, she's
been taken, she's been scammed. She was part of a
financial advisor scam. She's a little destroyed. We've been trying
to get her on the phone now for over a week,
and she finally said, yes.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Could you share with all of us what exactly you
been going through?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Okay, you know, my mother left me money, Marie.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I don't think Marie knew this, but her mother passed
away not too long ago.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
We were helping my mom set up you know, accounts
and stuff right shen't had much of a pension anything
like that. And she really liked this guy, Dave that
she'd been working with. You know, I called the firm
Dave to go into this.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
This is the guy. This is obviously everyone to get
you caught up really quickly. This is the guy that
represented her mother. And tell everyone what they told you
when you were looking for day your mom's financial advisor.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, when I called, they were kind of hesitant, and
I said, what did Dave leave? And he died yesterday?
And I'm like, he's sick, you know, and they said no, no, no,
he had a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
At his death.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
He had a heart attack at his desk.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh yea died at his desk.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Sad crazy.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
And I wasn't too happy with the guy who took
over Dave's account, you know. So I was at a
party and you know, I was talking to this one guy.
He says, oh, he says, I know somebody who might
be able to handle your account.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh boom. And that's when it happened.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Because it's a small firm like you, Like we met
the lunch. Over lunch, he's showing me, you know, like
the portfolios, and you know he would he would do
it for me.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay, all right, Madelin. You never met him at an office,
is that correct?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And over lunch he's showing me, you know, the various
things he can do for me what kind of fun works.
And you know, normally he'd have people come, you know,
to his office. He has a home office in Long Island,
and he says, it's easier for me, you know, I
just come back.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's very important to know. So here, he stated to you,
because I'm going to use this when I want to
get some of your money back. He stated to you
that he has a home in Long Island. Is that
what he said? That's where he lived.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, home, you know, Long Island City.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay, estee, Okay, So you met this guy, you lost
exactly how much money?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
All told about? One hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Okay, okay, thousand dollars. So now after you invested with
this guy, this financial advisor, he's not returning your calls
or emails, right, He's gone.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Okay, right, And I gave your producer his number yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What we do is we change our caller. I d yeah,
I actually changed into a police pracingt in Queen's the
one five. I'd pick up an NYPD call. I just
asked for a different person and then I said, oh, sorry,
you know, a wrong number. And that was the end
of it. Lots smarter than I thought, lots smarter than thought.
(03:33):
The police might be good for future forduct. All right,
let's get back on track here, Madeline. Is there anything
else you could tell us about this guy that would
give me ammunition to threaten him? Did he tell you
anything about his personal life?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Oh? Let me think. Uh. I know he's got a dog,
because when we would talk, I heard barking in the background,
and I say, what kind of dog you got? I'm
a dog lover. He says, I got a drive a shepherd.
His name is Stanley, which I think.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I think that. Okay, what about a car? What about
did you notice that he drove off in a car?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah? He drove one of a monster like Escalot, you know,
one of those Cadillacs, the big.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Truck, escalaid escalade.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I think she's trying to say how you found out
you were being taken advantage of and ghosted you because
you went to go wanting to make a withdrawal from
one of the investments. It's for a condo you mentioned.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Go down payment.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, all right, all right, here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You're listening to Fraud Friday with the KTU Morning Crew.
We'll be right back with part two, when Hollywood and
Marine make the call. Buckle up because things are about
to get rough. Schulman Ina for part two for this
week's Fraud Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hi, this is.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Hi Randy. This is Lucille. I was referred to you
by Howard Parnas.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Do you know Howard? He told me.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
You were fabulous at doing financial advising and I need
some help I have. I've got about one hundred thousand
dollars and I need some assistance on how to handle
this and what I should do with it because I'm
just long. One more time, I missed that name piece
(05:37):
Howard Parness. He said that you don't really know anybody
of that name. Oh well, he gave me your number
and said I should call you, and he has. Are
you not a financial advisor? I calling the wrong.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Oh no, I'm definitely a financial advisor. I'm just trying
to place the name Howard that you mentioned.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Well, I'm so sorry to bother you. I guess this
is just not going to work out on my apologies.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
No, No, it's okay. I mean I can certainly meet
with you. I mean, if you're if you have concerns,
my job is to basically figure out how to help
you make money with the money that you've got. Oh,
you know, I can have a brain lesson in this case. Here,
can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Sure, I I'm I have I'm a widow, sorry, and
my I've got two children, and.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I'm very to meet up, you know, I want. I
don't want to waste your time too much here, but
we can definitely get together and talk a little further.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Okay, Should I come to your office.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Or unfortunately I have renovations going on with the office
right now. We can meet for lunch, we can meet
for breakfast, coffee, you know, whatever is easier on your side,
I can okay. And by the way, where do you live.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I'm in Jamaica, queen.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I've been there many times. You know. We can roll
that money into mutual funds, we can use bonds, we
can use a cash account. We can actually maybe do
some investing into some of the foreign markets that exist
out there. You probably are aware of the things that
are happening right now in China and India, the countries
they call the brick countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea. Uh,
those countries are really on the up and ups. There's
(07:17):
a lot of options to be able to make a
lot of money that way, government bonds, things of that sort.
There's a lot of options that we can work with
right now, you want to do something.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh my goodness, you are quite knowledgeable.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm very impressed. Could you know.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I think I'd rather meet you in your office if
that's If.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
We no idea what it's going to be done, it
could be weeks, it could be months. I'm furious over
what's going on right.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now, Lucie. It could be even it could obviously be
it could be years. Could and he's furiously exactly sounds
like a real character.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Huh this guy, Yeah, real character dirt back.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, Randy. My name is Sean Hamilton. I'm a private vestigator.
I represent a client of yours. This client of yours
is by the name of your Listen, Randy, just give
me one second. This is probably one of the most
important phone calls you have ever received. Either we're going
to come to some sort of term or we're going
to completely and totally destroy your life again. I am
(08:17):
a private investigator here in Queens. My name is Sean Hamilton.
I work with a person by the name of Madeline Madeleine.
Are you there, Madeline?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Are you there?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm here, I'm here, Okay, Madeline is Randy? Is this
the man we're talking about? Is this the guy? Is
this the financial advisor that wash that's not returning your
phone calls?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah? The voice sounds familiar.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Absolutely, all right, Randy.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So Madeline came to you and she was looking to
make a withdrawal and you are not returning her calls.
You're not returning any of their emails. Do you know
who Madeline is? Randy? Do you know who we're talking about?
You know this woman is Madeline.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I've been running into the problems right now.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
The renovations have caused a lot of problems around here
that cut my internet access at one point. There's been
a lot of things that have been driving me crazy.
I told you it's purious. What's you're on here?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Okay? All right? Well I mentioned to you that I'm
a private investigator and we've been tailing you for a
little over two weeks. Right now, we know you own
a German Shepherd, you drive a brand new Cadillac or
a recently new Cadillac Escalade. We have your IP address.
We know where your home office is in Long Island City.
Do I have your attention right now? Randy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You owe her one hundred and twenty five some odd
thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, what's up with that?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I told you I've had some problems with the internet
access right now. The phones have some issues going on.
It's been helping.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Besides that, besides that lie, because obviously you don't have
anything wrong with your phone, because we're talking to you
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
You can just put that on the shelf.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, can you? Can you get Melinda Katz on the
She's a Queen's District attorney. Get Melinda Kats on the
phone with me really quickly. Yeah. We're also going to
get Latitia James on the phone probably tomorrow morning, State
Attorney General's Office in New York here, and we're also
going to contact the SEC Security Exchange Commission. We're about
to ruin your life now, this is what we're asking for.
(10:06):
Madeline doesn't want to she doesn't want to press charges,
she doesn't want to get involved with all this court bit.
She hired us to get a hold of you, tail
you finally call you and contact you. We want her
money back.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Okay, she invested money. I mean there's no way that
you shun get it back. I mean that's like saying
pretty money in the stock market.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Shut up, shut out, shut out, Be quiet, Be quiet.
I don't want to hear that. That's not what I
want to hear. That's not what I called for. I
have your home IP address. This is a direct threat.
I am going to bury you with Christopher Ray, who
is a personal friend of mine. Federal Bureau of Investigations
here in New York City, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
(10:49):
the SEC Melinda Katz, I want you to do me
a favor, not answer me right away, And I want
you to think about the question I'm about to ask
you before you give me any more of your app
Madeline wants her money back. How fast can you make
it happen?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Will she accept money for a personal account?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Samantha, will you please step in?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yep?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
What kind of personal account? Randy, we'll take money from
a personal account.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
How are we going to move this.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Money into Madeline's account?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
How are we going to do this?
Speaker 7 (11:24):
How do we know you're actually going to get this
done for us?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
All right? If I'm able to give her money back.
Where do we go from here?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I really don't want to drag this through the ports.
I don't want to tie it up, but I just
want live my life.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know, you have a lot of problems right here.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Would a cashier's checkwork?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Nope, we won't take a cashier's check in this case.
We want an ach.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Because we need we need to know.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Now you can transfer right now?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, you could transfer right now.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
So Venmo's got a sixty thousand dollars maximum transfer. But
we can do a combination of Venmo a an ACCH.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right to find Samantha stand by. Okay, We're gonna
give you a phone number right now.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
And as soon as we see that coming through, we'll
need you to re up on that other forty k Madelin.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Do you have Venmo?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
No? No, no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay, So Samantha, give me your name. I need Do
you have something write down? Does something to write down?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Somebody?
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Your phone number? Okay, here we go, area code for
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We're gonna wait, We're gonna need this done now right now.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
TikTok.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I'm working on it, yeah, Marilyn.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Mattel, And it's on its way. Now what what did you.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Say, Matt, Randy, I mean basically, yeah, I've been out
of commission for a couple of weeks. I told you
had some problems here if you'd waited one more week
instead of basically just grabbing somewhere off the street, you know,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I, Randy, take it easy, Yeah, take it easy. Let's
just wait for the money to come through. I don't
want to hear you crack up a few more fees, Randy. Yeah, zip, yeah,
yeah yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Complete scumback.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So we're for fees and charges. And let me know
when it's through, Sammy, let me know what it's through.
Let me know what it's checking again, stand by, Anthony.
How much more time do we have left? We got
about a minute.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I hope it comes through in a minute.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Madeline, are you still there?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Okay? Yeah, we're waiting for the exchange. We're waiting for
the exchange to happen. Okay, okay, bit way, I got
zero's yes, so we got sixty K. We got sixty
K for you, Madeline. I guess we're gonna wait. I
don't know the time frame between the two the two.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Okay, my mom passed wasn't in the best state of mind. Everything.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He's the predator. All right, very good, Madeline. One other
thing before we put you on hold, Randy, we know
a lot about you. We know a lot of personal
information about you. We will be keeping our eye on you. Okay,
all eyes, all ears, my entire office. Just want to
let you know that. I want to let you know that. Okay, Well,
we're gonna put you on hold right now. Randy will
talk to you in a minute.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Have you been scammed, taken advantage of, or being a
victim of fraud? The Morning Crew is here to help
tell us your story. KTU dot com slash fraud Friday.
That's KTU dot com slash Fraud Friday. And believe me,
they will get it done.
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.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Here we go, this week's Fraud Friday, the Hollywood Hamilton
Show on the k T Morning Crew. I've got Madeline
on the phone with me right now, Marie. Yeah, she's
been taken, she's been scammed. She was part of a
financial advisor scam. She's a little destroyed. We've been trying
to get her on the phone now for over a week,
and she finally said, yes.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Could you share with all of us what exactly you
been going through?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Okay, you know, my mother left me money, Marie.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I don't think Marie knew this, but her mother passed
away not too long ago.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
We were helping my mom set up you know, accounts
and stuff right shen't had much of a pension anything
like that. And she really liked this guy, Dave that
she'd been working with. You know, I called the firm
Dave to go into this.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
This is the guy. This is obviously everyone to get
you caught up really quickly. This is the guy that
represented her mother. And tell everyone what they told you
when you were looking for day your mom's financial advisor.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, when I called, they were kind of hesitant, and
I said, what did Dave leave? And he died yesterday?
And I'm like, he's sick, you know, and they said no, no, no,
he had a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
At his death.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
He had a heart attack at his desk.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh yea died at his desk.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Sad crazy.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
And I wasn't too happy with the guy who took
over Dave's account, you know. So I was at a
party and you know, I was talking to this one guy.
He says, oh, he says, I know somebody who might
be able to handle your account.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh boom. And that's when it happened.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Because it's a small firm like you, Like we met
the lunch. Over lunch, he's showing me, you know, like
the portfolios, and you know he would he would do
it for me.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay, all right, Madelin. You never met him at an office,
is that correct?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And over lunch he's showing me, you know, the various
things he can do for me what kind of fun works.
And you know, normally he'd have people come, you know,
to his office. He has a home office in Long Island,
and he says, it's easier for me, you know, I
just come back.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's very important to know. So here, he stated to you,
because I'm going to use this when I want to
get some of your money back. He stated to you
that he has a home in Long Island. Is that
what he said? That's where he lived.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, home, you know, Long Island City.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay, estee, Okay, So you met this guy, you lost
exactly how much money?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
All told about? One hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Okay, okay, thousand dollars. So now after you invested with
this guy, this financial advisor, he's not returning your calls
or emails, right, He's gone.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Okay, right, And I gave your producer his number yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What we do is we change our caller. I d yeah,
I actually changed into a police pracingt in Queen's the
one five. I'd pick up an NYPD call. I just
asked for a different person and then I said, oh, sorry,
you know, a wrong number. And that was the end
of it. Lots smarter than I thought, lots smarter than thought.
(03:33):
The police might be good for future forduct. All right,
let's get back on track here, Madeline. Is there anything
else you could tell us about this guy that would
give me ammunition to threaten him? Did he tell you
anything about his personal life?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Oh? Let me think. Uh. I know he's got a dog,
because when we would talk, I heard barking in the background,
and I say, what kind of dog you got? I'm
a dog lover. He says, I got a drive a shepherd.
His name is Stanley, which I think.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I think that. Okay, what about a car? What about
did you notice that he drove off in a car?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah? He drove one of a monster like Escalot, you know,
one of those Cadillacs, the big.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Truck, escalaid escalade.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I think she's trying to say how you found out
you were being taken advantage of and ghosted you because
you went to go wanting to make a withdrawal from
one of the investments. It's for a condo you mentioned.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Go down payment.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, all right, all right, here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You're listening to Fraud Friday with the KTU Morning Crew.
We'll be right back with part two, when Hollywood and
Marine make the call. Buckle up because things are about
to get rough. Schulman Ina for part two for this
week's Fraud Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hi, this is.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Hi Randy. This is Lucille. I was referred to you
by Howard Parnas.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Do you know Howard? He told me.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
You were fabulous at doing financial advising and I need
some help I have. I've got about one hundred thousand
dollars and I need some assistance on how to handle
this and what I should do with it because I'm
just long. One more time, I missed that name piece
(05:37):
Howard Parness. He said that you don't really know anybody
of that name. Oh well, he gave me your number
and said I should call you, and he has. Are
you not a financial advisor? I calling the wrong.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Oh no, I'm definitely a financial advisor. I'm just trying
to place the name Howard that you mentioned.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Well, I'm so sorry to bother you. I guess this
is just not going to work out on my apologies.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
No, No, it's okay. I mean I can certainly meet
with you. I mean, if you're if you have concerns,
my job is to basically figure out how to help
you make money with the money that you've got. Oh,
you know, I can have a brain lesson in this case. Here,
can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Sure, I I'm I have I'm a widow, sorry, and
my I've got two children, and.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I'm very to meet up, you know, I want. I
don't want to waste your time too much here, but
we can definitely get together and talk a little further.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Okay, Should I come to your office.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Or unfortunately I have renovations going on with the office
right now. We can meet for lunch, we can meet
for breakfast, coffee, you know, whatever is easier on your side,
I can okay. And by the way, where do you live.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I'm in Jamaica, queen.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I've been there many times. You know. We can roll
that money into mutual funds, we can use bonds, we
can use a cash account. We can actually maybe do
some investing into some of the foreign markets that exist
out there. You probably are aware of the things that
are happening right now in China and India, the countries
they call the brick countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea. Uh,
those countries are really on the up and ups. There's
(07:17):
a lot of options to be able to make a
lot of money that way, government bonds, things of that sort.
There's a lot of options that we can work with
right now, you want to do something.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh my goodness, you are quite knowledgeable.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm very impressed. Could you know.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I think I'd rather meet you in your office if
that's If.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
We no idea what it's going to be done, it
could be weeks, it could be months. I'm furious over
what's going on right.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now, Lucie. It could be even it could obviously be
it could be years. Could and he's furiously exactly sounds
like a real character.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Huh this guy, Yeah, real character dirt back.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, Randy. My name is Sean Hamilton. I'm a private vestigator.
I represent a client of yours. This client of yours
is by the name of your Listen, Randy, just give
me one second. This is probably one of the most
important phone calls you have ever received. Either we're going
to come to some sort of term or we're going
to completely and totally destroy your life again. I am
(08:17):
a private investigator here in Queens. My name is Sean Hamilton.
I work with a person by the name of Madeline Madeleine.
Are you there, Madeline?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Are you there?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm here, I'm here, Okay, Madeline is Randy? Is this
the man we're talking about? Is this the guy? Is
this the financial advisor that wash that's not returning your
phone calls?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah? The voice sounds familiar.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Absolutely, all right, Randy.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So Madeline came to you and she was looking to
make a withdrawal and you are not returning her calls.
You're not returning any of their emails. Do you know
who Madeline is? Randy? Do you know who we're talking about?
You know this woman is Madeline.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I've been running into the problems right now.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
The renovations have caused a lot of problems around here
that cut my internet access at one point. There's been
a lot of things that have been driving me crazy.
I told you it's purious. What's you're on here?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Okay? All right? Well I mentioned to you that I'm
a private investigator and we've been tailing you for a
little over two weeks. Right now, we know you own
a German Shepherd, you drive a brand new Cadillac or
a recently new Cadillac Escalade. We have your IP address.
We know where your home office is in Long Island City.
Do I have your attention right now? Randy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You owe her one hundred and twenty five some odd
thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, what's up with that?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I told you I've had some problems with the internet
access right now. The phones have some issues going on.
It's been helping.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Besides that, besides that lie, because obviously you don't have
anything wrong with your phone, because we're talking to you
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
You can just put that on the shelf.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, can you? Can you get Melinda Katz on the
She's a Queen's District attorney. Get Melinda Kats on the
phone with me really quickly. Yeah. We're also going to
get Latitia James on the phone probably tomorrow morning, State
Attorney General's Office in New York here, and we're also
going to contact the SEC Security Exchange Commission. We're about
to ruin your life now, this is what we're asking for.
(10:06):
Madeline doesn't want to she doesn't want to press charges,
she doesn't want to get involved with all this court bit.
She hired us to get a hold of you, tail
you finally call you and contact you. We want her
money back.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Okay, she invested money. I mean there's no way that
you shun get it back. I mean that's like saying
pretty money in the stock market.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Shut up, shut out, shut out, Be quiet, Be quiet.
I don't want to hear that. That's not what I
want to hear. That's not what I called for. I
have your home IP address. This is a direct threat.
I am going to bury you with Christopher Ray, who
is a personal friend of mine. Federal Bureau of Investigations
here in New York City, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
(10:49):
the SEC Melinda Katz, I want you to do me
a favor, not answer me right away, And I want
you to think about the question I'm about to ask
you before you give me any more of your app
Madeline wants her money back. How fast can you make
it happen?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Will she accept money for a personal account?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Samantha, will you please step in?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yep?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
What kind of personal account? Randy, we'll take money from
a personal account.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
How are we going to move this.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Money into Madeline's account?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
How are we going to do this?
Speaker 7 (11:24):
How do we know you're actually going to get this
done for us?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
All right? If I'm able to give her money back.
Where do we go from here?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I really don't want to drag this through the ports.
I don't want to tie it up, but I just
want live my life.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know, you have a lot of problems right here.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Would a cashier's checkwork?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Nope, we won't take a cashier's check in this case.
We want an ach.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Because we need we need to know.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Now you can transfer right now?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, you could transfer right now.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
So Venmo's got a sixty thousand dollars maximum transfer. But
we can do a combination of Venmo a an ACCH.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right to find Samantha stand by. Okay, We're gonna
give you a phone number right now.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
And as soon as we see that coming through, we'll
need you to re up on that other forty k Madelin.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Do you have Venmo?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
No? No, no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay, So Samantha, give me your name. I need Do
you have something write down? Does something to write down?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Somebody?
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Your phone number? Okay, here we go, area code for
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We're gonna wait, We're gonna need this done now right now.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
TikTok.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I'm working on it, yeah, Marilyn.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Mattel, And it's on its way. Now what what did you.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Say, Matt, Randy, I mean basically, yeah, I've been out
of commission for a couple of weeks. I told you
had some problems here if you'd waited one more week
instead of basically just grabbing somewhere off the street, you know,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I, Randy, take it easy, Yeah, take it easy. Let's
just wait for the money to come through. I don't
want to hear you crack up a few more fees, Randy. Yeah, zip, yeah,
yeah yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Complete scumback.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So we're for fees and charges. And let me know
when it's through, Sammy, let me know what it's through.
Let me know what it's checking again, stand by, Anthony.
How much more time do we have left? We got
about a minute.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I hope it comes through in a minute.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Madeline, are you still there?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Okay? Yeah, we're waiting for the exchange. We're waiting for
the exchange to happen. Okay, okay, bit way, I got
zero's yes, so we got sixty K. We got sixty
K for you, Madeline. I guess we're gonna wait. I
don't know the time frame between the two the two.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Okay, my mom passed wasn't in the best state of mind. Everything.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He's the predator. All right, very good, Madeline. One other
thing before we put you on hold, Randy, we know
a lot about you. We know a lot of personal
information about you. We will be keeping our eye on you. Okay,
all eyes, all ears, my entire office. Just want to
let you know that. I want to let you know that. Okay, Well,
we're gonna put you on hold right now. Randy will
talk to you in a minute.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Have you been scammed, taken advantage of, or being a
victim of fraud? The Morning Crew is here to help
tell us your story. KTU dot com slash fraud Friday.
That's KTU dot com slash Fraud Friday. And believe me,
they will get it done.
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