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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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 (00:21):
It's k T the Hollywood Hamilton Show on the k
T Morning Crew. It's time once again fraud Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Marie.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
In the last seven eight weeks, we've covered so many
different crimes, so many different frauds.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I really didn't know that there was a such
thing as the rental scam, the rental fraud.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah, that's still going on.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I got Amy from Atlanta's Well, she's in Brooklyn now
by way of Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Amy, Are you there?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
She shows up at a property, a rental that she
had worked out with a real estate agent, to find
out that the entire thing was a scam.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It was all fraud. No, and she's sitting in Brooklyn
right now, is it Canarcie? Amy?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, my U haul is in the parking lot.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Are you living in your car right now?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I mean what No, I'm in a motel. But the
U haul is like in the parking lot, and I
just I'm running out of money, so I'm just freaked out.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
All right, all right, all right, big shout to your
friend Tracy for tipping you off to the show. Tracy's
a friend of Amy's, and that's how Amy got ahold
of us.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Could you walk us through how this whole thing started.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, So I was on Craigslist and I got in
touch with this woman and everything seems like it was
completely on the up and up. And so I went
through the whole thing and like got photos back and
I knocks on the door. There was no lock box,
(01:55):
and the people who came to the door, like no
one knew what the hell I was doing there, like
nobody knew who I was.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Right, Okay, And I just she paid first last security deposit,
a broker's fee.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It came to seventy three hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Whooo, So tell us about this real estate agent. I mean,
what's their story.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
So it's this woman and she said her name is Gabby,
and we talked for like two weeks. She sent me
virtual tours. Everything looked like it was on the up
and up. I paid first last security, broker's fee and
an application fee with a new whole thing. And then
I show up and it was the same building.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The photos that were sent to you were the same
as what the exterior of the apartment that you Yes, Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
She's not answering the phone, she's not returning my email,
like nothing, and I just feel sick, and I don't
have a place to live, and like, I just so
my friend and I we both jumped on Craiglist and
we were looking in the like similar area and just
calling random numbers for like, we called like fifteen or
(03:05):
sixteen different places like real estate, and we finally found
this woman who answered as Gabriella.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It was the same woman, the same Wow, what a
genius idea.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They're scouring craigslist, but that was smart.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
They're hunting the predators.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Now, this is a different number than the number you were.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, that number is now disconnected.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And it says here in the email that you sent
in order to get on the show. Your friend called
her and just hung up. So we have a number,
then we have a valid number to call right now.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, how lucky are you?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I know? Right?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah, it only costs me seventy three hundred dollars lucky.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
All right, all right, Amy, Amy, I'm sorry what you're
going through. Here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
We have an eighty eighty five percent success ratio. Okay,
we either get partially your money back or we get
some of your money back. We're gonna unload on this
woman if we can get her on the phone. We're
gonna absolutely unload on her. Okay, Okay, We're just gonna
threaten her beyond.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah, I'm okay, all right, Okay, here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
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 Fraud Friday.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Hi, this is Gabrielle.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Hi, Gabrielle, how are you?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I'm good? How are you? Who's going?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
My name is Marie and I am I got your
number off of Craigslist.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I'm looking for an apartment.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Okay. Was there one that you were looking for specifically?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Or I was looking in the Canarsi area? Oh okay,
you too have any apartments?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Where are you coming from?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I'm coming from Indiana.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
So what are you looking for?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Exactly, you know, I mean, I know things are different
in New York than they are. I just want to
just yeah, just tell me what you want, Okay. I
just want a one bedroom, one bath.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
One bedroom, one bath, Okay, great, yeah, okay, So in Canarcy, Yeah,
we definitely have. I have three units available right now,
depending on how much.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Okay, what's your budget?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I don't know what what's the average?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Right?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I mean what your budget is, it's like pretty important. Yeah,
so we have we have a one bedroom, one bath
in Canarsie. It's near shopping schools. Is it just for you?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, it's just for me.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Okay, great, so we have something. I could send you
over some pictures and then we could just you know,
we could.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Well, I'm gonna tell you though, my my my budget
is about forty five hundred. I don't really want.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
To go over forty two hundred right now? Would that work?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Forty two? Okay? Is it not a one.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Bedroom, one bathroom? It's I think you're gonna love it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Okay. Can I park my car there?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah? I mean you could. You know, it's like street parking,
but it's you know, it's a nice, safe neighborhood. It's
everything you're gonna want to have the pictures. And then
what you do is you send me I need the
first month rent, the last month's rent. There's a broker fee,
there's an application fee, and there's a security deposit, and
you're just gonna send that right over to me. So
I'll send you the pictures.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh well, well, what well?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I mean wait a minute, So I mean okay, so
you're telling me I need first, I'm gonna what do
I need to gain?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
No, okay, I'm going to tell you what you need? Okay,
And this is just please look, So I'm going to
send you over the pictures. Take a look. You're gonna
love it. It's renovated, it's beautiful. For So you're gonna
need the first.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Month's rent, okay, and the broker fee. You're you're considered
the broker.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Right, yeah, I'm the broker.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Where where where can I? Where can I?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I want to tell you this apartment is well, where.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Where can I meet you? So I'd like to I'd
like to bet.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
You before we could ever meet?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Are you give me the address? Can I can I
drive by?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
But I'm going to send you let me please listen,
you know this is New York City. This is This
is not Indiana. Okay, things are much juster.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Okay, uh huh, I understand.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, So you're gonna send me that over and
then it will hold your place on the apartment. If not,
I mean within the hour, you're gonna lose this. You're
not gonna go Oh, someone else inquiring right now. I'm
on my computer right now, someone's inquiring about this.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So I'm sending to your works.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Jesus moves really quick, razy right, yeah, that quick?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Gabriella, Gabriella. Hello, Who's this pretty funny? How you're asking
for people's money before you even see him in person.
Isn't that kind of a little suspicious, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Listen to me. I'm Eric Henderson.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I'm a private investigator here in Brooklyn, and you are
private investor.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
What are you investigating?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
A lot of hot water.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I got somebody on the phone with me right now
that you've been doing business with by the name of Amy.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Amy's from Atlanta, and I know you know what we're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You know who this woman is. You've been dealing with
this woman for the last two weeks. You're part of
a fraud operation. In a minute, you're probably gonna to
ask yourself, Wait a minute, you're gonna put two and
two together.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
How would this guy ever know where I live? How
would they know how to call me? I think you
got to just slow down, Jane. We've got this.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Woman Amy, and you damn well know who we're talking about.
She's on the phone with us right now. Amy, can
you hear me?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Can you identify the woman's voice? Is this the woman's voice?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I have spoken with this woman several.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Times, Gabriella again. I'm with a private investigating firm out
of Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Here. We know everything about you. We got your IP address.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
We're ready to go, ready to report you to everybody,
from Thomas Dolan, New York City Police Commissioner, to Eric Gonzales,
Brooklyn DA. I can go on and on Latitia James,
State Attorney General's Office in New York. We don't want
to do that. What we want is we want Amy's
money back. That's all we want. Or we're just gonna
start calling people. We're gonna start having people knocking on
(08:52):
your front door. We're gonna trace you down.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
You owe me seventy three hundred dollars, and if you
don't give it back soon, you're also going to owe
me the overage on the U haul and everything I've
had to spend on this hotel.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now, she's staying in a hotel in Canarsie right now,
and she's here in a U haul, and you owe money.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
The apartment is rented to someone else.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
She's not saying anything. She knows exactly what.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I don't know what you want from me. I didn't
scam you at all. Okay. If you want your money
back because you couldn't make it in New York City,
then she went.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
To the address that you gave her. You told her
that there was a lock box.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I'm not teasing it for what I'm not If she
couldn't figure things out, then I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Where's her apartment?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Listen to me, there was no What do you mean
If she couldn't.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Handle it because you couldn't figure it out, then.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'll give you your money back, Okay, Samantha, Yeah, we've
got this.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
We want the money back. If you're going to cooperate,
that's great. As long as we get the money back,
we want a cashier's check, and we will not pursue
further criminal charges.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
It I could, I could tell you right now. Just
send me the phone umber, I'll sell it right now.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'll just do you want to you want to operate
off a Zell right now? You want to operate off No.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
I don't because Zell does not take that amount. They
only have a max of two grand.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
She knows that she send that rather. Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Okay, I'll tell you what we're gonna do. No to
the Zel, but we will take Venmo. They're spending limit
much higher. I'll take a Venmo.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
What's what's it?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, I'll send it. I'll send it. I'll send it
from my account in another.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
What's the exchange time on that?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Should be sixty seconds?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Should be an under a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
You want me to just send it back to you, Amy, No.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You're not gonna do that. You're gonna send it to us.
You're not gonna do that. You're gonna send it to us?
What should we use? Just a regular Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Regular? Go ahead? Fine? Yeah, no, send it to my
cell seven? Okay for three two five? Are you still there, Gabby?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Yeah, I'm here. I say I'm sending it.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, all right, very good, okay, all right, what we're
gonna do is why we.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Wait for the exchange. There, She's gonna send us the money,
and we're gonna get you the money.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Probably I can just write venmo of money right to Amy.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 7 (11:07):
No reason, I can't do that now. I don't want
to look at this money, not mine.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Let's send this away. Hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Not yet, not yet?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Yeah, I sent everything.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Well, you know what we're waiting, Gabrielle, can you tell
us a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I just you know, just something I'm gonnay you honestly.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
How is this something you've been uh doing for a
while now? This little scam action on Craigslist you've been pulling.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
That's what we got the money. We got the money,
We've got the cash. Hang up on her, Hang up
on her?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
She sent them?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Hung up? Has she hung up? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
She has?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
What did she.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Got that money? Got that money?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Amy? Okay, thank you so awful. I cannot thank you enough.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
All right, all right, listen to me.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
We're gonna take you off the air right now, and
you're gonna be talking with Samantha, director of Operations here
at the studio at the show.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
She can get it immediately.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Welcome to New York, and we'll take care of the fees,
will take care of the all right, k T you,
k T you for 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.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's k T the Hollywood Hamilton Show on the k
T Morning Crew. It's time once again fraud Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Marie.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
In the last seven eight weeks, we've covered so many
different crimes, so many different frauds.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I really didn't know that there was a such
thing as the rental scam, the rental fraud.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah, that's still going on.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I got Amy from Atlanta's Well, she's in Brooklyn now
by way of Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Amy, Are you there?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
She shows up at a property, a rental that she
had worked out with a real estate agent, to find
out that the entire thing was a scam.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It was all fraud. No, and she's sitting in Brooklyn
right now, is it Canarcie? Amy?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, my U haul is in the parking lot.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Are you living in your car right now?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I mean what No, I'm in a motel. But the
U haul is like in the parking lot, and I
just I'm running out of money, so I'm just freaked out.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
All right, all right, all right, big shout to your
friend Tracy for tipping you off to the show. Tracy's
a friend of Amy's, and that's how Amy got ahold
of us.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Could you walk us through how this whole thing started.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, So I was on Craigslist and I got in
touch with this woman and everything seems like it was
completely on the up and up. And so I went
through the whole thing and like got photos back and
I knocks on the door. There was no lock box,
(01:55):
and the people who came to the door, like no
one knew what the hell I was doing there, like
nobody knew who I was.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Right, Okay, And I just she paid first last security deposit,
a broker's fee.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It came to seventy three hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Whooo, So tell us about this real estate agent. I mean,
what's their story.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
So it's this woman and she said her name is Gabby,
and we talked for like two weeks. She sent me
virtual tours. Everything looked like it was on the up
and up. I paid first last security, broker's fee and
an application fee with a new whole thing. And then
I show up and it was the same building.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The photos that were sent to you were the same
as what the exterior of the apartment that you Yes, Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
She's not answering the phone, she's not returning my email,
like nothing, and I just feel sick, and I don't
have a place to live, and like, I just so
my friend and I we both jumped on Craiglist and
we were looking in the like similar area and just
calling random numbers for like, we called like fifteen or
(03:05):
sixteen different places like real estate, and we finally found
this woman who answered as Gabriella.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It was the same woman, the same Wow, what a
genius idea.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They're scouring craigslist, but that was smart.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
They're hunting the predators.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Now, this is a different number than the number you were.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, that number is now disconnected.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And it says here in the email that you sent
in order to get on the show. Your friend called
her and just hung up. So we have a number,
then we have a valid number to call right now.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, how lucky are you?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I know? Right?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah, it only costs me seventy three hundred dollars lucky.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
All right, all right, Amy, Amy, I'm sorry what you're
going through. Here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
We have an eighty eighty five percent success ratio. Okay,
we either get partially your money back or we get
some of your money back. We're gonna unload on this
woman if we can get her on the phone. We're
gonna absolutely unload on her. Okay, Okay, We're just gonna
threaten her beyond.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah, I'm okay, all right, Okay, here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
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 Fraud Friday.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Hi, this is Gabrielle.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Hi, Gabrielle, how are you?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I'm good? How are you? Who's going?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
My name is Marie and I am I got your
number off of Craigslist.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I'm looking for an apartment.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Okay. Was there one that you were looking for specifically?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Or I was looking in the Canarsi area? Oh okay,
you too have any apartments?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Where are you coming from?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I'm coming from Indiana.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
So what are you looking for?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Exactly, you know, I mean, I know things are different
in New York than they are. I just want to
just yeah, just tell me what you want, Okay. I
just want a one bedroom, one bath.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
One bedroom, one bath, Okay, great, yeah, okay, So in Canarcy, Yeah,
we definitely have. I have three units available right now,
depending on how much.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Okay, what's your budget?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I don't know what what's the average?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Right?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I mean what your budget is, it's like pretty important. Yeah,
so we have we have a one bedroom, one bath
in Canarsie. It's near shopping schools. Is it just for you?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, it's just for me.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Okay, great, so we have something. I could send you
over some pictures and then we could just you know,
we could.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Well, I'm gonna tell you though, my my my budget
is about forty five hundred. I don't really want.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
To go over forty two hundred right now? Would that work?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Forty two? Okay? Is it not a one.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Bedroom, one bathroom? It's I think you're gonna love it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Okay. Can I park my car there?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah? I mean you could. You know, it's like street parking,
but it's you know, it's a nice, safe neighborhood. It's
everything you're gonna want to have the pictures. And then
what you do is you send me I need the
first month rent, the last month's rent. There's a broker fee,
there's an application fee, and there's a security deposit, and
you're just gonna send that right over to me. So
I'll send you the pictures.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh well, well, what well?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I mean wait a minute, So I mean okay, so
you're telling me I need first, I'm gonna what do
I need to gain?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
No, okay, I'm going to tell you what you need? Okay,
And this is just please look, So I'm going to
send you over the pictures. Take a look. You're gonna
love it. It's renovated, it's beautiful. For So you're gonna
need the first.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Month's rent, okay, and the broker fee. You're you're considered
the broker.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Right, yeah, I'm the broker.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Where where where can I? Where can I?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I want to tell you this apartment is well, where.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Where can I meet you? So I'd like to I'd
like to bet.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
You before we could ever meet?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Are you give me the address? Can I can I
drive by?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
But I'm going to send you let me please listen,
you know this is New York City. This is This
is not Indiana. Okay, things are much juster.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Okay, uh huh, I understand.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, So you're gonna send me that over and
then it will hold your place on the apartment. If not,
I mean within the hour, you're gonna lose this. You're
not gonna go Oh, someone else inquiring right now. I'm
on my computer right now, someone's inquiring about this.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So I'm sending to your works.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Jesus moves really quick, razy right, yeah, that quick?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Gabriella, Gabriella. Hello, Who's this pretty funny? How you're asking
for people's money before you even see him in person.
Isn't that kind of a little suspicious, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Listen to me. I'm Eric Henderson.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I'm a private investigator here in Brooklyn, and you are
private investor.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
What are you investigating?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
A lot of hot water.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I got somebody on the phone with me right now
that you've been doing business with by the name of Amy.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Amy's from Atlanta, and I know you know what we're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You know who this woman is. You've been dealing with
this woman for the last two weeks. You're part of
a fraud operation. In a minute, you're probably gonna to
ask yourself, Wait a minute, you're gonna put two and
two together.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
How would this guy ever know where I live? How
would they know how to call me? I think you
got to just slow down, Jane. We've got this.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Woman Amy, and you damn well know who we're talking about.
She's on the phone with us right now. Amy, can
you hear me?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Can you identify the woman's voice? Is this the woman's voice?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I have spoken with this woman several.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Times, Gabriella again. I'm with a private investigating firm out
of Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Here. We know everything about you. We got your IP address.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
We're ready to go, ready to report you to everybody,
from Thomas Dolan, New York City Police Commissioner, to Eric Gonzales,
Brooklyn DA. I can go on and on Latitia James,
State Attorney General's Office in New York. We don't want
to do that. What we want is we want Amy's
money back. That's all we want. Or we're just gonna
start calling people. We're gonna start having people knocking on
(08:52):
your front door. We're gonna trace you down.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
You owe me seventy three hundred dollars, and if you
don't give it back soon, you're also going to owe
me the overage on the U haul and everything I've
had to spend on this hotel.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now, she's staying in a hotel in Canarsie right now,
and she's here in a U haul, and you owe money.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
The apartment is rented to someone else.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
She's not saying anything. She knows exactly what.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I don't know what you want from me. I didn't
scam you at all. Okay. If you want your money
back because you couldn't make it in New York City,
then she went.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
To the address that you gave her. You told her
that there was a lock box.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I'm not teasing it for what I'm not If she
couldn't figure things out, then I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Where's her apartment?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Listen to me, there was no What do you mean
If she couldn't.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Handle it because you couldn't figure it out, then.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'll give you your money back, Okay, Samantha, Yeah, we've
got this.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
We want the money back. If you're going to cooperate,
that's great. As long as we get the money back,
we want a cashier's check, and we will not pursue
further criminal charges.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
It I could, I could tell you right now. Just
send me the phone umber, I'll sell it right now.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'll just do you want to you want to operate
off a Zell right now? You want to operate off No.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
I don't because Zell does not take that amount. They
only have a max of two grand.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
She knows that she send that rather. Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Okay, I'll tell you what we're gonna do. No to
the Zel, but we will take Venmo. They're spending limit
much higher. I'll take a Venmo.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
What's what's it?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, I'll send it. I'll send it. I'll send it
from my account in another.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
What's the exchange time on that?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Should be sixty seconds?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Should be an under a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
You want me to just send it back to you, Amy, No.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You're not gonna do that. You're gonna send it to us.
You're not gonna do that. You're gonna send it to us?
What should we use? Just a regular Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Regular? Go ahead? Fine? Yeah, no, send it to my
cell seven? Okay for three two five? Are you still there, Gabby?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Yeah, I'm here. I say I'm sending it.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, all right, very good, okay, all right, what we're
gonna do is why we.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Wait for the exchange. There, She's gonna send us the money,
and we're gonna get you the money.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Probably I can just write venmo of money right to Amy.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 7 (11:07):
No reason, I can't do that now. I don't want
to look at this money, not mine.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Let's send this away. Hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Not yet, not yet?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Yeah, I sent everything.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Well, you know what we're waiting, Gabrielle, can you tell
us a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I just you know, just something I'm gonnay you honestly.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
How is this something you've been uh doing for a
while now? This little scam action on Craigslist you've been pulling.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
That's what we got the money. We got the money,
We've got the cash. Hang up on her, Hang up
on her?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
She sent them?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Hung up? Has she hung up? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
She has?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
What did she.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Got that money? Got that money?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Amy? Okay, thank you so awful. I cannot thank you enough.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
All right, all right, listen to me.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
We're gonna take you off the air right now, and
you're gonna be talking with Samantha, director of Operations here
at the studio at the show.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
She can get it immediately.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Welcome to New York, and we'll take care of the fees,
will take care of the all right, k T you,
k T you for Friday
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