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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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to expose the scammers, thieves, and con artists among us.
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Hamilton does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of iHeartMedia.
This is fraud Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It is that time of the week again, Ladies and gentlemen.
One of the most topic sides Warder Roses is one
of the most talked about features we do here. It's
called fraud Friday. Please welcome Ellen, Ladies and gentlemen to
the floor. Hi Ellen, hi Ellen, hi Ellen's got a
little bit of a problem. She wants to get six
hundred and fifty dollars back here on fraud Friday. We're
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here to help you.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You know, and everybody knows that caution, that caution, sidewalk park,
don't park. Street signs in New York City can be
probably some of the most confusing, bewildering, perplexing things a
human being could ever experience. Ellen at of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Toad right in front of her, comes out of a
boat day and she walks out. The car is up
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on the hook, and Ellen, do you want to walk?
Marie and I through your story. What happened?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Okay, Well, I was I was put going back to
my car. I went into the bank and I came
back to my car and I see them towing it. Sorry,
say to the guy, Listen, why are you towing my car?
I don't get it. And he said the meter was
just past time and I was on time?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Ellen, Ellen was past? Ellen?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Ellen, let me ask you something. We've got to ask
you this question. Were you on time or past the
time on the meter?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I mean, it was past the time, but it was
right on the minute. I got back right on the minute.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It sall then you were you were like, okay, Ellen,
I hate to be like this, Ellen. I know, Ellen,
but I hate to be like this if we're gonna
fight and we're gonna try to get your money back.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Ellen, honey, you know I wish we could help you.
But you were past It looks like you were past
the time.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no no. Actually I
was just some time. I swear to god, I was
some time. I was exactly at the minute.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Ellen, tell them about what you told me on the
pre interview, because you listen, guys, this guy was waiting
for her go and go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Ellen's a problem is says, he gave me the snow
to call a shop, and he said he didn't have
anything to do with it. He was gonna tell my
current I should call the number on the shop.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Why I did it?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Realize that it's not the same number that was posted
on them on the box to call.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Right, So the number he gives there is different than
what's posted on the street zone.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okayish sus Okay. So what you're saying, Ellen, is you
showed up. You're coming out of the bodegga.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's a stroke right at the stroke of the minute
that it's past due.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
This guy's already got you up on hooks and he
gives you a number to a personal shop.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, And what's the six fifty about? Talk to me
about the six hundred and fifty dollars six fifth.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Ellen, Here, let's do this for Hollywood and Marie. Tell
them what you told me on the pre interview. There
was a toe fee. There's a storage fee, a minimum
of one hundred and seventy five dollars a day storage fee.
To tell him what you told me, Ellen.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It was horrible. The toe was one hundred and seventy
five dollars. But I didn't realize that they were forcing
me to spend three days of keep my car in
storage for three days, so it really up the feel line. Right,
I don't know, I really don't how that happened.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, I'm we're gonna get this guy on the phone. Now.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
We have an eighty percent success ratio in getting people's
money back, but I want to make sure before Marie
makes the call.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Thank god, this.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Is the deal.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You called him and he said there was a minimum
of three day storage.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
He absolutely did. And I could have picked it up right.
I could have picked it up on the same day
it was told. And he told me I had to
wait a minimum of three day storage. Her.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
All right, We're so sorry. This is this is awful.
What a scumbag. Oh this is gonna be good. I'm
so looking forward to this.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
One last thing, Alan, do you have a name of
who is in charge of this towing company?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Or it's some guy named Leon?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
All right, and if you heard his voice you would
recognize it again?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yes I would.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Okay, all right, here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
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. Welcome back for part two for this
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week's Fraud Friday.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yellow.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Toeing.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I'm looking for Leon. Can you put Leon through? Okay?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
This is Leon.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Hi Leon.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
My name is Marie. I'm trying to help my mother Ellen.
You have her car. You towed her car? I think
a couple of days ago.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
What kind of call? What kind of car? Is it?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
A buick le saber?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
The lady. I spoke to the lady a little while ago.
She knows the car is gonna be ready on Monday.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
No, no, no, we need to come and pick it
up today. And and quite honestly, I don't even understand
why you towed it because it should not have been.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Because it was expired. We took the car which is
already expired. Your mother could have paid sixty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She would have done.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
But I also know that there's a drop fee. There's
a small drop fee. You could have done that for her.
But anyway, how do we get this car back?
Speaker 7 (05:53):
You got to pick it up on Mondays be ready
to feel on Monday.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
No, it's Friday, I want to pick it up today,
and she's had six hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I know she didn't get that right.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
It's one hundred and twenty five for the tope right now,
one hundred and seventy five for the storage. So it's Friday,
she's gonna pick it up on Monday, six fifty.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
She got a herd call.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
This is just the way it is. You're gonna understand.
The cars buried in the back. This is a big warehouse.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
The cars we get casts you every single day are
causing the back. The dude, the segarette is in the back.
I just checked. It's in the back. I spoke to
your mother. The call be ready on Monday.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
So let me get this straight. You're telling me that
you're not going to negotiate, is that right?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
No negotiating for.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
My mom to negotiator. Told you she can pick up
the car on Monday.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Okay, So now you're not gonna deal with me. You're
gonna deal with my boss, of course, a boss. He's
a private investigator.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
A private investigator.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Good course, what Leon Leon, listen to me, Leon Leon,
shut up, shut up, listen to me. My name is
Sean Hamilton. I'm a New York City private investigator. I'm
ready presenting a person by the name of Ellen Friedman.
The woman you were just talking with, by the name
of Marie works with the company. She works within our office. Yeah, okay, okay,
listen to me very carefully. You're not gonna want to
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hang up, because you're gonna want to hear what I
have to say. Is gonna go hold on, is gonna rest.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And hold on?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Hold on, Leon, You're gonna have to make some really
critical decisions really quickly.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay, Yeah, okay, we know that we know this is fraud.
What do you mean yet? You mean it is fraud?
Are you? Are you registered with the city? Are you?
Is your company? Is your company? Let me see? Let
me see, let me see what the name of the
company is, towing company?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Okay, are you are Okay? Do you have a license
with the city.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
I don't need a license.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
What do you mean you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Don't need a license when you're picking up people's cars
off the street because they're a minute there are a minute,
possibly a minute late in a meter.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You don't need a license. I'm afraid you do need
a license. My friend Marie do me. I want you
to get Latis James.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I want you to get Eric from Latitia James office
on the phone, State Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm We're gonna come down heart of this guy.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Also, let's get I want to get Bobby from the
New York Department of Transportation.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Get him on the phone as well.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Okay, and Sean, do you want me to get Stacey
on the phone from the Consumer Fraud Protection Bureau because
I can do that.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
What are we talking about here?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
What are we talking about? You're running one of the
oldest scams in the city. This is a toe scam.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Leon, we all know it.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
In fact, I want somebody to identify your voice right now.
I've got Ellen Friedman on the phone with me right now. Ellen,
are you there? Yes, Okay, Ellen? Is this the voice
that gave you the note? He gave you a personal
piece of paper for you to call him. Is this
the guy that gave you that note?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Absolutely, without a doubt, Sir, You're out to be a shame.
You should be a shame to yourself after the way
you treated we have your condo hook man.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
We told you were for sixty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Stopped you Leon, stop with the bull.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know you're a scam.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Now we are getting ready to come down on you
hard this afternoon, today, Friday, today, We're coming down. The
name six hundred and fifty dollars is not going to fly,
especially what's it going to be Monday.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
If it's gonna.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Sit nine around nine hundred and fifty bucks, it's almost
a grant.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, you're running in a legal toe scam. We all
know it.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You don't even have a license with the City of
New York. You don't, Leandia, No, he doesn't. Obviously, I've
asked you a question. Do you have Do you have
a license with the city? You don't even have a license.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Why are you screaming?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Because you're pissing me off. I want the six hundred
and fifty dollars back right now. I want I want
her car. She's not paying six hundred and fifty dollars.
I want the car right now.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Hello, Just give me a toe charge and come get
the call. You know what, get it out of my line.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
What is that, Samantha? That's that works for me?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
That's one hundred and twenty five dollars, Leon, correct, what's
twenty five?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Ellen?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I'll do it. I'll do it just to get it
out of my life.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Now worth you just get this karate here? I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, it's not worth the aggravation because you're running an
illegal operation down there.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Okay, it would have been sixty to fifty if she
would have got the money right then the day you know.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
What, Well, she didn't have the money right then.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
There.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You know, people don't have that guy, you have sixty
fifty on them. Come come on, come on, you're running
a scam.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
That kind of money in New York.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Nobody in fact, you're.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Gone. I'm gonna send a couple of guys. Listen to me.
This is what we're gonna do. I'm gonna send a
couple of guys down there. I'm not done. Leon Ellen.
Are you available at one pm this afternoon?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yes, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I'm gonna we're gonna take you off the air. I'm
going to get your address. I'm going to send two
people to greet you at your home. If you don't mind,
these two people will be escorting you to this towing
company in Williamsburg. And well, you're not paying a dime.
You're not paying a dime.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Okay, you're not.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Paying a dime. Leon, here's the deal. I'm sending her
down with two guys. She's not paying a dime.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
You're gonna give her a car back, or I swear
to God, right now, today, we're gonna come down on
you so hard it's gonna make your head spin. You're
gonna lose your license. I don't even know if you
have a license. I don't know if you have an
operating license. All right, you're losing everything today. We want
the car out today. We don't want to pay a dime.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Out of my lot already.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All right. Okay, So she's she's not paying a dime.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Okay, okay, Leon, Leon, she's not paying a dime.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I'm going to call her at two pm this afternoon
and hopefully at all it all worked out in her favor.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Leon, Do you understand what I'm saying? Just yes or no?
Yes or no? Leon?
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Yes? Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Okay, very good, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
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 that is six nine nine three,
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