The Open Table Reservation Scam

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Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the Scam goddess Vault. That's right. Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind the Paywall. Enjoy this episode from Behind the Paywall and as always Stay scheming. Sca. Come R What's up Conggregation? We're back with another episode of Sam Gadis. guysuys I'm so excited for I always say this. I always say I'm so excited, but I am I'm excited for every guest that we get because they're so funny. Today, we have one of the legendary hosts from the Black Men C't Jump and Hollywood podcast. What if I just talked like that the whole time? L anything that you already hate my voice. Sob. It's Mulligan, right? It's Milligan. Mulligan. Dam am I getting no respect. Got. The leegendary podcast, you were a guest on my podcast and I getting no respect on yours. All right, I'm sitting in a corner All right. M you sat in the corner. I know I tell you I to sit in the cor You tellld me not to sit in the corner. All right. this how you start or Re this is how you treat the guest? This much She' done nothing to you. You got a pop tar, you got a water. First first off, they can't see, but your fingers are pointing. I feel like you want to snap these nails. They can't see it ud I ain't about to snap these nails. Okaykay, listen, dry now I asked how to pronounce it, okay? But you still I get dragged a little bit? That's fair. That's fair guys. This is Jerob Mulligan. I did say Mulligan. And like when you look at your name, like the brain automatically reads Mulligan. But you know what, you know, like it's an Irish name. I'm bllack. Pe get mad confused. Yeah. It is an Irish name. What's up that? Why do you have an I? I think somewhere the sleeve owners were like U just Irish, mayaybe they're Irish c owners they all just stayed, y'alls like nego con ' you ain't change it. this is my thing I feel like, you know, when Staint Patty'say come 'cause it's day before my birthday. you know, she was plugged for my birth. It's like I celebrated it because I got the birthday and the Irish n namees. So I'm like, Hey yo, you never seen a black Irishman. We here. Oh. We out here. You know I don't say kiss me on marriage becausecause I'm like, you know, you just can't be having people just kiss up when Put their mouth on you. Yeah, you donon't know them. But okay, okay, that's fan. That's a scam in itself. You I heard just saying that you Irish You don't really know You get free drinks. I mean, I could be. You should get free drinks if you're a black Irish person. Yeah, why not? I experience more of the struggle. My last name is Mosley and I had a chemistry professor or not professor, but teacher in high school who their last names were Moseley too. likeike a husband and wife and they both worked at the school It spelled the same name, like the same way. And so I would always like I joked with her one time and made her so uncomfortable because she was a white woman. I was like, Oh yeah, we have the same last namees It was ex spell the same. I was like, Maybe your people owned my people at some point. Honestly though. think about it. She should think about it. She should think about it. She should think about it, it's probably real. I ain't out h for these tears, donon't feel sad. Right. Say I'm sorry and go buy me a car That that's we want reparation. We've upgraded from a mule to a mazda. They took the mule in the forty acres back. so you know what? I'm upgrading. I want three miles. What's bigger? forty acres or three miles? I don't know math. I don't know math. Cody whatres. That's so dumb. I don't know. so dumb. It's forty acres. But how is forty acres is that close to List, I don't know how land works. I live in a New York apartment, okay., I don't know how. like, I've never experienced land. I don't know how to. I've never experienced land. No, that's a lie. I'm from Texas. I've experienced so much land. And probably like horses too.. My family owns a lot of land. All my aunts used to live on one hill And I would like like on the holidays, we would go over and we would visit every aunt who lived on the hill because they all cooked something different. That was a specialty. Are you from like one of these like black families? Be I always see like the southern white families that do like the pageants and every. Are you from like That same thing just back Yeah, but I didn't do pageants. I didn't do pageants. I did have a college coach. I did a college coach. Yeah. What is that? Like this woman I would drive to see in Dallas who would like help me be more competitive when I was applying to college. Now I didn't do the college entance scam guys. okay? I did everything almost legitimately.a wait waita time up But I love this though, ' I feel like you don't even people don't even know black folk exist in that kind of like world. No, yeah, there are black people with money. And that's a funny thing is like, and it's a weird racism thing, like a dog whistle where people assume you grew up poor. And I'm like, whyy are you assuming that? don't I didn't have that struggle. L I literally had like a showrunner be like, o, you know, this is how everybody did it in Philly, likeike y'all didn't do it like that And I was like, no I grew up around a lot of white people. L I was safe. We had yards o. Right. Like we had things. Wa yards and backyards. My mom would throw parties and the white people would work them. Wait what? Yeah, my mom would only hire white people to work. Yeah, I'm reading this book right now and it's like Someone asked me to help adapt it and it's like it's hard because it is that. It's like by people like reversing Yeah, what happened to by people and I'm like, man I can't imagine hiring an all white staff I'd be like If you makeaking the food, I'm like A you trying to make like are you going make this macaroni che? season it? Yeahah there's plenty of white people who can cook It's my emerald first, what? What's? I've never seen Emerald pull up macaroni and cheese out the oven, okay? This is my thing. I'm not.y is w it. He was eating a popeyes chicken sandwich. He got one that I don't trust him. Yeah, lik flavor. I don't trust him. He got it.. I got one. Let say How do you get one Yo. It was a scam. This was a scam. So Popeyes will put up signs and say that they were out of the Popeyes suar sandwich when really they had it back. So all you had to do is go inside and be like, Hey, I see your sign says you're out, but are you really out? And they'd be like, Nah. And then they could if you want say want to li.' like you got to say AO we out. Also, what a good setup Does a black person own Popees? No, Black person don. I just got your black lady who's like has sh I love this chicken. I made it must You she got some extra money. your auntie. You know what I mean? Her hands don't even be dirty. I'm like, listen, my auntie's got burned. She probably don't even eat chicken. How, we didn't make no fried chicken. You' got no elbow burns, so you't make that chicken Burns I have a huge grease burn actually. Really?. On the back of my calf Wave word Did she run away from the p It'er very traumatizing o. I was crying bacon and I took this is a countious shit. I took the whil off the stove to like right after I cooked the bacon. so it was hot and it sloshed a little bit and it got me bad. it got me bad Oh my God. I wouldar I would wear an ace bandage where because I was so embarrassed becausecause it was like hot pink huge scar and I have very dark skin. So I was like, weing this ace bandage to the point where one of my calves got smaller than the other ' I'd work out. But the crazy thing is I used it as a scam because I got pulled over once for speeden and I was like, I just got burned. I'm going to the the Yor. I'll go the EO. Can they let me up Yo, man, listen, I need I need to get better at those cop scams because they be getting me. Oh no, Bro, especially as a black man, come on, you need to be able to cry on cube. Man. I had I had a story that was so good once. I was driving my stepdad to the special Olympics. It's him My my parents are oldest. My parents are like Sventies, mid seventies Jon my steped to a special Olympics. we got you know, crches in the front I'm in a slowlyame, my mom in the backat ust the dude still dragged me out the c. Like't't I didn't know what was happening yet. Was your dad competing in the special Olympics? Yeah. He was horseback riding or whatever. you know what I mean? He he won some medals, but it was a very traumatic time to get there. And I was like, o Oh, baby, we just trying to go to the special em like, You know what I'm saying?'m like I don't even know if I was really speaky and I was like I'm in a slow lane chilling. I was like, this is how people. I feel like it's very fucked up to arrest people going to the special elymp. Can't even fuck you do? I come out of the can I curse on my sp? Yes.. after you say like so many cursees We eight minutes in you go ask if you could curse I say one. R get out of here. I I w. I started cursing as soon as the past started Honestly if that's real, I not. said said your name Rob, and then you literally started cursing me out. immediately. Honestly, I didn't even notice. That's me my apologies to everybody at home. Well guys, let's get into it. Let's get into it. What's hot and fraud? Guys, I'm getting letters. If you have a letter, if you have a story about a time that you were hoodwinked or you did a con, please only tell us about the retired cons. o, I'm not trying to fuck up your bag.. But email us at scam got uspot at gmail dot com because we would love to hear about it. So this scam comes from someone I'm gonna call Tisha, that's not her name But I can't be putting out governments out here. So just stumbled upon your pod and I'm loving it. Oh, very kind. Here is a scam that happened to me and some of my psychologists colleagues, which I heard about from our local psychologist's professional forums. Okay forums. got a Facebook group now colle. Okay psy call a lot. We know you went to college, we got it, we got it. So someone I called a Facebook group. She said we got professional for. I know it' a forum. No' dispect her like that. She just told you. She said, me and my psychology colleagues. colleagues. She didn't say friends Oh me coll colleagues. She' working at some colleagues somewhere. Okay, okay Someone called me on my private cell and caller ID showed up for the number for the San Jose Z Police Department. So is this is like a normalized scam now where people are hacking into like people's like legitimate government officials numbers to use it to contact you. So you can Scramble, I guess a number or you can make a number appear on someone's caller ID to be something that you're actually not calling from. And it's happening all the time. So someone is posing as thean San Jose Police Department. A man identified himself as an officer and gave a badge number. That's also wow. You know it's going to be a scam when anybody gives you a number ofop alling you Right That's another thing. I'm like, if you call me, also, if you're a cop and you calling me Ex like yeah, for what? Listen, I don't deal with a cops in person. I don't know this person's real name, but I feel like I know her ident you wrote. So So a San Jose Police Dpartment numberm called her. This police officer verified himself by giving a badge number, which is completely fake. It's not real thing. And also like, what am I supposed to do with that bge number? How am I' supposed to check to make sure that's legit. I got a system? What I'm supposed to do? Also Google it like hmm, checks out. what? Also, don't call me you're cop. Don't call me, L I don't feel safe on the phone. That means you know me They shoot you the ph You know I don't know how they did it, but they did manage to shoot me through the phone. Pone electrocute. They said they was scared of my phone voice. Y. and then they shot me. His voice got loud. Y'all think it's a game It's notoot. This sounds a joke, but then literally I'm gonna see this on Twitter news in like a week like. Damn, they got my man. They got my man through the phone He It's so sad. It's being black so hard So the cop, in quote, said that she had been subpoenaed as an expert witness in a case involving patients and failed to appear in court and that the judge had put out a warrant for her arrest I asked who the patient was and he said he couldn't reveal that info. No, that makes no sense. How was supposed to come, shouldn't I know what the pain. What's the verification process So they have expert witnesses who go to court sometimes in trial to explain things so that the jury can like further understand like whatever, or to know the mental health state of whoever's on trial or whatever. I used to watch the practice. I used to watch the pr. right. We all watch law and orderver. see you, you know what I mean? I don't may SV be scaring me. I'd be like,, It'd be itd be Black dudes on that jone just going to jail all the time. I'm like, I need to diversify. I'm basically a lawyer because I've seen so much Mariska Harateay and law and order as you. I'm like basically a lawyer. You watch How to G Away with Murder? Hell, yeah. So I can get away with mad murders. I learned on that show. You know what I mean?art as he I was like damn. I murders. Hell yeah. That and on scandal when they'd be cleaning up after like scandal rememember the early days of scandal I was just Karry Washington get her black blown out by the white president And it was that blown up. Let' takeake it back. Let's take it back. literally every scene was like Olivia Pope with a big purse and got a clean up mur Like gotta clean And then she got to go bang the president. She gott to go bang the president. No, do did I do for the country, man? Listen. She was at the oval. Listen. He was getting in that oval. L wait. So was was he married? Did he he was married? Hey, listen, good for you. You know what I'm saying? You out here. her hope for her taxes were free. Right. You know what I'm saying? So while she would getting her backag blown out, they would be also be cleaning up murders. So I also feel like I know how to get away with the murders Anyway So she says she knew this was a scam once he said expert witness because those people are paid to testify and I couldn't be an expert witness in my own patient' trial because it's a conflict of interest. So anyway, he said the judge was willing to be nice and let me off with a fine rather than jail time. insert I roll here Just to mess with him, I said I would take the jail Also first off, Ba, why is she on the phone with this cctus l Okay, someome people like entertaining nonson. No man 'use this is my thing. All right. you could be hacking in to my 'ause you know on your phone, you got your passwords kind of saved on there for websites and like you could be hacking into my stuff as I'm talking to you. I seen the movies. Do me on the phone. K on the phone as we going to his home. So find his location and it's like, No what? I could be on the phone and it's like, Ohh man, you got your bank of America thing saved on the phone. Boom boom I got it. You got your chase bank. I don't know if that's how it works. Listen, I seen TV All right, I see a lot of TV, okay You see a lot of see a lot of TV. Okay, great. Wonderful. So just messed with him. She said she'd take the jail time. He said that officers would come pick her up. I said I could meet they could meet me at my house and I had to get a babysitter because the kids are on summer break. Then I cheerfully say goodbye and hung up. I called the real San Jose police and a semi irritated officer confirmed this is a scam and that the police don't warn you if you have a warrant for your arrest. They just try to ambush you and take you in You know what my scammerers a lazy sociopath and not that bright Thank you, Tisha. That' very fun I gave you. When I got arrested, I had a warrant force. Oh my God, you got arrested. I had a warrant force spe tick. I didn't know I moved to New York. and it was like, oh, the DMV doesn't forward mail. So I was like, I don't remember ever I do not remember getting a ticket, but they were like, oh, it should have been forwarded to you. Oh sorry I was like, I come blah blah. was like, we dont for mail. I was like I don remember getting a tick Well, and I got arrest that's when I got arrested with my parents, you know what I mean As it was w it was So when they pulled you over, you had a warrant. So I didn't know. So I had no idea. So like Iosed be ha a warrant. No. That's why the cops would be pullingb playing. I was in New York for three years. No idea. I'm chilling, you know. So she's violidated. She talked to him for too long though, you know what I mean? Yeah. Also she snitched, she called the cops. I don't know how I feel about her, right se C called the cops. She called the real cops Why She's trying to stop people from getting like played. I'm sure someone has sent him money. The weird thing though is he's scamming like a community of like intellectuals. But also, you think that Kashi Did anything like forore real? We don't know. That's copy of do nine. She said he was semi irritated on the phone. He was probably like, yeah, yeah, I'll a report hu? So She snoo for night Wh she should have did, she should have called her cousin You know I'm saying? who's go with computers, trace the number, all right? F out where that dude was at. You call back right. callall him back on a new line like, hey, man, this is your bank. We need to verify your social security. I got that call recently. And Ohh you did. That's a popular one that's going around right now. And I feel like millennials are getting and I've talked about it on the show already, but We all think there's no social security left. so I feel like it's very tempting that you're like Socialcurity. I'm like y'all guys Yeah that's coins like. I don I think I know coin. good. Like I'm done. I better save up now.? Yeah, we all have to save for retirement now as millennials because it's trash. Y, fact. But yeah, so so sorry Tisha that you had that mild run in with a scam cop. Yeah. But anybody calling your house guys for any reason and giving you any verification numbers automatically hang up, that shit is fake. L. If you got a cousin that you wantan to talk to in a minute, you know what I'm saying? They call you like, Oh, how's it going Hang up on them too. You know what'm saying? So they hurard you probably got some money and got a new job. H up on your family is If you don't know that cousin that cousin is stranger. you know That's tr. You' calling me for what? When random family members call you, it's always about money. For It's never not about money. And Steve Harvey, who is we talk about on your podcast. He so problematic and his teeth are so big. I can see his teeth right now. Thisis' are better though Yeah, his suits are much better Mzie upgradeed him and introduced him to purple. No she'll scamming queen. Oh honey. I have to do an ep about her. She's godess. Yeah, but u Wait, so what Steve Harvey would say like with family members calling you to ask for money, you always want to be like, hey, okay. Let me think about it. Let me see if I can do it. Give me a few days. and then you wait like two weeks. and then you call them back and like, do you still need the money Wait, then they say yes, then they say yes? No, but like in two weeks, like they the thing is all out. I mean, look, I'm not gonna call back. Like P peopleople call me now they' be like, Hey man, I heard you,ah blah, I'm like, Yeahah like my mom momy are my momy me with the text, Hey, I heard your other c your cousin no they call it. I was like, o, bet, thanks. She gave me the warning I like. 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But this is Edward Putman from the UK who conspired with a Camelot insider, Giles Nibbs. These some Britisham This first name was Putman and Giles Nibbs Putman Giles Nibbs. That is the most British name I've ever heard in my life. How the audacity to name your child Giles, wild. T cheat So they cheated the system and they made a winning counterfeit lottery ticket to claim an outstanding two point five million Euroies in two thousand nine Wow. So this is recent. For somebody who shated me it said nineteen ninety nine was not Reisa. two thousand nine O Reisa for you. I'm Patty. I nineteen ninety nine' twenty years ago. I'll call out my Twitter troll. That's twenty years ago, you know what I mean? Okay, so you agree with him? I mean, listen, you know I'm a guest. I'm guest. W. I'm a guest Oh man. This name Ga is disrespectful here came on my podcast. One cuss me out in the first time. I't remember that. I wasm sorry. me out. about sorry. mistreating him. And now you're go insideorryroll T my apology, I'm sorry. Black women love you. Oh, do you? I don't know. I'm sorry to question. So how' begin. Bututnam has been described as a bully who is a heavy drinker and prone to fits of violence. He's also been convicted of wounding with intent in a case in the mid eighties when a neighbor in the anotherher area was attacked. So I guess he attacked his neighbor For six years, Putnam is alleged to have lived happily on the proceeds of the two point five million euros. So he got away for six years. But the secret fraud was exposed when a friend killed himself following an angry confrontation over how the winnings were divided, accord to her. Wow. So here's my thing If you were mad about the money being divided, you're not gonna get none of it if you die. I'm gonna get him. I'm That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. So that's a sad thing that happened, but I guess this is really what blew up. so he didn't get away with. They would have gotten away with it, though. That's the crazy thing. If they had't fought, they would have gotten away with it. There always one friend. And this is like three million US dollars Yeah I'm not gonna lie, man. If I could pull this off I would d Absolutely. I would do this in a second. And I probably would be like the guy who lived. I'd probably try rip everybody else off. Damn, you not even trying to be fair about it. You gott go motions eleven and split the money equally and then all y'all think is like cigars after. I remember I watched this this this what was this like a E true Hollywood or something? but it was on like winners, like the winnerers curse or something like that. The lottery people. So like every time any clearly, even if you fake win the lottery, you still die or something bad happens. L apparently, no matter what happens Bad things happen to people, you know what I mean? I once did a reenactment show where it was like a guy who won the lototto and then like got murdered by like his new friend who was also his accountant. Yoall, listen, I'm telling you this, if I won the lotto, I'm spending all that money in a year of it. I don't care how much. I don't care how much this is. I'm gonna go I'm a find a little black you like Ao ake this take this one thousand real quick. Now I'm just spend it becauseuse thing is that's what this guy did. He got murdered. Listen that's why this is my thing. I'm to I don't know someone gonna try to murder me. so I'm like I'm gonna just go balls out. Like either that. I'm gonnabody that you won the lotto. No, I, I ain't gonna be one of people that show up with they face covered and hands covered. No, man. You I'm show up face out. I showing face. I'm not only showing up with my face out I'm showing up gettingiv thank yous. Hey, I want to thank that job for firing me. I want to thank that girl for saying I wasn't going to be thatbody. I'm gonna just cop on abody. I'm like, yo, Oh, for real fruit, you said I was never asking to get murdered. Like everything that you're saying is like one, you're going to give out money randomly. so people are definitely going to be trying to hit you up all the time. two, you're gonna to show up to accept a lotto ticket withw face h and you're going to be antagonizing anyone who's ever robed Mike Tyson and TV. Mike Tyson needs to walk around New York with a fur coat and be like, come at me. And you know what happened Nobody came at him because he's crazy for doing that. So they'd be like, Oh man, Drary got nothing something wrong with him. He got nothing li for. He just being like, come get me. I don't want to come after him. It might be part of the game I'm gonna say that that does not work all the time. Tupac operated that way and they came and got him. See my thing man but Tupac used to make those like emotional songs too, so he knew he had a heart. You know what I'm saying? You know, this is people knew he had a heart.weet me if you agree with Jir. I would saying I like this too this is great. You listen to this, You at your job, next thing you know, you're like Oh man, I need to start acting like I don't care about getting fired. You might get promoted. I think that only works if you're white If you start acting like you don't care about getting fired and you're black, your ass is g grass. Listen, all right, if you black at office start acting like what white Chad would do You just see what happenens. You might you walkking around like, white chat, white chat, walk around like nothing is a problem. WWCD. You ever What would White Chad do? I mean, you gonna walk around? No problem. Walk around with that confidence. You can' get promoted. Youon't meet the b. Oh my Godd. So, fake ticket. Giles Nibbs, I always have to say his name of the British A. Giles Nibbs. That name is the worst Hest, you cant do nothing good with your life when your name is child. Do you m name Miss Nibbs. Miss Nibbs? I or mister Nibbs. E Your parents have to come pick up me. mister Nibs is all his way Hi, mrter Nibbs, we're calling in regard to your son. Imagine hooking up with somebody like that and he's like, Hey, can you, can you come me mis. Nibbs mis mister Niff. Oh o that. Oh my God. So Charles Nims worked for a company's fraud detection department and knew how to cheat the system. And this is always necessary and a good con is like you have to have a window of opportunity and you also have to have like what I call a doggy door. You know what I mean? There's a front door, there's a back door, there's a window, but there's always a little doggy door that people kind of forget about. They forget it. Like you may lock your windows. You may lock your doors, you may lock your back door, but that doggy door, sometimes you forget about it. People come in the back door all the time because unepected is creep right in the back door and you're like o Oh, shit what you doing back there? Right. So he figures out that he can cheat the system Niibbs who works for Camellot between two thousand four and twenty ten had been in the office late one night when he saw a document being printed containing details of big wins that had not been claimed yet. we got a win of opportunity, right? Sart smart, smmart Nibbs. And of course he just happened to see this Lro map Miss Nibbs, mter Nbs pressured the lottery security employee to help with the scam after previously making a fake winning ticket for him as a joke. So it's crazy to me that he had to pressure him because I'm like, if you make a fake winning ticket as a joke, that ain't no joke. You're showing me you can make a fake wining. Is' that illegal? this illegal this This whole thing is egal got. I got toa be like hey he, hey you ain't abouty to swindle me. So Edward's friend Steven Warner told the Sunday Mirror that pnt What a paper name, The Sunday Mirror. Sunday Mirror. That paper's going out of business. Come on babe Black miror, you know that Putman waived a fake winning ticket in front of neighbors five months before he scooped the jackpot. So Putman even went as far as to make friends toast to his win and promised to buy them houses. This was a joke that Putnam had put on bas was like So basically, Nibbs works in security. Putnam works with the tickets. Putnam had made a fake ticket and like was like, oh, I won, we'all gonna buy you houses. It's lit. and then was like, H haa, this was a joke to all his friends. If you had did this to me as a friend like Putnam, I'm gonna beo ass. Facts that his hands. I'm like, where where's the house Right prromised people houses. I'm sure a lot of people if they were in any kind of financial distress were actually likeited and relieved for a second. It was ask b him is a dck. He was like, Hey, yeah, I'm gonna pay for your cancer treatment. I'm gonna get you a house. Sally gonna walk again. He should have got like where I'm from, like when I was growing up, like people wouldn't like beat you up, They would just hold you down and just beat your legs It's the theory behind it. The theory behind it is you would just keep tagging somebody like you like everybody'd be like six month fuck could just beating somebody late. 'cause this would have l J all the. 'cause I thing, what? no bruises can't prove it. And then like people will wobble. You go remember that for days, You remember that for d Mb you psycho. Tars on the mob. Yout man. the legs. G the legs. You good. I guess that's a scam. Yeah beat people's legs. So he did this whole thing and then it wasn't funny. So everyone was like, we weren't impressed that you made this fake ticket. It wasn't funny. Why would you do that to friends? And then Giles was like, I wish I had asked more questions because then he didn't realize like, oh man, if you can make a fake winning ticket, you could do this again if there's money that's unclaimed. So he kind of put two and two together later in the game. But his everyone was pissed at him after he did this. O course He was like, what an asshole So there had been some trial and error in producing a successful forged ticket because there were a hundred different possible unique codes printed on the bottom So, Nibbs created numerous different specimens of the forged ticket, each with a different combination of a unique two digit check sum code and all the winning numbers for an unclaimed pop Then with the deadline to claim the prize rapidly approaching, mister Putnam allegedly visited twenty nine different shops providing a different ticket each time before the right number was found. So basically, there's a code at the bottom of the ticket. So even if you make a fake ticket with the fake numbers, there's a code that coincides with what the lottery is looking for. So they just had to keep going to different lottery places giving the same winning ticket but with a different code on the bottom until they got it right. You had it, had it onene of the twenty something places did not say, Hey, that dude came in here with a ticket that didn't match up I guess no one cares to like No why would care? Why would you care? No one cares? Theyre likeike back to my you know what I mean? It also a convenience store. like true. Th about who works in convenience stores, they don't give a fuck. True. Does the convenience stores get any money? If they like the store? Yeah if they're the store that is at, they get money too. Oh that's doough. Okaykay, good for them. Yeah, they get a little bonus. So theioner the convenience store got to keep they cut becausecause they was like, look, we ain't know that this was a scam. Yeah, true, true. So lucky convenience store guy, look, this helps somebody. So then with the deadline approaching, they went to a bunch of shops and finally they Submitted the right ticket. So Keey said the defendant eventually submitted the correct code at a shop in Wycombe. That means nothing to us. On august twenty ninth, two thousand nine. So we've pulled up a photo of Nibbs. Oh, like he gets wow Oh poor Nib He looks like a con artist. I know, but I wouldn't trust. He has a little bit of a soul passack You can't trust anybody who got a soul patch. Like they're definitely doing crime And then this is Putnam Oh These men, they look like they've been living hard. Damn. I know I mightghta start taking m. you get millions of dollars. Yeah, we take a nap right after this. guys everyone Whver you are, take a nap because you don't w to look like these men. Google Nibbs and giles, they're a rough bunch. That's what happenens when life gets you down. Right? And you don't get back up They finally submit the winning ticket august twenty ninth, two thousand nine. The bottom of the ticket was a bit mangled, but Putnam was paid the jackpot by Camelot in september two thousand nine, despite the bottom of the ticket mangled slip kind of missing the barcode. So they did that on purpose Oh, so they couldn't And they still got the money?. Be like you think about it, it's an older ticket, right? This is a money that hasn't been claimed. So it's like maybe it was sitting around and then you realized it was winning numbers randomly. So that kind of adds up with the story So the real winning ticket may still be out there, and the real winner has never been identified. After so many years of struggling to make ends meet he couldn't resist flashing his cash. His big weakness was cars and lots of them. According to neighbors, there were up to fifty cars at his home. in Kings's Langley, which also has a mobile home in the garden.irst two m ain't that much real. Maybe he was getting lots of Kus. I'm gonna say, what you get B? can these shes Collas?ike, I don't know why, but he's got like twelve Honda civics in front of his house. He's get these shoes cars out of here d Yeah. He's not getting like a McLauren or like a Ferrari. I give me like a Cobra Yeah, he's definitely not getting that. He's like got like four miatas. Hey, you know what, Dough that miata gets you through. You know what I mean? They got twelve kiosos., sir, what are you doing? This makes no sense. that four folks. He's like, look, he likes cars. You get what you can. So despite his multim million pound windfall, three years later in twenty twelve, Putnam was sentenced to nine months for benefit fraud after going to claim thirteen thousand dollars in housing and income support So this doing Stole the ladto. and then went to get on welfare Listen, he went and got on. Like I told y'all earlier When you go to work, all right, just act like you have the confidence of just a straight white man. Right? Be I'm like, this shit don't make money. I'm a gaming the system for two three million dollars, technically and I got to go. I spent it. Oas Andnto the Corollas, you not got to go to welfare. And this guy is not a good guy. Normally I would praise scammers for like going out and getting a welfare check on top of being a millionaire because that is hilarious and perfect. but he's done some pretty fucked up stuff. that I'm not going to get too deep into because it's not what we do here, but he had some assault charges. He had jail. Yeah. and some of these were like two women. so he's just like not a good guy He told people that his money came from property developing. No one had any inkling that he was the lottery winner. And to be honest, no one in the village wanted anything to do with him. So according to a neighbor, he's not a pleasant man, but just did what he wanted. Let's put it this way. He's never going to be a candidate for neighbor of the Ye. So he was also a trash man. So no one cared about you were a trash dude And so which one is the one who colls suicide?s? Here's one thing, how do trash people always succeed Right. because they're not I talk about this on another episode, but like they don't have any empathy Like and when you don't have any empathy, you'd be sleeping real good I'm like, yeah, you're right. It's gotta be it 'use I mean you're out here just doing what everyone doing, don't give a shit. Yeah, But his neighbors hated him. I'm sure they hated that he had fifty chevrolets on on the yard.. And also like, if this was mrister Rogers's neighborhood, no one would want to be his neighbor. No we don't want you to be our neighbor. not even the puppets. Pupp would be like n dog. Pu be like fuck off dog male man not noody's talking with you. Every time they see your ass,intbody's switching their shoes and playing their sweater. What would you do if you won like the lottery though Oh my God. You know, do you have an idea of like, yo, first thing first, I'm doing this this and this. Yeah, I'm getting a really nice house. Okay. I'm getting a super nice car. I'm saving Okay. I don't know what else I want. seeee, I like that's classy, You know what I'm saying? I'd probably buy my parents house but I'm petty. I would spend most of my money getting back at people. You know what I'm saying? in the most extrafficant ways. You know what I'm saying? That's a movie. It's like like, you know, if you bully me in high school and I find out you're working at That's so much work, dry. You could just enjoy the money. That This is me enjoying the money. have the thing is I have no day job. I have nothing to do but to plan forvenge for you. Like, o, you work at this coffee shop, I'm gonna to buy a coffee shop The best success is revenge. No iss not. I mean, the best success is revenge. No. revenge is sixty. People say that, but my thing is you're not feeling the pain though. You know You don't think they are. That's what Instagram is for. Instagram is to flex on your enemies. You know what? if that's the case You're right, You know what? I'm gonna have to buy the apartment building again. I'm not going to kick them out. I just want them to know that at any moment You could do them out. You know they could move and then you just are you have an own an apartment. So you know what? Better than this to me. You gotta move to another apartment ' you lived in this one. I would buy that one two, 'use I got one successful apartment. This is insane.so please let me know about all of these takes. beating people in the legs You adding all your money backs. You never did that? No, I never did that This podcast is supported by Ring. With Ring, it's protected. Keep track of packages and see more at the front door with battery doorbell. 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L wit this whole time. I guess not. He's just had a lot of Toyota Corollas. Evidence suggests that mister Nibbs was paid an initial two hundred eighty thousand from Putnam for his part of the alleged con, followed by a much smaller increments totaling fifty thousand dollars. but he was angry not to receive more money clashed bitterly in twenty fifteen over what he considered Putnam's betrayal. So he thinks at this point Putnam's like not handing over enough money. alsoso bh. So you don't even got the full three million and you got fifty cars. Make it make sense. I know? Their key is noy. Big wheels. I mean They got to be used cars, right? They got cars They gott be the ones with a den in it. That's like, why, I wanted this I had a matchbox for this c. I just buy it. My man's going to police auctions. He's like, yeah it's a little blood on it, but it wass a car. Hey, you know what I need a car? I might go to police auction. I need a car too. maybe I'll go to police. Soot. They probably got a drug dealer carard. that's probably All you got toa do is sage it to get the burder off of it. Oh yeah. And also if it's a drugal they just got caught Yeah But how fresh though? Be if the drug dealer is out here on my streets, I don't w want to likeite people in my car and then thinking I'm you know, so and soone and they spraying my car and lightening it up. You ain't wrong. ain't I feel like gang bangers don't check license plates. I feel like they're not like, oh, look at those that VI number. That's the guy. shoot him. That's a good point. But you know what donough, Maybe if it's like super cheap, you' repaint it or something I don't how much Yeah. you know, we'll figure out. Yeah we just sc. Were just scammed the police auctions. Right That's my next scam. I feel like the police auctions have plenty to be scammed. So things get messy when evidence has suggested that mister Nibbs was paid initial so all this money, right? This is the issue. mister Nibbs's partner Oliver, I hate that name. mister Nibbs. mister Nibbs. You're trying to say it so professionally and I'm like, yo, you keep saying mter Nibbs, nots just thingsings got nibby. it' like, mister Nibbs did this. I like, b, Yout get this man a code name, yo. mister Black. All right, mister Niibbs. So Oliver O'Feelen was his partner. saidid he had been introduced to Eddie Putton and his partner, Lita He described Mter Punnin as a loud man who'd liked to show off. He said Letita was a lovely lady. Okaykay, come on, Lita.. So in May of june twenty fifteen May and June of twenty fifteen, he asked Mr. Putnam why they were not seeing them He was told by mrter Nibbs it was because mrter Putnam owed him a lot of money. So I guess they're not hanging out and then this or filling guy, Oliver. These are such Bitish ass names. Oliver Twist. So Oliver is somehow in the scene I guess this is Mr. Navs partner. And he's like, why you not He was like, Iin' hang out with him he bbing me bro. Like he try tocare the scammer. wit, can we do dialue? Is is that?ait, wait who who are you right now? Can I be being missed Nip? You missed T him I knew were gonna take you Nip N, not not.. it. Good. give m some debys. Amen That's your mystery. Yes as it is. you sound like. Hey man. Im I getting a swindoo man man, I don't know what you're talking about. Come on, man. You see I got all always tell you all the Corollas out here, man. It ain't enough. It ain't enough, man, I really don't know what the front of your house looked like I use car deal sh Be I'm trying to build up to a Mercedes. That's not how cars work. I I get a lot of shitty cars and then it becomes a nice car. That's what you do. You' all trying the car You the money. I gave you two hundred eighty thousand in the. That's nothing for me I can't eat with de Look, me and my wife Lita gott go, our boat here. You got a boat You swimming? Yeah, that's why I did my head with the m. You can swim And then all of a sudden they're black. So the scam began to fall apart as the friendship and former business partners deteriorated So Nibbs behavior became increasingly erratic. He began revealing details of the fraud to friends after failing to receive what he agreed to be like a million pounds, is what he was supposed to get. So a friend staying with Nibbs before his death, so Nibbs was the one who committed suicide But Nib was a bad guy. so. I mean end both for trashed, but He was a bad guy though. He like did assaults to women Yeah he's not a good guy. He's guy nobody wanted to be the neighbor with. You know what I mean? Like not that I'm not that's a very serious topic, but I don't feel bad for him ' he's not Yeah But he was telling everybody now about the con ' now he mad. So he in his streets just Stooligeoning. He's out here like Takashi, all of a sudden, his hair is rainbow colored. He'sitting everybody Yeah, he' sitting on everybody. Like people don't even need to be snitched on. You know, Lacey stole some gum when she was twelve, you know what I'm saying? No one's talking about that, Nibbs. Sto stole some gum from a corner store. She ain't get twenty five cent up. Nibbs. the statute of limitations ain't up on that. We I want people to know. Do your listeners know Do your listeners know? So he confronted Putnam in a heated argument in June of twenty fifteen, breaking Putnam's car wing mirror and stealing his phone. Damn. Wow. was still his phone. It's like a side piece. This' like this't like when you Well you a't get somebody a gift. You know what I'm saying? You got you got you got your you got your main a gift and in the side pce find out about the real gift and it's like, o, oh for real What do I what do I got? I' bl up your whole shit. Right. I feel like if you're beating people's cars and shit, like that's passion, y'all It is hashing you What you? I' just like get the money. So Nibbs was subsequently arrested for burglary, blackmail, and criminal damage after Putnam put in a a complain to the police. Wait a minute. You' pututnam page. Putnam, how you gonna be snitching When you are in a full blown crime, you did crime with this man. You can't use the police when you're doing crime. You gotta go beat his legs. also You can't go to the cops., thank you. You beat his legs. You beat his leg. You definitely cannot just go to the cops, but apparently he went to the cops and got the law involved. British people are so damn civil. This is so British. Everything about this is so British. Like how do you go to the cops When you are literally doing crime with this man. you're like, hey came over to my house and got really upset because we did a crime together and he's not happy about his earnings and the crime. So I just really need to report him to the police. Like I supposed to do If you in the game, you got to be in it. I know, man. It's one of things where it's like, but also, you know what it is though What? He's like, I'm gonna get ahead of this You know what I mean? He's like if I can get you locked up. I ain't gonna get you none of this money. Right what I mean? But also that's not how it works, like deals. Like if I were to sing on you about something bigger, then they would want us for the bigger cime. But you're a criminal already, or they ain't gonna believe no criminals. Maybe nobody watches la. I got a wife and a house.'m like they' gonna believe me, I'm an upstanding citizen. Right He's the uglier guy. Liket his neighbors don't like him. Right Dight bleeda de, block him up though way theey So getting caught. On october fifth, twenty fifteen, Nibbs unfortunately committed suicide after fearing that he would go down for ten to fifteen years for blackmail when the trial was heard As a result, Putnam was arrested and eventually went to trial. Putnam who arrived at court with his face mask wearing dark glass of C. You tell my raw face. He came with his face mask wearing dark glassail I'm not just to court. Denies fraud by false representation and the trial continues. Judge Philip Gray said that the sophisticated carefully planned and digitally operated fraud struck at the heart of the integrity of the national lottery. He said You would have gotten away with this quite plainly, but you were greedy. And he's right. He should have gave him the other half money. Whenever you get greedy, that's when your shit blow up. That's exactly how the college cheating scandal blew up. was one guy got greedy He trying to cut out the middleman and then they got caught. So like you just can't get greaty guys, you could have been sneaking people into college for kingdom til kingdom come. man You could have won the lotto and got away with it. technically it was that three million he got. You could have million. you had two mill. Come on, dude So the fact that Camelot had been hoodwinked in this way will of course be damaging to its reputation. Like they're probably not going to be running. I mean, they're still running the lottery. But the judge sentenced Edward Putnam to nine years in jail and it doesn't say anything here about restitution. So I wonder if he just got to keep man he had to pay that back. he had to go to jail for nine years. Yeah, he's not going to serve all of that You know, he's going to Mrthur Stewart J jail. I'm sure British jail is like so quaint. I mean, listen, you know, did that actress have to go to jail for the college scandal? Or she didn't go to jail? What her name? Who? Oh, yeah. The desperate. Listy Huffman had fourteen days. fourourteen days? Yeah have hard jail time Y, I'm not gonna lie y'all man. I'm trying to show you why people on this podcast, but I just I need that man, if I could just superpower it up and it's like, oh shit, bad shit happening Press a button my skins yourite and I'm saving. Eleanator.. And you just save, That's it. nine years, he probably serve what likeike maybe on good behavior. on good behavior. He sounds like a likekable guy Well, you know what, shout out to these con artists. You guys aren't good guys, so I can't really praise you, but this is a good con. I mean' a good con. But y'all fucked it up. You fucked with the back for no reason. You couldn't just give my man the money he was asking for Yo I got it. Guys, don't get greedy. That's one of the essential rules of scamming congregation. Don't get greedy. This could be set it off for the new era. So instead of Robin old white British dudes. No be like instead of like Iardurard it dude Take it off. Tay off. Turn it off. You could have four black women be like, yo, you know what We ain't going work at this company no more we ain't going wein't gonna rob them physically We going rob them mentally by outswindling them with the computer systems they don't think we know how to use. And now you got set it off You what I'm saying? I don't know how butinte cloth, like a Kinte hat disappeared on Jza's head and he certainly wearing an ank necklace like and he's gone full ofest. Y did this. Yall did this to me with these brits on here Sitl Oh Oh my God, I'm sorry. But sccammer of the Week, last segment An employee of the restaurant reservation app Open Table made a few hundred false reservations at forty five restaurants. Dozens of Chicago restaurant owners were scratching their heads over the fake reservation scam. He called himself Hans Guber And Jimmy Smiths and other phony names. Those names don't sound real. If you call me, you're like, hi, my name's Hans. I would like take. First off, Hans Grouuper is one of the best movie villains of all time. Right. I love Dah Harp. B. Right. And you say Jimmy Smith. Yes That's messed up. That's a real person you ask so rude. Jimmy Smiths like suddenly't to any restaurant. go Jimymith. You're like, no, sorry, Jimmy, we've had it with you. You can't make any restaurpe P They want Pety They want pey blue. So among other phony names, while making hundreds of fake online reservations according to prosecutors, prosecutors you can get Wait a minute. wait is The San Francisco tech company he worked for called him a rogue employee who took it upon himself to make the competition look bad. So now, federal prosecutors say dozens of Chicago restaurant managers can call Stehven Addison the culprit of a bogus booking scheme that left more than thousands of their seats empty on normal busy nights costing them thousands of dollars in lost sales. Addison was charged on Thursday by the US district court with one count of wire fraud for the dinner desserting scam that was uncovered earlier this year. This individual was making reservations, then confirming them so that we block off the tables and then would not show up, said the owner of Tavern on the park The targeted restaurants all use a competing app called Reserve for customers to make the reservations. Oh