Can I run a Nigerian Scam on a car scammer?”

just received a text from my brother that my father was shot nine times by the robbers in the car business certainly I avoid most scammers because they know better than to mess with the car dealer they prey on unsuspecting private sellers on places like Craigslist and Facebook marketplace and all that and they have any number of tricks but every now and then they happen upon maybe accidentally a car dealer selling a car such as me and I decided to have a little fun with them well Edie and I had actually tried multiple times to bait a scammer in order to really for our own entertainment value but of course for for the purpose of a story and neither of us had any success because it seems like scammers are using the same tricks their tricks haven't changed but people are just getting dumber you'd think that people would figure out the tricks that scammers are using and not fall prey to them but ten years ago it seems they were actually using much more advanced memes to try to scam people and you could even talk to some of them on the phone and now apparently it's so easy to scam people that they only go for the low-hanging fruit so as soon as you show any sign of intelligence whatsoever they just ghost you and and they move on to the next easy prey well I had a Subaru WRX racecar on racing junk of all places and I got the typical text message that was pretty obviously a scammer very cordial but broken English and an eager willingness to buy my car at the agreed-upon price without any negotiation whatsoever that's a dead giveaway that it's a scammer they are most definitely not shrewd negotiators so of course they start out with texting from one number and then somebody else texts from a different number now this may be slightly offensive to some people and I am in no means condoning the actions of the fake name that I took on but it has a back story my friend Ryan from Maine created fake facebook profile under this name because he thought it was hilarious and Facebook actually took it but it was jiffy T therapist which could be deemed jiffy therapist but it's really this space is in a different place we'll just leave it at that my brain was not functioning fully the day that I decided to mess with the scammer and the first fake name I could come up with was bend over and that was way too fifth-grade so I settled on Jiffy Tijera pissed so he text me hello jiffy T her pissed this is Kent Leland M the one buying your Subaru WRX blah blah blah blah blah and a typical scammer they said well I'll send you more money than you're asking because it needs to cover the shippers fawned you'll send the money to the shippers agent they send you a fake cashier's check you deposit it before you have time for the bank to find out that it's not real you send them back a cashier's check to their shippers agent and then you're screwed so I said okay sure here's my address go ahead send the check let's see where this goes so I asked him for his address and details for the title paperwork and he sends me a passport photo now this will come into play later of course a passport photo doesn't show his address smart so you know my shipping agent will contact you for the pickup the price is 36 980 as I had it advertised my sure negotiation kicked in and I said well I really want $40,000 because I have some other parties interested you know I put a lot of money into this car okay yep no problem sure I probably could have told him 80 and he would have gone for it as long as he can pay me more than he agreed upon so of course he goes nope okay no problem and the fund will cover your payment and also the shipment fees I'm in no rush with you till the check is cleared that's nice of him you were required to deduct the money for your item and send the rest balance to the mover for him to be able to offset shipping and other tax charges so he sends me a tracking number said it was delivered to Wilmington Delaware as well I'm not in Wilmington Delaware a couple days later so I'm still kind of figuring out the plan here so I've got to buy some time with him so I leave the check on my desk for a number of days and don't really do anything with it and of course some people could say well I'll contact the FBI contact the bank that it was drawn on you know all these different things I'm like they're not going to be able to do a thing there's so much of this going on he's in another country I'm just gonna have some fun with it and and let it be now he had sent me 40 to 980 so 2980 was to cover the shipping so I of course send him back a message and said well seems like you're getting overcharged for your shipping how about I just have my transporter send you the car now I'll just put the title in the glove box and sign it off now never do things like that he'd never let a trucker have a signed title goodness gracious but you know for the sake of the story I was willing to do just about anything and I was ready to have one of my transporters just you know pretend to load it up I'd take a video of it send it to him all that sort of stuff and send him a copy the title but he didn't go for that he knew better than to give me an address so he said no no just just send the money to the shipper it's already been booked with them like okay well had to try probably a few days go by and he keeps asking if I've deposited the check and I'm still figuring out what exactly I'm going to do with this and I said yep yep yep funds should be cleared in a couple days kept offering the shipping of my own shipping so well my trucker can also take all the spare parts he can load the car this weekend he'll go anywhere in the USA you know it's it's it's on the house still didn't go with it he had given me no address whatsoever the only thing I had was his passport and the name now the the the check came interestingly enough from a different name so he told me his name was Kent Leland the returned name on the package was Matthew Hill in an address in Iowa which came back to a discount grocery store and the remit er on the cheque was Otis Henson so we have three completely different names involved here and in order to continue to have fun with this guy I decided to not call him out on any of the apparent discrepancies to not to give him any indication whatsoever that I thought or knew that he was completely full of crap so of course he he asks me to purchase a USPS cashier's check so I didn't know the post-office sold cashier's checks but yeah no matter and then he sends me the name and address to send this to his shipping agent and it was Vincent Leonard McDaniel 232 South 12th Avenue Phoenix Arizona so I said okay well I'm gonna see who this guy is and where that address goes to so I googled the address and it came up to on Google Maps it came up to a homeless shelter but then on the actual address came up to a couple of businesses so I called the numbers on the businesses both of them came back you know number not in service tried to look up everything I could about them they were closed or defunct or non-existent so I said well this is kind of weird I called the homeless shelter I said hey can you tell me if this Vincent McDaniel guys there they said now HIPAA rules we can't disclose any of that said okay well I show you at 2:30 South 12th Avenue what is 232 is that affiliated with you guys oh yeah yeah that's her that's our Welcome Center that's where we receive mail it's like perfect so if I send something to this Vincent guy at that address it'll get to him yep now back to the passport about halfway through this process I decided to Google the name on the passport not sure why I didn't think of that sooner so I googled Kent Leland and came back with a pretty interesting result one of the first results was this article about armed mercenaries arrested in Haiti and I was like ooh maybe I shouldn't be messing with this guy ah good thing I carry a gun but this guy sounds a lot more serious than that this Kent guy which I guess was an ex-marine and I was down in Haiti running some secret mission nobody knew why he was there and was arrested with a whole nother crew armed mercenaries so I started to get a little nervous but then realized when I did more digging that mr. Leland actually ran a private security company and he was down there on a mission to protect somebody that he was hired to do and the US government actually brought him back and just said sorry about the hassle you know welcome home and when he got arrested and the news broke the passport photos of all the parties involved were posted online so of course they went to Twitter and mr. Otis Henson or whoever the scammer actually was just typed the passport photo and decided to use that as his identification for scamming so thankfully I was not dealing with an ex-marine armed mercenary who was scamming people Nigerian style on the side all this time I'm delaying in the lane and I didn't have an excuse as to why I hadn't deposited the check but I knew that once I did deposit the check I only had a few days to mess with him because he knew that it would come back as bad so he starts getting real pushy the funny thing is every time he texted me is hello jiffy good morning jiffy I couldn't have picked a better name I ignored a few of his messages so he goes after all have been friendly with you all through this transaction and you know it yourself so I see no reason why you should be playing on my intelligence you got me mad honestly courtesy demands you should at least acknowledge my message and let me know what is going on you made me feel as if I am dealing to some kind of ghost or something I am sorry if I sound nasty but it's not fair thanks so I said yep sorry I'm out racing I'm sure you can understand that as you're buying race car you know and you're welcome to send a ship or anytime I can pay that them at time of pickup or if you give me their company info I can call with a credit card he didn't take the bait on that one either he just kept going back to no shipper will only come after you've paid him send a cashier's check then I said my office manager forgot to deposit the cheque I'm really really sorry I thought it was done already so I'll make sure it happens and I sent him a picture of the check me holding the cheque in front of the the car he was buying so I'm just continually trying to make him think that I really thought this was a legit deal so that bought me a few more days so starting to get pretty good I then had to figure out how I was gonna mess with this guy and a lot of people thought that while I should get this guy Vincent arrested or try to do that well he's a scammer I'm like no the scammers in you know al Barea somewhere and he's using all these people in different places and paying them a little bit to be his agents so I said that's that's not going to do any good because even if they do get arrested they have such a small part and they're working for an unknown party that you know they won't be able to pin anything on them but at one point I actually thought about sending Vincent a fake cashier's check because I had read that somebody had gotten arrested at the bank trying to deposit a cashier's check that had been sent to them by a scammer and they immediately detected it as fake call the police and they got arrested so I was like hmm maybe this is a ploy to get him arrested and that will then you know maybe trickle back up they'll investigate it whatever the problem is is I don't know enough nefarious characters to actually get a fake cashier's check made I called everybody I knew and nobody knew and everybody was like why do you want one what are you up to yeah so I didn't even actually couldn't have gotten one done if I had tried I thought okay we got to come up with a better solution so I called ed bolian king of messing with scammers and threatening truckers he said let's do a giant check and have it delivered I said okay well that might prove to be a little difficult but sure let's go for it so I contracted a company in Phoenix to make up a giant 4-foot check payable to Vincent Leonard McDaniels from Otis Henson so when he got it he might at least make the connection know that jig was up and we made it payable from Van Wyck II Bank and Trust and had it printed up overnight and had a guy lined up in Scottsdale to go deliver the check with a video camera no in the meantime as a back-up plan I had to keep mr. Kent happy and I went to my Bank and got an actual cashier's check took a picture of it and then immediately redeposited it but then I sent him the picture and said here you go here's the cheque I'm sending you on Monday and I said but here's the thing I need Vincent to be available at 10:30 on Wednesday because it's you know direct signature required can you please make sure your shippers agent is going to be there so he said yeah yeah sure not sure how seriously he took that so I knew I had to send him an actual package and I got to put something in the package so I'm like all right well as a back-up plan in case this giant check thing doesn't work because there's a lot of variables and moving parts I'm going to fill it with monopoly money thousands of dollars worth and also kind of in an ironic twist I put in a Bible tract entitled the story sent that out sent him the tracking number of course this is where scammers just get greedy after I had told them that I had sent the cashier's check he got so greedy that he thought he had it you know he thought he had a fish on the line that he wasn't just content with the twenty nine hundred dollars he wanted all of his money back so I get this message hello jiffy Tijera pissed I'm sad to notify you at this point on my way driving out of town just received a text from my brother that my father was shot nine times by the robbers my brother said he is in coma right now we need to cancelled the deal for now and accept the offer please this is based on the fact that my brother that called said I need to raise some fun for the treatment or else we will lose our Father my brother proclaims that health is a person's greatest wealth he must be related to Joel Osteen which I also believed I will need you to send me so money right away please as to safe my father's life as I am NOT around for now thanks for your quick response shall be appreciated so I said okay well so what did their address should I send this check well is their Bank of America close to you no sorry no Bank of America but if you give me your account info I can give you a wire transfer cuz I figure well at least with that I can know maybe I'll some fake checks using his bank account or something and of course he sent me his wire information and it was a bank in Canada registered to an LLC so again nice veil covering him so I couldn't really do anything with that had to backpedal little and and and restart the COG and the brain so I said well I'm in a tough spot here I thought my race car was sold and so my wife already spent a bunch of the money on a down payment for remodeling and getting a purebred cat that's some exotic breed can really see that happening I wasn't expecting you to need the money back I discussed it with her tonight over dinner and things are not comfortable at the HERA pused household tonight jiffy is not getting spiffy if you get my drift ewwww so he responds hello and very so for the late response I understand how you feel and I'm sorry for putting you this condition I don't intend to collect the fun back but is due to my father condition let me know you agreed on and get back to me thanks side note I was keeping my wife informed of all this so now of course if we come home after dinner or something if I'm in intending on feeling frisky with her later on in the night I will say something the effect of jiffy wants to get a stiffy to which she just rolls her eyes he says get back to me thanks I'll be glad if you can save my father life thanks I really want to help my wife will not allow me to send the money back to you as she has already spent most of it thinking this was a done deal the only way I can return your money is to go take out a loan against the car which my bank will give me for the value here we go I'm trying the Nigerian scam or trick back at him I said there's a 200 dollar application fee my wife handles the finances and she will not allow me to get this loan if she knows about it but if you can send me the funds for this application fee to my phone using zel or Western Union she will not know about it please help me help you and we can get this done so my marriage is still ok and she doesn't know and then your father can get the treatment he needs and he said hello jiffy just get the 200 I'm running out of cash right now the only hope I have is the money in your hand please just help with any amount you have now Thanks so man I could have sent him $1,000 and kept my car so I offered to send him the title to the Subaru so he could go get a title loan on it and just about them the jig was up cuz he got a message from Vincent he goes hello jiffy I just spoke to Vince and he said the package you sent was monopoly money and a story book about god I don't understand what is going on can you please explain to me Thanks this guy is the thickest scammer I think I've ever dealt with what's going on is that you're an idiot and I got ya so I asked him if he got the check and I'm like the check was delivered via courier he's like no no no we just got this monopoly money I know no no there was a check left at the Welcome Center did he get it now unfortunately when the guys went to deliver the check they had got a call on a job earlier so they couldn't be there at 10:30 as agreed upon so it's glad I had the back-up plan so they went in the afternoon after the mail center was closed and Vincent was nowhere to be found but I guess they had some interesting experiences walking in because there was a big tent city all around the homeless shelter and they were getting some interesting I don't know cat calls or something over the check from some of the homeless guys and one guys that's a big check I need a couple more zeros on it for me he's like you want me to come in and help you there you know I can raise some ruckus if you need it so they they had quite the interesting time and although the check didn't get delivered and we didn't get the the big payoff we at least got some some good feedback from the scammer so then he says Gylfie please I don't want you to play on my intelligence well too late for that the shipping agent said you sent storybook and a monopoly money not a check be sincere please can you send me a proof that what you send was checked not a story please because this thing is very serious so I said well you know I'll call you let's let's talk about this can I call you this afternoon hello my cellphone fell down whew night ago so you can only hear me I won't be able to hear from you I can only reply your text please bear with me so of course you know no contact I was gonna have my buddy from the FBI call him but didn't work so as one last-ditch effort I said alright I gotta get a picture of Vincent with the check so I texted him I'm like listen I know what's up you're a scammer you suck I said but you've been messing with the wrong guy I have all your information I've done all this research like all this time I've bought I know who you are I'm like all your information is gonna be released to Interpol unless you send me a picture of Vincent with the check giving a thumbs up easiest ransom ever right like I'm not making you send me money I've tried that didn't work just send me a friggin picture nope didn't care just do what you have to do okay and he acted still confused like he goes are you treating me or what Vincent said he did not received any cheque from you the only thing he received was storybook and monopoly money I'm like you still don't get it you still like it I know you're scamming me anyway it just kind of died there and unfortunately we don't have a wonderful picture video of Vincent receiving the giant check but somewhere down in a homeless shelter in Phoenix there's thousands of dollars of monopoly money and a giant check floating around we'd like to thank Avalon King for their continued support of the pin wiki YouTube channel you can go to the link in the description below to get a discount on their 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Channel: VINwiki

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Keywords: Car Scam, Automotive, Subaru, WRX, Doug Tabbutt, Race Car, RacingJunk, track car, Big Check, VINwiki, Car Stories, messing with scammers, wire transfer, tricks, nigeria, nigerian scam, prank, craigslist, overpay, shipping, retaliation, con artist, fake check, Mexican Stig, Cat

Id: 8bM6NxVND-o

Length: 22min 7sec (1327 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 22 2019