The Truth Behind The Cheater | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

now obviously with so much money at stake it was inevitable that sooner or later somebody would try to beat the system you know give themselves a little advantage all right cheat getting away with cheating us out of a million quid was gonna need a mastermind with a cunning plan and a genius accomplice but luckily for us it was major Charles Ingram who had neither of those things on the 9th of September 2001 and unassuming major took his place in the hot seat now what was about to unfold nobody could have predicted right this is Charles Ingram he's a major up there and the audience's wife Diana on his first night on the show the majors display of general knowledge was surprisingly poor I really haven't got the scoobies I wasn't never heard it's the right house he got both out of the band somehow he managed to get the 4,000 pounds but used two lifelines to get there he went away and returned the following night with a new game plan involving his wife Diana and fellow fastest finger first contestant tech Quinn Witter who we've met on a previous episode [Music] the plan was that Wittig would signal correct answers with a cough I think I'm gonna go through a four by I think if I had to guess my cat I shall take cricket yeah the only hiccup came on the 32,000 pounds and when both the major and whitter couldn't answer a question on pop music even after a 50/50 the major is going to go for a wrong answer that is until his wife Diana develops a nasty cough of her own here comes the u-turn now I'll go create David final I guess created by the time the major reached the million pound question alarm bells were ringing behind the scenes and now the major his wife Diana and their accomplice Witek were being monitored closely it's worth a million I'm not sure however all he needed to do was read through the options and wait for whiticus coded cough I think it's an animal no cough there but it could be a gigabit no cough there either I don't think it's a Megatron like that does Witek and I have to say I haven't I don't think I've heard of a Google and there it is the major now has the million pound answer in by process of elimination I actually think it's Google but I don't know what Google is and the rest of it is all acting I really do think he's a Google but you thought it was an animal never heard of a Google there's a million pounds of bolts I know but it's not a gigabit Anatomy on Megatron and there's only four of them so it must be good the stakes are huge and the major wants to make one final check I'm sure it's Google and there it is I hate to play goon yeah final answer final answer Charles give me that check 500,000 pounds you no longer have that you just want one the win was short-lived and after a thorough investigation his check is canceled and all three ended up in court and were found guilty of conspiring to cheat the show so sadly major Charles Ingram didn't become our third million pound winner [Music]

Channel: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Views: 31,289,452

Rating: 4.8583302 out of 5

Keywords: Who Wants to be a millionare, Chris Tarrant, Quiz Show, Hardest Quiz Shows, Millionaire, Biggest Game Show Prizes, Quiz Show Fail, Quiz Show Win, Biggest Game Show Wins, scams millionaire, Cheats millionaire, winners, scam, quiz show scam, cheating the system, cheating a quiz show, charles ingram

Id: HIGtLRnGCD4

Length: 5min 5sec (305 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 17 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/sombrereptile]

On the day of the verdict the judge sentenced Ingram to a 20-month suspended prison sentence while Whittock and Diana Ingram both received 18-month suspended sentences. Ingram subsequently wrote a novel detailing the hardship this experience caused himself and his family that grossed over two-and-a-half million pounds.

Turns out he was in it for the long con.

[u/pacmain1]

On this guys wikipedia page I found

In September 2010 Ingram accidentally slipped on an apple whilst mowing the lawn and sliced off three of his toes

[u/Shimster]

They could have used a buzzer or haptic feedback system rather than cough, would have been so much easier.

[u/Hyro0o0]

Was that million dollar question harder to know the answer to in 2001? It seemed painfully easy to me.

[u/jefe008]

Seems like a really stupid and overt method, especially with the silly prefacing of the answers that could require him to do an obvious 180 on making choices, right after the coughing.....

[u/SlickStyle]

9/9/01 Never Forget

[u/[deleted]]

I remember when this happened, it was only a few days before 9/11 so the news was more focused on that than this. But around 2 weeks later there was a documentary on how exactly they all cheated (I can't seem to find it on YouTube anymore) and in the first ad-break a cough sweet company paid to have their ad shown first and for some reason, that memory will always stick out for me.

[u/daveequalscool]

recommend skipping to 2:50 to see the cheating.

[u/[deleted]]

It always amazed me how fucking blatant his cheating was too.