Who wants to be a Millionaire - Major Fraud

it seemed like the perfect crime I hate taken yeah in finance and for a while it looked like it might just have worked five hundred thousand pounds you no longer have that you just want one a cool million pinched from under the nose of one of the country's most popular stars on itv1 is top game show and right in front of the television cameras tonight for the first time we can show you how they did it and how they got caught we've got the tapes I really haven't got the Scoobies we've got the witnesses I'm saying don't you don't you dare you rob Dawg think about it and we've got the cuffs ah this is the dramatic story of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire major fraud it's a classic tale of greed and obsession a desperate desire to win the biggest cash prize on British television by hook or by crook it was here in this studio that eight cameras captured every move by the major his wife and their accomplice while 21 microphones recorded every single guilty cough we've isolated their sound track so that you can hear them clearly just as the jury did during the trial tonight we show you the evidence and revealed the major form for the Ingram's millionaires been a family obsession with Diana's brother Adrian the first to get the bug a contestant on the show four times he finally makes it to the hot seat having coasted through ten questions he comes unstuck at 64 thousand and boughs out graciously with a check for 32,000 pounds we're going with your dad's 50% hunch yeah and like slightly more than 50% but not that well answer yes it's the wrong its September in America it's September in Canada oh I tell you what that it's been great to have you I really enjoyed that very dope these fan here at last after over two years of trying Adrien Pollock goes back to the Vale of Glamorgan to tell his family daddy's got 32,000 pounds give a big ass Little Sisters next on and with husband Charles Ingram appears on the copy's shirt now this is Diana Ingram a nursery nurse from Swindon watching at home his husband shot a bit of brotherly coaching pays off for the audience is her brother Adrian and after some 300 phone calls to the show Diana Ingram's in the hot seat at last have a look at question number 11 is for 64,000 pounds this would take you one correct answer and 32,000 pounds past the totally brother got and you have got a lifeline have a look discretion number 11 you might as well play it whatever you can't lose on this you've got 32,000 pounds who wrote the nonsense poem the hunting of the slab GK Chesterton Hilaire Belloc Edward Lear Lewis Carroll well I thought it was Edward Lear before they all came up yes and now Lewis Carroll's come up with and he might have written it to XI equals her brother's performance I'm going to play Edward Lear final answer yes Edward Lear final answer yes you had 32,000 pounds you kept back one lifeline you desperately wanted to beat your brother you've stated exactly the same place as your brother you're still on 30 2004 somewhat less graciously at the same hurdle who was fastest Charles Ingram in 3 finally after two failed attempts Charles Ingram makes it to the hot seat the most infamous episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is about to begin I really warm to it yeah he had this terrible peer pressure in that his brother-in-law and his wife both had 132 thousand pounds they were both quite sort of they seem to be quite obsessed with the show and getting on it and doing well they both had got on and done well I mean she went away very disappointed with thirty two thousand five so I remember talking to her in the bar afterwards and I said great congratulate she's sitting there only 32 and I said to her it's a huge amount of money she went yes but I should have done more I should have beaten my brother and all this 15 questions three lifelines is the or 15 threat Darcy wins 1 million pounds let's play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire okay Charles question number one for 100 pounds who it is on which of these would you air laundry clothes dog horse clothes rabbit clothes pink that's their clothes horse it's throw down so you got 100 pounds the first few questions are easy enough for the nature that's a word okay you got a hundred pounds question number two to 200 pounds seriously what name is given to a person who is against increasing the powers of the European Union you're a skeptic Eurostar Eurotrash Eurovision euro skeptic right answer to under pan okay number three is worth 300 pounds here it comes what is butterscotch your bread pavement game a garden flower brittle toffee but some staff are concerned as soon as the major takes the hot seat is right after Catriona past me Diana Ingram's younger brother Marcus Powell is also at the studio just after recording has started probably about 15 20 minutes into it really and he was outside the studio and his mobile phone which mobile phones aren't allowed sort of in the studio area so I went up to the production office where I'm full Chris Burke was just approached him and said scuse me saying I can't have you in and out of the studio using the phone if you want to make a phone quiet and get someone to escort you off site and you can make as many phone calls as you wish or would you please get back in the studio take your seat when I went back downstairs about 10-15 minutes later he was back outside on his mobile again and as soon as he saw me he went straight back in the studio at which point I asked one of our security guards to keep an eye on him for the rest of the recording and it's the best my knowledge that's that's exactly what he did police believe for vibrating phone pages could have signaled the right answer I think that the the question and the options would have been transmitted by Marcus Powell's open mobile phone within the VIP area I believe that the person on the other end with access to research material could then signal the wearer of those pages with the correct answer a B C or D depending on what part of the body the page was secreted and then that person clear the signal Charles Ingram or indeed Charles Ingram may have been wearing the pages himself Marcus Powell's never been charged with any offense so for now Charles Ingram's on his own and the 500 pound questions one he's bound to get right question before then for 500 quid no problem so far here it is which of these is the nickname for a famous Scottish army originally a wrong bough seem to get it wrong though Charles major which of these is the nickname for a famous Scottish army regiment black cat that you're gonna know this Black Widow Black Sea black what Blackwatch Chris Black Widow know who definitely in like cats it's right out so you got five hundred pounds question fives the last time the major can go home with nothing the Normans who invaded and conquered England in 1066 spoke which languages German Norwegian French Danish norms but he's no intention of leaving empty-handed now I'll go with French I love ya final answer so right house you got a thousand on the next question he's struggling and there's no one to help too much knowledge remember the family Otto Charles

Channel: RomeijnLand

Views: 12,409,812

Rating: 4.1797972 out of 5

Keywords: who, wants, to, be, milllionaire, major, fraud

Id: bQoNWw0G2AY

Length: 9min 52sec (592 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 10 2008

Reddit Comments

[u/capitahood]

But is there a TLDR

[u/Bananawamajama]

I wouldnt really call it one if the most brilliant crimes of the 21st century, considering he got caught pretty easily and the plan was pretty simple .

[u/louisasnotes]

Where is the other 1hr and 20 mins?

[u/19trash19]

This always makes me think of that Monk episode where the host conspires with a contestant for winning multiple games in a row and they split the cash. The studio suspects the contestant of cheating but they cannot figure out how. I kinda told that story backwards but whatever.

Turns out the host would hold the quiz card by one of four corners, each corner representing the correct answer (top left A, top right B, etc)

[u/Collinnn7]

4 hours in and still no tldr at the top? What do y’all expect me to, actually watch something posted on here??

[u/Apersonofinterest666]

Press Your Luck. The Story Of: The Whammy Slayer

An Ohio native, Michael Larson does something that nobody had done before and nobody would ever do again. This is the story about how one man robbed a game show of $110,237 in the span of 42 minutes.

The narrator sucks but this is a great story of a man who gamed the game show.

Just watch one of these instead.

Edit: u/Bobs_Your_Zio was kind enough to provide better links

BIG BUCKS - THE PRESS YOUR LUCK SCANDAL

Possible movie based on his life?

Bill Murray Presses His Luck

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[u/drunkandslurred]

So I painfully watched several parts of this investigation.

Here is the TLDR another future contestant who was alot smarter than him coughed everytime the contestant said the right answer. It was hard to hear during the live recording, but when they isolated the sound you can clearly hear the cough everytime.

[u/Gareth79]

These days, his wife makes jewelery and they travel around to craft fairs and markets selling them. I work in Guildford and they occasionally have a stall at the market in the High Street.

[u/twol3g1t]

How does an 8 minute portion that cuts off before any of the good parts get upvoted to the front page? Did any of you fools even click the link to watch the video? Did the OP even watch the video???