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Dirty Little Secret: “From Desperation to Deception: A Scammer’s Shocking Holiday Confession” · Billy The Kidd In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is dirty little secret.
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  Speaker 2: Crap on mixed one O two point nine. Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: It's Billy to kid, Candicelow pens producer poo on a
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday that feels like a Thursday, because tomorrow feels like
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  Speaker 2: a Friday, because three day week. It's a lot of math.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what I mean. Yeah, right, dirty little secret.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got one, bring it eight three three seven
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  Speaker 2: eight seven one o two nine. Okay, make it good,
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  Speaker 2: and you got one, I have.
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  Speaker 1: A dirty little secret.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, bring it on. What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, don't call the cops on me.
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  Speaker 2: I won't yet.
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  Speaker 1: Years ago, years ago. But I used to be a scammer.
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  Speaker 2: Really yeah, what kind of scammer are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: I used to scam people out of their money or
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  Speaker 1: rooms that.
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  Speaker 3: Were never available rooms what whoa yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Where? Yeah? I'm trying to think if I've ever heard
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  Speaker 2: of this scam? Maybe I've gotten scammed? Have I gotten scammed?
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  Speaker 1: No? I won't. I won't tell you where. I won't
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  Speaker 1: tell you how. It wasn't out here in Texas. I
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  Speaker 1: can definitely tell you that because I am a change
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  Speaker 1: woman now good and you know, have kids and all
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  Speaker 1: that good stuff. But yes, I was a scammer, and
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  Speaker 1: I would go and meet these people face to face
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  Speaker 1: and build relationships with them, and they think that they
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  Speaker 1: were going to move in with me, and when they
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  Speaker 1: would get to the place, the key would never work.
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  Speaker 2: And oh my god, really, what motivated you.
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  Speaker 1: To do that?
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  Speaker 3: I was pregnant and the job that my husband was
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  Speaker 3: going for it fell through, and nobody was willing to help,
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  Speaker 3: you know, standing out in front of Walmart. It hits
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  Speaker 3: different when people tell you that they don't want to
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  Speaker 3: help you, or when you go to a church for
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  Speaker 3: help and they're like, oh, we got to split up
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  Speaker 3: your whole family. So you know, it was one of
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  Speaker 3: those type of situations when you're sleeping on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: It hits different.
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  Speaker 2: Noyeah, right, I mean this is why it's anno.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I will say this though, I feel like the
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  Speaker 2: good thing to do is to kind of get people
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  Speaker 2: a warning on how not to get scammed to pay
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  Speaker 2: it forward? Is there a way is there something people
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  Speaker 2: should look out for in this particular scam because I've
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  Speaker 2: never heard of this one before.
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  Speaker 1: My thing is is you're renting a room from anybody,
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  Speaker 1: go and actually look at the place before you give
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  Speaker 1: up any money.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you would you would get deposits and you know,
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  Speaker 2: first month's.
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  Speaker 1: Real it wasn't deposit, it was deposits, first month's brand,
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  Speaker 1: last month's brand, all of that, and they would get
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  Speaker 1: a receipt with you know, whatever name I was using
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  Speaker 1: at that time, and you know, with their name. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the next day they would have to pay with the key.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm super busy at work. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a I'm gonna let out a big secret. I'm a chef,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, I worked busy hours. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're able to just you know, take this receipt
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  Speaker 1: and it's key year more than welcome to going to
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  Speaker 1: the house and your rooms on the left hand side,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have no worry.
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  Speaker 2: So then you would, you know, get the money. They
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  Speaker 2: go get this key to a house that you just
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  Speaker 2: kind of gave an address. It wasn't even your home
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  Speaker 2: at all, and then they were scammed and then you
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  Speaker 2: would just disappear. Yeah, wow, how.
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  Speaker 1: Much money did you make doing this? Thousands?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: I was able to get at that time at least
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  Speaker 1: you know, weekly. Then it was apartments. Then you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to take care of my kids, my
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  Speaker 1: family with that, does it come with risk? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Right if they find out who you are? What now
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  Speaker 2: did you did you kind of pretend you were a
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  Speaker 2: you know, property placement person or you know, or a
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  Speaker 2: leasing agent or you just were like, hey, this is
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  Speaker 2: a room I'm renting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was basically like, hey, you know I have
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  Speaker 1: this two bedroom apartment. You know, I'm a single female,
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  Speaker 1: I you know, work long hours. I'm a chef, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm constantly on the go. If you're
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  Speaker 1: willing to take those rooms, you know, give them nice
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  Speaker 1: pictures of wherever I could find some rooms or wherever,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I know you sound like you regret it.
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  Speaker 2: And if you had to go back in time and
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  Speaker 2: tell your you know, personal self something, would you or
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  Speaker 2: would you say no, I do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: I would do the same thing because people, I would
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  Speaker 1: say this, people on the West Coast are way different
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  Speaker 1: on the South. So it's you got to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more grimier on the West Coast than the South.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I just look at it. If people
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  Speaker 1: were more genuine and more open to helping people like
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  Speaker 1: I am, I'm more I help people I have no problems,
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  Speaker 1: like because of what I've been through right right, and
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  Speaker 1: because of what I've done to peak.
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  Speaker 2: So you're paying it for now by helping people and
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  Speaker 2: you know, doing the things you can do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean again, people don't be stupid giving
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  Speaker 1: up money without going and seeing the actual flick.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, and it might help someone to not get scammed
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  Speaker 2: down that you've said that, So we appreciate you calling up.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, You're welcome so much.
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  Speaker 2: All right, be careful, jeez, you got to be careful,
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  Speaker 2: especially around the holidays. There are so many scams. There's
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  Speaker 2: gift cards scams going around online. People are trying to fish.
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  Speaker 2: I saw one of the gas station the other day,
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  Speaker 2: which freaked me out. Somebody said, hey, be careful with that.
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  Speaker 2: You know how you can tap to pay at the pump. Now, now,
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  Speaker 2: somebody or some places are putting stickers over that tap
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  Speaker 2: to pay that look like a tap to pay, only
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  Speaker 2: there's a chip in it that reads all your information
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  Speaker 2: and steals your stuff. Pease, So how are you supposed
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  Speaker 2: to know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see cashier please.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that might honestly be the safest way
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  Speaker 2: nowadays to not get scammeda because I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 2: but I have to check, you know, to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that the thing isn't fake, the card insert isn't fake,
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  Speaker 2: because sometimes those are molds that go over the original
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  Speaker 2: that take your info. Then you got to worry about
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  Speaker 2: QR codes because people are putting QR codes on stuff
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  Speaker 2: that goes directly to a fake like pay for parking.
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  Speaker 2: People are going to pay for parking, look at Christmas
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  Speaker 2: lights whatever, And there's scams where you scan the QR code,
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  Speaker 2: Oh pay here, But you're putting in your information to
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  Speaker 2: a scammer's website about yourself