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Originally Posted by KC911 View Post
LOL .... like I gots 34 minutes to kill ....

I MUST GO BUY BREAD AND MILK .... and EGGS !
watch it at 1.5x...

The summary is this. This guy has a YT channel where he makes furniture. Some folks on the Internet setup fake copies of his page that they use to scam people. Some lady got scammed out of $17,000 for a big river table. The way the guy found out is because a detective contacted him to make sure that he wasn't the guy that scammed the lady. The guys website is blacktailstudio.com, and the scammers created a copy of his site at blacktailstudios.com.

So once he found out about it, he started looking into it and found a bunch of instances of people using his name/info to scam people and learn about the scams. He eventually thought, "I can't get her money back, but I can make her table." He got a lumber guy to donate the wood. He spoke to the detective who had the various texts/messages between the lady and the scammer who provided descriptions and photos of what the lady wanted. He then made the table and sent the table to the PD and flew out there. The detective called the lady in to talk to her, and that was their big reveal to her, "here's the real guy" and "I made your table."

Pretty cool.
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