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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Interesting video about Internet scammer with a good ending
I've seen a couple of this guy's videos. He's a wood worker. Someone copied his website and scammed someone out of $17,000 for a table. So this has woodworking content because he makes the table for the person that was scammed and it's got info about the scam.
synopsis: 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."
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Last edited by masraum; 02-19-2025 at 10:13 AM..
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