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Woman Made $500k+ With a Clothing Return Refund Scam

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0:00 foreign hey did you ever do a thing where you go to a store and you act like you just bought this thing that you just picked off the shelf and you go to it register and you say hey I'd like to return this mm-hmm you can do that how calm you was hey buddy taught me that he just went into Best Buy he opened up a TV box and then he rolled it up to customer service and said can I return this and they're like nope and they're like oh well they first asked if he had a receipt and he goes oh no I don't have it I think it's in the car and they're like oh well you gotta go get it he takes the TV out yeah oh he took the TV with him he took the TV no you can't return it dude back in

0:50 the day one thing we should do was go to Marshalls and get like Nike stuff right and then we go to like a Nike Factory or like a Nike outlet and return it and then they'll give you like a gift card a full price sometimes yeah so then you got it for a cheaper price and then you go only done it like once or twice and that was the only time I did that ████ ladies never done anything like that no but isn't that from the movie and then people just started taking that running it oh really I was like no oceans it's she just gets out of like prison or whatever and she she goes to like a department store and she has all this like really expensive perfume or

1:40 whatever and she goes to the counter and she makes the fuss about it she's like can I just return these and the ladies do you have a receipt she goes no and she's like I mean okay well like what can you do like well without a receipt you can't return these and she just acts all annoyed and she's like okay well do you at least have a bag and then she puts it in the bag and she takes it out how'd she get in there I want to watch this movie now kinda because I didn't watch that I think it's eight it's eight it's I think it's Ocean's eight because twelve is the is the the second one right yeah I'm like 11 12 13 and then eight it just pissed me off so much because they recast Danny ocean as a woman yeah I don't like that that's ████ up I was like yeah yeah Danielle lotion so I yeah it's a very common little thing again it's hard to do it a lot because people catch on because I think they get your name on the an address I

2:32 think they used to do that like you know when you return stuff what's your name I don't know I'll give my real name my name is Nick Dunn yeah this is my address there's this one woman in the UK who would run this same exact scam nothing fancy just literally the Bare Bones of what we're talking about and she would go store to store doing this but she um would open up accounts and fake names and have all these different IDs so she could do it for longer she ended up doing it for four years and uh she was able to make half a million dollars that's ████ gangster money this isn't the item she would steal the items go to sometimes go to a branch of the same brand like go to a gap here and then go to the Gap there and then just go hey I'd like to return this thing that I just stole yeah and then they would just constantly go no receipt she could return it huh wow the bougie places you don't need

3:24 receipts right really some of them yep exactly she did some High Street LV or some ████ like ████ Nordstroms and ████ whatever and she yeah but then they usually say okay well what car did you purchase it from because they're gonna need that information and then you say yeah because actually you say I pay cash wow is that like a Filipino mom she's I think sick and that's all the stuff that she's oh she's returning that's I thought I was like what does that do it cools off the sickest moves yeah dude she made tons one dude she's the original ocean like you wanna you wanna know what's more impressive what I used to do bro what that Urban Outfitters tell us I take one shirt that's expensive it's like this is a shirt I want I take another shirt from

4:15 the clearance rack that I'm like I don't get I pay six dollars for this and I swapped the tags wow tags and I'm sweating once I ████ give them the shirt and they they scan it and I go just sweating like crazy and then I'm like sir are you okay okay I'm like oh but I seem to be sweating quite a bit and I was like so so that one's 6.99 right this one's 699 and then they ████ charge me and it's not good what's um how much have you saved doing that you think more than half a meal probably more impressive than whatever she did how come you don't wear Urban oh dude it's just like they're Collective of like all kinds of Brands so like just all kinds of Brands okay you know me and uh Urban one time I I was about call me a liar dude call me ████ liar being observant I was about like 12

5:05 years old yeah 12 or 13 and then um I started learning about uh credit card what is it called no gift card gift card cracking or whatever right but basically what we did is we created fake like AOL accounts and then we had a script where you send out emails just to like people in chat rooms right you just you just spam email them all this stuff and then um it went to like something where they put in their credit card information to like re-like install their AOL or like get it back on because you know it was like because your trial is good yeah whatever right so we get these uh it's kind of like you get these credit card uh Farm things and then so you got the numbers and then so you at the time you can just buy uh

5:57 gift cards from different retailers from the mall or whatever and I found one that it was a Westfield gift card that you can use it on all the uh Merchants so it wasn't just like Target or whatever so your credit card it was any any tenant of them all yeah and then the funny thing is I think a younger kid taught me this so he was a genius because I I'm almost like 12 or 13 right he taught me this and then he was like let's go on a shopping spree so I was like okay so then we just literally like got a bunch of credit uh gift cards one day and we just went and ████ shop till we dropped like we got ████ polo shirts from boss dude I had Dockers you're a scammer dude I was there like six scams how'd you do that the outdated flexes are so funny huh

6:49 so you buy it with a credit card and then you can pick it up or you get it mailed to you yeah imagine 12 year old boys going to Tommy Bahama dude we were at Hugo Boss and people just thought we were like Rich Kids Hugo Boss yeah I got Diesel Jeans baby I swear to God those clothes last me like probably three four years just like because I was in junior high a decade I didn't fit them anymore Birkenstocks oh yeah it lasts me a while that makes sense yeah I don't know and then like I didn't know the severity of what I was doing until like you got a little older and you're just like oh yeah and another thing that's straight up fraud my buddy was like you ████ you you you sent those things to your

7:39 house the FBI is Gonna Catch You like you're not supposed to send it to your house and I'm like you didn't tell me so I'm like where did you send it because I sent it to my neighbor's house and then when the mail comes I grab their ████ and I'm like ████ I'm stupid he's so smart he got his next door neighbor instead of him what a genius I saw a lot of a lot of um like young ma kids I saw a scam where they'll like steal stuff and then they'll give their kids something with a beeper and they walk through and it beeps and then they go honey I'm I'm so sorry and they give the Beeper and they're already through it so it doesn't beat more for what they actually whoa so wow you know what's crazy is like all the times that I've had the beeping go

8:30 off and I'd stop and turn around and they just go yeah and I'm like I could have just had so much ████ it's like crazy like [Laughter] you're good and then we go in the car and we're like we're not good we gotta get this ████ thing off our t-shirts now and then you go back and they're like they take it off for you and I'm like come on man do your job for sure we're not good have you stole anything Colleen yeah in high school I stole jewelry with a friend but we were stupid we got caught you got caught yeah it was Nordstrom that's scary Nordstrom wow I bet your heart it was when we thought we got away because like we got out of the story we went down the escalator and then as soon as we are like halfway down we just see

9:20 like the security guy just turn the corner and just stand right in front of the escalator and we were like ████ yeah you're like putting necklaces on each other yeah yeah how did you do it yeah we were all ████ We're not gonna run at this point you know um what was the question how'd you do it oh we straight up just dumb just put it in our pocket we're gonna look at that ████ and there's just cameras right there that's another thing too they're kind of watching that's my move dude that's what I do exactly the cameras yeah estimate that a little bit good look at you there are some places that really have an actual guy looking at the monitor which is right yeah and I I think that was the guy that died whether or not whether or not the employees you know there's like this is my chance to shine isn't there a

10:10 thing in California though where you can like steal a certain amount and then everyone was like stealing stuff now they don't like 500 or some ████ yeah I think they up it's 9 50. up Grand Theft used to be five yeah now it's more where are we going boys do more ████ dude I think I think the klepto is coming back at me everything's even talking about this I'm like that's the same weight like probably types of Target tight Lucille's barbecue gift card sir these are unloaded oh ████ runs up to the register grabs the gift cards and run and he's like guys I got gift cards guys and then we're like trying to eat good thing on the card dude unlimited Lucille

11:02 again check again run for it the way that uh the way that my friend uh used to clean clean the serial numbers of TVs it's pretty interesting he'll be able to get us really cheap almost free TVs practically free but um he would he worked at Best Buy and they did this thing back then where uh they would Mark a TV as having to be returned and if you return a TV they have to send it to the refurbishing uh Center to verify that everything works and it's all good right even if they don't fix it they just have to get a stamp so they just say oh this is a return and instead of shipping it to the refurbishing company they just give it to someone else so so in the system it'll be like oh refurbishing still has it it's just held up there yeah Whoa by the time anyone cares to even look into it that TV's probably out of style you still got that homie no he actually

11:52 got caught and fired and everything yeah they eventually like yeah because he did it too much that's always the thing right you do it a few times and then you get more homies and then you get peer pressure to do it more often and then yeah damn it dude but yeah he was doing that for quite a while on new TV your teeth are so cheap you're such a cheap ass Nick oh yeah I just want to steal it bro I just want a good deal you get like a 70 inch like 700 000 PTV right now for like ████ 250 yeah and if you want it used that's gonna cost less than like most parking tickets

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