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Tenant Tried Selling the £400,000 House He Was Renting

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0:00 they're like you kidnapped your daughter what yeah he's they're like we're gonna kill her unless you pay this much she's right next to him well she wasn't home at the time but my dad's like killer [Music] so uh there's a tenant right and he lives in this a uh in a house that he's renting oh very normal he's a renter Colleen's not buying it she's not buying it dude she's like that don't happen right yeah I'm waiting for more information of course I'm not gonna Ryan us you know what I mean guess the article can you guess the punchline like what happens right after this guy who pays rent what the heck what happens huh tenant in the house he farted and uh he's playing red

0:50 that's good why is that so funny too he farted that's it that's the article and it's like there's a lot of ████ about whatever but that's the yeah so this is the part here's the part where you guys tune in next week to kids news all the latest fart news so um this guy is paying rent in this house uh uh got that already thank you jackass wait what'd you do you spoiled it you know I just said we all right we got the fact that he's paying the Last Two Dollars let me convert this it's called it costs just under half a million dollars this house and then he tries to sell it well he's just renting it without the landlord this guy is ████ sick bags hate him this is genius Banks hate him real

1:40 estate agents he's undercutting everybody over this one simple trick wow sign up for a master of my course if you want to figure out how to do it so it wasn't fart but yeah that was that's that's it you're gonna guess that that's what they mean by rent to own and then he reads the title he's like okay now you guys uh he just like let's let's lose the all right the Bull's out of the gate you're making it funny do your stupid thing oh man so he so he reads his place and then just two weeks after he's given the keys he lists the place uh to sell it um and now he's been his name is Andrew Smith he's age 41. so he's new here to Earth he's a foreigner yeah he's new

2:31 here he's just trying to work the system I kind of I got to give him props yeah this is not in the U.S no no he's in the UK he's been jailed for two and a half years for this crime now oh my god oh wow let him free dude let him free did he start trying to sell the jail well maybe he was like instead of doing a sublease I'm gonna do a sub own oh that's nice you got a piece of pie you know that you don't own it's not man it works yeah so yeah he's been jail for two and a half years the police are calling this one quote unquote truly Brazen um he was originally moving to Cambridge for work uh two weeks later he listed the property for sale by a fake estate agent the fraudulent sale went as far as one potential buyer agreeing a price and

3:21 even visiting the property with a drainage surveyor oh my God however it soon became clear that uh that wasn't the case he didn't own the ████ he didn't have the papers um there he was uh he basically let me see I didn't dummy some papers what an idiot didn't really think too far the buyer later spoke to the actual agent of the spot was which is what happened and then ended up talking to the police because uh it revealed that the documents provided were by Smith were in fact fraudulent and it was not his house so he did have fraudulent papers but they just didn't work out but yeah this is his mug shot I think it's important to always put a face to the crime just in case what do you guys think he looks like scale one to ten ten being hot as ████ go ahead clean so hot 10 you're already tending this guy no maybe you don't love it no way potentially at 11. no way in hell potentially 11 dick that's what she said I did not say he's

4:11 like a five five or six how would you actually rate this guy there's like all three of the guys and Friends combined yeah it looks like a mashup it does look like that whoa It's a perfect mix I'd like to speak for women yeah it's a lot of swimmer in there if you if he was successful at this crime it would make him hotter but if he because he's unsuccessful with a ████ mug shot it made him uglier how about that yeah you stole my thoughts it's like the founder of a European Bank yeah there he is there's the founder of European Bank yeah it's ex-soviet Central isn't that such a classic crime though like the selling of something you don't own that's like one of the oldest like things the bridge yeah the bridge thing yeah is that called theft what's the bridge thing uh was it Brooklyn

5:02 Bridge oh yeah somebody tried to like they were like selling and then someone they succeeded yeah yeah wait someone sold the Brooklyn Bridge yeah they literally just went hey you want to buy this bridge and then the rich guy was like is it a bridge there's like wait this bridge is on sale because I can put a toll here Black Friday yeah when did that happen a long time like a historical like dumbass crime it's like one of those like old ones it's like funny now I think it was like you gotta act now 18th uh wait George C Parker I'm trying to move this bridge quick got a lot of buyers a lot of buyers it didn't say exactly one but he was born in 1860 1936 uh an American common best known for his repeated successes selling the Brooklyn Bridge I guess he did it multiple times did you sell the whole thing this is like what you want to be known for like

5:52 something like this like a real Caper that you keep on doing and proving how stupid everyone around you is is pretty good that's pretty cool there you know what's another common thing is is a lot of people lease spaces not knowing they're leasing from the person leasing it like a sublease yeah right but they they're not aware of that they think that's the owner that happened to a lot of dance studios they like they thought they were oh I know what you're talking about yeah they thought it was directly the uh person it was like a pyramid scam of dance studio leases I guess it was like several degrees from the actual owner wow is it easier to trick dancers yes okay yeah yeah all right I can't speak for dancers there's a lot of them though there is a lot of them I think when it comes to The Starving Artists that's pretty easy to trick any of them yeah that's true this guy's ████ funny I'm a Brooklyn Bridge guy Brooklyn Bridge guy was selling the uh Brooklyn

6:44 Bridge so that uh he would basically convince people are buying that they would have controlling access to the bridge so these people would start putting up ████ toll booths but the police kept on removing that guy's the ultimate toll oh good talk Anthony love that one I did Anthony that's nice isn't it very if he really likes a pun he go es [Laughter] yeah because it's so good it's good it's tight yeah I already know what he likes bro yeah to me I was okay with theft and burglary and assault and maybe armed robbery and maybe home invasion yeah when it came to con and scams I felt really bad like I

7:36 thought that those were the worst crimes possible and I do think that there are honorable criminals out there that will rob you in your face at that point at gunpoint and I think that's way more of a stand-up crime because you know what you're getting versus someone who's like trying to con you out of your money you don't think chicken rich guy that you that he owns the Brooklyn Bridge now and every time he tries to put up a tall Booth the police take it away and he's like you guys better stop ████ with my papa damn that's ████ as funny as a kid he's saying it's honorable though you know what I mean I'm thinking about the ████ faces that go out and con grandmas and stuff you know oh yeah that's not fun like they're like hey Social Security calling you ████ messed up yeah it's not even funny yeah yeah Insurance scams all that stuff there's um one of my um favorite things to do is watch

8:26 hackers basically infiltrate all of these scammers and they they find all the like poor old ladies that they can't and then they find the old ladies and then they pay them back and then they get these like like scam call centers they're really dope is there a way to stop those scammers what is there a way to stop those scammers like the people that like there's just they're untraceable right no yeah there's so many of them they haven't figured it out yet they just pop up again after they get taken yeah it's hard there's too many because they're like in like a little Bungalow or apartment or somewhere and then once they get like ████ found out everybody ████ tear everything down and then they just go to the next spot it's just like um it's like those uh smog shops the hood yeah you ever seen those when they get caught so like the Star smog stations where they smog cars they you just basically pay them off to smog your ████ polluting car and then as soon as they get caught they all rotate they rotate

9:18 ownership they'll be like five shots UPS all in the same guy so they go okay sorry and they'll go and they'd like a clock like a like a Catholic priest yep yeah that's how they do it shuffle them wow Shuffle it back into the deck yep yikes scams and cons baby you know I got a I got a DMV uh letter this morning about renewing my registration and said I had to get a small check and the first thing I thought to my mind was like I gotta hit up Ryan I don't know this is legit you know what I mean you know another con that they do is as soon as you open up a yell page they call the number and they say oh you haven't been paying your electric bill you're if you don't pay it now we're gonna shut it down in like 20 minutes dude I get that call all the time bro I get texts like that yeah and I'll be like okay shut it right and they just hang up on you and then you go oh my God my phone line

10:11 close your account I'm like yeah I'm not a ████ old lady dude like like yeah I'm like I'm so used to these things is I'm just completely numb dude I wish I was I wasn't that gullible because even though I know it's ████ I still look it up I still look it up dude I'm never I'm never like will the IRS call you and they're like they'll never call you I'm like oh thank god dude my dad got a call I was with my dad and he got a call and he got one of those like crazy ones where they're like you kidnapped your daughter what yeah they're like we're gonna kill her unless you pay this much she's right next to him well she wasn't home at the time but my dad's like killer and then he was like and he'll go up I was like Dad what if it's true he goes [Music] then he just starts laughing again where

11:01 is she yeah like dude that's crazy I see what Ryan got his Wild Side my humor comes from him yeah did I tell you about that government agent that called me up for the yeah yeah that was the heaviest one I've ever heard of wow so there's a scam go going around for people that are in crypto and it's been going around actually in uh the last five plus years it's not just crypto it's also stocks so um one of my friends clients went through the same exact thing and they lost like two mil yeah so being the scam in the scam but basically ████ um so I think they the way that they it's it's generally like this you can see this on the IRS website as well as the FBI website telling you do not call back uh when the agencies call and say like you know they represent IRS FBI all

11:53 this stuff uh and say like you need to help with this investigation because the scam runs like this like they find your information for me I made a video on Luna and said how much I lost whatever they found my number online they left a voicemail saying that they're from Washington DC um and they're a part of this government agency they have a way to probably get my money back um they just need my cooperation and this and that give them a call back and I was like man this is kind of fishy because one they didn't say my real full name they said JoJo sukawa which is my uncle Instagram Uncle chin hi can I talk to Uncle Chen also known as Joe Mama Joe's like this is fishy I'll call back weird so there's a government there's a government number

12:43 there's a government number like everything whatever like it does say Washington DC but that's easy to do right like whatever I didn't call back because I was like what the ████ if it is real like I'm not gonna cooperate like I'm down with dog Quan dude like ████ it let's go let's go you know are they like are they like I just need you to answer these security questions uh number one do you like to jack off now that's the kind of interview I'm down to do right and then Joe's like yes like okay [Laughter] and Luna and terraform Labs is under investigation by us and we need your help uh we want to know we want we're building up a case whatever right and then so I never called them back but the the person that my friend hit one of his

13:34 clients that did get caught up what ended up happening was they posed as if they were the FBI said they're running an investigation they need his help uh it's got to stay secret because it's they made him feel like he's this AJ super agent so then this guy dude he's a doctor like a dentist or something right he's a doctor dentist so he's all like oh ████ I'm working for the government it's ████ top secret right and during the whole process they milked them out of like a lot how do they get access to his money like as the government you know we do need to have access to your bank account we can get you your money back we just need your money it was like a several year scam that they had to it started with increments and I I don't know exactly that part of it but by the time he was telling me like how it got like

14:24 it was just like okay I was like I don't want to deal with this like I'm not gonna call him back so I didn't really dig deep into it but that's the gist of the con maybe it's like for every thousand dollars you give our investigation we'll give you two thousand dollars back and if you have any friends that wants to be a part of this investigation you could be like hey you want to make some part-time money on uh full-time money on a part-time basis you probably could have really been like hey uh so I really want to continue this case but they just cut our Department's funding yeah yeah it could be so we need yours we're so close to getting this bastard I do need I do need to know like are you down to be a super agent but work from home aren't you tired of your job that is oh that's a great incentive ready to do your duty but the craziest thing really was that the guy that was

15:15 leaving you messages he just sounded like an actual like white dude yes it wasn't like one of those guys trying to sound white he sounded like a legit white guy they got a real white so it's like that automatic oh trust that dude he's a government agent you know he's like Mr Jones it's a goat he talked like you talk to lingo yeah yeah Bureau lingo Mr Uncle Chan oh

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