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Mom Gave a Fortune Teller Over $20k After Grim Warning

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0:00 yeah what made her step out of him being like I'm calling the police because they poisoned her with a drink dude like how she spent all that money and she's all like way dumb man right at what point do you lose belief I can't afford to believe you anymore exactly this is too expensive to believe [Music] we have another scam story oh more scams scams are fun you love being scammed you go scammy I love scamming dude what's a scammy run what's this game allegedly allegedly oh dude okay do I yeah go for it go for it take a scam I don't even know if I can get in trouble with it if I do allegedly but you guys ████ figured out this never happened I ████ would get free food because I would prank call restaurants and I would act like so you want to know

0:51 this genius ████ money to do a long time ago like ████ 20 years ago allegedly allegedly allegedly what I would do I would call and I'll use the white voice and call Mexican restaurants because they're the ones that don't want trouble they don't want to be seen they don't want the government nothing right they're easy to get spooked on your own people yes I know how to work on my people ████ and I always go over there it's like hey how's it going hey help you and like a taco shop or whatever I could help you and I was just like oh yeah I I actually stopped by there for lunch earlier today and uh I ordered a burrito and you guys gave me like an enchilada or something and uh you guys messed up my order right oh okay uh sorry sorry to hear about that it's okay I'm sorry like yeah uh so I'm gonna I would love to have my lunch back I had to go to my job I couldn't leave you know my job so I had to like it was during lunch time sorry and so I want my

1:42 food back and so they're like okay okay uh we have your receipt I actually it's a thing you guys uh didn't even give me a receipt you guys forgot and then he goes oh we forgot oh yeah I can't wait for a gun okay uh okay come today uh uh five o'clock we give you a burrito okay and I was just like all right sounds great I'll see you in a bit right but the thing is I'm a white guy now right so at five o'clock I call back hi um I'm actually stuck at work my assistant my son my stepson is gonna come in and he actually he's uh you speak Spanish you can talk to you a little bit more he's gonna talk to you a little bit more appreciate it thank you so much he's gonna stop upset pissed off that I'm there I don't even want to be there I just like hey get on there like you told me to come pick up food or something like I don't know what's going on like I don't want to be there like it's so embarrassing he wants me to pick

2:34 up food I'm like oh it's okay it's okay I'm like all right thank you I'm sorry I think he wants limes too and but you'd have to go to like new restaurants every single time because you can't do it to the same one that's right but there's a million Mexican restaurants here but I would also change hours oh I said like your new s████ and I'm like oh the morning shifts or night shifts this guy's calling from a ████ car that's parked like this with a seat down lower and then and then I figured out two batboy figured out I figured out that like uh some things that didn't work because they'll be really like in uh McDonald's they're very persistent with the receipts so what do you do I walk by there pick up any receipt on the

3:24 floor because people just drop receipts pick it up go in there you guys ████ up my order here you go you don't need to see the food as long as you have the receipt they will have to give it to you or sometimes that's a hustle receipt they just see that you have a piece of paper in your hand and they go that's enough for me there you go you scoundrel I love it I love it I love it I would eat free food all the time time it was like nothing for me was it was it rough for you during that time or were you just doing it for funsy you know what it was it was the power [Laughter] the fact that I know I can do it the fact that I would look at the table like a drug dealer I receive a Taco Bell Burger King McDonald's and I just looked at it like the city's mine sorry I know you're gonna run into a business owner like me yeah and I'll be like not today not too late that's ████ not already good I jack those

4:15 millionaires ████ those guys well in this situation I went so ████ this this is a similar situation this person's messing with his own people he misses his own people his own people has ████ up isn't it Jesus ████ ████ up I know this is uh this happens in Australia right and why you gotta ████ with King Taco like that he's the homie man said too much so this happens in Australia Sydney specifically and it's in the fortune telling section oh I didn't see that one coming a fortune teller Swindle is a mom a single mom out of more than 22 thousand dollars in a scam that basically wipes out her entire Lifesaver ████ but what was it what would make you fall for such fortune-telling psychic scams like what would make a single

5:07 mother be like I have to do this this makes a burrito doesn't sound that bad at all this is good I need money from you because a husband's coming your way and I need to help you do that wait what do you mean that's that's what she would spend on I think or just be like yeah let me predict your future for you and you'll be set yeah break it down where's the scam basically this uh it's a little bit more ████ up than one scammer because it's actually kind of like a mini racket okay too many racket oh it's a whole organization sidekick to tarot card readers they got kangaroos in it and koalas everybody's in it and got Crocodile Dundee at everybody they're buying it yup everybody and bye so a couple of her colleagues all right a couple colleagues coaxed her into is a jumbo let's go ahead go ahead sorry I

5:57 went in a couple of colleagues coaster into going to a fortune telling shop down this side and they were in on it this little Lane right ████ uh and uh the second she goes in and sees the sidekick psychics like the only thing I can see at the moment is your kids your kids lives are in danger right I don't get them dude that's even yeah yeah that's better than a husband one they say they said her children had a bad Soul around them and that psychics will come and take the bad Soul away from them yeah so the single mom who had recently been in a car accident was told that she would also soon be in another accident so basically just grave danger all ████ heartstrings dude the hard part again it's not just come from the cyclists come from like her colleagues being like yo you got some some Spirits you gotta do

6:47 yeah they just created this entire Echo chamber just to persuade her into doing this so you know this lady sitting there crying and stuff you know and they're like we've come here for to pray for you uh and they're like but it's gonna cost you thirty dollars right thirty dollars oh Dad that's expensive it's like dude 30 for a initial hand reading It's like got to go in especially if everybody's saying my kids are gonna die right and then right after the handwriting all ████ stuff's getting real stuff's getting worse you know we're gonna need 830 dollars to rid you of the curse that has been plaguing your fans I'm sorry that's a red flag right there like a 30 to 8 30 Jump that's a weird jump 30 is just to like diagnose you know it's like it's like a doctor Vision but getting rid of the spirits ain't cheap that's expensive business or they're like yo 800 bucks to save your children's lives

7:37 wow you know I guess you could save one guess you hate your kids thirty dollars is like the the spirit diet diagnosis that makes sense and then they're like oh this one's gonna be a hard one we found it yeah but I like how it's not it's like a it's like an angel number right it's like it's like off it's not a flat 800. yeah yeah it can't be like 7.99 either it doesn't sound like a deal right yeah it's just like this is a flat standard rate everybody does this right so she pays 800. I do not feel bad for that person at all I don't either the person who got scammed it's like you're you're dumb you're dumb you I'm sorry I'm sorry you're dumb you have to say it though really dude wait wait for the more information this happens okay well I mean no no I I like where you're going but remember she said they're my children and this man was telling me their lives were in danger what was I to

8:27 do not continue not go to a psychic bruh it's so easy I would tell him describe my children yeah describe them say something that they have that only you what's their names start asking I'm sorry but once you're telling me this ████ I'm like give me something to spark something because because I know you can just say anything give me something that made me be like holy ████ only you would know that and me and oh oh and if they can't do that then I'm out I'm ████ out and give me give me my she did like no fact checking on The credibility of it that's like it saying I'm not gonna be Global just hearing what I want like anybody can see me live but that's why you don't go to Sidekicks the people that go to Sidekicks they don't fact check so would you say it's easy money people that go to psychics they're gullible already what people is what you're saying dude I think I think I might have gotten poached at a at a grocery store one time because I was like picking up crafties um for uh for my company and

9:17 um I was like walking by and like this lady comes to me she's like oh you know your aura is really interesting oh here we go oh really and I think I think at this point too like I already just had like a fresh like hair color dye on there so I was like did she just like pick up on me because I got colored hair right and now she's like chilling in the grocery store and she's like yeah like there's something really interesting going on I was like oh yeah tell me about it she's like here's my card you can reach to me and if you want a whole like reading and I was like oh that's a good lead you should flip it on her you should out psychic her be like you know what lady I kind of read you two and your whole aura yes yes exaggerate it and then just see what she does I would have been like it was my car for sure come to my business I would have been like what a kawinky dink ████ because I felt the same thing about you what that's what psychics because I feel the same kind of energy

10:07 and honestly you are surrounded with so much bad energy like and she would have been like you think so like I listen to it right she's like I don't believe in that ████ yeah so after she handed me her card I was like oh all right she's like yeah come by you know like very interesting you're so special I was like you talk so you're like don't need it no I didn't go but I saved it because I was like this is a funny moment in my group we should call him let's call him yeah let's go let's all go please let's all collectively say hey we called you because you're in danger I think you know just what if we go on the assistant is the guy that she was hiking with in ████ Washington like you're all in codes okay but but y'all would have got it

10:57 away you guys want to go out of your way to see a sidekick or no hell no I would not I would not um Bart's mom maybe how did it go from 800. yeah plus one is ████ fortune telling the type ████ are you really yeah Bart sports that's Joe oh nice Asians look alike but yeah dude I wouldn't so uh she pays 830 bucks she gets this ████ spirit this dark Spirit lifted oh that's so good but then the guy's like oh no you need a master fortune teller to go to your home though oh cause now we gotta rid your house the whole further black magic that might have been haunting you that's bruja bro for this they demanded 21 000 that's such a big job it's a lot of money well it's a whole house though it's like I don't have this money so they're like no you

11:47 need to sell your car sell your jewelry sell your possessions this is for your children's life oh well if that's what it takes to get the spirits out I I mean I still don't know and then I believe it you started with that claimed that she needed to have a drink a type of drink for the spirits and stuff and this drink made her unwell and then while she was feeling unwell she alleges that they convinced her to transfer all of her money from her bank account okay so that's it all right that's too much what was this drink called roofies yes it's written here it's called yeah dude I can't do that she reported them to the police and stuff like that some of it was returned on the spot because he was like I'm calling the police and he's like oh no don't call the police he just here's some money yeah here's some money back you're an even more danger yeah yeah you're bringing

12:38 more attention to the spirit but she's still 12 000 out of pocket Jesus so okay okay I'll give you half yeah what made her snap out of him being like I'm calling the police at that point like because they poisoned her with a drink dude it was Spirit she spent all that money and she's all like way dumb man right what point do you lose beliefs right I'm telling you I can't afford to believe you anymore exactly it's too expensive to believe I'm so cheap that it's hard for me to like give money you know what I mean you gotta really give me somebody charged me for something I'm like for what what am I getting exactly six chicken nuggets like you ordered them like you know like you order six chicken nuggets but are they chicken really is it really chicken but he's so cheap that he steals I'm saving money by stealing yeah that's

13:30 dude I didn't spend money it's the best way to ████ being cheap stays in my pocket I know dude I know it's terrible I'm gonna look for receipts at McDonald's now because yeah thanks for the cool hack by the way yeah dude don't use it it's like food tick tocks like hey one way to get a free meal Tick Tock hack oh yeah right I didn't go to jail can you go to jail for that do we have a fat Checker can you go to jail for that not not in California it's allegedly it never happened laughs [Music]

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