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Speaker: Everybody is scamming. Should we join? We gonna get into it. Let's get it.
Speaker: Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I am your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation or follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcast, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership. Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share it with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, this is a Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dilly-dadding a little bit. And then the rest of the episode is about scamming. And if you've been paying attention to the news, you know what we're about to talk about.
Speaker: But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Speaker: What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. I had an interesting conversation okay with somebody the other day.
Speaker: And I'm going to let a little bit of my personal life come out on this episode. It's rare, but it happens. It's rare, but it happens. And if we've talked about this subject before.
Speaker: Okay. But I have a different angle that I want to hit on it. Sure. Okay. So I had a friend who introduced me to her friend to try and hook us up. Make a make a connection. Make a love connection, right? Right.
Speaker: And the connection didn't connect. Like, it was... the the The physical attractiveness was there. The physical chemistry was there. You could tell that we only hung out a couple times. You could that, like, immediately, like, okay, we feeling each other physically. But as we got to talk to each other more, there weren't anything like, I think this person is horrible, or this person thinks I'm horrible. It just wasn't clicking. It's just not gonna it's not going to long-term click. Right. And I'm at age now, ain't no, I i didn't have enough short term situationships. Don't need to do it. Yeah.
Speaker: We're done. We're done with those. So I backed away. Right. I didn't feel like there needed to be a conversation after only really hanging out with the person twice. Mm hmm. So just, you know, we're still friendly. Yeah. We don't hang out.
Speaker: Right. So my friend that introduced us hit me up the other day. and I was like, I got another friend I want to introduce you to. Listen. I was we're going to try when the last one didn't work out. But okay.
Speaker: All right. Listen. All right. ah and And my friend said that the other woman that she introduced me to was basically like, yeah, he wasn't, I forget what the exact term was, but that he wasn't a planner, didn't make plans, didn't didn't didn't show. this is the first woman. This is the first woman that I didn't show, not aggression, but like. Initiative, but just like you you didn't pursue. you didn't pursue. Like I didn't pursue.
Speaker: yeah And then i was like, okay. I i never said anything because this person, my friend, we're a mutual friend. So I didn't say anything. was like, okay, whatever. The reason why we didn't talk, I just said things didn't work out. But this person wanted to give sort of specifics and kind of put the blame on me.
Speaker: I felt a little type of way about it because I don't want dirt on my name out there in the streets. Ultimately, I don't care. Yes. So my friend, when relaying this message to me, i was like, oh, okay.
Speaker: And then my friend said, what's wrong with you guys and dating? It's like nobody is showing initiative. Nobody is making plans. I said, hold on. That's not true.
Speaker: Men absolutely do those things when they're interested in the woman. Right. and And women are out there because my friend was like, oh. And I was like, women are out there thinking that men are just lazy. And and granted, sometimes men are. right some some to Some of y'all are.
Speaker: But also, when we actually care... oh, we'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. We'll do whatever they want to do. We'll fly them out on trips. Like, we'll do, we'll plan. We'll do extravagant things. Just look at proposals that men do. Like, men will absolutely can plan and will do. There was a whole movie called He's Just Not That Into You.
Speaker: yeah and yeah And women still have such difficulty with this. yes I don't know why. Because people want what they want.
Speaker: I guess. Yeah, people want they want. And then people create these fantasies. And then you got fantasies in your head. They create these fantasies in their head. And then they want, like, this is the way it should be. Right.
Speaker: And I'm not saying it's just women. I'm saying majority of time it is women. No, it's definitely, no, let me tell you. Here's where it comes in. Here's where it's men. Okay. Okay.
Speaker: rejection and not being able to accept that and still like pursuing when it's clear. i's like, Hey, i don't, don't really see you like that. I don't understand. I'm a good guy. You know, that's when it comes into, and I'm like, okay, so everybody's out here to Lulu.
Speaker: Yeah. Okay. That's true. I also said to my friend, i was like, this is just generally speaking. This isn't talking about the particular situation that she set me up with. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Even though it was. and She might hear this, but okay. Whatever. It is what it is. 46 years old, I don't really give a damn. No, at this point, no. Pump faking, and I've said this before, extremely important.
Speaker: Yeah. For those people who don't understand what pump faking is, pump faking is when the bill comes to the table, the woman acts like, she might split with it or she's going into her pocket to insinuate that they might go have sex. Now I understand that men out here are saying cool.
Speaker: once again, if that man says cool, pay that bill and never call him again. it's not that hard. yeah Like, we know if, even if we are broke, like, we know what we have we go out with y'all and we might, we might just be like, all right, I'm just not going to order a whole lot. She can get whatever she wants. That's what we do if we like somebody.
Speaker: We truly like somebody. If we like, yeah, we just go split. I'm talking about like the first couple of dates. Not when y'all been together. When y'all been together, It's usually... it should be a mixed bag of, like, who they have. Yes. and I'm talking about, like, the first couple of dates. First of all, I'm old school. Men always pay on the first date. And any date after that, if you've asked her out, pay the bill.
Speaker: Yeah. is really It really should be the person who asked. Should be. Should be. Yeah. But my friend was, like, who's from a different country. It was, like, American men...
Speaker: are different because men overseas, if women like offer to pay, they, they really get offended. And i was like, okay, cool. You in America, been here for a long time. yeah We're not going to get offended. We're looking for that. As a matter of fact, that ick that you get when having to split the check on the first date is the same ick that we get when the woman doesn't pop fake.
Speaker: annie And my friend was like, well, I never, I never reached for my bill on the first date. I was like, mm, you might be having a lot of first dates. Yeah. Because of that. Because I will give somebody the benefit of a doubt on the first date because anxiety, you're nervous, things are going on. You don't want to, like, emasculate.
Speaker: I understand by that. By saying, we can split it, you know, because then it's like, what you think I got it? Like, so it's it's it can be difficult to navigate that situation. Because you don't want to insult the other person, but you also don't want to just assume that it's on them.
Speaker: going to give women a tutorial on how to do the proper pump fake. Because I've heard women's responses. is just like what you just gave me. And that is valid.
Speaker: Yeah. So all you have to do is silently, when the bill drops... just start rummaging around in your purse or your bag or something. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: That's all you really have to do. Might even go so far as to pull out your wallet. Yeah. If he hadn't said, hey, don't worry about because he might just be focused on the bill not seeing what you're doing.
Speaker: You don't have to say anything. The saying something does, it can, I guess, for some men, emasculate them, right? yeah But it's the movement. It's it's it's a pump fake.
Speaker: You know, it's just like a basketball. You got the basketball, you fake it in one direction. to Please explain to people what an actual pump fake is. A pump fake is you got the ball in your hands and you fake the ball in one direction like you're going in that direction, but you're not.
Speaker: It's a fake, right? yeah Pump yeah fake. Just fake. Act like you're moving towards your purse. He's going to be like, hey, hey, hey. No, no, no. Don't worry. Like, this is on me. I wanted to take you out.
Speaker: That's, for for men out there, that's your response. You now, it's a little, it's a little dance. It's a little dance. Dating is all about little dances, right? Yeah.
Speaker: That's all you got to do, women. You ain't got to say nothing. Y'all better than me. Huh? Huh? Y'all better than me, because I'd be at the table as soon as that bill come. I'd be like, you got this right? Yeah. Well, yeah. As we always say, you're the son our father always wanted. Anyway. ah And am.
Speaker: and Yeah. And am. Yeah. So, and I was explaining that to her and I was like, yo, this is a thing. Women had these X out there, right? Men got to be a certain height. they got They got to carry themselves a certain way. And I'm not saying this about all women, but when men have X, they want to have issues with the x Look, y'all got yours.
Speaker: We got ours. It's okay. And if things don't align, fine. I've had yeah way more relationships and situations and dates that didn't work out that actually did.
Speaker: Yeah, because that's the so that's that's how it works. Like, yes ideally, in the ideal a world, not to say that I subscribe to this, but ideally, ah you're with one person until you die. So that means all the rest of your relationships are failures.
Speaker: And that's just how it is. I don't like the word failure. all your I mean, they don't last. Yeah, they end. Well, that makes them a failure, right? but No, doesn't. oneever The point of a relationship, ultimately, like, we're looking for that person that we're supposed to spend our life with. So if it doesn't end up that way, then it didn't hit the goal, which means... See, I see i think that's another thing. i'm from See, you come from a generation where they get participation trophies. No, I don't. No, I don't get lost. No, I don't. I am the generation where you actually had to earn there was no participation trophies. That's your generation. Yeah, that's my generation. Yeah, that's not my generation. But it's like you either won or you lost like that.
Speaker: You hit the mark or you didn't. And so like most of your relationships are not going to work out. ah That's how it's going to end. But but all relationships end.
Speaker: All of them. Yeah, ideally when when one of you dies, though. but that's That's what the okay hope is. I don't like the term failure because it means that you failed.
Speaker: Therefore, nothing was gained from being in it. And that's not No, you learn a lot from failure. Okay. You do learn a lot from failure. This is true.
Speaker: This is true. I just don't like that i don't like the term failure. You don't like the negative connotation it. Yeah, i don't it. But you look at the word failure, it just means that you didn't succeed. And like, yeah, we can learn from... But not everybody join gets into a situation to be like, I want this to be my forever. Sometimes people get in a situation and be like, I want this to be my right now.
Speaker: And then in that sense, it ends and it's still successful. And I say that's nine times out of ten. That is the intent. I'm saying, and ideally... Ideally, most of your 99.99999% of relationships are not going to work out because the i d hope is that you just have the one. yeah and Now, is that a reality? no I've had many relationships that have ended, ah but I've learned a lot from them.
Speaker: So, yeah. yeah I think you can learn. I still think you learn. i honestly think you learn more from your failures than you do from your success. Oh, absolutely. I would throw this down and be like, hey, everybody, leave your comment about what you think about my situation. I'm to be real honest with You you can. i don't really give shit. you Just be real honest. I don't care. Like, look.
Speaker: Oh, so is the ultimate question whether you should go out with the second person? Well, no, so when I broke it down from my friend, I was like, oh, you're having reservations and introducing me to your second friend, aren't you? She was like, honestly? Yep. And I was like, cool, you ain't got to. Yeah, you don't have to. I'm not knocking down the doors to be introduced to people. Right. Let's be honest, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker: I'm a decent-looking dude. Odds are I could walk out there on the street and meet somebody. You know how I know this to be true? Because it happens thousands of times. Okay. It is not hard for me to meet people. I am a personable person, even though I'm an introvert. Don't ask me to explain it. It just is what it is. So yeah I can meet people and i don't have no problem meeting women. I don't need nobody to set me up. So my friend doesn't want to set me up.
Speaker: Okay. that's Don't really care. Track record is not that great anyway. so like she had It was one for one. And and and she wasn't wrong in that the personalities mixed, the physical attractiveness was there. It just, I knew that, okay, are our...
Speaker: What we want want what yeah ah ah what we want out of life is, it that's what I look at nowadays. what what is yeah What is it that you want out of life? yeah And I'm not somebody, quite frankly, not to say this person is, but I'm just generally speaking.
Speaker: I'm not somebody who really gives a damn about money. Not in the standpoint where I'm chasing money. Right. I feel like this is just my personal opinion.
Speaker: When people chase money, they their morals are up for sale. Their principles and morals are up for sale. Certainly their dignity is, especially if you work in corporate.
Speaker: Okay. and And I think the heart of me, I truly am an artist. Yeah. Right? Like, that's that's what I am. I'm an artist. yeah So there's no amount of money that you could put on my art that would make me suppress my art to form it to where you want it to be. Well, there's a lot of people out there that will do that.
Speaker: Yeah. All the time. And i just not... can't bought. You can't be bought. Yeah. Somebody said something crazy to me one time, and it was like a homosexual acts, right? Mm-hmm. And it was like, if somebody paid you this amount of money, would you do it? This amount of money, would you do it? And I'm like, I'm not gay. No. Yeah. No, there's no amount of money. There's no amount of money. and Like, i'm not gay. Like, if I was a vegetarian or vegan, there's no amount of money that you could pay me to eat Yeah.
Speaker: Right. You know, like, it's just, like, I stand on what I stand on. Right or wrong, I'm a principal person. I stand on what I stand on. So, yeah no, the reason why I brought all this up was really the pump faking thing. And that yeah my friend was just like, I didn't never even heard of it. never even, like, thought of that. And I was like, come on now. we Like, we're up here in age. Everybody should know this by now. Just as gentle. It's a common, courtesy, polite thing.
Speaker: Yeah, we're not kids anymore. We, come on now. It's like when you go an office party, you are you say hello to everybody. Yeah. even if Even though you don't like Sarah.
Speaker: I can't stand Sarah. But you're going to say hello. I'm going to say, hey, girl. Right. got fake toqui it make it. Mm-hmm. What about your cat?
Speaker: Mm-hmm. It was acting like a cat? It was acting like yeah cat. Yeah. One quick thing before we get out of here. Mm-hmm. Completely different topic. We're only going spend two or three minutes on it. That's Okay. Okay. Okay.
Speaker: Drew Hill or Jagged Edge. If they did a versus. Drew Hill. Okay. So my friend, same age as you, was like, Drew Hill would win, but I'm so much of a Jagged Edge fan.
Speaker: I would want them to win, but Drew Hill would win. And then I was thinking to myself, I don't even think it's close. Drew Hill has too many hits. It seemed like every song they came out with was a hit.
Speaker: and And as long as they have the silky smooth vocals of jazz and the, what's my man from Jonas, the KC-esque vocals. The raspiness of Cisco. Of Cisco. Yeah, you just, I'm sorry. Here's the thing. And it's not that I'm not a Jagged Edge fan. I 100% am. Every single summer since this song came out, you will see me riding around the city with all my windows down and my moonroof open playing Where the Party At.
Speaker: Yeah. Because it's just a great summer song. It is. play Summertime, Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff, and then I play Where the Party At. that's Those are my two Summertime songs. So it's not like I'm not a fan. But come on.
Speaker: Come on. Yeah, I mean, it's Drew Hill. As soon as they break out beauty, sleeping in my bed, up the five steps. Like, come on. Come on, man. It's Drew Hill. ah what is What is my favorite song from Drew Hill? Never Make a Promise is one of my favorites. That's a good one. That's a good one. We're not going to fall down this rabbit hole, but I just wanted to get your i just wanted to get your thoughts on it because Drew Hill.
Speaker: And they only had they had three albums, but they really only had two. Yes. They really only had Because that third album, i don't know if anybody... They got one jam on that third album. that That first song on that third album is great, but... Yeah.
Speaker: It was too much infighting, and Woody had left and came back, and Jazz was in rehab, and it all kinds things. It was all kinds of things going on. But yeah, sorry. I'm looking over their top hits and fan favorites now. It's like, nope.
Speaker: Come on. These Are The Times is also one of my favorite songs. These are the times. Tell me. How deep is your love? Never make a promise. In my bed. We not making love no more from the Soul Food soundtrack.
Speaker: You Are Everything, that one with Jabu. You are Everything. Remix is even better. Remix. The remix is even better. Yes. I mean, come on. Five Steps, Beauty. Come on. Yeah, I mean, Jagged Edge got some hits, yeah but just not on Drew Hill. But that's our just a little music minute. Mm-hmm. But I said something earlier. I said, fake it until you make it.
Speaker: Yes. And boy, oh boy, do these next two segments really emphasize people faking it until they kind of made it.
Speaker: What is the person you thought you were Googling was the person that was actually lying to you? The FBI says Dajon or Dajon or whatever the boy's name is, love, spent four years pretending to be a San Francisco 49er wide receiver. And prosecutors say he didn't do it alone. They allege they allege he and an 18-year-old accomplice used dating apps to scam more than two dozen women out of roughly $1.3 million. dollars But here's where it gets real crazy. Some of the women got suspicious. and They did what you're supposed to do. They Googled him. And Google said he was real. AI said that he was real. So this man allegedly took the lie, got the machine to back up the lie, and then screenshotted the machine's answer and sent it back to the victims as proof.
Speaker: Let's think about that for a second. The thing these women used to fact check the scam became part of the scam. Now, everything here is alleged, so i want to just focus on the fact that Mr. Dijon Love has not been convicted of anything yet But if the prosecutors are right, we're not just talking about a romance scam. We're talking about a scammer who figured out how to make AI his accomplice. Now, Jay, you hit me up when we did the after the hours. like We didn't talk about this. I said, don't worry.
Speaker: It is all the second segment of the main show because we had to talk about this. It's been all on social media. The guy that pretended to be an NFL wide receiver scamming women out of money. You said you had a lot of things to to talk about about this.
Speaker: Before I even get to the key facts, I'm going to just let you say your piece on all of this that was going on. Well, my very first thing is to, and I think this, this like, the plot gets lost a little a little bit because it has AI built in But Google is a search engine. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: It's not an answer machine. You're supposed to then click the links that pop up, one of which would have been the official NFL.com San Francisco 49ers roster, and you look up number seven, look up number seven, and you notice that it's not Dijon Love. Some of y'all stop at the Google.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. And you think that that's the end of the search. No, that's the search engine. You have to then put the links yeah and and continue to do so. Some of y'all be like, I did my research. No, you didn't. Because you never clicked a link to verify what the AI is saying. The AI is going to just, again, it's not thinking.
Speaker: It is a model that predicts the next word, right? So it is going to scrape the internet and it's going to find him perpetrating and it'll say, yes, this person is real and he is a member of the San Francisco 49ers. Why? Because he's put that on the internet.
Speaker: okay You got to then look up the roster. Some of y'all don't take that extra step to verify You say the the the phrase is trust, but verify. You got to verify. And that's where some of y'all fall short. Cause ain't no way.
Speaker: In 22, here's how, you know, he was scamming the ladies. That's not really chasing ballplayers. Cause there's ladies that are out there that are chasing ballplayers. And let me tell you something about these ladies. They know your stats. Yeah.
Speaker: They know your net worth. They know who you dated, who your mama is, your favorite color, what kind of food you like. Like, those ladies are already, they know who the players are. So that's how i know he didn't target ladies that are actually about that life. That's number one. Number two, y'all, got to be more discerning.
Speaker: Okay, you just gotta be, you just gotta be. And the thing of the thing of it is, is that our own egos sometimes will have us believe in BS and Because it feeds our ego. It feeds your ego to so to say, an NFL wide receiver is in my DMs. That's feeding your ego. But it's also not true. You need to step outside of yourself and do some due diligence and be a little bit more discerning. Because it ain't that many players in the NFL. And then if you take out the ones that's already dating someone. It's actually a lot of NFL players.
Speaker: I mean, players. it He could be he can still be a wide receiver, and he might not get on the field, but he's still an NFL wide receiver. it ain't like there's millions of them.
Speaker: It's 55 for 32 teams. That's over 150. That's not a lot.
Speaker: that's not a lot Actually, that number is really wrong. I believe it's 1,500. definitely wrong. But 1,500 is, think about it. Okay, 1,500.
Speaker: Cut out the ones that's already dating. Cut out the ones that are married. and You got a handful, you got a couple hundred people. Now, cut out the ones that's way too damn young for y'all. The freshies out the box. dump dumbbu They too young for y'all. Okay.
Speaker: Okay. So you got a limited pool and you think he your DMs.
Speaker: Just. The odds of it is just very slim. You know, that's, that's my thing. And if somebody asks you for money, even if they promise to send you back more And even if they actually do it the first time, if somebody is asking you for money, it's a scam.
Speaker: His was a little bit more sophisticated than just straight up asking them for money. So he's 35 years old. He's gotten an alleged accomplice, Taylor Chin, who's 18, who played his financial advisor. Most ah most victims...
Speaker: We're found on dating apps, and he's been doing this since February 2022. He poses a 49ers wide receiver, worn number seven. Also a real estate investor. He had 26 victims that have been identified. f believe FBI believes that there are more.
Speaker: Like I said, it roughly $1.3 million dollars taken. No victim ever paid back. So he wasn't giving that money back. Victims across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California. He faked bank balances with phone apps once showed that he had $30 million. dollars Chan joined three-way FaceTime calls showing fake gains, told victims to take out personal loans when cash ran dry and blocked victims once the money stopped coming in. Now...
Speaker: How he faked the algorithm, how he faked AI was flooding the internet with these videos that I know y'all have seen with him running on beach with his helmet on.
Speaker: No NFL player. Where's their helmet? The game day helmet.
Speaker: That's supposed to be in your locker. Your game day helmet. Yes. And you on the beach. And that... Maybe because I watch football. but Like, I'm watching... Like, I'm looking through all these videos that he's put. I'm looking at it. Because I am deeply invested in this kind of scam. Because I don't and ever understand how it actually happens.
Speaker: Like, it looked fake. Yes. Yes. I mean, it looks fake because we knew it, right? But like you said, you brought up something that I didn't even think about as ego.
Speaker: Side story. I was once dating a fitness influencer. <unk>s bad it She's a fitness influencer, right? I was excited for the fact that I was dating this badass fitness influencer.
Speaker: Horrible person. what yeah First people that I've ever met in my entire life. Okay. Well, to me, just very self-centered, superficial and toxic.
Speaker: And what? I kicked it for longer than I should have because I like that trophy on my arm. yeah So it stroked my ego. They want me. When I know all these other dudes is in their DM. Horrible person. This person was actually real.
Speaker: But this person to them is real because they get him on FaceTime. He's showing the bank accounts. He's showing pictures in front of McLaren and a Lamborghini in the video just flaunting it. He's flaunting that life. You can rent those. You can. It costs money though.
Speaker: It costs money money money that he's getting from them. He got 1.3. He scams one to get the money to rent the stuff so he can scam other people. First, listen, if somebody is giving you a bunch of evidence that they got something, just know they ain't got it. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Just know that they don't actually have it. Because if you got to, oh, let me show you my bank app and I'll get i'll show you ah these are my gains and all of my financial gains blah, blah, blah, blah. That's letting me know you ain't got a dime. Because why are you working so hard to prove to me that you got money?
Speaker: Well, some people will flash. I mean, I was... My favorite rap group in the in the early in the late 90s, early 2000s was the Big Timers. And all they did... i had I wore two giant diamonds in my ears, two watches, and a thick chain, fronting like I had that type of money.
Speaker: did not. Yeah, but their name was literally Big Timers. Like, that was the whole persona. It was. Was excess. Mm-hmm. Right. And showing that you big time. That's that's different. This is the.
Speaker: If somebody is showing you all these receipts to prove that they got money, it means they don't have it. Because if they actually had money, you would see the wealth on them.
Speaker: People with money, you could just tell that they got money. Even if they dressed a real bummy, they they got that they got that I got money air about them. Their eyes are all clear.
Speaker: know? Because they ain't stressed? They ain't stressed. No bags under their eyes. They just kind of whistle at random moments. Like, just whistle while they walk around. Skipping down the street. Skipping. Every day looks sunny. You know, you can tell people with money. they They're attractive, even though they're really not. You know, like...
Speaker: is You could just tell. They give off an aura. it is That's what the young people say now. We said swag. It's now aura. They give off this they give off this aura, and you just know.
Speaker: So when they're showing you a bunch of things to prove to you, no, I got money. I just need your money for blah, blah, blah. You've already lost me. Because if you got money, why you need me to take out a loan? Yeah. so he was they were both arrested in Idaho.
Speaker: In Idaho. And we ain't even there. You know what I'm saying? Ain't even nobody named amy There's Black people and there's black people in Idaho. If you don't remember the movie Moving, it was all about Richard Pryor and his family moving to Boise, Idaho. That's why I was fictional. There's got to be Black people in Idaho. there's It's our entire state. But he was arrested.
Speaker: him and Chan were arrested, meeting more victims. So they weren't done. He's being held without bond because he's supposedly a serious flight risk where Chan was released pending a trial because, boy, only 18 years old. That's the thing that'd be killing me. I'm you...
Speaker: I'm 18. He was scamming me. He told me to play a role. I thought it was an acting gig. Look, if I was scammed, I'd be throwing him under the bus. All the way. I still got my whole life ahead him. Are you kidding me?
Speaker: So you told him a new one, but I got to just say that we tell people to do the research all the time. And a lot of people aren't technologically savvy to realize that when they now...
Speaker: do the Google search in Google, hey even if you don't click on AI mode, there'll be an AI overview in the regular Google before you even get to the sources. So yeah i don't think people are aware of that. and And they also aren't aware that AI won't give you all the right information. We've been screaming at the top of our lungs that AI doesn't give you the right information.
Speaker: But not everybody not everybody is technologically savvy as we are because we we are. You're definitely in that industry. I'm somewhat, I use AI a lot. I deal with it a lot. So I'm well versed in and have been over the last four years. But a lot of people, this is all brand new to them. And so when they Google something,
Speaker: they just think, yeah, okay, I found the thing. And and they're also not researchers, right? They're not right checking sources. They're just like, Google told me this. Like, that's what people say now. Like, look it up. They don't say, look it up. They say, Google it.
Speaker: Google it. Yeah. Yeah. um It's definitely become part of the lexicon. But again, even when it shows like the AI answer, it'll still over on the right, show you the sources.
Speaker: yeah And if those sources don't look legit,
Speaker: Keep scrolling. What is legit, though? Most people don't know what's legit and what's not legit. Is the source NFL.com or is it Instagram? But if he's got an Instagram where, you know, he's got a certain amount of followers. That's another thing. Okay.
Speaker: Yes, he's got the blue check. But if you remember, Meta changed it where you can purchase the blue check. You can purchase the blue check. He's 6,800 followers.
Speaker: Oh, that was it? That was it. So that already lets me know. I don't know an NFL player out there. I found the most random NFL player I could find, and he still had 30K.
Speaker: Yeah, because you're going to think that... If it's your team, if you love the Philadelphia Eagles, if you find a player on there that you like, you might start following him. And he might be obscure. He might be somebody that's on the kickoff team. right But you'd be like, okay, well, no, kind of like him. you know he He works hard. Let me follow on Instagram. So just from the fans alone, you should hit 10 to 20K.
Speaker: You should also have... networks following you like ESPN might be following you, you know, like any of those shows, they might be following you. Your team's page typically follows you, right?
Speaker: Like your teammates typically will follow you. But it's the ego. It's the ego. Like they're not looking for these things. 6,800 followers. I know that this is not a person who has been playing in the NFL. Right.
Speaker: All right. I hear what you're saying. And I'm not saying that what you're saying doesn't have validity. It does. But, but let me just give a different perspective.
Speaker: Have you ever heard of pig butchering? Pig butchering. Yes. No. ah Let me break it down for you. It's a translation of a Chinese phrase, shoes in pan.
Speaker: And it's the image is deliberately ugly. You fatten the pig up. so you can slaughter it, right? Mm-hmm. How does this relate to what my man Mr. Love was doing? So step one is not money.
Speaker: It's the relationship. The scammer spends weeks or months being the perfect partner, building a real emotional trust, This is the fattening.
Speaker: So, yes, you're building up the ego. The person has an ego, but they're building up the ego by just their interaction. Oh, you're beautiful. I think about you all the time. I just got out practice. You know what saying? The first thing I wanted to do was text you, how you doing today?
Speaker: How you doing, baby? going to soak in the tub a little bit later because I'm sore for practice. Like, this is the fattening, right? a Step two is the pivot. Once they get the trust, they introduce an investment, usually crypto or something else that they're supposedly getting rich on. And that's what he did. He was like, you look, he was driving around saying, I got these properties. I got these investments. He got his boy. That's his financial advisor on three way talking about these gains that you're getting. And everybody want to get rich quick. Everybody thinks that they could throw an investment and then flip it three times in two hours. That's what everybody's thinking. That does not exist. That's not how money works. It does. We're talking about cocaine, but we're not talking about that. don't even work that way with cocaine.
Speaker: it It don't. Not that quick. so don't don't Okay. Not that I know. Not that i know. Right. But I know. yeah Anyway, ah sure step three is the hook. They show you the fake gangs on a fake platform.
Speaker: So they put in a little, then they put in a lot. and And then my man is telling once again, they're showing them these fake bait statements. They're showing them these gangs, all this type of stuff.
Speaker: This is pig butchering. Then there's step four. And this is the actual slaughter. The moment you were tapped out and they start asking the question, the money, the person both begin to vanish. Right. So then they got your money.
Speaker: Yep. And then you're like, wait minute, where are my gains coming? And then they ghosted. They blocked you. And that's what happened in this situation. Two people complained.
Speaker: They was like, look, he done got me for this bread. That's how the indictments came down. That's how he got arrested. So, look, there's a whole industry And it's funny because one of the areas is California, and South Carolina.
Speaker: i mean, South, fra not South Carolina, San Francisco and California. There's a whole market of romance scams and that they're saying that six point three million dollars is now the new number.
Speaker: Right. It used to be. $734,000 of people would get scammed in in maybe a year. It's jumped up 900% over the last couple of years. Some of the victims have jumped up 80%. There's been an account of nearly 80% of all romance scam theft in South Carolina. And that's, I keep saying South Carolina and San Francisco and San Francisco and the surrounding area, Santa Clara, San Mateo and Almedina, right? 80%.
Speaker: eighty percent rise in romance scam theft in the region in just 2025. So the point of this is, this... You know, we making fun Dijon Mustard Love.
Speaker: Yeah. But the fact of the matter is, He was in that area and saw and it and was like, I can do this. I can do this.
Speaker: I can go on NFL fan shop and get a replica helmet. I can go and use other people's money to rent luxury cars and then pose in front of them for photos and then hurry up and take them back within the hour because you pay by the hour. You can do all of these things and scam people, but a scam is a two-way street.
Speaker: Yeah, I know. You gotta have a mark yes that will buy into it. And that we know of, there have been at least 26. And y'all just got to be. and Maybe it's just because I'm a naturally suspicious person. Like, even you remember during COVID, like, there were all these, like, scams going around. Well, you're in scam capital.
Speaker: I'm in the scam capital of the world, truly, in Atlanta, Georgia. But, like, there were all these, like, money scams, Ponzi schemes and stuff going around. I ain't never put a dime in nothing. And I had friends telling me, no, no, you make your money back, aboveh blah, blah. said, okay, fer friend.
Speaker: Okay. Not if you're the last person on the list. Skepticism is one thing. You're a cynic. Yeah. I don't trust nobody. No, especially if you asking me for money.
Speaker: And also, I don't even think crypto, Bitcoin, all that stuff is not even real. First of all, money is not real. Money is money. I don't even know where you're going with this. Now, this has gone off the rails. Money is not even real. But no, we made it up. We made up currency. Okay, yes, but it's real, though. We assigned value to things and we made it up. And so all of this is made up.
Speaker: I don't see how people making money through digital money. I don't know what y'all are talking about. And it all sounds like a scam. much do you know about crypto? Nothing. Literally nothing.
Speaker: One of my favorite podcast hosts, Bomani Jones, calls it funny money, crypto money. And I've never gotten involved with it. And every time people are like, man, you need get to get this crypto. I'm like, no, seemed like gambling to me. Because the stock market is gambling to me. They're like, no, it's not gambling. I'm like, yes yes, if you play. It's just gambling with analytics. Right. So is gambling. Gambling is gambling with analytics. It's all analytics. I mean, you can't go to the casino with your laptop.
Speaker: No, but you know odds. can do it in your head. Yeah, you could do that type stuff. But the stock market is just it's just gambling with better analytics. than yeah Yeah, that's all it is. But we've been calling off on a tangent. Ladies and gentlemen, look.
Speaker: Because it's not just women getting scammed by men and men getting scammed by women and men getting scammed by men and women getting scammed by women and people getting scammed by people. It's also old people are constantly getting scammed with all the... Look, it was a whole movie based off of The Beekeeper that me and my sister just absolutely love.
Speaker: Jason Statham. And Felicia Rashad. And yeah let me tell you something. When Felicia Rashad, spoiler alert, committed suicide because she had got scammed out of her money.
Speaker: We wanted the beekeeper to get them. Yeah. I just knew the beekeeper was going to equalize. He was going to equalize. And scams are happening all over the place. So what are some things that you could do to make sure or at least attempt to make sure that going to get scammed? All right. send money to someone you have only met online.
Speaker: Damn. that's That's a key one. Step one. That's a key one. Reverse image search. The profile photo before you trust it.
Speaker: I'm king on reverse image search. During the pandemic, I was on all these dating apps. I was like, this profile seemed like it's fake. yeah Let me go ahead reverse image search. Sure enough, I'd be seeing in different names all over the place. was like, you ain't gonna catfish me. ain't seen that show too many times. Yeah.
Speaker: I done seen every season. You ain't gonna get me. I mean, it tripped me out when a catfish don't be a catfish. And it's happened a couple of times. It has. that episode, on the show. Very strange, but yeah.
Speaker: But like, no, you you're not going to get me. Yeah. And here's a final one. And this backs up what you've been saying this entire segment. Treat an AI answer as a starting point.
Speaker: Click through to get to the real sources. Mm-hmm. Ladies gentlemen, I cannot stress it enough. Do research, please. Yes. Please. Do some research.
Speaker: Please care more about your pockets than y'all do. stop clicking them links stop stop but look somebody in your DMs and that it seems like it's your friend it's not just text your friend and see if it's actually them yeah like that's happened and we we actually played with that scammer for a little bit and we did yeah that was fun but like Come on, y'all. Y'all got to be a little bit more discerning. I'm not saying you got to be like me and be a complete cynic.
Speaker: that I'm not saying that. But be skeptical. Be skeptical at least. yeah but A cynic believes everything is always a lie. A skeptical asks the question, is this a lie?
Speaker: And then follows through. That's the difference. So please, at least be a skeptic in life. Yeah.
Speaker: What if you were so confident in your ability to commit fraud that you started selling a class on how to do it? Samari Brooks is a 34-year-old man from Stone Mountain, Georgia. He also rapped under the name Junie Knott. And on August 27, 2026, he was sentenced to six years in federal prison for bank fraud and agitated identity theft. Not agitated. Not agitated.
Speaker: Yeah, aggravated identity theft. Excuse me. You know what? It was agitated, too. Look, I'm agitated to all these scammers. But check it out. That's not even the crazy part. Prosecutors say Brooks was stealing checks out of the mail, altering them, and then trying to run them through other people's bank bank accounts. That's just one layer of the story. Here's the second layer. He allegedly turned the whole thing into a business. He was selling online tutorials teaching other people how to commit financial fraud. So basically, like, I'm a criminal, and I'm going to show you how to be a criminal, too. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: Except there's just one problem. His scams apparently didn't work. Prosecutors say he never successfully passed the checks. Law enforcement found a bunch of them still sitting inside of his house. And there's no evidence that any victims actually lost money. yeah So let me make it paint a clear picture.
Speaker: yeah He allegedly tried to commit fraud. couldn't get the fraud to work, and then started selling tutorials teaching people how to do the fraud. That's not a mastermind. That was the real scam. That's the real scam. That's not a mastermind. That's a failed criminal entrepreneur. And prosecutors basically said his boldness was only matched by his ineptitude
Speaker: So Brooks pled guilty. So unlike some of the other stories. He's got choice. They found all the checks. They found all the checks. This isn't an allegation. He got six years, like i said earlier, in federal prison. And apparently the only thing he successfully passed was getting caught. So another scammer that wasn't successful. But he was selling stuff. and this ain't far from you.
Speaker: No, it's not. Well, Stone Mountain ain't close. If anybody knows Atlanta, Stone Mountain ain't close, but it's close enough that... and Listen...
Speaker: Atlanta is the scamming capital of the world. I believe that. I believe one in three people, this is a statistic I completely made up right now on the spot, but one in three people in this in this city is scamming. Okay. That is what I 100% feel because sometimes I see people in these luxury high like high rises and they ain't been to work. I seen them go to work ah not one day. And I'm just wondering.
Speaker: how How? How? Because you got to submit. ah ah What is it like your income? Yeah. Sometimes sometimes they just go by your credit score. In Atlanta, you got to submit your income to get an apartment. And so there are people that got scams to get you fake pay stubs. Yeah. Well, that's not really even difficult.
Speaker: No, it's not. It's literally just, you know, Microsoft Word. and A little bit more little bit more intricate than Microsoft Word, but with ai you can create a fake pay stub very easily. The only thing yes is, like you gotta have like ah a real company. The company has to at least exist Yeah. Right? Before you could do a pay stub. So I didn't know that was a scam ah that yeah people were were doing. It's a lot of scams down here. So this does not surprise me. What does surprise me is that
Speaker: You're trying to make money telling people how to do scams that you have never done successfully. And what it reminds me of is remember when when we were young and there would be some infomercials of people, of these guys living this luxurious life. And you can too, if you buy my book and it's a Ponzi scheme or something like that. It's the same thing you want to be rich get rich like me and do this and this i'm getting rich off of selling you the books chump because
Speaker: that's the ultimate scam the scam was the book yes yes he has My thing is, it's been documented that he's been doing this from January 2022.
Speaker: twenty twenty two So soon as we got out of the pandemic, he he probably got himself a PPP loan. That was prime time. Like, yeah pandemic, really, scamming in Atlanta exploded during the pandemic. And the PPP loans, boy. Yeah.
Speaker: It exploded. And so now it's really an art. like And I've seen some people do it quite well, honestly. And like especially like scamming the government.
Speaker: And I've seen people get tens of thousands back from taxes and like different things. like, dang, how y'all do that Oh, I got a person. Well, hook hooked me up. I don't want it. no i do I don't want it. Don't do it. That was the first... It was an nope your girl Your girl will do... I've done my own taxes my whole life, and going keep on doing my own taxes. Y'all not going... I would say this. We asked the question at the top. Everybody is scamming. Should we? No.
Speaker: No. no ah i'm Because i'm not I'm not going to federal prison. No. No. But my man did this from January 2022 through November 2025, right? So he would take the stolen checks from the mail. Then he used social media to recruit people with existing bank accounts to act as deposit accounts. And he would alter the stolen checks to make these... ah to With the account holders, right? And then he would go and deposit them throughout different ATMs in the Atlanta metro area.
Speaker: And he had it a so a calling card, basically, because he wore a certain mask. And on that mask, it read, no free sauce, why he was making these deposits. Now, the combined face value for all the stolen checks was $6.5 million, dollars right? woof So, but I said something at the top.
Speaker: That it didn't actually work. It didn't work. yeah It didn't work. So he would deposit these checks, but he wasn't withdrawing no money out because these checks weren't clearing. Yeah. So he was doing fraud for three years, but not really doing fraud.
Speaker: Not really doing fraud. And it it it honestly is like, okay, once you tried it the first time, because here's the thing, you can't just deposit a check and it just, the money appear. The bank got to verify it. Yes. Yes.
Speaker: So you can't just change the payee and think, oh, this is going to work. It's not going to work. And it didn't work for three years.
Speaker: yeah but but But I bet you he made the money off the tutorials. I bet you he definitely, definitely, definitely did. Because the fact that I could ask someone here in Atlanta, do y'all know what sauce books are? And they'd be like, oh, yeah, you talking about Juni Nostum books on scamming? That's crazy work. And that also lets me know he made some money off them books. Uh-huh. For sure. And that he was semi-popular doing it. Look, I...
Speaker: the first In the last segment, Dijon Love was actually scamming. He got $1.3 million, dollars right? Yes, yes. This $6.5 million dollars figure is what they could have gotten, is what all the checks amounted to.
Speaker: But he didn't get a dime. Not one single. Not a single solitary. set So is it really scamming? Here's the thing. i Okay, he failed at that, but he was successful selling the books and His music, his merch, all of that. He made money.
Speaker: He just didn't get that 6.5 mil. So if you've been doing it for three years and you ain't getting out of dime, but you started getting money perpetrating the fraud that you are a scammer, why not just stop breaking the law that you're not getting any money from and just lied to the people? We're used to rappers lie.
Speaker: Yes. We're used to rappers lie. Yes. Just lie to the people. You ain't got to buy checks. There are plenty of rappers who lived a regular, normal life that rap about being in the game and being thugs and killers. And we like, you grew up on a on a street called Shady Oaks Lane.
Speaker: That lets me know that it was a nice little suburb. Like, please, you perpetrate it. Yeah, like I would have just leaned in. to the double fraud, which is what it is. You pretend it. You're fraudulently pretending to be a fraudster.
Speaker: It's a double fraud. So I would have just leaned into the double fraud and sold the books and the merch. Why? ki Cause ah you know what it was? The prosecutor said it. He's an F. He thought it would work at least once. It,
Speaker: Over three years? He was going to keep on trying. Hey, we've been doing this podcast for three years. but
Speaker: It's going work. It's called consistency. You got to be consistent. for Or insanity. Or insanity. yeah but One or the other. purpose The point is, you're consistent either way. It's about consistency. yeah if if ah I what you're saying with the comparison with the podcast. that's a funny That's a funny analogy. However, we have grown. We have seen some benefits from doing the podcast. So did he and them books. But not from the actual...
Speaker: altering of the checks. So just stop altering the checks. Why keep going for three years? Why? what but Why keep posting on YouTube? Why keep... Listen, it's the same thing. No, it's not the same thing. And why draw it to... Why, if you're going to commit fraud, why, if you are breaking the law, are you going to have a signature with a certain mask that every single time talking about free sauce.
Speaker: yeah I don't even know no free sauce. I don't even know what that means. That's ah young people saying, what does that mean? I don't know what it means. We can look at ah ah an urban dictionary, but I don't know what that means. But the thing of the thing of it is is, like,
Speaker: he, it's it's the image, right? He was selling the image of doing fraud and committing fraud, even though he was a fraud at being a fraud, double fraud. Like he was selling the image and he was profiting off of that image. Now, could he have stopped doing the actual fraud?
Speaker: Well, at this point, he already started. And so like, were regardless, but I mean, like the first time he did it, you was you gonna go down if they catch you right so you might as well keep being consistent there is a statute of limitations on certain crimes had he stopped the first year i don't know what the statute of limitations are they typically run five ten fifteen years right yeah had he just not done had he just stopped after the first time like oh this didn't work i would be to my heart rate would be through the roof
Speaker: Every time I deposited one of them checks. Because eventually, you going around the metro area, who's to say that he was using different banks? Who's to say? No, guarantee this dum-dum was using the same four five ATMs. Who? He was using PNC and Capital One everywhere. Everywhere went, PNC and Capital One.
Speaker: I understand the the scam that he was running after the fact, right? Yes. Our president and that's in the United States Oval Office right now. Mm-hmm. Running the same type scam. Running the same scam, yes. Say they something, sell you on something, they not that, but you start to it. Did anybody get their phones, their little gold phones? They did start to, after he made that trip to China.
Speaker: Yeah. So they're non-American made gold phones? They changed it. They said it was going to be American made, and it was inspired by America. But anyway, scam it. Just stick to the scam that's actually working.
Speaker: yeah Because that it wasn't... That is legal. What he was doing, i think, were you... don't think so. You can't just release tutorials on how to commit crimes. I feel like that's not legal.
Speaker: I don't know. You could say that's artistic freedom. That might be under the First Amendment, the freedom speech. think might be protected? I don't know. It might be. I've got to have to talk to my lawyer friends about that. Yeah, there's a lot of caveats to that. Like, you can't, like, incite violence with your speech. You can't do... So, like, this is... don't think this is inciting violence, though. But, like, there's caveats to the First Amendment. So, there might be a caveat for if your speech...
Speaker: in some way, incites or facilitates people doing crimes. You might not be able to do that. But, I mean, if he sold the books as fiction... There you go.
Speaker: You know? Or, so hey. See, that's a scam. yeah Not this inept scam that he was doing. well Okay, look. Basically, the hit song is where all my scammers at. They're here.
Speaker: They're in Atlanta. Ladies, y'all was asking for them. Yeah. Be careful what you asked for because were singing that song and you can get scammed out your money like my man D. John Love. And I'm sure Junie not scammed some other people out of their money as well. Yeah. Anybody who bought anything he was selling got scammed. Right. Because he's a double fraudster.
Speaker: Jay, what do you want to leave these people with? Look, if you're looking for the scammers and the girls stuffing that in they bag, okay, the boosting ones, they here in the Atlanta metro area. You could throw a rock and find them. Again, that made-up statistic, one in three people is out here in the metro Atlanta area scamming.
Speaker: Made it up off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure it's probably close.
Speaker: oh Oh, my goodness. Watch your neck when you come down here. Guard your wallet. Okay? And don't trust the QR code, even if it looks like it's the QR code you need to park.
Speaker: It's scam. but Oh, my goodness. For me, I want to bring this all back around for a second, because on the surface, these two stories don't really have much in common as far as the actual scams are concerned. Dijon Love allegedly created a fake life, fake football career, fake money, fake investments, and allegedly used the Internet and AI to make that lie look legitimate.
Speaker: Shamari Brooks, not allegedly, built a whole business around their parents that he knew how to commit fraud, even though prosecutors say the actual check scheme never produced a known financial loss to any victims or financial gain to his pockets.
Speaker: And the more I thought about these stories, the more I realized this isn't really about scams. It's about evidence. Because people have always lied. That's nothing new. What's new is how easy it is to build an entire world around the lie. A picture can be fake. A video can be fake. A social media profile can be fake. And now, apparently, even the thing you use to fact-check somebody can give you the wrong answer with complete confidence.
Speaker: That's what's happening here. The women didn't just take this man's word for it. They searched for and the machine allegedly gave them confirmation that what they were looking for was exactly what he was, saying that he was. The thing that he used to verify the lie...
Speaker: actually became part of the lie. And that's bigger than AI, because we're entering a world where the appearance of proof can be manufactured just as easily as the lie itself. So I don't think the answer is to stop believing everything.
Speaker: That's not skepticism. That's cynicism. That's my sister. yeah I'm more of a skeptic. I think the answer is learning to slow down.
Speaker: Ask where something came from. Find the original source. Ask who benefits if you believe it. And maybe, most importantly, ask what would prove you wrong. Because if you're going to live in a world where saying it isn't necessarily believing, searching isn't necessarily verifying, and evidence isn't necessarily evidence, then we can't outsource our judgment. The technology is only going to get...
Speaker: better at creating convincing realities. So we have to get better at questioning them. Because here's an uncomfortable part people don't want to talk about. We're not just entering a world where people can lie to us. freedom We're entering a world where they can make the evidence look like it's telling the truth. read them over And that's a whole different game.
Speaker: And we need to pay close attention to it. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holla.
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