This story stands out to me. I'm from Belize, and there's a rich business man that lives in a town about an hour away from where I do. The story that's known here about him is eerily similar. Canadian involved in a crypto scam, faked his death and moved here for the sole purpose of hiding. I heard about this at around mid-2019 and he is still around and not subtle about his wealth.
@Hyperskreem 82 They don't, however, Belize argues that they do because they're both part of the English Commonweath. Eitherway, an exchange is possible (if it's him) because Canada has a prisoner Belize wants.
Don't G.I. doctors advise sufferers of Crohns against travelling to third-world countries simply because poor sanitation and water quality can be counter to effective treatment of the disease? If he really had Crohns it is doubtful he would desire to go to India for his honeymoon. But because this unsupported cover story combined with ease of obtaining a bogus death certificate "would fit" India then that's the escape plan. The marriage was likely more of a business partnership with someone who could play the grieving widow as well as leverage the real estate holdings and cash (she's probably got miillions in currency or gold somewhere) in order to keep them. For these reasons it is hard to take Cotten's death at face value. The thing is he's probably not as high of priority for the governments of Canada and the US since incidents of major loses by investors play into these government's desires to make crypto-currencies un-attractive. If they do aggressively try to find him, which seems doubtful, it will be more due to money laundering. Since that is no longer happening due to "his death" that seems like a long-shot. Obviously the man is a smart criminal. But, he's also shown he's greedy and in time it's probably that greed that will out him living a new identity still coniving and stealing. He may slip up yet.
Yeah, it's all plausible. But the evidence surrounding it are shady. I don't understand, this guy had a few million from when he was younger, without issue. Like dude be humble.
Says her husband valued honesty and transparency, hides his 'death' from his customers for over a month. One of many gigantic red flags that dude is alive. She was just giving him time to get somewhere that has no extradition agreements.
Lol neither one of those things is even CLOSE to what crypto is explicitly supposed to do; be untraceable. The fucking irony and hypocrisy is insane with these crypto assholes
Running a proprietor of an orphanage into several years debt just to alibi your own death while feigning a charitable act is scummy as. I hope they find him and take him for everything he's got
@@Killarrex What about the thousands of customers he scammed? This isn't some underdog story like the Barefoot Bandit, Cotten used existing systems that billionaires and millionaires use to avoid taxes and hide funds and took a massive amount of money from common individuals. He's not a hero. He's a villain. And a selfish one at that.
He's probably watching this and laughing somewhere on a tropical paradise with a new name and a huge bank account. "Gerald cared deeply about honesty and transparency" she's mocking everyone duped.
i swear i expected you in the end to be like "now i know you're wondering: Where is Gerald Cotten? Well I have a live webcam view of him that I will now put up on the screen."
I love how the CANADIAN GOVERMENT in MARCH send the supposed money launderer an email asking him about suspicous funds, and when he dosent respond for a ENTIRE MONTH they just dont question it at all whatsoever
Its ths Canadian government much like the uk gov there already a dead zombified corpse at this point, any government concerned with nonsense like"trans kids" or"racial/gender based hiring quotas" is doomed to just fade away and collapse on its nonsense self, so to expect things like courts to work under that is pointless ya know. There far to concerned with virtue signaling and imaginary"wacism sexism" nonsense schemes/agendas. Not like the U.s Government isnt to but its just worse in Canada is all.
High class economics are actually fucking stupid and ridiculous. If you habe enough money, connections, or look legit enough you can really do anything fraudulent and get away with it for at least 2 months if not forever as this guy has.
@ilove bigbrother Lots of people leave it in exchanges for day trading or simply because they don't have the knowledge to transfer crypto or own their own wallet.
You say that like banks and similar instiutions do not also exist. In the US, many are FDIC or NCUA-backed, but around the world, not so much. Crypto simply attracts a lot more issues because of the assumed anonymity. Any time you give someone else your money, be it in any form, you take a risk of being screwed.
I live in Vancouver Canada. Myself, and many people I know, got scammed by this company and lost thousands. I've read dozens or articles and seen dozens of videos about this. There is a group of people funding a private investigation to find this guy. No one has ever been successful. He's vanished without a trace.
So a rich guy spent years stealing massive amounts of money he didn't need from regular folks who used his services in good faith, and he got away with it. Tale as old as time.
@Aurelia the economic system is currently making inequality even worse but the problem is not the system, it's the lack of regulations that let big players of the economy to get more money and by that also power. Money is an important tool for humanity, we need it to trade and get basic needs, I doubt it will go anytime soon. The problem is not the money, but the users and the lack of regulations that let people and other parties to exploit the imperfect economic and financial system for their own gains by the loss of others. More importantly cryptocurrency is even more prone to fraud than normal state currency because you can't regulate or track crypto, that's the point of crypto and why it's widely used for dark web services and trades.
I was a customer of QuadrigaCX while they operated. One of the strangest things their platform offered was physical cash deliveries. I used this option for a 20,000 CAD cash withdraw. 3 Days later a FedEx package arrived with 20,000 CAD in all 50's and it smelled like mothballs as if it was stashed in grandma's attic. Weirdest shit ever. I was among the lucky people to suffer no loss from them.
I watched the newish Netflix doc about this guy. I was almost convinced that he's dead. A journalist travelled to India, where they filmed the doc at the hospital who did the death certificate. Neftlix failed to mention there was another death certificate for him. Also might have failed to mention that embalming thing... Netflix also failed to mention that his accounts have been used since his "death."
his wife seemed fairly credible in that documentary....but short of digging up his body it's hard to believe he's actually dead. His actions before his "death" are extremely suspicious, his manner of death is extremely sus.....and this guy seemed very gifted at the art of the con.
"The Canadian Bank" made me pause lol. We just call it CIBC. It's not like. The bank. It's just a banking company, like Bank of America isn't "The American Bank".
@@PipMane What gave you the feeling *I* wanted to have that discussion? No one's going to see your reply under mine. Make your own if you want a discussion.
I remember hearing about this "CEO died locking bitcoin behind forgotten password" a little while back, good to see this brought onto the surface again
@@Treblaine That would be verifiable, though, would it not? All transactions to and from that wallet address are public, so it's just a matter of calculating the ledger to find its balance I would think.
The fact that Cotten was able to operate multiple different scams simultaneously at such a young age is impressive. I'm in my mid-20s but I have no idea how to even _buy_ a Bitcoin, much less orchestrate such a complex scam.
Its really not hard to take advantage of people, especially when you're running out of a so called legitimate business. The hardest part is actually discarding any form of morality and fucking over normal people for money.
@@lurksnitchtongue8986 i would say the latter is easier, creating a scam that people can believe is hard; especially in a age where information is at the tip of your fingers
@@andygarcia9477 You would legitimately be surprised how many people fall for EXTREMELY old scams. The thing is, if people didn't fall for them they wouldn't still be done.
@@andygarcia9477 later is not easy, regular people would not initiate this nor follow through with it because the guilt would eat you up on the inside forever
@@frankmerker630 Not at all lol, if anything Canadians think cars in Europe are ugly (though there are many European car companies). The car market is huge here to the point where the majority of cars are leased just to stay up to date.
@@frankmerker630 I think wherever in the world you go there's a minority that care about the cars people have and a majority that just want to get from A to B.
Hearing the ending fade into a piano cover of the Castlevania track Bloody Tears was one of the most wonderful surprises ever. Nicely done, and excellent video.
His voice is soothing but not quite to the extent that you think. If you listen to his livestreams you can hear how different he sounds without cleaning up his own voice with software.
@@bobbuilder5902 Maybe you should make a 30 minute long video investigating Barely Sociable's voice changing software. You could expose him as a fraud and finally prove that Barely Sociable, Ross Ulbrich, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the Zodiac Killer are all the same guy!
Wow, I had no idea the depth of shadiness Quadriga was involved in. After all this it's incredible to know that the $3000 I had on that platform was actually returned to me in mid-2018. It took almost 2 months of tickets and emails where they kept blaming the bank but eventually I got it back. I'm pretty sure I was one of the last people that got their money because after that they ran out of funds. Another great video as always, cheers!
Bruh many people in almost all countries are officially dead. The problem they encounter is that everything they have is freezed, like their cards, social security number and stuff
Heard of a case of a dude who was declared dead but found alive later and the court refused to change it so they told a man standing there in the room that he is dead and cant access his shit anymore. Imagine the audacity of being told youre dead to your face by a legal professional.
@@PIMKAMINA2 Was that the guy that fled from one of the Balkan states that left his wife when he claimed she was cheating and went to Turkey and was declared to be legally dead?
Michael Patryn just resurfaced now in some twitter drama, people found out he was holding 1 out of 3 keys of a massive treasury of a Defi protocol called Wonderland.
This dudes not dead. For sure. And he 100% knows if he's ever caught he'll go to prison for the rest of his life lol. He's hiding somewhere with his wife.
nah he is not with his wife... too risky.... they probably split up the wealth and went their own ways.. his wife should be investigated more. She must know more.
Ur ability to not only obtain but comprehend all these leaks and info. You've got some serious talent my guy. Cant wait to see where u take this channel.
@@gawddamllbturdz7318 I would love to hear your voice! You should post a video or something of some voiceover (I know that's vague but my sleep deprived brain can't think of anything specific right now)
This is insane to me. As soon as I heard him talk about Quadriga Bucks I thought to myself "It seems pretty easy to pull off an exit scam with this setup" and sure enough. People are so trusting with these exchanges, despite how many times they've been burned.
There is a bigger mystery in Canada, my father was part of a search and rescue team looking for a doctor or ceo that supposedly died in a hang gliding accident. When his team got to the search area, an all black military-style helicopter landed near them and told them to cease their search. Pretty goddamn suspicious. This all happened in BC sometime between 2003-2009 I think, I can get a better time estimate if you want
Wow I read just the other day about a similar story happening, also a relative was told part of the search team to cease the search, after many attempts of getting it through/approved. If I recall this plane had contraband on it. May have been dirty money or substance. Interesting.
Have you seen Barley Socialable's most recent video? It's about how two random disappearance in BC were both connected to drug trafficking. The police covered up two murders and in the video there's a very strong case that the RCMP were directly involved. Idk why but British Columbia seems to be a hot spot when it comes to disappearances, un-investigated deaths, and drug trafficking.
@@amatthew1231 well, it is twin peaks (grew up in the suburbs of vancouver, can confirm). it really is not a very large city, and when you combine that with it being right on the US border, and being a major gateway to the asia-pacific for the continent on the whole (and really canada's only one), then couple that with how ridiculously geographically isolated it is from the rest of canada (you have to go through the Rockies to get to the nearest major canadian cities to the east, edmonton and calgary)... add to that being home to canada's own homegrown skid row and an untold amount of the highly overvalued inflated housing market being investment properties used to launder Triads money and hey barely half an hour from downtown you have endless mountain wilderness if you ever need to hide out or hide a body... 3/4s of the year the sun abandons the city, save the occasional cameo, which too takes its toll on the soul. as for the rest of BC (majority of the province living in greater vancouver, though BC is 320x its area), it's all just small towns, ime...
I worked for an insurance company that had a death scam in India. Husband claimed wife drowned and they had a certificate. Turned out they had payed for a random corpse, dumped it in the river then got a fake death certificate. They were eventually caught and put in jail but it was pretty crazy.
You can't deny that he was ahead of his time though. He was messing with crypto currency in his teens in the early 2000s, while most of us were playing Mario Kart
@@ConorMcgregor322 I disagree. The first cryptocurrency is Bitcoin, anything that comes before doesn't qualify What we call today "Blockchain tech" and all its concepts also only got created after Bitcoin (though ofc, some have sources on very old studies, like every other scientific advancement)
Bro you make the most well put together, enjoyable, professional, non biased documentaries I’ve ever seen. You are a genius at this. Thank you for your hard work and research, must respect.
21:25 your Canadian impression turned Australian there for a second. I grew up in Minnesota, you can’t just throw an “eh” in there, it’s all about the long “Ohs” and “Ahs,” Canadians say “ya know” more than they say “eh”
"Time will tell..." ..what's the statute of limitation on the crimes in question? When I was in high school our superintendent mysteriously disappeared after some several $M went missing from the school districts coffers. Seven years later to the day, he showed back up in town again.
@@RR-kp5ps I cna't find any, this was 20 years ago and since then my school district has had like two more superintendent scandals, which are fillign up the search hits. >.< But look up coatesville area school district, in PA.
This was well put together and riveting the whole way through! As somebody who lost money on the quadriga exchange, this was very relevant. The last point about his account activity really had me!
It’s basically a ponzi scheme. An insolvent company basically takes money from new investors to pay out older investors. This keeps going on until they can’t pay out anymore and it collapses.
you could either solve this case by exhuming the grave which is a valid response at this time and putting all the doubt to rest, or confirm he's not dead and actually launch a criminal investigation and manhunt.
23:52 "It sucks that I thought that I could trust it because it was a Canadian service based in Vancouver." Wow, some grade A reasoning right there, I don't possibly see how that could've gone wrong.
I mean, some countries just have more credibility than others. You have the confidence that if something goes wrong the bureaucracy would help you out. Example - Would you rather invest in a Swiss company or a Chinese company?
I mean this is the same Vancouver whose government is run by femibolshevicks and men children named Trudeauuuuu with his LGBT socks lol and whose more concerned with racial/gender hiring quotas and virtue signaling so I mean what could go wrong when dealing with corruption and stuff pchh!....
He's in a small European nation, living like a king but staying hidden. This was a great video man. Very well done. I can't wait to find out what really happened. You paint a damn good picture!
Yay! After finding your channel last week, I watched almost all your videos in just a few days and was just waiting for a new piece. :) Keep up the great work.
6:30 idk why it's so funny to me that this man is wearing short sleeves and drinking an iced coffee in the snow while holding an umbrella. that's like something an alien that has been on earth for 20 minutes would do
Are we gonna ignore the part at 28:04 where one of his fake accounts is "Aretwo Deetwo" which is a reference to R2-D2 AND "Seethree Peaohhh" which is C3-P0 from star wars? This guy was such a nerd
@@NoOne-qn2hv i didnt mean it like that lmao. I meant it more as only nerds would name their bots after star wars characters. And also misspell the names so only "cultured" people would realize it
I am VERY IMPRESSED with your work. Your presentations are very well faceted. This is a downright riveting story. I was able to see where your points were going before you were there. “Satoshi” was Batman Begins. Missing C. E. O. is “The Dark Knight”! At first I figured that this guys head rolled,as well as his partners,but now I believe that it is very possible that he may be living it out in a very elaborate bunker somewhere under that Permafrost. Again, GREAT JOB!!!
Love the content, as usual. Isn't it possible to monitor his "widow" to track him down? Surely he didn't plan to just give his money away to her and just part ways? Also, I'm not familiar with American (and Canadian I suppose) funerals, but from what I understood closed caskets are mainly for when the dead bodies are in a gruesome condition. That's not the norm right? Since he supposedly died from a heart attack, and his body had been embalmed, why not just hold an open casket funeral then?
We had my dad cremated, and for that you obviously can't view the body. But you can keep the ashes or bury that ashes in a proper grave like we did. So I suppose you could say he was cremated there and go on with a funeral as normal, even if it's fake ashes in there. I dunno if it's a common practice to cremate people in India, but that could be another option for him I suppose.
Imagine laundering money through crypto currency. We all know the best way to launder money is through Arby's, how else would they stay open with no customers lol.
Your Content is truly amazing. You could read a math textbook and have me on the edge of me seat I swear. Also as a Canadian myself, your Canadian accent gave me a good laugh. I’ve gotta hand it to this guy, I’ve never seen anyone fake a death so proficiently yet so terribly at the same time. He’s probably living it up under a different name somewhere.
I was a quadriga user at the time who luckily got out without losses but almost everyone involved believes Gerald cotton faked his death. The lack of real information is astounding though. It's so hard to track down what happened
Crypto-scamming for a living seems like an even stranger business than buying broken electronic stuff, fixing it and selling it out. Dunno which I prefer.
He forgot to mention it in the video but in 2020 they put a request in to do that. It’s currently a waiting game but in the end they need the family consent technically
Reminds me of being a kid and playing with all the Monopoly money. I would just go around the house buying whatever I wanted, and when I ran out of money, I would just go grab some more from the box. Come on.. It's free money!!
I love that on a video about one of the worst scams to happen to crypto users, I get an ad suggesting CoinBase crypto like I'm gonna watch this and be like "seems safe" 💀
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This story stands out to me. I'm from Belize, and there's a rich business man that lives in a town about an hour away from where I do. The story that's known here about him is eerily similar. Canadian involved in a crypto scam, faked his death and moved here for the sole purpose of hiding. I heard about this at around mid-2019 and he is still around and not subtle about his wealth.
dude research this, its not "similar" its identical
Probably the same guy
You need to check into this, possibly make a video about it, this is big
That absolutely sounds like him. Hope Barely Sociable notices this comment.
@Hyperskreem 82 They don't, however, Belize argues that they do because they're both part of the English Commonweath. Eitherway, an exchange is possible (if it's him) because Canada has a prisoner Belize wants.
He died "suddenly" while on a trip to India, 12 days after writing his will. Sounds legit.
It is common to write your will just before or during your honeymoon but due to the other factors I do believe that he is still alive
Don't G.I. doctors advise sufferers of Crohns against travelling to third-world countries simply because poor sanitation and water quality can be counter to effective treatment of the disease? If he really had Crohns it is doubtful he would desire to go to India for his honeymoon. But because this unsupported cover story combined with ease of obtaining a bogus death certificate "would fit" India then that's the escape plan. The marriage was likely more of a business partnership with someone who could play the grieving widow as well as leverage the real estate holdings and cash (she's probably got miillions in currency or gold somewhere) in order to keep them. For these reasons it is hard to take Cotten's death at face value. The thing is he's probably not as high of priority for the governments of Canada and the US since incidents of major loses by investors play into these government's desires to make crypto-currencies un-attractive. If they do aggressively try to find him, which seems doubtful, it will be more due to money laundering. Since that is no longer happening due to "his death" that seems like a long-shot. Obviously the man is a smart criminal. But, he's also shown he's greedy and in time it's probably that greed that will out him living a new identity still coniving and stealing. He may slip up yet.
@@johnwerner4925 In the video it was mentioned that he was donating money to have an orphanage built there. I presume he delivered the money himself.
@@johnwerner4925 North americans don’t use bidets and let a pandemic happen they don’t care about water.
Yeah, it's all plausible. But the evidence surrounding it are shady.
I don't understand, this guy had a few million from when he was younger, without issue. Like dude be humble.
Says her husband valued honesty and transparency, hides his 'death' from his customers for over a month. One of many gigantic red flags that dude is alive. She was just giving him time to get somewhere that has no extradition agreements.
I heard that quote and thought: I bet Gerald is sitting at her shoulder saying “write this, honey”
The land of Cypress is full of these crooks.
Lol neither one of those things is even CLOSE to what crypto is explicitly supposed to do; be untraceable.
The fucking irony and hypocrisy is insane with these crypto assholes
So clear he disappeared
Guy: “I’ve seen Gerry walk through the airport with $50,000 in cash.”
Same guy in same breath: “He was a very *reasonable* person”
Exactly
the only people who carry that much cash are criminal and millionaire so pretty much the same person
@@aoki6332 wealthy people aren’t carrying 50k in cash anywhere
@@mattberg6816 some does you know people that are making ilegal money so they dont put it on bank account
@@aoki6332 I don’t admit to knowing anything
Running a proprietor of an orphanage into several years debt just to alibi your own death while feigning a charitable act is scummy as. I hope they find him and take him for everything he's got
This Cotton guy is like the archetype of scammers. He is just pure scam.
i hope they don’t find him, he’s really smart
@@Killarrex he should be punished tho
@@carlosca1501 yeah if he gets caught
@@Killarrex What about the thousands of customers he scammed? This isn't some underdog story like the Barefoot Bandit, Cotten used existing systems that billionaires and millionaires use to avoid taxes and hide funds and took a massive amount of money from common individuals.
He's not a hero. He's a villain. And a selfish one at that.
He's probably watching this and laughing somewhere on a tropical paradise with a new name and a huge bank account. "Gerald cared deeply about honesty and transparency" she's mocking everyone duped.
He is out there smashin big booty latinas livin his best life
Gerald is this you?
gerald? bro
brooooo.... big G?
The tears he cried in 2017 will lubricate the cheeks he'll clap in 2021.
i swear i expected you in the end to be like "now i know you're wondering: Where is Gerald Cotten? Well I have a live webcam view of him that I will now put up on the screen."
@fml
U just made me spit out my cereal laughing 😂 holy shit
Caught im 4k
Is that your actual face mate?
*picture of his corpse shows on screen*
You explained this waaay better than the Netflix documentary (which focuses more on the drama surrounding his fake death).
What's the documentary called?
@Morgan H i think it’s called Trust No One.
agreed
barely sociable > 90% of netflix docs
I liked that Netflix documentary. Very interesting!
I love how the CANADIAN GOVERMENT in MARCH send the supposed money launderer an email asking him about suspicous funds, and when he dosent respond for a ENTIRE MONTH they just dont question it at all whatsoever
Its ths Canadian government much like the uk gov there already a dead zombified corpse at this point, any government concerned with nonsense like"trans kids" or"racial/gender based hiring quotas" is doomed to just fade away and collapse on its nonsense self, so to expect things like courts to work under that is pointless ya know. There far to concerned with virtue signaling and imaginary"wacism sexism" nonsense schemes/agendas. Not like the U.s Government isnt to but its just worse in Canada is all.
Braindead and useless....NOTHING like the USAs CIA
Seems legit
@@danielhicks4826 what
High class economics are actually fucking stupid and ridiculous. If you habe enough money, connections, or look legit enough you can really do anything fraudulent and get away with it for at least 2 months if not forever as this guy has.
This is why you NEVER keep crypto on an exchange account. Keep it in a wallet you control.
@ilove bigbrother Lots of people leave it in exchanges for day trading or simply because they don't have the knowledge to transfer crypto or own their own wallet.
You say that like banks and similar instiutions do not also exist. In the US, many are FDIC or NCUA-backed, but around the world, not so much. Crypto simply attracts a lot more issues because of the assumed anonymity. Any time you give someone else your money, be it in any form, you take a risk of being screwed.
Is Coinbase an exchange account?
@@zazzyboy8592 yes
@@zazzyboy8592 Yes, it is because you don't hold it, coinbase does.
I live in Vancouver Canada. Myself, and many people I know, got scammed by this company and lost thousands. I've read dozens or articles and seen dozens of videos about this. There is a group of people funding a private investigation to find this guy. No one has ever been successful. He's vanished without a trace.
They should trail his wife. She'll lead investigators to him eventually.
I think he is actually dead tbh but I still trust that wife.
I just had an all nighter by accident and right when I laid down... *boodaloo* Barely Sociable uploaded... okay that’s fine I got time
Same
I feel that
the exact same thing happened to me, damn.
ditto :)
Always
So a rich guy spent years stealing massive amounts of money he didn't need from regular folks who used his services in good faith, and he got away with it. Tale as old as time.
If i were him and got that much money i would pay back the people i scammed lol
@Aurelia the economic system is currently making inequality even worse but the problem is not the system, it's the lack of regulations that let big players of the economy to get more money and by that also power.
Money is an important tool for humanity, we need it to trade and get basic needs, I doubt it will go anytime soon. The problem is not the money, but the users and the lack of regulations that let people and other parties to exploit the imperfect economic and financial system for their own gains by the loss of others.
More importantly cryptocurrency is even more prone to fraud than normal state currency because you can't regulate or track crypto, that's the point of crypto and why it's widely used for dark web services and trades.
@Aurelia bro what? Crypto is a unregulated market…… thing like this happen because of de-regulation
@Meme Lord yea i probably wouldn’t lmao, but i imagine it wouldnt be too hard to pay them back once u got a ton of money
He wasn’t even that rich, was he? He made himself fake rich and turned it into real wealth through a scam.
I mean, with a name like Quadriga... That name is like an evil megacorp from a movie, that name is so... Suspicious
what.
dude, hindsight is always 20/20
Quadriguez
Either that, or a name for the alien queen of a race of quadrupeds.
It sounds like an erectile dysfunction medication.
@hippie hipper what do it mean tho?
If we can find a Japanese guy with nothing but a decade-old picture of his face and no offered reward, finding this lad shouldn't even be difficult.
who are you referring to?
@@flarithen It's the guy from Inside A Mind's video from a defunct card game that only had the guy's photo and the words "Find me."
@@flarithen It's the guy from Inside A Mind's video from a defunct card game that only had the guy's photo and the words "Find me."
@@Punyulada we heard u the first time
They found satoshi or whatever his name was?
“Totally Legit Holdings LLC”
😂
The CEO is a really nice guy.
Hella legit bro, just trust
"Bro Trust Me Holdings LLC"
A subsidiary of "Definitely Not Suspicious Corp."
I’m in tears
Lol one of the headlines at 4:40 is "B.C. farmer grabs lynx by scruff of neck, scolds it for killing chickens."
Excellent work detective! That's a grand story, I love it.
Chad
There's a video of that on youtube if you're interested; it's funny
That’s headline news in Canada!
I was a customer of QuadrigaCX while they operated. One of the strangest things their platform offered was physical cash deliveries. I used this option for a 20,000 CAD cash withdraw. 3 Days later a FedEx package arrived with 20,000 CAD in all 50's and it smelled like mothballs as if it was stashed in grandma's attic. Weirdest shit ever. I was among the lucky people to suffer no loss from them.
This is hilarious.
So from this we can work out his grandma was running the show and had him killed on his honeymoon cause he was getting cold feet.
Try to get his DNA. Post it on the internet worldwide. We'll find him.
lollllll
You dodged the world's most expensive bullet.
Barely sociable you are getting far into the crypto community my guy
So the madman got away with it? Real gamer move.
So do you think this is good ?
@Neutered Cat So do you think this is good ?
@Neutered Cat So do you think this is good ?
@@dabogabo he thinks it’s a gamer move
@Neutered Cat So do you think this is good ?
I watched the newish Netflix doc about this guy. I was almost convinced that he's dead. A journalist travelled to India, where they filmed the doc at the hospital who did the death certificate. Neftlix failed to mention there was another death certificate for him. Also might have failed to mention that embalming thing... Netflix also failed to mention that his accounts have been used since his "death."
his wife seemed fairly credible in that documentary....but short of digging up his body it's hard to believe he's actually dead. His actions before his "death" are extremely suspicious, his manner of death is extremely sus.....and this guy seemed very gifted at the art of the con.
"The Canadian Bank" made me pause lol. We just call it CIBC. It's not like. The bank. It's just a banking company, like Bank of America isn't "The American Bank".
I find it weird how people always support thieves and scammers. Ofc when they were not the victims. can't balance morality and their fantasies
@@PipMane Why did you comment this to me?
@@Tazzie1312 for a discussion. I don't understand that psychological feature. Maybe someone will reply and share something meaningful
@@PipMane What gave you the feeling *I* wanted to have that discussion?
No one's going to see your reply under mine. Make your own if you want a discussion.
@@Tazzie1312 you lack common sense I see. Its a pinned comment with 400 likes. Chances for exposure are much greater than a new comment
I remember hearing about this "CEO died locking bitcoin behind forgotten password" a little while back, good to see this brought onto the surface again
We Shoulda known the intitial headline was nonsense right.
The vault is locked and must remain locked so to hide the truth: that the vault is empty.
@@danielhicks4826 Well, that's journalism for ya.
Most of the time It's very little information that's manipulated into a clickbait article
@@Treblaine That would be verifiable, though, would it not? All transactions to and from that wallet address are public, so it's just a matter of calculating the ledger to find its balance I would think.
It's funny when I first heard that my first comment was that I bet he faked his death.
"He fired up his money printer again..." - favorite quote from this video.
The fact that Cotten was able to operate multiple different scams simultaneously at such a young age is impressive. I'm in my mid-20s but I have no idea how to even _buy_ a Bitcoin, much less orchestrate such a complex scam.
Its really not hard to take advantage of people, especially when you're running out of a so called legitimate business. The hardest part is actually discarding any form of morality and fucking over normal people for money.
@@lurksnitchtongue8986 i would say the latter is easier, creating a scam that people can believe is hard; especially in a age where information is at the tip of your fingers
@@andygarcia9477 You would legitimately be surprised how many people fall for EXTREMELY old scams. The thing is, if people didn't fall for them they wouldn't still be done.
@@lurksnitchtongue8986 Hi, I'm calling about your auto vehicles extended warranty, press 1 to speak to a representative!
@@andygarcia9477 later is not easy, regular people would not initiate this nor follow through with it because the guilt would eat you up on the inside forever
"He had a Lexus."
Me, in my $500 2000 Lexus: Damn bruh he's rolling in it
Yeah pretty sure Canadians don’t put too much stock into what cars they drive, definitely more of an American and European thing
@@frankmerker630 Not at all lol, if anything Canadians think cars in Europe are ugly (though there are many European car companies). The car market is huge here to the point where the majority of cars are leased just to stay up to date.
Don’t be sad, a 500 buck Lexus is worth every penny, no matter the year. Those cars last forever.
@@frankmerker630 it's nice to have a good car or truck but the winter puts a big beating on them and they just don't last like in the southern usa
@@frankmerker630 I think wherever in the world you go there's a minority that care about the cars people have and a majority that just want to get from A to B.
Hearing the ending fade into a piano cover of the Castlevania track Bloody Tears was one of the most wonderful surprises ever.
Nicely done, and excellent video.
The most common question isn't why is your voice so damn soothing?
His voice is approved by a turtle
His voice is soothing but not quite to the extent that you think. If you listen to his livestreams you can hear how different he sounds without cleaning up his own voice with software.
@@bobbuilder5902 🤨
@@bobbuilder5902 Maybe you should make a 30 minute long video investigating Barely Sociable's voice changing software. You could expose him as a fraud and finally prove that Barely Sociable, Ross Ulbrich, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the Zodiac Killer are all the same guy!
@@TurtleChad1 Justin Y. of turtles.
"Totally Legit Holdings LLC"
sounds legit to me.
Seems legit
totally
Totally legit. It even says so.
How could it not be!?
It's legit, there's a website lol
When someone uses the word “transparency “ (particularly government officials), someone is about to get screwed.
No one mentions transparency unless they’re being opaque
Wow, I had no idea the depth of shadiness Quadriga was involved in. After all this it's incredible to know that the $3000 I had on that platform was actually returned to me in mid-2018. It took almost 2 months of tickets and emails where they kept blaming the bank but eventually I got it back. I'm pretty sure I was one of the last people that got their money because after that they ran out of funds.
Another great video as always, cheers!
What happens when you find someone alive who was previously registered to be dead? Sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare
Bruh many people in almost all countries are officially dead. The problem they encounter is that everything they have is freezed, like their cards, social security number and stuff
@@ujjwaljain3055 frozen*
Heard of a case of a dude who was declared dead but found alive later and the court refused to change it so they told a man standing there in the room that he is dead and cant access his shit anymore. Imagine the audacity of being told youre dead to your face by a legal professional.
@@PIMKAMINA2 Was that the guy that fled from one of the Balkan states that left his wife when he claimed she was cheating and went to Turkey and was declared to be legally dead?
@@MalleusSemperVictor i think so? My memory isnt very sharp, i remember only the vague details
Michael Patryn just resurfaced now in some twitter drama, people found out he was holding 1 out of 3 keys of a massive treasury of a Defi protocol called Wonderland.
Barely Sociable is an instant watch when a new drop. Him and Lemmino are in their own class!
Its Sociable, Possum Reviews, and A Friend for me
I see notification from them, I drop everything and immediately click
@Nehemek I used to. But not anymore =/
@@flames2089
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@@__-yz1ob Well, Sociable already has that Niche occupied for me now =)
Nexpo anybody?
This dudes not dead. For sure. And he 100% knows if he's ever caught he'll go to prison for the rest of his life lol. He's hiding somewhere with his wife.
Nah fam,they probably split for the money.Being together is too risky.
Honestly I'd bet big money that he saw this video considering the views it has. He'd be stupid not to keep up with the news and media about him.
nah he is not with his wife... too risky.... they probably split up the wealth and went their own ways.. his wife should be investigated more. She must know more.
@@GeekRaj wife hella suspicious
geez! didn't you guys watch the video? he died of some disease. don't disrespect the dead.
Ur ability to not only obtain but comprehend all these leaks and info. You've got some serious talent my guy. Cant wait to see where u take this channel.
I am an Indian and I can confirm that making anything fake in India is a piece of cake.
including fake politicians and fake journalists. 😭
@@targaryenXoolf that is a comment trend around the world know lol.
India is the place where weed can put you in jail but this can not lmao
@@AryanSharma-qj4eu well forget weed, Indians can get arrested for a mere tweet nowadays. rofl.
@@targaryenXoolf +1 lmao
Wait a minute... Are you fake?!
Dude, your voice is so damn smooth and calming.
You should hear my voice. I'm actually a radio DJ. 🙃
@@gawddamllbturdz7318 I would love to hear your voice! You should post a video or something of some voiceover (I know that's vague but my sleep deprived brain can't think of anything specific right now)
@@nathangehman7018 what's your phone number? I'll make you laugh your ass off.
This is insane to me. As soon as I heard him talk about Quadriga Bucks I thought to myself "It seems pretty easy to pull off an exit scam with this setup" and sure enough. People are so trusting with these exchanges, despite how many times they've been burned.
Sounds like USDT.
"Gerry cared deeply about honestly and transparency..." took me a while to stop laughing at that.
Fascinating. It’s unbelievable the level of trust afforded to so many when there’s only a very few who indeed keep their word.
There is a bigger mystery in Canada, my father was part of a search and rescue team looking for a doctor or ceo that supposedly died in a hang gliding accident. When his team got to the search area, an all black military-style helicopter landed near them and told them to cease their search. Pretty goddamn suspicious. This all happened in BC sometime between 2003-2009 I think, I can get a better time estimate if you want
Do you know the name of the person they were looking for?
Wow I read just the other day about a similar story happening, also a relative was told part of the search team to cease the search, after many attempts of getting it through/approved. If I recall this plane had contraband on it. May have been dirty money or substance. Interesting.
Have you seen Barley Socialable's most recent video? It's about how two random disappearance in BC were both connected to drug trafficking. The police covered up two murders and in the video there's a very strong case that the RCMP were directly involved. Idk why but British Columbia seems to be a hot spot when it comes to disappearances, un-investigated deaths, and drug trafficking.
@@amatthew1231 well, it is twin peaks (grew up in the suburbs of vancouver, can confirm). it really is not a very large city, and when you combine that with it being right on the US border, and being a major gateway to the asia-pacific for the continent on the whole (and really canada's only one), then couple that with how ridiculously geographically isolated it is from the rest of canada (you have to go through the Rockies to get to the nearest major canadian cities to the east, edmonton and calgary)... add to that being home to canada's own homegrown skid row and an untold amount of the highly overvalued inflated housing market being investment properties used to launder Triads money and hey barely half an hour from downtown you have endless mountain wilderness if you ever need to hide out or hide a body... 3/4s of the year the sun abandons the city, save the occasional cameo, which too takes its toll on the soul. as for the rest of BC (majority of the province living in greater vancouver, though BC is 320x its area), it's all just small towns, ime...
When you've been awake for 28 hours but Barley Sociable just posted a video 23 seconds ago
Just take adderall
I worked for an insurance company that had a death scam in India. Husband claimed wife drowned and they had a certificate. Turned out they had payed for a random corpse, dumped it in the river then got a fake death certificate. They were eventually caught and put in jail but it was pretty crazy.
Babe wake up, new barely sociable video!
You can't deny that he was ahead of his time though. He was messing with crypto currency in his teens in the early 2000s, while most of us were playing Mario Kart
To be fair, Mario Kart is pretty fun.
@@swagathan5 thats hilarious and true 👍
"crypto" was created in 2009
@@user-xl5kd6il6c Crypto has been around for longer, Bitcoin was created in 2009.
@@ConorMcgregor322 I disagree. The first cryptocurrency is Bitcoin, anything that comes before doesn't qualify
What we call today "Blockchain tech" and all its concepts also only got created after Bitcoin (though ofc, some have sources on very old studies, like every other scientific advancement)
Bro you make the most well put together, enjoyable, professional, non biased documentaries I’ve ever seen. You are a genius at this. Thank you for your hard work and research, must respect.
Agreed! But don't forget that voice. It's like the icing on a cake!
Watching a barely sociable video after like a month or two of nothing is like your favorite show coming back for another season
28:01 - His alias accounts included Aretwo Deetwo, Seethree Peaohh. Dude scammed many but atleast had a sense of humor xD
lololl
Harry Seaward
What does those names mean?
@@WesleyNeedles star wars reference
@@WesleyNeedles R2-D2 and CP-30 are two important droids in Star Wars.
21:25 your Canadian impression turned Australian there for a second. I grew up in Minnesota, you can’t just throw an “eh” in there, it’s all about the long “Ohs” and “Ahs,” Canadians say “ya know” more than they say “eh”
No doubt
I love how young this channel still is
Or the author is somehow experienced under another name. (❁´◡`❁)
starting off the day right with a barely sociable upload
as a nova Scotian this the most I've ever heard somebody say the name of my province in a youtube video more then once
"Time will tell..." ..what's the statute of limitation on the crimes in question? When I was in high school our superintendent mysteriously disappeared after some several $M went missing from the school districts coffers. Seven years later to the day, he showed back up in town again.
@@RR-kp5ps I cna't find any, this was 20 years ago and since then my school district has had like two more superintendent scandals, which are fillign up the search hits. >.< But look up coatesville area school district, in PA.
Pretty sure it's *statue* of limitations...
@@taylorj6177 Look it up.
@@taylorj6177 it’s statute. Not statue, which is a sculpture
I bingewatch you and other creators in the background during my early morning shifts at work. Thank you for providing hours of top-tier content!
For anyone here from Time Wonderland, that “further down the rabbit hole” really hurt 25:29
Moral of the story: get a hard wallet and keep your coins off these websites
Well, one of the many morals here.
@@scaper8 lol I don't think morals are all that prevalent in this story.
@@fematrailer That's not what he meant. Basically what he just said was "that's one of the many things we can learn from this."
@@screwbles5697 Well, thanks for making my mediocre joke even less funny. That's just great.
@@fematrailer what even was the joke. I genuinely didn't get it
This was well put together and riveting the whole way through! As somebody who lost money on the quadriga exchange, this was very relevant. The last point about his account activity really had me!
That a guy transferred 23 million dollars into his personal checking account, like no one was going to say something, is kind of hilarious.
It’s honestly impressive to me that a TEENAGER could run these investment scams lol, I’m 27 and could barely understand this video 😂
Same same
I don't understand too much either
If you became interested in finance and digital currency that would be different. Don’t doubt yourself
It’s basically a ponzi scheme. An insolvent company basically takes money from new investors to pay out older investors. This keeps going on until they can’t pay out anymore and it collapses.
@@dragoonTT aw
He's probably just in that tunnel under the Sphinx.
Get out of my house! Lol!
Did he enter through the shaft?
you could either solve this case by exhuming the grave which is a valid response at this time and putting all the doubt to rest, or confirm he's not dead and actually launch a criminal investigation and manhunt.
The real mystery is how you acquired an audible sponsorship in 2021. I haven't seen one of those for years
soothing voice
it’s pretty obvious after watching more than one video, this guy could narrate books himself
Bro. You are killin em right now. Barely/Slightly sociable one of my fav content creators.
Sir, this was another great "episode" containing your finest work. I just want to thank you for continuing this channel. You have a gift.
I was just thinking about Barely Sociable and boom. An upload.
If u would.... think about him more often
thanx
i’ll try my best lol
23:52
"It sucks that I thought that I could trust it because it was a Canadian service based in Vancouver."
Wow, some grade A reasoning right there, I don't possibly see how that could've gone wrong.
I mean, some countries just have more credibility than others. You have the confidence that if something goes wrong the bureaucracy would help you out.
Example - Would you rather invest in a Swiss company or a Chinese company?
@@mayursanghvi5480 That's why there's a saying "Reality is often disappointing"
I mean this is the same Vancouver whose government is run by femibolshevicks and men children named Trudeauuuuu with his LGBT socks lol and whose more concerned with racial/gender hiring quotas and virtue signaling so I mean what could go wrong when dealing with corruption and stuff pchh!....
He's in a small European nation, living like a king but staying hidden.
This was a great video man. Very well done. I can't wait to find out what really happened. You paint a damn good picture!
I love your videos! They are always very well thought out, easy to follow, and masterfully edited. Keep up the amazing work!
Wow I just woke up and you uploaded 20 minute after. Very considerate of you
That castlevania remix in the credits is straight fire 🔥
Top quality mini doc, really well researched and presented.
Yay! After finding your channel last week, I watched almost all your videos in just a few days and was just waiting for a new piece. :) Keep up the great work.
6:30 idk why it's so funny to me that this man is wearing short sleeves and drinking an iced coffee in the snow while holding an umbrella. that's like something an alien that has been on earth for 20 minutes would do
Let’s go blameitonjorge and barely sociable drop 👾👾
Fax two of the best youtubers
oshit I missed Jorge’s vid, thanks
The Robert Cooper story of blameitonjorge really creeped me
Are we gonna ignore the part at 28:04 where one of his fake accounts is "Aretwo Deetwo" which is a reference to R2-D2 AND "Seethree Peaohhh" which is C3-P0 from star wars? This guy was such a nerd
LMAO
Yeah Star Wars is such an obscure movie series that only the nerdiest of nerds ever know about
@@NoOne-qn2hv i didnt mean it like that lmao. I meant it more as only nerds would name their bots after star wars characters. And also misspell the names so only "cultured" people would realize it
Nobody:
Gerald cotton: sits on his computer one night
“You know what lemme just fire everyone “
When TES VI?
@@iam4082 2026
" It just works. "
-Gerald Cotten after money laundering
I love how his UA-cam recommended is identical to mine.
Mine too !
Mine too!
Mine too!
Wow ur so cool. Ur basically him!
Look at all these stalkers
Great video, so much knowledge and information packed into a half hour 👍🏻
“Further down the rabbit hole” wow was that some great foreshadowing for Michael Patryn’s next venture
BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVER HELL YEAH i love your videos so much omg
Happy Birthday! 🎉
@@BarelySociable thank you so much! :)))
seeing that you posted literally just made my day
I am VERY IMPRESSED with your work. Your presentations are very well faceted. This is a downright riveting story. I was able to see where your points were going before you were there. “Satoshi” was Batman Begins. Missing C. E. O. is “The Dark Knight”! At first I figured that this guys head rolled,as well as his partners,but now I believe that it is very possible that he may be living it out in a very elaborate bunker somewhere under that Permafrost. Again, GREAT JOB!!!
this mans life sounds like it could be a tv show
id watch it
Guy is just operating PC though
*netflix has entered the chat*
@@FreaknJoshwa indeed it did
Love the content, as usual. Isn't it possible to monitor his "widow" to track him down? Surely he didn't plan to just give his money away to her and just part ways? Also, I'm not familiar with American (and Canadian I suppose) funerals, but from what I understood closed caskets are mainly for when the dead bodies are in a gruesome condition. That's not the norm right? Since he supposedly died from a heart attack, and his body had been embalmed, why not just hold an open casket funeral then?
Unless she's in on it ;)
@@SlightlySociable Gasp! The scandal!
no one in my family has an open casket. The family have a final viewing at the funeral home or whatever and the casket is closed at the funeral
We had my dad cremated, and for that you obviously can't view the body. But you can keep the ashes or bury that ashes in a proper grave like we did. So I suppose you could say he was cremated there and go on with a funeral as normal, even if it's fake ashes in there. I dunno if it's a common practice to cremate people in India, but that could be another option for him I suppose.
@@Foulaxea it is, on pyres. Essentially they put you on a bonfire in the open air
hey barely sociable, there is something about this guy possibly being 0xSifu who was head a a crypto project treasury called wonderland
Imagine laundering money through crypto currency. We all know the best way to launder money is through Arby's, how else would they stay open with no customers lol.
Or Mattress Firm lmao
There is an Arby’s right next to a mattress store in my town and neither ever have business!
Might I interest you in a chocolate store that saw one customer per day, yet made around 200k dollars daily?
@@LuizAlexPhoenix Probably very tasty chocolate
@@iiSociallyAwkward the money's in the mattress wow
Your Content is truly amazing. You could read a math textbook and have me on the edge of me seat I swear. Also as a Canadian myself, your Canadian accent gave me a good laugh.
I’ve gotta hand it to this guy, I’ve never seen anyone fake a death so proficiently yet so terribly at the same time. He’s probably living it up under a different name somewhere.
What's wrong with math textbooks?
"There's a sucker born every minute." - P.T. Barnum when asked about his take on bitcoins.
nah bro that man dead no way he still livin
@@potto1488 no he's still alive i saw him eating out of the dumpster behind my local buffalo wild wings
"BitcoinS"... Says everything one needs to know.
@@wham7125that you don’t have a point?
@@BBeowulf Lol, Captain Comeback with the masterful take 😂
I was a quadriga user at the time who luckily got out without losses but almost everyone involved believes Gerald cotton faked his death. The lack of real information is astounding though. It's so hard to track down what happened
Crypto-scamming for a living seems like an even stranger business than buying broken electronic stuff, fixing it and selling it out. Dunno which I prefer.
dig👏🏼up👏🏼the👏🏼casket👏🏼 (i mean... isn’t it that simple?)
He forgot to mention it in the video but in 2020 they put a request in to do that. It’s currently a waiting game but in the end they need the family consent technically
Why are you clapping like a seal? Cringe
Barely sociable’s voice really reminds me of Binging with Babish’s voice
"Just my dead husband, eh"😂💀
It always surprises me when Barely does accents.
I watch the Netflix documentary about this that was release a couple days ago, and I have to say, you cover it better then the Netflix documentary
Reminds me of being a kid and playing with all the Monopoly money. I would just go around the house buying whatever I wanted, and when I ran out of money, I would just go grab some more from the box.
Come on.. It's free money!!
Damn breaking all the rules I see. I think everyone did in monopoly.
I love that on a video about one of the worst scams to happen to crypto users, I get an ad suggesting CoinBase crypto like I'm gonna watch this and be like "seems safe" 💀
This is SO well produced! Great content. Subbed
The legend is back