STORYTIME: THE $11,500 CASKET SCAM
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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"... Bruce reveals that he wants the five caskets shipped to Denmark. Yes, this is a red flag ..." To be exact, it's a red flag with a white cross on it.
giggles for real
lol
That is brilliant. xD
Hello cherry on top of this "grand adventure"! To quote a poster before me..."Brilliant!"
:D
Wait so what I've gleaned from this video is that I can purchase a seagrass coffin from you and when I die...
I can go to hell in a handbasket.
OMG That's great!!!
Underrated!
godammit, i'm actually having a fit of laughter.... YES, in a handbasket, a quite adorable one at that...
OMG, i cant stop laughing... HAVE A LIKE, SIR!
😅🤣😂
BEST COMMENT EVER 😂
5 caskets? The first thing I would think isn't SCAM but ECO-FRIENDLY SERIAL KILLER!!!!
Eco friendly funerary director who’s taking a more hands-on approach to drumming up business
I love the humor on this channel
That actually now that I think about it is a great way to dispose a body. What's more suspicious, dismembered body parts or the possibility someone did a green funeral
@@totallypony9550 Right?!🤣🤣 However, the amount of legal red tape and permits you have to get to be allowed to do a green burial is even more than a regular burial! At least in CT where I am a mortician. The laws vary state to state, but either way there would be DEFINITE records of who was buried where a la green burial. OMG you can't even get buried wherever you want either! No state parks, those are OUT of the question and I know a lot of serial killers love to bury their victims in state parks. 🤣🤣 I'm thinking about this way too much!!
@@amypanddirtytoo1926 yeah but a jogger with their dog won't know that
"I have a feeling this man doesn't really want artisanal eco friendly caskets" xD
She has the absolute best exaggerated Midwestern/Minnesotan accent ever. It cracks me up every time.
@@OverdramaticAngel I know, she sounds like the pregnant police officer from "Fargo" or one of the ladies from "Rifftrax."
Dude chill
Probably the bank didn't care and didn't do anything
Omg !! I thought at first that doesn’t seem like a very good material for that purpose. But now I want one ! Being an Atheist I want to be able to say that on my tombstone. “ Here Lies An Atheist all dressed up and no where to go, unless Hell is real in that case went to Hell in a Hand basket ! “
There's one person who disliked this video. I see you Bruce Perkins, I see you.
Gabriela Luz hahahaha
Gabriela Luz--Now it is 17! He had his friends and family on here too! Maybe other scammers!
It's his other scamming accounts
Bruce Perkins. Lives. Mwahhhh
49 dislikes
Bruce Perkins is in good company
I'm a bit late to the party, but as a bank employee who used to work in international trade services, you did exactly the right thing in getting in touch with both Paypal and the bank!
Years ago, someone from Nigeria tried to scam me for several computers. I talked him into paying for the shipping label and sent a box full of household garbage.
lol
Lolololol
Lol I love that for you so so much
Nice
Mick Obrien that is the most dense, racist, uneducated thing I think I’ve read all year. Congratulations. What an accomplishment. How embarrassing
I feel like watching a scam email video by James Veitch would be a good lesson on how to scam the scammer. He's even made some of the scammers reply "please stop emailing us"
James Veitch is a hack bullshit artist. I grant you, he can tell a good story, but none of it's real.
I love that guy!!!
I work in the fraud industry. You did a lot of our leg work by calling the bank and giving them the heads up. you also probably saved a LOT of other small businesses a ton of heart ache. The bank will likely flag all pertinent info and begin investigating. Thanks, from someone that doesn't have to deal with a sobbing, heart broken small business owner who I can't help because they played into the fraudster's hands and made it difficult for us to help them! Glad you caught on to their wiley ways!
faecreature21
Fraud has been an industry since 1932 when FDR was elected. All loss of basic rights, insane taxes, and war since.
What? Fraud has always been around. It's as old as prostitution. Some of the oldest written records in the world are people complaining about being scammed on their copper purchases in Sumeria.
@@StanSwan The only thing that's insane here is your ridiculous comment blaming the existence of fraud on FDR. Fraud has been around since the time humans began walking on Earth. Perhaps you should stay away from Fox News and right-wing "news" sites that conveniently blame everything negative on Democrats and liberals.
Ohhh my god, when I first read your comment about working in the fraud industry, my idiot brain was like "Um... what? You scam people for a living...?" and then I realized what you actually meant and went "Oh."
I'm not the smartest cookie...
I have been scammed I tried to get the fraud dept at the bank to help me. They said it's my fault and pay it up. I just was offered by the collection agency to pay 5000 off for 1400. I'm on fixed income 750 a month.
I was in contacted with scammers and I thought fraud people could take my email, info and catch them. Nope your fault ,pay it off.
Is it wrong that all I got from this video was "Shit, there's eco-friendly caskets? How can I get one?"
I think that's a great takeaway. More people need to start using them.
stewieismyhomeboy. You can have a green funeral. They wrap the body in cloth & it is put in a wicker basket that bio degrades.
Eighter family or friends could dig the grave or for a little higher cost the company can burry the body in a nice park type setting.
I think it's about 2 or $3,000. to be buried this way but the company will tell you how much.
For those who want a free burial their body can be donated to science or to where police study what happens, how long it takes a body to decompose which helps them to figure out crimes.
Woven coffins are already popular in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia :)
No problem whatsoever
@@ghostcityshelton9378 You can't do this in Illinois.
But you can have the viewing at home on dry ice, and ship to the nearest green funeral state. Like South Carolina.
Dead body will keep a good few days on dry ice.
I’m a person who has always been uncomfortable with death. Honestly it just scares me. I have recently stumbled upon these videos and I have become fascinated with facts of death and slightly less terrified of it. I think what she is doing is great and thoughtful. She probably won’t see my comment, which is fine but thanks for making death less scary.
@Nombre Apellido For real, same here. I'm in no way at all scared of being dead, considering I in fact have been dead before. I don't remember anything, just complete nothingness. Not that I remember the nothingness, I mean.. dead is dead, so.. yeah. I'm an atheist as well, so it's not like I expect death to be anything else but.. dead, lol.
What really scares me, is the thought of dying a slow, painful death. I don't want to feel myself dying, gosh no. When I go, I wanna go fast and peacefully. Like I did the first time I said goodbye to earth. I was literally perfectly fine, until I suddenly woke up at the hospital, alive again, in agony. Gosh, that was so disorienting and painful. Several of my ribs on both side were broken, I could barely breathe and completely panicked. Apparantly, I only briefly woke up at the ICU, like just a few seconds before they sedated me heavily, yet those very few seconds felt like many minutes. It truly was terrible. I was in complete shock and didn't understand anything at all. I obvs didn't know yet that I had actually literally died, needing serious interventions to be revived, and I couldn't remember anything at all of what had happened, where I last was alive and concious, who I was, literally nothing, which was scary af. Not knowing anything and losing complete control is terrifying, as is easy to imagine. Good grief, I hope I never have to experience that yet again. Almost just as much as I don't want a slow and/or painful death. That scares the hell outta me.
Being dead, tho? Cool. No problem.
@Nombre Apellido Well, my life's been interesting, or at least definitely.. untraditional/out of the ordinary, I must admit. That's for sure! 😅😅
Absolutely agree. It's impossible to avoid as you say, which I think is good.. I can only imagine life would become quite boring and/or dreadful if we were immortal. Since we're mortals and death is yet another fact of life like you said, here's to hoping it'll be as gentle as possible. One can only hope for the best, while living life the best way we can until our time is done. Can't really do much more than that anyways, I guess.
Was anyone else thinking “this guy is going to kill his family” when he said he wanted 5 caskets?
.... AND, make a few bucks on the side. Sweet!
At least he was going to be eco-friendly about it. Considerate of him.
Yes that's exactly what I thought along those lines.
Danish people are typically amazing at English, so there's another red flag.
Great episode!
annaisgrowing danish isn’t much different than English
Det vil jeg nu ikke give dig ret i, Miss Moxie. Faktisk vil jeg vove den påstand at dansk, på trods af at det ligesom engelsk er et indoeuropæisk sprog af den germanske stamme, er aldeles uforståeligt for dem der kun taler engelsk - og det samme gælder den anden vej rundt. (Bortset fra at alle danskere har lært aldeles udmærket engelsk i skolen, forstås.)
TL;DR: Miss Moxie: You're wrong.
(-and Google translate is getting good! Despite my efforts, this becomes ALMOST decent in English. Wow.)
I think she means in grammar, not vocabulary. Also the reason that Google Translate is actually usable in this case is probably do to the simmilar grammar.
I understood the words Danish and English! I get a star!
I’m from Denmark and TRUE we speak English so well.. in Amsterdam you run into people who speak English all the time and lost tourists who need help lol.. also I speak German & French from school
FIRST! Oh wait, I'm just here alone.
Ask A Mortician me to!
I'm here! :D
Ask A Mortician YAY!! A new video! I look forward to seeing your videos each time. In case you dont upload a video closer to the holidays, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! :D
Ask A Mortician I was over there; but then I came here.
you are very unique and very attractive.
... thank you for the inspiration I needed to start weaving crazy scams into my mystery D&D games. I needed to create cases without murder, and this seems honestly hilarious.
You and Amber are HEROES. Standing ovation for telling that bank chain about it and helping them put a stop to scammers!
1.) Those sea grass caskets would make an absolutely lovely bassinet or hamper.
2.) As a restaurant owner, I can count five specific times when someone has called or emailed us and tried to order a ridiculous amount of food to be shipped overseas. It was always a ridiculous number, like 200x orders of Thai red curry chicken to be shipped by air to Pakistan or the Philippines. I wonder how many people actually fall for such scams.
Artisanal caskets I can understand, heck, even super-unique cakes, but why the fuck would you run that scam with something as omnipresent as Thai red curry?
A Dane who doesn't have decent English is very RARE, haha.
Actually, english is extremely common in scandinavia, the people with bad english are usually delinquents or old so if a scandinavian has awful english for no apparent reason, thats a red flag.
Many Scandinavian languages are pretty similar to English, actually: matadornetwork.com/abroad/9-easy-languages-for-english-speakers-to-learn/
Agreeeed. Danes who don't speak english..? Even my grandma does wtf. That's so shady
So true. They speak English with a British accent.
@@happyswedme that... Thats what they said. Do you know English?
I think my Aunt was buried in a woven casket, I was shocked at how small she actually was & quite annoyed she had some wild flowers on it as she would have preferred a bottle of whiskey on it.
57 Nigerian princes dislike this.
On the other hand, the Oba of Benin approves of things that reduce how often his good name is defamed.
You absolutely did the right thing. It was a good move to call Paypal and a kind move to call the bank, because you have saved future scams through that account.
Call down the wrath of Amber upon the scammers!
ENCASE THE SCAMMERS IN AMBER AND DISPLAY THEM.
shout out to Amber
That's great that you were able to not be scammed! My husband and I were scammed out of $1k years ago. We lived in PA and were looking for a home to rent in FL. We found a listing and called. They were asking 1k a month for a small studio which was a good deal but not uncommon. They said that we could send money via credit card, money order, etc. We asked if we could send a friend (who lived in FL) see it. Here's where it gets odd. They said yes. They would put the key under the front mat. Our friend went and looked at it. It seemed great. We paid. They never got back to us. We called the neighbors (thanks to a simple Google search, we were able to find the phone number of the neighbors) and they said it was empty.
We called the local police and reported it. They said the people renting it probably got kicked out, made copies of the key and scammed several people out of 1k. We were pretty bummed.
I get called by "Amber" from social security every single day and she talks over me and makes the same offer she has made a dozen times, then when I wont stop talking she hangs up. I'm trying to get creative about how I handle her.
Find out her personal cell phone number and call until you are removed from the list
Just wanted to add this, but I started watching your channel when you first got started because I was having a hard time dealing with the death of a classmate. She and her whole family died suddenly and as a high school student, it was hard for me to wrap my head around. These videos also helped me greatly when a close friend of mine died in a car accident a couple years ago. Your videos brought me comfort in a time that was very dark. Being more informed about death helped me cope with these tragedies. Thank you.
I am sorry for your losses. I lost my 37 year brother-in-law (we were also friends) suddenly to heart attack and am also finding Caitlyn's videos very helpful. Plus I am learning SOOO much in the process.
I'm sorry for your loss. I lost a friend on June 16th that I had known since he was 9. He was only 27 and i found these videos are helping me as well.
Wow
How did her Whole family die at the same time?
I'm sorry for your loss
@@gloveofants,
Omg! Same! So sorry about your classmate. I have a big fear of death and understand it's going to happen, but the thought is scary and I can't deal with the fact that someone really isn't coming back and is truly gone. It's sad.
Two dislikes? One is Bruce and one is the shipping company, I assume. 😂
She's a ghost so her looks never fade
I had a "client" pre-order half a dozen individual mummified fairies (one of the sculpted projects that first brought about my awareness that I could sculpt, and started as a joke birthday gift to my sister...who is as morbid and fascinated by the macabre as I am;). It took me 8 months to finish them all - maintaining contact with the "buyer" the entire time. I spoke with this person regularly and, by the time I'd completed the projects, I actually considered this person an 'internet friend'. Anyway, the total cost of these items, including shipping, would have been nearly a thousand dollars. So once completed, I started trying to figure out with the "buyer" how we would ship the items, as they are made from polymer clay, thin metal wire and feathers, all layered upon small, plastic Halloween decoration skeleton armatures. These are delicate, one-of-a-kind pieces of art, and I was thrilled to have an order that expensive (highest order I'd ever filled at that point). Once I received the PayPal information from the scammer, I sat back and waited for her to transfer the money from her PayPal to mine. I actually planned a weekend trip to the Axe Murder House in Vilisca, Iowa, with my hubby and teenaged sons, to celebrate my first really significant sale as a professional sculptor. Turns out the "buyer" would deposit money into your PayPal account, wait to receive the items, and then immediately contest the transaction, citing that they'd never gotten the items. PayPal would refund the money, and the scammer would then have the art, AND the refund, thereby getting your artwork for free, and leaving you with nothing, while they sold the victim's artwork as their own. They jumped the gun with me, though, and contested the items BEFORE they received them, so when the shipment was turned away at customs for containing suspected biological material (the customs agents apparently peaked inside and either the feathers, or the clay formed to resemble dessicated, mummified skin, convinced them to refuse the boxes and send them back to me). I never heard from the buyer again, and all of the contact methods we're suddenly defunct once the refund request to Paypal had been made. I only found out it was a relatively common scam after talking to other artists who'd been through similar experiences while selling online and shipping their work internationally. SO...they didn't get my fairies. It took me about 3 months to sell them all, individually, and now I don't ship anything until the money has been transferred, removed from PayPal by me, and safely deposited into my own bank here in the Midwest. Scammers suck, but I'm glad you didn't suffer any economic losses from the idiot trying to scam you!
Here's a great funeral director revenge story. My late father was a meter reader for a Canadian city electric utility. The mother of one of the other meter readers was conned and scammed by an unscrupulous funeral home and she ended up signing a contract and spending thousands more than she could afford. So, for the meter readers, it was payback time. Many business had what were called Demand Meters which were set back to zero after each reading. So, each time the meter was read, the meter reader would simply add 15-20% to his reading device. This went on for years. That bastard at the funeral home ended up paying more than five times the total cost of the original funeral. Man, I love it when the good guys win!! p.s. The meter readers and other utility employees took up a collection and the lady was totally reimbursed.
These scammers are very creative! They should channel their creativity for good instead of evil! What a turdburgler!!!
Hah! Turdburgler...never heard that one before. Thanks for the chuckle.
Turdburgler: n. A shitty thief.
It used to be a pejorative against homosexual guys.
Very wise doing your homework! Truthfully I had a run in with a scammer called Bruce when inworke as an international shipping manager for a freight forwarder (think tavel agent for cargo). My Bruce Savage (I kid not) wanted to ship several 40 freight container filled with used tires to a "revolutionary" new plant in central Sudan where said tire would be turned into cheap energy for the poor. Ok skipping to the end, we checked with the Sudanese consolet....Seems they had several dozen containers of used tires sitting in there country from our scammer. We ended our relationship with Bruce when we informed him we did not have the proper license to ship his tires.....But have him the number of a shipper who could......The FBI who we called on this boy.
that casket is so dreamy! I didnt know such caskets even existed
I found your channel after a friend of mine passed away... after binge watching you for a couple days you've made it a lot easier for me to not only cope with the loss of my friend but made me realize I would love to be a mortician.. thank you
"If it wasn't for those darn kids" I would have gotten away with it!" said Bruce, conman with a credit card. Well done Caitlyn and Amber. Well done!
First off, i have had the same scam, i make coffins for a living and a person in Russia wanted one of my products. Now i am no stranger to international dealings since 3/4 of my merchandise goes to places like the UK and Australia. But this man tried to send me a check from the Peoples Friends Bank of Moscow. I researched the bank, and low in behold, they don't exist.
Are you sure? Did you try People's Tovariches Bank?
Ah yes, that's a common problem. To access the site, you have to loudly sing the Soviet Anthem while googling. That should solve it. Cоюз нерушимый...
@@heroino89 must have done something wrong because I did that and my computer started to smell like borscht and I had the weirdest craving for vodka, and I don’t drink!
@@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 Hahaha amazing comment! You, sir, win the internet
@@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 What a sense of humor, I love it!
I think you did the right thing. By contacting that bank, they can't use them for that anymore, and they'll have to move on. Probably saved the bank a hell of a lot of grief, too.
Ha! We got those emails at a screenprint shop I used to work for. It was always super obvious because they'd ask for hundreds/thousands of unprinted shirts, and at those quantities, it would make more sense to contact a garment supplier directly.
Caitlin's hair is so perfect. HOW
im gonna make a wild guess in the hope that Caitlin will bestow me with a correction. Morticians wax?
mylabot I was going wig but yeah
Neither! She is just amazing and perfect. If you send me your bank account details I will be able to make you just as perfecta and amazing, for I am Bruce Perkins.
I was wondering if I was being shallow because my first comment was almost, "Oh my god, your hair looks so cute in this video!" :D
Virgin sacrifice.
lmfao I'm from Denmark and I don't know a single person named Bruce....
I'm from Bruce and don't know a single person named Denmark.
... or any married persons either, named Bruce.
Just look for the guy in a kilt.
I watched this video when it first came out, and a couple of weeks later my husband received a request to "buy" one of his artworks if he used their specific shipping company... Yep, your video definitely helped me know it was a scam from the start!
GOOD FOR YOU!!!! I love it that you exposed this scammer, and in doing so, you educated your viewers on what to watch out for. THANK YOU!!
You rocked it! I loved that you were able to inform the small bank. I am a member of a small credit union, we had a Ukrainian incident that wiped out all of our accounts. They were able to get it all back electronically, but the main branch refused to drop cash the first day. I had like $23 for over the weekend with no food in the house and two babies. It sucked.
I learned long ago to keep 2 bank accounts, a totally different banks, for exactly this reason. It takes some saving if you live hand to mouth, but it's absolutely worth the effort.
I was thinking about cremation but now a beautiful sea grass casket doesn't sound like a bad idea.
Wow, as a certified fraud examiner I find this fascinating! Thanks for sharing the antidote!
You guys ABSOLUTELY did the right thing! It's heartbreaking how many people get tricked out of their money. I'm so glad you guys not only figured it out, but reported it! Even taking the time to get extra info! 👏👏👏👏👏 Not all heroes wear capes.
The description of the casket was very soothing. I'd buy one!
I'm from Denmark and I'd maybe like a casket like that, but luckily I'm not named Bruce 😉
har du nogen sinde mødt nogen der ikke var australier der hed Bruce ?
Ha! Næh det kan faktisk godt være ;)
Well...
andrineslife that sounds like something Bruce would say🤔
@@trppytoes hahahaha
You guys did the right thing not only for yourselves, but also for countless other small biz owners who need this kind of detail in a story to avoid such a scam.
You guys did GREAT!
Whenever you are being scammed you should always try and reverse scam the scammer! I absolutely love hearing about scammers get reverse justice! Thank you for sharing. I spent 15 years do8ng online business and saw a lot of shenanigans 🙃 during that time. They are getting very creative and sneaky. They belong in a straw basket...um, casket!
Well done Caitlin & Amber, nice detective work.
Hi Caitlin! Just finished your book and it was awesome
I own a small business as well, and I get a variation of this scam so regularly I’ve considered trying to mess with the scammers. Glad you caught it!
Anything anyone can do to make life difficult for scammers is good! You are saving others from being scammed by them...
I know people who have been scammed-sadly my mom fell for one of those "microsoft" scams in which they gain remote access to your computer and then can install viruses and keystroke loggers, etc. We had to wipe her computer and reinstall windows.
My father in law "kinda" fell for the "IRS scam", in which they contact you saying you owe the IRS money and there is a warrant for your arrest and you need to pay them asap. Well, he couldnt afford to pay what they were asking, so he got dressed nicely and went to the police station to surrender himself-where they told him it was a scam.
I have had many people attempt to scam me, but havent actually been scammed as far as I know.
so strange that they targeted you...how niche of that scammer
Nichole Louise I have a very niche small business (I sell silicone paints to the Special effects and medical industries) and we were targeted with a similar scam (we also figured it out in time and avoided getting scammed). One of the hallmarks of these scams is that they seem to ask for multiples of one item. In our case they offered multiples of a single silicone primer in every size we had available. Here it is obviously multiples of the seagrass casket.
Oh wow, I just looked at your Eco-firendly caskets online and they are so beautiful! Traditional caskets seems to heavy and intimidating, like a vault that traps you, but these feel so light, simple, like they surround you with the Earth's love. A good way to leave this plain.
I told my mother about your seagrass caskets and she said they're beautiful and she'd love one when she passes.
Where would one find one? She's nowhere near her time but you never know.
Those grass caskets are absolutely lovely and remind me of the grass Moses basket I had when my kids were babies.
Wow what a nice cautionary tale. Justice was served :D
Yes you did the right thing, I used to work at a bank and it's scary to see how many scammers are out there. Some people even fall for the completely obvious scams. I'm glad you guys caught it and notified the bank of the fraud.
So glad I discovered your channel.
I think you are a true service on a widely unspoken real topic we must all go through. Thank you.
I manage a small business (a bed and breakfast) and we get scam emails ALL THE TIME from people wanting to book an unreasonable number of rooms for a ridiculous number of nights, typically someone from overseas, wanting to pay via credit card, but doesn't want to go through our clearly marked and totally secure online booking system. After as many years as I've been doing my job, they're easy to spot, but it never ceases to sicken me. I can't help but wonder how many other places they might have successfully scammed, even in my area, which is a known tourist destination and full of other businesses just like the one I work for. Good on you for going the extra mile and alerting the banks about the accounts whose information had been stolen.
Caitlin your bangs are SO PERFECT in this video OMG
Danielle ☂ Katlyn your hair I would die to have
What a shitty fake name. If his name was more along the lines of Elias Christiansen or something I'd buy it, but Bruce? As a Scandinavian, I've never, _ever_ met a Bruce. To me it sounds like you did the right thing, you never really scammed him per-se, but you did notify the right people about what they were doing and they put an end to it on their end.
Sure enough "Bruce" might not be done with their scamming days, but at the very least you threw a wrench in the works for them.
If anything, it sounds more British.
Come on, Bruce. Git gud.
I'm British and I've never ever met anyone called Bruce, I have met a Nigerian Prince and if you send me your bank account details I will............
Bruce is positively "Monty Python"
The entire Philosophy Department at the University of Woolamaloo is named Bruce.
However, I've never heard any Danes named Bruce. Hamlet? yes. Bruce? No.
To be fair, I've never met a Hamlet either.
OMG I'm late to this but GURL I used to work for a relay service at the phone company processing calls for deaf folks back in 2011. I swear, I processed at least ten calls a DAY from scam artists with TTY phones doing this EXACT thing to small businesses. Often it was catering companies or florists, but we got funeral homes too sometimes, and the story was always the same thing! Due to laws regarding non-interference in phone calls, I wasn't allowed to warn the businesses that they were being scammed without being fired, but eventually I realized that I could get away with talking like an 80's gameshow host and most people quickly realized they were being dicked around. Still, I have seen more people fall for this scam than I'd like to admit and there was nothing I could legally do about it. I am SO glad yall figured it out beforehand, good job doing your homework!
Now, I want an artisanal handwoven basket casket. Thanks for broading my horizons! Glad you didn't get scammed!!!
I had two different people try to do this on a small scale via Craig's List. They wanted me to send a $2400 tiller via a bogus shipping company. I would have had to eat the cost, but they assured me they'd pay me back upon confirmation of my credit card's payment. The fact that they were skirting Pay Pal was an immediate red flag. Kind of interesting how in both instances of this, the people texted my phone using broken English, and refused to speak to me directly with their "human" voices.
Awesome detective investigating! I am SO glad to hear that you and Amber were able to figure out the scam and not only protect yourselves, but alert the bank as well.
Sounds like you did the correct thing! I loved the "Scam the Scammer" part! Most excellent!
I can say I'm legitimately afraid of death and dying... but this channel has helped me make leaps and bounds to not be AS afraid.. and hopefully one day I just won't truly fear this at all... thanks girl! Keep making the great informative videos! We love em!
Can I just say that I love you, Caitlin! Thank you for sharing this with us. As usual, spreading the knowledge!!!!
Omgg love your haircut❤️ and I just wanted to let you know I recently had my parents watch your TEDtalks segment, and it started the discussion of what they wanted as far as funeral arrangements, their wills, and even the idea of death positivity! I also loved your book and may or may not have passed it on to my mom for a good read :,). You truly have changed the way I view the process of dealing with death and the funeral industry as a whole. So thank you😊
Way to go Amber. Part detective, part investigative reporter. A cautionary tale at its finest.
I think you did an excellent job. Thank you for protecting other small businesses. It took a lot of courage and time.
Was worried where this was gonna end up, glad it was a success story!
So take that BRUCE, you crook you......Yay for you Undertaking LA! BTW Caitlin i just want to tell you I thought the TEDX talk was really well done, you really rock!
She did indeed
Fantastic detective work. It is awful that no only do the families get scammed but small businesses are victims too.
Enjoy your videos. Very informative and educational.
I’m so glad that you outsmarted the scammer. It’s sad how dishonest people can be.
Unrelated to the video but your hair looks amazing!
So amazing!
That is related to the video. You are talking about her hair in the video.
Her hair always looks amazing
wizpiez what I was going to say! 😊
I work as the shipping manager for a small company myself, and yeah these things are all over the place. Good catch! I always look for things like unusually American-sounding names (often with the same name appearing in the email address but with a different spelling), or improbably personal company names (like Robert Jones Supply Co. or something).
I wish I had the chance to mess with them back, but around here those emails just get deleted outright.
What is an unusually American-Sounding name?
Caitlin describes it in the video. If you're e-mailing with a Danish person whose knowledge of English is obviously limited and who goes by the name of Bruce Perkins, you can be fairly sure that their name isn't actually Bruce Perkins.
Been living here for 28 years and I've never met anyone named Bruce. :D
Bonus info: Danish people are usually exceptionally good at English, some even got an American or British accent, though they never been there.
Well, as an American it would be a combination of first name and surname that strikes me as familiar in my own culture, with the understanding that my culture isn't the default for the rest of the world and a common name here like, "John Smith," is less common in other parts of the world. Admittedly there are other English-speaking countries that probably have similar naming conventions to America, so I'm only speaking in generalities.
But more than that, it would also include cases where there is an unusual spelling of a familiar name, a common first name used as a surname, or one or two middle names given (which while not unheard of, is generally not how Americans introduce themselves).
Of course, often enough the email is written to indicate that the person is American themselves, and while not every American speaks English as a first language, encountering broken English in that context is another red flag.
In all cases however, I'll base my decision on the actual content of the message rather than a person's name or language skills (we do a lot of international business, after all). Especially concerning are messages that emphasize their desired use of an obscure shipping service, questions about things that are very obvious to someone who has read our website, or requests for products that don't usually sell in high quantities.
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That amazing moment when my love for death-related videos and my love for scamming scammer videos combine....UA-cam is a wonderful place
I know I'm commenting kinda... well... late, but you totally did the right thing. I work for a bank and they really appreciate getting a heads up for these kind's of things going on. They can actually stop them with that kind of info.
i answered an ad to let a company "wrap" my car with their advertising. They sent me a check for 3 thousand dollars from some schools bank account down south! I was supposed to cash the check and use the money to have the car wrapped... um yea no! I did like Amber and I called the bank and the school.
ReneeandJimmyG Good for you! A lot of people throughout Canada have been getting caught with this one over the last few months, so it's nice to see someone who sees it for what it is.
Of all the people I wouldn't want to anger, funeral workers are at the top of my list. Commercial Fishermen are second.
Lydia Butler Hahaha, yeah. They kinda know how to dispose of a human body quickly and, of course, without attracting attention cause, you know, they're just doing their jobs.
I piss off mortuary and cemetery workers all the time almost on a daily basis
@@BillDerBerg Landscaper?
That was very interesting story. Thanks for keeping us informed of another scam and glad you were too smart for him.
I know this one is old but I had to tell you that you guys did a great job destroying the scammers network!! I used to work in the financial field and I had to help stop them before small merchants lost A LOT of money...You guys did exactly what we did and you had less resources than we did...Love it😊
I had a man try to scam me the other day. He left a message on my FIL's phone for ME, and used my maiden name. Both of which are extremely strange because my FIL's number has never been mine in any way and my name has been changed to my married name for more than ten years. He says he is trying to "serve" me, but leaves no case number, docket number, or even company name. He says that if I don't call and PAY him, he will be coming to my home the next day. I googled the number and he is in TX, but I am in TN. I couldn't google a company because he never said one. I knew it was fake when my FIL made me listen to the message, but I want to get to the bottom of it and figure out what scam he is pulling so that I can report it. I can imagine that with him calling and saying that he will be coming to your home the next day if you don't pay him, some older women could pay him out of fear. The entire message had a very dark creepy vibe. I am glad that you didn't get scammed! It's really awful these days how often people are scammed!
Alison Self that happened to my mom, but she answered the call, they wouldn't give her any info and just insisted she had to send a payment by the end of the next day. When she asked what they were charging her or what information they had of hers (they kept saying they had "all her information") or even to give her her ID number they claimed to have, they would only say "we can't release that personal information"
I admire your investigative skills, well done!!
I got scammed once. Craigslist rental scam. I was so embarrassed. The guy puts pictures of this house and says it's for rent. We actually ended up notifying the real homeowner that this guy was "renting" his house out for deposit money. He was not happy because we actually went and looked at the house. He was worried other people had been going and snooping around his property because of the listing. He wasn't renting the place out. He actually bought it in order to fix up and flip it, but he still have personal items on the property he didn't want tampered with.
Great video, Caitlyn!!
AND thanks for the tip about credit card numbers and Paypal... It's the kind of information you don't "find just everywhere"... and a LOT of us work through paypal.
Yes, I've been phished... I've never been talked or cheated out of more money than I could reasonably have just given away, so... between smart and lucky (?) I guess...
Most recently, I was contacted by someone pretending to be "Publisher's Clearing House"... AND they informed me that I had just won a metric buttload of cash (excess of 4 million USD) and a Mercedes Race Car.
Flag number 1... PCH will NOT EVER call you (winner) on the phone. By the time you've been picked as a winner, there's enough paperwork and snail-mail on you to confirm your identity and location. They ONLY EVER JUST SHOW UP... It's exactly like they show on television, with the PCH van and a large plastic drum or trash-can full of cash... balloons, bikini girls, excitement, and whatever " celebrity face" is public for them at the time. A phone call from PCH to forewarn you of being a winner is FRAUD.
Flag number 2... The particular names represented from this call. Names like "George Washington Harris" and "Renald Bush Waterston" are NOT even listed in the PCH website in the positions or titles claimed... BUT look at both of those names. Fraudsters OFTEN use "symbolic" names from the culture or history of the person being called. It's a "pop-reference" routine as old as fraud, so beware of anyone with "one of those All American" sounding names on the phone.
Flag Number 3... The number was NOT blocked this time (it often is, and I generally do NOT even answer blocked or unknown numbers as a rule)... BUT with the number available, I had time (while I BS'ed with the guy) to jot it in a note, and take it to the computer, where I could run a "backtrack" through the WhitePages website... They offer a FREE service of telling you locations from phone numbers, simple as that... AND it came up from Kingston Jamaica... where I could also look up (free) the local Police Department...
Flag Number 4... When I finally revealed to the caller that I actually knew how PCH worked, and that I knew he was full of **it, he got verbally violent. There was about a five-minute rant ongoing when I finally simply shut-down the call... Threats were made...
It's important to note, here, that NOT all fraudsters are going to make physical threats. Many will try to defend a "change to company policy" or offer other lies, preferring to double-down on the bet they can "still finesse" the unbeliever... However, the fact that "calling out" this guy's BS for what it was, and explaining that I was calling HIS LOCAL police department to complain, since I was able to get his address (the idiot used a land-line phone)... suggests either an inexperienced or incompetent liar. HOWEVER, cornering any liar to a degree of no escape IS DANGEROUS BUSINESS, and not the kind of thing you're well advised to attempt ESPECIALLY if you've used Whitepages.come to locate an address and phone number NEAR you. Threats are still threats... so don't be stupid.
Finally, yes... In point of fact, I called and waited on hold for the Kingston PD, where I was put through to a local detective, and I gave him details of the phone number, address, and we discussed the general approach to the particular scheme and scam. I explained that as far as I'd allowed them to pursue, they'd proposed an advance of 3000 USD, which technically constituted felony charges, and that I was about to call the same complaints into PCH, so he would know who and what to expect, if he's still "running the investigation" when they follow up...
AND that's exactly what I did. Publisher's Clearing House actually has an office devoted to scam investigations. They request notice or complaints about ANY scam related to their name, businesses, and especially the sweepstakes. The lady who took my call was EXTREMELY nice and thorough, keeping a professional tone and pace to her work at the same time, and it was quite painless to get through the reporting process on the phone. She was thankful I'd even called ahead to Kingston's PD, and assured me it was her next step in the investigative process just to get "all the right players on the same page".
Now, I do NOT have any idea how far it ever got. Since technically there were no damages (I saw right through the scheme from the phone call) I was no use as more than a witness. They would need a "victim", rather... someone who was talked out of a couple thousand dollars, to make a "real" case. I never heard back about it, BUT I'm honestly glad for that. Beyond any hope that there was justice served (or revenge?) I simply quietly hope there was "enough heat" over the matter that these people quit that business and got smarter. It's simply got to be easier over the long haul to make money legitimately... BUT whatever. If it serves as nothing more than a footnote in someone's binder not to get screwed, it's a net positive result.
For the record, YES, I can honestly say this scam was dealt with approximately right. There's no need to follow up with some kind of vindictive activity or to antagonize the scammers further. Just getting their credentials to authorities who can shut the operation down, avoids further damages than absolutely necessary. As much fun as it can be to counter-act a scammer and cause them harm, it's also treacherous business and at least occasionally notably illegal... even if it's not worth their efforts to report you. ;o)
You rock. So glad you weren't caught out.
Yes I was scammed. I was scammed by a realtor. $10,000. I'm still livid.
Mary Carlone what happened
The ad before this video was for clip in bangs, which I thought was perfectly appropriate.
I'm so glad you avoided the scam...and that you shared this!
Hi, I'm not from the US but I was wondering if at some point you would do a video about the law that force people to have funerals for aborted babies in Texas ? I'm not sure if that's entirely relevant but I would definitely love to hear your opinion on this. Anyways, great video as always !
Ernest Traum there was a post put up on The Order Of The Good Death, it's really informative. www.orderofthegooddeath.com/new-fetal-regulations-texas-good-bad-news
Chelsea Church thank you !
You're welcome!
That's insane. I understand the religious reasons, but our country is supposed to be UNBIASED to any religion. And to think of how horrific that could be to the person who aborts. If you're severely traumatized from a rape and abort a baby, I think having a funeral for the fetus would break a person in a unstable mental state.
Violet Mortem maybe because this country was founded with Christianity as a background; those morals are still there. As for the ones raped, that's a tough call/ different story but most abortions happen out of plain irresponsibility and not rape.
A soap maker I watch on UA-cam had a similar business scammer contact her. Also from Denmark.
Perhaps the soap maker planned on making 5 extra large bars of soap and needed "trendy" packaging. Huh?
I wish there was a love button on UA-cam. Your videos are great, educational, and entertaining. I just got my sister & brother in law hooked on your videos too.
Omg girl you captivated me. With your reporté. Your hilarious and informative. And down right knowledgeable. I wasnt t even interested mortuary. Now I'm episodes in and shared. Keep it up.
A business i knew called skeletons out of the closet lost their shop to a scammer. (They're still hanging on online. Although they haven't really recovered.)
HA! I had the exact same thing happen to me years ago when I owned a natural cosmetics company. I did the same thing; google mapped the address in Denmark, it too was some random building under construction and the person emailing me wanted me to use their shipping company (some freighter company...), when he kept insisting I use his company which I couldn't find much info on, I knew it was a scam
I've definitely heard a similar story, I just cannot remember from where. Good on you guys for reporting it to the bank, that's probably the easiest way to shut it down (at least temporarily). Hopefully it also led to an arrest.
As someone who grew up around the funeral and mortician business, and also has been scammed a few times, I say yes, you totally did the right thing!