We Finally Brought A Scammer To Justice
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- This is the story of scammer Billy, who tried to cheat us.
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0:00 Thief
0:28 Misdemeanor vs Serious Felony
0:59 Summer 2020 - Meet Billy
2:58 Billy Runs
3:18 Billy's Busted
4:40 Billy at Court
7:13 Autumn 2022 - Here Comes Billy
8:46 The Story's Not Over
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200 euros min, now 400...
Courts: man, were dealing with too many money scammers, better raise that minimum.
I think it was the state of emergency that changes the rules
Easier: No minimum...
@@stixinst5791 Correct
@@serujiphonx9070 This, if you made the conscious to steal someone's property then you've made the conscious decision to deal with the consequences
A fair law would mean such limit only by the first offence in the life of any suspect. Not by every repeat of it. Stupid parliament law only.
Seem like Czech Republic legal system is pretty useless against this type of scam and is okay for them to damage the reputation of the country.
Same in Poland, and many countries unfortunately
And you if you rape woman in czech they give you only 7 year prison sentenct. But if you sell Mary Jane they give you more then 7 year 🥲🤯
The gypsies and bulgarians have protection from the law.
@@BopWalk be careful or some idiot will call you out as a racist.
@@tnickknight I was in Poland during the summer. I didn’t need cash for anything. I think I might have withdrawn maybe $100. It’s kind of pointless having cash unless you want to tip your server or Bolt driver.
How tf can someone, who is ON PAROLE, be released by the police, after being caught again and even acting aggressive?!
Even scumbags have Rights.
@@MrMenefrego1 you mean more rights than others
assault isnt felony here and they didnt find czech money on him so he attempted to scam but didnt manage to... wrong timing..
@@MrMenefrego1 well... hes on parole.. and was going to scam people again.. i dont get why the released him.. they took are his fake bills.. and he had more of them again. he punched him. he should def be locked up again
Parole is not similar in European jurisdictions to the USA concept. Scam under 400€ are a misdemeanor in many EU countries, and we don't usually send people to jail for shorts periods in order to avoid the school effect of jail and the "networking". Take into account that rates of sentenced criminals committing a new crime in EU are half than in USA (talking in general terms is 60% Vs 30% in EU. We even have Scandinavians prisons were reincidence is lower than 10%). We don't love the unpunished criminals but penitentiary policy is more complex than it looks.
We need more people like you. Imagine a "scammer task force", harassing the scammers as they have harassed the tourists all these years! Keep it up! And pls expand to more countries! haha
Something has to change if people like the Honest Guide can catch these scammers multiple times a day trying to scam people and still not face consequences from the courts.
Exactly this, incompetence on the part of the police and lawmakers.
thevrukes are WAY TOO SOFT.
what needs to change is a lead piece introduced with the thieves heads at high velocity XD
And…,… this is why you ALWAYS deport them.
maybe someone should start lobbying for change.
Annoying that he can use his kids' citizenship to avoid getting deported. While they live in Bulgaria...
As Bulgarian living in Prague, I can clearly say that the problem is much bigger. All this criminals live pretty wealthy life in the home countries - there is numerous investigations how the money this guys steal here or anywhere else in Europe ending up in luxury cars and palace looking houses. Hats down for the guys, unfortunately the solution of the problem should come from both states - the home state for the criminals and for the donor state ( where they operate) . UA-cam can raise awareness but cannot solve it :( , I wish I was wrong . Keep up the great work guys. Thank you.
I bet he probably doesn't even pay child support for his kids and rarely contacts them anyways
I would have deported him anyway. Don’t be a pos criminal and expect the court to give you leniency? Sad the court didn’t deport him because he’s praying on the citizens and the courts are allowing him this
I am Dutch and living in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 , even deported they can come back ( freedom of movement ) deportation means nothing to those people..
The reasoning felt like it was just out of pity and emotion
All these warnings really seem to be deterring Billy. Billy will just get worse because he knows that the consequences are minimal
Or maybe he won't get worse because he can survive with a non-violent crime worth a month of beer money.
Thank You! For making these kinds of videos we all appreciate it. Saving so many ppl from a bad time
"Billy, you have been issued seven warnings, if you continue to disobey the law then you will be risking an eighth warning"
What a joke of a system.
The system is a joke in every single country.
50 grams of weed? ROT IN PRISON FOR 20 YEARS YOU TERRORIST!
@@Prvosienko I'd be okay with that. Drugs harm society. You shouldn't do them.
@@memo134 Nop. Most authoritarian countries will see them dealt with right away. Because the ones at the top justify their authoritarian rule by saying that they are more efficient and quicker at dealing with problems than any republic.
Thats what you get when you hire female judges
Should the prison sentence not have been enforced since he was caught again whilst on parole??
Because there was no other currency they probably couldn't proof anything. It is highly suspicious to be walking around with these expired Belarussian notes, but not illegal in itself...
@@broodjemartini9155 True, but also given he was assaulting Janek to the point others called the police, I imagined that would be a charge that stuck
I guess that police needed testimony from tourists who been scammed by Billy. Wallet with expired notes isn't probably proof of crime.
No testimony = no case 🤷
He was caught with just a wallet full of expired money which is not a fellony in itself so I guess sufficient evidence wasn't met to enforce the prison sentence.
@@ncw911 Exactly this, just being caught with expired money doesn't prove anything unfortunately, he needs to be caught attempting to exchange it
this is incredible - well done!
It gave me goosebumps, i remembered how I was scammed for these guys in ATM, I ruined my day and my impression of Prague, which used to be romantic. Unfortunately the justice is very soft with them, so it will never end.
Moral of the Story: Billy can easily continue scamming people even up to 399.99€ now. Well done 🇨🇿, well done.
That's mind of scammer 🤭
@@happymiro you need to adress your critics to the Czech legislation. If they support those scams by raising the hurdle of impunity instead of tightening the conditions, its only going to get worse. But its good that you outed yourself as a scammer 😂 cheers
Meh… tourists have already cooled to Prague, having discovered other nice destinations. If Czechia wants this to continue, it will reap the rewards of that. Bratislava is just as nice and much more friendly.
@@mikesiegenthaler4224 He didn’t say he’s a scammer. He said that’s how scammer see it, and he’s right.
Thanks god Czech has raised that minimum, the streets of Prague are finally safe again..oh wait.
"I'd rather be crazy than a thief" LOL what a fantastic line
Awesome job guys. You`re a heroes! Keep doing what you do.
So basically, these people never actually get punished
... and, consequently, the public are never free of these criminals. Can the justice system address this? One might expect some callous pseudo-academic tone and argument that makes sense to bureaucrats and no-one else.
@@MArk-yn4sp The targets of these scammers are almost exclusively foreign tourists. The elected officials don't really have to care as the tourists don't vote.
bring hand chopping back on the punishment menu
Right, there should be really tough sentences, like in the USA, that's why the US is virtually crime free, right?
@@MariusNinjai it would really be that simple, chop off his hands, he will not do this again. why complicate things so much. this scum lives among us and will always keep laughing in our faces.
An advice: Buy a simple phone for 20€ for calling 112 if necessary and ALWAYS keep recording on your smartphone, because as soon you stop the camera punches are coming.
Some phones can't record video and make a phone call at the same time - so 2 phones are required. (see 8:12)
@@MArk-yn4sp Yeah, he will have his second phone for 20€, from where he will call 112
As soon as punches start coming stabs start going.
How about dedicated camera like GoPro???
@@CieplinskiPawel Difficult to handle and if on the stick, can be easily attacked by agresor.
Keep up the great work!
Love this !!
At this point, not enforcing cameras at every ATM or money exchange office is just the government being negligent. Hope this guy and all of his scammer friends are eventually gonna be meeting justice.
Wouldn't be hard to just step out of the camera's field of vision before asking people to do the exchange. These kind of guys probably know where most of the cameras in an area are pointed.
Installing cameras are not expensive; maintenance and monitoring is expensive and banks do not wish to spend the money. The ATMs are usually on rent and filling them with cash is also given to another agency - how often the ATMs should be filled.
or having signs or psa's around the popular scamming pages. maybe with pictures of known scammers that they keep letting go.
They're not being negligent. This is all part of the commie plan that the EU signed on to.
Completely ineffective justice system.
just like everyother country
It is a CRIMINAL justice system.
@@pummyy At the moment.
It's a curse of the west. We are a tolerant society so criminals will exploit that. They know how to play our justice system.
@@pummyy Not really. There are plenty of countries with effective justice systems.
Thank you guys for your work!
Keep up the fantastic work Janek !! its Brilliant !! )
That’s disgusting. I live now in Prague and as foreigner I’m constantly threaten by some stupid MOI approvals to change a job, banks to withdraw my own money and being canceled if I do not have PVZP while not working officially in any company for a while. And this individual has multiple criminal records and does not care. What’s wrong with this system?
moi? Pvzp?
@@supaburger Exactly!!!No one should know what it is! Why you should be bothered if you obey laws and behave properly? But no, criminals will get away with everything, and you will need to prove again and again that you are not satan or terrorist.
What’s wrong with this system? Everything!
Levtiez and core uption - deeeep...
@@supaburger My guess is MOI is something like the MVD in Russia. The ministry of internal affairs. And a PVZP is a likely a permission to stay in the country for a limited amount of time under the stipulation of maintaining a certain employment. The guy posting this is upset because he is residing in the Czech Republic without meeting the requirements of his residency permit and the agency caught wind of that and is requiring him to prove he is employed. And he likely has little to no connection to the Czech Republic other than wanting to live in Prague. The scammer however has blood ties to the Czech Republic in the form of children that are Czech citizens, which is why they're not deporting him.
They will eventually deport the guy complaining if he can't prove his employment status to their satisfaction. I don't see a problem here.
So nothing happened to him, in the long run. He's still on the street doing what he always does. If the country wants to stop these criminals, it needs to get serious about punishment.
I agree with you. Depotation does nothing to help, because these scammers can scam in other countries.
True. the court is too nice I mean they had the scammer they could have stop him and put in jail but no they let him go as soon as he say I have kids thanks to their kindness he's able to go back to scamming tourist
@@danieldronzek8616 lol let him scam in Belarus i heard prisons are really nice there and that tourism is booming.
@@downey2294 i wonder what Borat thinks of scammers , lol :P
Thanks guys…..you are great.👍🏻
This is absolute social service. Hats off to you guys to put your safety on the line to safeguard us.
I just returned from my first trip to Praha yesterday. And first of all, I want to thank the guys from Honest Guide, because thanks to their videos, this trip was a huge success. Not only did I check out many of the places they recommended, but also knew about what to look out for in terms of scams. Thanks to you, this has been an awesome trip. Thank you for all the work you put in!
brother trust me you are doing better than courts.....saving lots of tourists (i am one of them) with your videos. stay blessed and always be careful. big respect from pakistan.
Love your vids!
Dude, i wish there were more people like you
Im proud of your persistence and even the results look minor, thousands of people now are informed of the criminal activities performed by these groups. You significantly reduced the revenue of these criminals and saved thousands of honest citizens. Congrats!!!
Keep up the good work!
Great work guys, keep it up.
"I'll sue you!"
A muscular looking Karen I see.
Thank you so much for your public service !!!
The world needs more people like you! Who bring bad people to justices.
Great work!
Such good work. Thankyou
Great to see you've brought these people into the spotlight through your channel. Your a great ambassador for tourism for the country of Prague, thanks for the advice from Australia.
You guys have the best channel. 100% straightforward no bullshit
Keep up the good work guys!
Thanks for the information, very useful. I'll be in Prague during June for a few days so have been watching many of your very helpful videos.
You guys are amazing, thank you so much, for highlighting these issues with these scumbags. Please be safe🙏🏻
You are doing honest work, I appreciate your civic duty bringing awareness to the problem time after time. It shows me you don’t want your city and country to be represented by what some scammers are doing to unknowing tourists for that I thank you.
I love that little chase theme they put on these videos... I can't believe they don't do more to deal with this. Thanks to you guys though, I am sure people are more aware of it
I would have liked the Benny Hill music played giving chase 😆
Great job Janek and Honza! Zdravim s Polski😊🇨🇿🇵🇱✌️
I am just here to tell you that probably one of the best top 10 amazing content you tuber in the world !! Well done and congratulations
We just had a great visit to Prague, and your videos helped keep us safe. Thanks for making these types of videos and explaining to people how to be safe while visiting a new city.
P.S. Prague is lovely, and I would love to visit it again.
Clearly the system is not working well enough. These criminals need to be put away longer.
Well done! I love that you left his face in the video if you watch the right part, brilliant! Actually a couple of times lol 😛
lol at the spot "blurring" his face.
It veers off course multiple times. 😂
Can't you press charges for the physical assault against your person??
This shows how useless and gullible the justice system is.
You guys are the best !!!
It’s hard to change skills. Especially when he knows there’s no serious repercussions.
It would be very funny if you somehow taped a paper on the scammers backs that says that he is a scammer and just let them go along with their day until they notice it
Not much good when he's scamming someone face to face.
He needs a tattoo on his face since the law doesn't punish him.
PERMANENT 'tattoos' like Inglorious Basterds.
But the pillory and or tar an feathering just might be a much more effective punishment..... from your peers that is.
HARSH punishment just might discourage bad behavior.
My dad used to say "this is going to hurt me more than you". I was thinking "he's full of shit". Now that I'm a dad, I get it.
Also,"spare the rod, spoil the child,It's Biblical". Took me awhile, eventually I saw the light.
@@rollinrat4850 your poor kids...😢
@@banditthedog6268 My daughter only needed to be reprimanded once as a very young child. No rod was involved. So you can rest easy.
My brother and myself tested my dad's patience much more.
In May my daughter graduates with her 2nd degree in engineering. She's already gotten a great job offer at the engineering firm she's an intern at.
She's well adjusted, been married 7 years and they just bought their 2nd home. My daughter and son in law helped build a new church from ground up. So they're better off than we are. Every parent's dream. At Christmas we found out we're going to be grandparents!
She's just beginning to enjoy the rewards of her decisions and good behavior. I have hope for this world after I'm gone.
I like how Billy was stopped in front of the overcharging meat shop.
Thatwas exactly my thought. 😁
Great WORK GUYS !!!😁👍💪👊
I am watching your videos for so long now and I still love the music at 3:00 😂 As soon as I hear this epic music I go get some popcorn and enjoy the action 😄
I have travelled a lot, but I have only experienced scammers twice - once in London (lost £20) and once in Prague (which I didn't fall for).
Thank you, Gents. You are doing good and valuable work, but please be careful.
Subscribed!
Thank you for all your bravery, hard work and investigation. 🙏
This is incredible! I was in Prague roughly a year and a half ago and withdrew money from that exact ATM! And a guy next to me offered to exchange the money (I guess it was Billy). He offered to exchange notes to make him a favor... It seemed fishy so we said no and the friend next to me also said that the notes were looking weird! It was a close call though. Thanks for your work guys!
Really nice channel. I appreciate!
You guys do a fantastic job. Keep up the good work.
Yeah so he knows that the Czech justice system will just slap him on the wrist and let go. This is the worst type of scammer, because he's not afraid of the punishment, it's basically a cost of running the business at this point. The fact that you film him and call the police means nothing, it's just a thing that happens once in a while and needs to be dealt with (like a flat tyre in delivery truck). Also, deportation won't happen: according to current EU law, it's very difficult to deport an EU citizen.
I know a few people like him. They collect tickets, fines, and sentences like post stamps. They don't care, because they never cross the line to actually go to prison for extended period of time, and even if they are ordered to pay a hefty fine, this won't happen, because legally speaking, they don't have income, and all their possessions amount to less than the camera you use for filming this video.
You say he already had 6 criminal records in Czechia. Now he has seven. What difference do you realistically expect the eight one to make?
Those records are probably for some minor acts. Now when he is in the probation period, the next offence will be punished by 6 months in jail.
@@ondra10192 No. The 3 year probation is instead of jail. If he gets next offence he will get 6 months + additional jail time for this new offence. I believe.
@@ondra10192 So he just punch a guy multiple times in front off many people and even that is not offense
Great sharing! Thank you guys 🙌🏻
you guys rock 😎 thank you for everything you do - it‘s not only educational but also very entertaining! Greetings from neighboring Germany
I love you guys and have been watching for years. I'm planning to go to Prague with my girlfriend and I'm glad I know where to eat, where to go and where not to be ripped off. I would like every country to have people like you who love their city like you love Prague. I hope we can see you!
Keep up this amazing work and representing your country. I'm so glad you're safe. Please visitors and citizens share the pictures all over social media and not just with this amazing tour guide and patriot to his country
Dont be soft, at the very least beat these theives bloody. They dont care about being photographed if every month they have to go to the hospital they might reconsider trying to scam people.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 nothing you said is true or legal you can't do that. They do care if photographed and beating them just mean they will retaliate and cause you to become an international felon
@@praiserdusty Legal by the law of the gods. Let them dare try to retaliate.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 whatever that means dude. You're sounding just as bad as the scammers. You want violence for a non violent crime. Sigh
@@praiserdusty Non crime!? They are thieves!
I am so surprised how these guys are still alive and healthy :D take care guys, you are amazing for helping us but it seems like this is a very dangerous path
haha... guys... i love you and your series. absolutelly outstanding. doing good things while making hundred thousand of ppl laugh in youtube is off the charts ;D
What Batman does for Gotham, you do for Prague(And also other places in the world,because you make us aware of the scams and how to avoid them all over the world). A true hero!
And in front of the "classic" Prague Ham stand! Great job guys!
Always a good day when you guys upload 😎
great job man.
I love the "attempt" at blurring the face. But it wanders around from time to time LOL
Keep up the excellent work. Cheers from Canada!
Thanks for the video.
I will share this to my family who plan to travel to Europe this summer. Keep up the good work.
Continue your good work, guys!
When I was in Prague some 20 years ago there were some disgusting Gipsy women on Wenzelsplatz who tried to lure men into small streets where they eventually got robbed.
Brilliant. You do have to take justice into your own hands with these criminal scumbags.
Yeah, cause their laws appear to be too soft.
And when you do the cops will arrest YOU, not the scammer
@@dustojnikhummer Eh no, I am typing that they should act like those in the video. Why do people assume you have to act violently when taking justice into your own hands!? Just investigate.
What justice was that? Guy was on the streets 20min later. You guys are deluded.
thank you so much for making Czech a safer place for visitors❤ u guys r heroes
Excellent job guys respect from the uk
Every city need one Honest guide...good job guy ✌️
awesome ... congrats to the honest guide team
Should make sure every tourist who lands at the airport can get information on the most common scams.
Great idea, if they can print and hand them to each one arriving
Or just a nice little poster board around baggage claim area!! Take a photo of these people !
I got money stolen from my backpack in Prague airport before it even got to the baggage carousel... put me off ever going back there.
@Debs - Bassist Yes, thanks. I usually keep my money on me but, that time that I didn't, there was an announcement at the departure gate saying the flight was full and people could put carry on into the hold for no extra. I just jumped to a decision despite the fact my backpack would probably have gone under the seat in front. I certainly haven't done that since.
@@NeilD_Videos that doesn't make sense to me. One bad apple doesn't mean the rest of the fruit on the tree is bad.
You guys are amazing
Thank you guys for your honorable work
Just a thought.
Would it be possible to place some warning stickers direcktly at the ATM's as i know a lot of travellers who doesn't read guides or check for this kind of stuff, im thinking a simple "If someone approaches you and offers to exchange your money its a SCAM" in the usual couple of langues for turists and some warning exclamation point yellow thrown in for good measure.
Great work as always!
the scammers will remove these stickers in no time
@@xerxes931 i definetely agree, but if permanent labels are used, like warrenty stickers on consumer products. The kind that crumbles, i believe a big enough version would at least make it very annoying and time consuming to remove, compared to how easy they are to apply in seconds.
I'm more in doubt if it would look like vandlism or the banks owning the ATM's would complain, but then a dialogue could be established asking them to code the message in during the cash withdrawl.
But it is probably wishfull thinking on my part.
Or use common sense. This scam is ancient. But hey i still remember getting leaflet "how not to get mugged" in nyc.
@@sagatlike3393 i would love a copy of one of those, it would be a nice "remember not everyone have common sense" token.
Get one of those recording glasses so that you can film his scam in POV. Billy is going to feel much more secure and you get your footage!
On a positive note, I spent 3 days in Prague about a month ago and had a wonderful time. All the people I met were very nice. I enjoyed the city immensely and hope to return. I spent 3 months backpacking Europe and Prague had some of the nicest people. Also, I stayed safe the whole time thanks to tips from this channel! Keep up the good work.
Well done. It takes bravery and intelligence to stop these people.
Seems like a bit of a joke that he can keep going while on parole. he even went back to scamming 5 minutes after being let go from the police station.
Great job! Be safe!
You are a really hero!
You are all HEROS...THANK YOU👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you for teaching me the word misdemeanor.
I really appreciate the blurring for not showing us who the thief is maahahahahahha you guys are awesome
Good work/Dobre prace!
Thank you for your work, btw i love your pr for your country and city.
Best wishes from nothern Germany
Its interesting listen to your language as a kid born in latvia who lived all his life in usa and also speaks ukrainian find it fascinating that i can understand some of your local speach
Are you also Ukrainian by nationality or you Learned separately
I noticed those Czech words having similar like Dobre Rana Good Early morning
Dobre Utro good morning