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MARIANA: I've done
stories about scammers before.
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ANCHOR: Tax related scams.
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REPORTER: Warning the
public about a new scam.
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MARIANA: Phone scammers.
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Binary options scammers.
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Romance scammers.
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Credit card scammers.
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Identity theft scammers.
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WOMAN: It's a scam.
MAN: It's a scam.
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MARIANA: But I've never
met anyone like these guys.
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They're all 20-somethings.
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And they all live like kings.
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♪ Just hurry in the water ♪
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♪ There's a price to pay ♪
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MARIANA: Mansions. Parties.
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Insane cars.
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Jewelry.
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Ak-47s that look like jewelry.
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It's a lifestyle that's made
possible by their mastery of
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cryptocurrency scam called...
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REPORTER: The rug pull scam.
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ANCHOR: The rug pull.
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MARIANA: The rug pull.
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If you haven't heard of
it, consider yourself lucky,
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because victims lost nearly
$3 billion in 2021 alone.
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This is a journey.
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To the dark side.
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Of the crypto craze.
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(cheering)
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MARIANA: Okay.
Let's do this.
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DIRECTOR: Okay.
You ready?
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MARIANA: Um-hmm.
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Before I started reporting
on crypto currency,
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I think I just thought
that it was something that
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everybody else was making money
on, but I was too lazy to get
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into it because I knew
very little about it.
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MAN: Crypto currency.
MAN: Crypto.
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WOMAN: Crypto.
MAN: Crypto.
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MAN: Crypto is a way of people
taking control of their money.
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MAN: It's a safe and easy
way to get into crypto.
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DAVID: And I'm never wrong
about this stuff. Never.
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DAMON: Fortune
favors the brave.
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MARIANA: Whenever there's
something out there that it
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seems like you can make so
much money fast, there is a
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lot of people out there that
are just willing to exploit
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those dreams or those hopes.
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XAVIER: Like, where do
I start with crypto?
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Crypto.
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MARIANA: Actually, let's
start from the beginning.
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So it started, so it
started with one person.
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One day I got a
message on Instagram
from a fan of the show.
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Who was such a fan, he lived in
LA, so I actually met this guy.
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And he showed up with a cheese
board that he had made himself
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that said "Trafficked
with Mariana Van Zeller"
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and he gives me the cheeseboard
and then he says, "Hey."
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XAVIER: Hey.
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MARIANA: "Hey, what do you
know about crypto scams?"
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XAVIER: What do you
know about crypto scams?
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MARIANA: Crypto scams. One of
which is called the "rug pull."
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XAVIER: Remember what I
told you about crypto?
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Crypto, crypto.
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Currencies, coins,
tokens, centralized financing,
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decentralized financing.
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But once you go defi,
it's the Wild West.
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MARIANA: You do realize
that half of the things you're
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saying I don't
understand right?
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Uh, um.
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MAN: Shall I say
what crypto is?
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MAN 2: It's a very...
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MAN 3: Um...
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MAN 2: A ver, a really.
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MAN 4: Uh...
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MAN: It's so hard, 'cause it's
not like a two sentence thing.
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It's like a two hour thing.
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XAVIER: I don't even
know where to start.
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I mean.
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MAN 2: And it's, uh, ah (bleep).
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HOST: Now, if you don't know
what crypto currencies are,
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we're not
entirely sure, either.
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It's okay.
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Experts say they are a digital
currency that's exchanged
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online, that's not
tied to a government.
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ANCHOR: Bitcoin is probably
the most common crypto
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currency on the market, but
there are many out there.
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MARIANA: So you have very little
money in an actual bank account?
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XAVIER: Yeah.
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MARIANA: All of
it is in crypto?
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XAVIER: Exactly.
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And I'm sure I'm
not the only one.
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MARIANA: When was the first
time you realized you'd been
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a victim of a scam?
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XAVIER: I think I've been in
maybe seven or eight rug pulls.
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MARIANA: That many?
XAVIER: Yes.
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The first time it was
just a $500 investment.
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Then the next
one, almost $10,000.
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MARIANA: And then what
happened to the bit?
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Just, you lost it?
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XAVIER: You just move on.
There's nothing you can do.
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Decentralized financing.
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So, there's no rules,
nothing applies.
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MARIANA: Right. Okay, so the
first time you lost $500.
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XAVIER: Right.
MARIANA: And it was a rug pull?
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XAVIER: Yes. Let me explain
how this rug pull works
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in the form of a margarita.
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MARIANA: Great,
love margaritas.
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XAVIER: When we launch the
token, the scam token,
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you have this amount of
your actual token.
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MARIANA: Okay.
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So before scammers start to
promote this new offering,
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they've already bought
a big chunk of it at
a very low price.
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XAVIER: As people are buying
in and it goes up and up and up,
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there's no stopping, just
keeps going up the charts.
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MARIANA: So that's the
money I'm putting in.
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XAVIER: Exactly. Exactly.
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MARIANA: Filling
up the coffers.
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XAVIER: Now you have
more investors coming in.
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More shillers
pushing the product.
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Nonstop, Twitter.
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Telegram, pushing it, getting
paid to promote a certain token.
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So your average newbie investor
sees that and is thinking,
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"Oh, I better get into it
right now, it looks great."
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Going, and going, and
going, people are buying in.
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MAN: Buy, buy, buy.
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XAVIER: Going, and going, and
going, thousands of people.
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MAN: Going and going.
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MARIANA: They're all
getting super excited.
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XAVIER: Correct.
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Next thing you know?
The scammer walks out.
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MARIANA: He walks out?
XAVIER: Yes.
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MARIANA: With all the money?
XAVIER: Exactly.
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MARIANA: That's right.
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Just when the excitement
around the token reaches a
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fever pitch, the scammer pulls
the rug, selling all of his
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holdings and sending
the price crashing.
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And that's a rug pull?
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XAVIER: That's a rug pull.
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It's amazing to me that so
many people can do this.
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MARIANA: Uh-hmm.
XAVIER: And get away with it.
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MARIANA: Uh-hmm.
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XAVIER: Personally, I know
some people that have lost
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their life savings.
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MARIANA: Who are the scammers?
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Who are these people that are
making millions of dollars.
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XAVIER: Anybody.
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MARIANA: From other people.
XAVIER: Anybody.
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MARIANA: I can't quite believe
that these scams are as big
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and as common as
Xavier is telling me.
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XAVIER: Scams
everywhere, crypto?
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Scams everywhere.
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MARIANA: But it doesn't take
much research to see that
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he's absolutely right.
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ANCHOR: The FBI is warning
about an increase in
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crypto currency scams.
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ANCHOR: The rug pull
scam accounted for 37%
of the illicit revenue.
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REPORTER: A Denver man thought
he'd be able to retire early,
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after investing more
than $1 million.
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ANCHOR: $1.6 million in total.
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MAN: They disappeared
with about $3 million.
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NEWS GUEST: I mean, the bad
guys all want crypto currency
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because it's not traceable.
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MARIANA: It seems like once
people are burnt, they either
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quietly drop out
of crypto entirely.
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REPORTER: It's not backed by
any banks, so consumers have
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no protections and no way
of getting their money back.
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MARIANA: Or, they pin their
hopes on making it back on the
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next hyped up token.
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NEWS GUEST: It's
really exciting.
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Maybe there are
celebrities involved.
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So you want to get in early.
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MAN: I missed out on Google,
I missed out on Apple, so I
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didn't wanna miss out on this.
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MAN: Oh, it went to zero.
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You've seen it live.
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A (bleep) rug pull, baby.
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MARIANA: If I'm looking into
scammers, what do you suggest?
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XAVIER: Conventions.
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The conventions.
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MARIANA: The
crypto conventions?
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XAVIER: Oh, correct.
MARIANA: Uh-hmm.
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XAVIER: Miami, Dubai, you're
bound to meet somebody that's
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trying to show off.
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MARIANA: When's
the next convention?
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XAVIER: Dubai.
MARIANA: Dubai?
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XAVIER: Yes, next week.
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MARIANA: Really?
Next week already?
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XAVIER: Yes.
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MARIANA: And you think for sure
there's gonna be scammers there?
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XAVIER: If you ask
the right questions,
you'll find somebody.
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MARIANA: Uh-hmm.
XAVIER: You'll find somebody.
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This is the Wild West,
decentralized financing
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is the Wild West.
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♪ ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ Put your hands up
if you in the building ♪
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♪ Put your hands up
high to the ceiling ♪
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MARIANA: Much like Dubai
itself, crypto currency
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seemingly came out of nowhere
creating obscene towers of
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wealth, a lot of
it built on sand.
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♪ Party all day
I'mma get right ♪
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MARIANA: The good, the bad,
and the ugly of crypto come
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to these conferences.
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Everyone is vying for attention
for their latest token.
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MAN: Crypto education...
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MARIANA: This is the first
time that I've showed up
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somewhere without a lead.
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GIRL: With my heart
glasses, our hearts.
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MARIANA: And without
knowing what a scammer
might even look like.
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So my plan is to get the word
out that I'm looking for them
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and hope that our cameras
will pique their interest.
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♪ Let's go ♪
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MARIANA: Hi, why are you
dressed in a space suit?
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MAN: Crypto doesn't have
any more "sky is the limits"
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mentality, so it's
going to the moon.
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♪ Get it ♪
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♪ Out of nowhere
they start modeling ♪
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MARIANA: Are you guys
in the crypto business?
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MEN: Yes.
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MARIANA: What do you do?
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MARIANA: You invest in crypto?
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MAN: Yeah.
MAN: Yeah.
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MARIANA: So does your
company have a token
or how, what do you do?
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MAN: No, my company is all
about fashion, crypto fashion.
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CLIFF: Right now crypto's
not accepted for payment
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everywhere, as that adopts
more, you're gonna see a whole
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flood of more people come in
and these scammers are gonna
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be sitting out there waiting.
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MARIANA: There is a lot of
scamming in crypto, too.
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Is that something
that worries you?
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MAN: Yeah, but that's
where you got to do your own
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research kind of thing.
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People don't like to read,
people don't like to search,
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they follow influencers.
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MARIANA: I'm assuming there
are scammers in here too, right?
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CLIFF: I would
absolutely bet that, yes.
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MARIANA: Do you know
anyone who's doing rug pulls?
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Any scammers?
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(laughing)
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Good luck.
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I leave the conference
with nothing to show for it.
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♪ ♪
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(phone ringing)
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But later, my luck changes.
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Hey, can you hear me?
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MAN (over phone): Yes.
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MARIANA: When I finally hear
from an elusive source
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I've been waiting on.
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Is there any way I can get his
phone number and meet him and
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talk to him directly?
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He confirms that there is a
notorious scam crew in town,
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headed up by someone he insists
on referring to as "Mr. X."
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Okay, but he's
definitely in Dubai right?
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It's rare for them to be in
the same place at the same
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time, so I can't
miss meeting them.
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Okay. Any idea on
where he's staying?
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I mean if we have an address,
if you're willing to share
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that address with me?
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Awesome, okay.
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Thank you.
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Talk to you in a bit, bye-bye.
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Hello?
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MARIANA: Mr. X?
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MARIANA: Hi, Mariana
here, how are you doing?
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MARIANA: I am so happy we can
finally talk to you directly.
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MARIANA: Yes, ma'am. Okay.
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So we're on our way, I think
we should be there in the next
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15, 20 minutes.
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MARIANA: Great, okay.
I'll see you soon.
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MARIANA: So, apparently
he's staying in this big villa
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right on the water, sort of,
one of the most expensive
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areas in Dubai and, uh, heard
that he's driving around in
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all sorts of luxury cars
and I guess we're gonna see.
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Okay.
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This is it guys,
this is the house.
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We have a G, Mercedes G Wagon
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and a Rolls Royce
parked out front.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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MARIANA: So we came all the
way to Dubai, we got here and
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we started a
hunt for a scammer.
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We went to parties, we went
to this crypto conference,
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telling everybody that I was
looking for a scammer
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which isn't the best
way to go about this,
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but eventually we got a call.
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The scammer, he's here right now
and he's willing to talk to us.
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The scammers are fairly
paranoid about us identifying
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where they're staying,
so it's cameras down
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until we're inside.
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♪ ♪
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(mumbling)
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MR. X: (bleep).
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You're not from here, bro.
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MARIANA: How many rug
pulls have you done?
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MARIANA: But more than 10?
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MARIANA: More than 100?
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MARIANA: No. Have you been
a victim of a rug pull?
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MARIANA: Oh, is that
one of the reasons you
got interested in it?
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MARIANA: Do you know a lot
of other people rug pulling?
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MARIANA: So, setting the
stage, where are we and
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why are you guys here?
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MARIANA: So you come here
and they're going to tell you
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everything at these conferences
about what they're doing,
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in terms of security, and you
can always be a step ahead?
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MARIANA: You wanna be
called Mr. X, right?
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MARIANA: What is
it that you do?
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MARIANA: And you're the boss?
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MARIANA: All right. Can you tell
me what each of you guys do?
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MARIANA: You're sort
of the PR side of it?
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MARIANA: Is it easy?
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MARIANA: And what
about you, what do you do?
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MARIANA: What's the most
amount of money you've ever
made on a rug pull?
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MARIANA: How much?
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MARIANA: Six zero?
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MARIANA: $60 million?
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MARIANA: You know I've
interviewed many, many, many,
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many people that work in black
markets, but I've never heard
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of anyone making this amount
of money with one operation.
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MARIANA: So you guys, you
guys are in your 20s, right?
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MARIANA: So then what
do you do with the cash?
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I mean, if you're having, if
you have millions of dollars
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in cash how do you,
what do you do with it?
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MARIANA: How much does
that chain cost do you think?
The one you have.
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MARIANA: 75,000.
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And on a regular basis how
much money worth of jewelry
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do you carry on you?
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P: Um...
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MARIANA: $250,000?
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♪ ♪
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MARIANA: I'm along for the
ride with them today, to see
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where those millions end up
once the rug has been pulled.
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This car alone cost,
like, half a million dollars?
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MARIANA: How much do you think
these houses are worth here?
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MARIANA: And you
guys have six?
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MARIANA: They tell us they've
rented six different villas,
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on Palm Jumeirah, a
luxury development built
on man-made islands.
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All of these are on
the water then right?
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MARIANA: How many people
did you guys travel with?
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MARIANA: Is this your
first time in Dubai?
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MARIANA: And by
utility you mean cash?
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MARIANA: Oh, so the people
that you know are in
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high places here,
so they're not.
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MARIANA: Get away with a lot?
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♪ ♪
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♪ Gonna take myself
out on a date ♪
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♪ Limousine of
diamonds on the plate ♪
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♪ 'Cause you had ♪
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MARIANA: Woo-hoo.
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♪ Don't need no
damn sugar daddy ♪
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MARIANA: Do your friends
and family know you're
in this business?
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MARIANA: They know
that you're doing.
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MARIANA: That you're stealing?
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MR. X: How do you, how do you...
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MARIANA: I mean, all these
people are buying tokens
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thinking it's
something and it's not right?
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MARIANA: So, you're selling
them something that's
actually not real.
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MARIANA: Yeah, but it's worth
nothing. That's the point.
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MARIANA: But the people that are
investing and buying the tokens
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MARIANA: Don't know that
their money is going to
disappear right?
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They're going to lose money.
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MARIANA: So, but if it is
not illegal, why are you guys
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wearing masks, why not
just be openly doing it?
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MARIANA: Right, it would.
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MARIANA: Basically put a
stop to your lifestyle.
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MARIANA: Do you ever feel
bad about the people that are
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losing all this money?
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You know we hear stories about
people who've invested,
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you know, all their retirement,
or sold their dream house or
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whatever, how do
you feel about that?
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MARIANA: You don't care?
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MARIANA: It's pretty chilling
how quickly these guys can
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flip between being almost
likable and almost completely
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void of empathy.
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MARIANA: We heard that
there was somebody who killed
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themselves after a rug pull,
after being a victim of a
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rug pull, have you
guys heard of that?
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MARIANA: But, I think there's
a certain, it's also because
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you never meet
your victims, right?
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I think that if you were to
sit down in front of somebody
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who's lost a lot of money and
is crying in front of you, and
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is telling you that they can't
send their kid to college,
or whatever it is.
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MARIANA: They can couch
it however they want, but
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essentially, they're scamming
people out of their hard
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earned money and they have
absolutely no qualms about it.
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♪ Baby, I'mma get you to stay ♪
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MARIANA: I'm treading a fine
line between challenging them
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and maintaining
access to this world.
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It feels like they trust me
now, but I still need the
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invite to the main event.
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This is really beautiful though,
this is really beautiful.
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MARIANA: So, when you
do your next operation,
could we be with you?
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MARIANA: Did you ever
think you'd be living
a life like this?
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MARIANA: What is it that you
most like about this life?
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MARIANA: You can do whatever?
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MARIANA: And you don't
think this is going to end?
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ROBERT: A couple of years ago
I had cancer and it kind of
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slowed me down a little bit,
and so I spent more time with
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investments, and
things of that nature.
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And my son came
over and he said,
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"Hey dad, have you
looked at crypto?"
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And I said, "Crypto?
You mean that Bitcoin stuff?"
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ANCHOR: Cryptocurrencies.
ANCHOR: Cryptocurrencies.
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ANCHOR: Cryptocurrencies.
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NEWS GUEST: This is
pretty confusing stuff.
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REPORTER: So no
Bitcoin investments for you?
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LL COOL J: I don't know
nothing about that stuff.
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ROBERT: So I
started looking, right?
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And so I got on the
SHIB and did very well,
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and then you're ruined, right?
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You're kind of wrecked.
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'Cause I went from
saying things, like,
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"Hey, I made $29 today
trading blue chip stocks."
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And it went to, "Hey, I made
$6,000 today with crypto."
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And I thought, even then, man,
this could be dangerous for
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people because of
that FOMO, that lure.
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You know?
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HOST: Everyone's
trying to get in this game.
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REPORTER: Investing in crypto
currency is the buzz right now.
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ROBERT: The day
started normally.
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It was a launch day.
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Altex was the name of the
token and I had been involved
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with this project.
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00:21:58,025 --> 00:21:59,693
It had been
delayed a couple times.
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The devs were young.
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00:22:01,153 --> 00:22:02,655
Not fully doxxed.
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I knew who they were and about
where they live, but they
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still kept their last names
kind of, you know, secretive.
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MARIANA: Despite the risk,
Robert pressed his luck
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investing thousands in
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what he thought
was a promising new token.
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ROBERT: At launch, the devs
sold their entire bag, which
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looked like this
huge rug pull.
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And that left all of the
investors, including myself,
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you know, holding the bag.
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When all the smoke
cleared, I had $86 left.
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I just, I was
wrecked, wrecked.
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It's hard to describe.
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Emotionally, it's devastating.
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Knowing how that felt
and that others were
going through that,
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that's the point that I decided
that something had to be done.
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Something had to be done.
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And it was gonna
start with me.
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♪ ♪
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ROBERT: These are just new
tokens that have launched.
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MARIANA: Just when?
Oh, just today?
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ROBERT: Just, well, it shows
today, over here at the last.
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MARIANA: Just today, yeah.
ROBERT: Yeah.
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Here's a good indication
that this is probably a scam.
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You see 3% down
in the last hour?
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MARIANA: Yeah.
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ROBERT: But 85% in
the last 24 hours.
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MARIANA: Which means
that they're dumping?
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ROBERT: Something's going on.
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MARIANA: But then you see
these actually, you know,
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up by 6%, up by 16%.
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ROBERT: But that's what
they do, they hope that,
just like you just did,
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you say, "Hey, some of
these are up really big."
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They hope that you'll
see that and go buy it.
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MARIANA: Robert Browning is a
scam victim turned vigilante.
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After being taken in a by a
rug pull, he now spends his
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time hunting down
and exposing scammers.
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00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:44,256
So explain what this is.
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What are these AM?
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ROBERT: This is an AMA.
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Now, AMA means
"Ask Me Anything."
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MARIANA: And these guys use
these AMA platforms, what for?
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ROBERT: To bump their token.
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MARIANA: To sell it?
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ROBERT: All the hype, all the
garbage. All the..
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CREATOR: We're here, we're
here in chat, if people have
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any questions or anything.
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MARIANA: And so you go into
these chat rooms, into these
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AMAs, what for?
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ROBERT: Because
they're very suspicious.
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MARIANA: Yeah. Why do you
think they're suspicious?
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ROBERT: Because Carl sent me
a copy of a wallet that was
476
00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:09,490
involved in a scam.
477
00:24:09,490 --> 00:24:11,116
MARIANA: One of your guys?
ROBERT: Yeah.
478
00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:12,826
And it holds this token.
479
00:24:12,826 --> 00:24:14,203
MARIANA: So they've been
involved in another scam?
480
00:24:14,203 --> 00:24:16,288
ROBERT: Somebody has been
a bad actor on the team.
481
00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:18,791
MARIANA: When he finds a
suspicious token launch,
482
00:24:18,791 --> 00:24:22,378
he questions the developers in
public forums in front of
483
00:24:22,378 --> 00:24:26,173
possible
investors and victims.
484
00:24:26,548 --> 00:24:27,758
ROBERT: Hey, what's up guys?
485
00:24:27,758 --> 00:24:29,051
CREATOR (over phone):
What's up, man?
486
00:24:29,051 --> 00:24:30,636
ROBERT: Ah, nothing, man.
487
00:24:30,636 --> 00:24:32,096
Just checking it out.
488
00:24:32,096 --> 00:24:33,097
CREATOR (over phone): You're
just new to the group?
489
00:24:33,097 --> 00:24:34,515
ROBERT: Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
490
00:24:34,515 --> 00:24:36,725
Are y'all, is this, I
mean, am I reading this right?
491
00:24:36,725 --> 00:24:39,770
I mean, visually, right, it
looks an awful lot like aNrug.
492
00:24:39,770 --> 00:24:40,813
You know?
493
00:24:40,813 --> 00:24:42,773
I mean, you can see that.
494
00:24:42,773 --> 00:24:45,526
I mean, the way, you know,
the chart crashing out
and then the liquidity.
495
00:24:45,526 --> 00:24:47,277
CREATOR (over phone): You know,
that's not nice to say, because
496
00:24:47,277 --> 00:24:48,988
everything is in
the pinned messages.
497
00:24:48,988 --> 00:24:51,657
Anyone who does, they can
just read the pinned messages.
498
00:24:51,657 --> 00:24:52,658
ROBERT: Listen, I'm not.
499
00:24:52,658 --> 00:24:53,992
I'm just saying,
I'm telling you.
500
00:24:53,992 --> 00:24:55,786
CREATOR (over phone): Visually.
ROBERT: Visually.
501
00:24:55,786 --> 00:24:57,287
CREATOR (over phone): I
understand, but please
don't mention those
502
00:24:57,287 --> 00:24:59,123
things in the VC, because
it's absolutely not true.
503
00:24:59,123 --> 00:25:00,708
ROBERT: Well, I understand
that, but I mean if you could
504
00:25:00,708 --> 00:25:02,584
put yourself in an investor's
position for a second, I mean,
505
00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:04,086
you would want, you would want
somebody to ask that on your
506
00:25:04,086 --> 00:25:05,462
behalf, wouldn't you?
507
00:25:05,462 --> 00:25:07,172
I don't understand why
you're getting so defensive.
508
00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:08,924
CREATOR (over phone):
Rob, I apologize.
509
00:25:08,924 --> 00:25:10,801
ROBERT: You should lasso,
you should pull your boy
in there, man.
510
00:25:10,801 --> 00:25:14,012
If you're legitimate, he's
making you look very, very bad.
511
00:25:14,012 --> 00:25:15,431
CREATOR (over phone): Who is
looking, who is making.
512
00:25:15,431 --> 00:25:18,642
ROBERT: You! You are.
You are, sir! You are.
513
00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:21,395
An investor sent me here who's
got money in your project and
514
00:25:21,395 --> 00:25:24,356
asked me right
because that's what we do.
515
00:25:24,815 --> 00:25:26,525
MARIANA: What happened?
516
00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:28,819
ROBERT: Now I'm banned.
MARIANA: Oh, he banned you?
517
00:25:28,819 --> 00:25:30,154
ROBERT: Yeah.
518
00:25:30,154 --> 00:25:31,155
MARIANA: They kicked
you out and banned you?
519
00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:33,157
ROBERT: Yup.
That's it, I'm out.
520
00:25:33,157 --> 00:25:34,324
MARIANA: So what do you think?
What do you think?
521
00:25:34,324 --> 00:25:35,576
ROBERT: Scam, total scam.
522
00:25:35,576 --> 00:25:37,077
MARIANA: 100% scam?
ROBERT: 100% scam.
523
00:25:37,077 --> 00:25:38,495
MARIANA: How do you know?
524
00:25:38,495 --> 00:25:41,331
ROBERT: I mean, who, why
would, if I came to you, right?
525
00:25:41,331 --> 00:25:43,834
And you had a legitimate
thing going, and I said,
526
00:25:43,834 --> 00:25:46,920
"Hey, my guy's got some money in
your project, can you explain to
527
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,214
me why it's not
working out this way?"
528
00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:51,091
I would do anything
and everything, right?
529
00:25:51,091 --> 00:25:54,052
To make sure that you understood
that your money's safe.
530
00:25:54,052 --> 00:25:57,139
You know $14 billion last year,
that's a lot of money, you know.
531
00:25:57,139 --> 00:25:58,557
MARIANA: Is that the
amount that was lost?
532
00:25:58,557 --> 00:26:00,642
ROBERT: 14 billion, yeah.
MARIANA: $14 billion?
533
00:26:00,642 --> 00:26:02,019
ROBERT: $14 billion.
534
00:26:02,019 --> 00:26:03,353
MARIANA: To scammers, to
rug pulls, and honey pots.
535
00:26:03,353 --> 00:26:04,772
ROBERT: To scam. Yeah.
MARIANA: Whoa.
536
00:26:04,772 --> 00:26:07,399
To be clear, the
$14 billion in crypto that
537
00:26:07,399 --> 00:26:11,487
scammers stole in 2021
includes a variety of schemes.
538
00:26:11,945 --> 00:26:14,656
REPORTER: The biggest
Bitcoin bust in US history, in
539
00:26:14,656 --> 00:26:18,160
connection with a 2016 hack of
a virtual currency exchange.
540
00:26:18,452 --> 00:26:20,579
REPORTER: Delhi Police has
busted a cyber fraud module
541
00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:22,831
transferring cryptocurrency.
542
00:26:22,831 --> 00:26:26,210
MARIANA: It's estimated that
rug pulls account for nearly
543
00:26:26,210 --> 00:26:28,462
3 billion of that total.
544
00:26:28,921 --> 00:26:31,340
ROBERT: And we calculate that
we probably saved thousands of
545
00:26:31,340 --> 00:26:33,133
people, millions of dollars.
546
00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:34,343
Just us.
547
00:26:34,343 --> 00:26:36,595
MARIANA: But busting
scammers isn't easy.
548
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,348
The flow of crypto
can be hard to track.
549
00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:42,017
MAN: It's virtually impossible
to detect where they are and
550
00:26:42,017 --> 00:26:43,519
how to track them down.
551
00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:46,063
MARIANA: There's a lack of
specific laws around rug pulls
552
00:26:46,063 --> 00:26:50,484
and a decent likelihood that
scammers are operating overseas.
553
00:26:50,484 --> 00:26:53,070
REPORTER: One common complaint
is that police aren't doing
554
00:26:53,070 --> 00:26:55,656
enough to track
down these scammers.
555
00:26:55,656 --> 00:26:58,033
MARIANA: That's a big reason
why vigilante groups,
556
00:26:58,033 --> 00:27:00,410
like Robert's, have taken off.
557
00:27:00,410 --> 00:27:02,496
ROBERT: We pay for
bounties, and so we can.
558
00:27:02,496 --> 00:27:04,706
MARIANA: And bounties, you're
basically paying people to
559
00:27:04,706 --> 00:27:07,543
tell you if they see
some suspicious activity?
560
00:27:07,543 --> 00:27:09,962
ROBERT: It could be a dev,
it could be an influencer.
561
00:27:09,962 --> 00:27:11,046
MARIANA: Uh-hmm.
562
00:27:11,046 --> 00:27:12,464
How much do you
pay for these tips?
563
00:27:12,464 --> 00:27:15,509
ROBERT: Well, in the last 30
days of its existence,
564
00:27:15,509 --> 00:27:18,595
we paid about $17,500.
565
00:27:18,595 --> 00:27:20,305
MARIANA: Wow.
That's a lot of money.
566
00:27:20,305 --> 00:27:21,515
ROBERT: It's a
lot of money, yeah.
567
00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:22,391
MARIANA: Where does
that money come from?
568
00:27:22,391 --> 00:27:23,809
ROBERT: Well, we have a token.
569
00:27:23,809 --> 00:27:27,729
SEEK Token and it's really
there to fund our mission.
570
00:27:27,729 --> 00:27:29,231
MARIANA: Yup.
571
00:27:29,231 --> 00:27:31,692
Even the vigilantes who have
been burned by crypto have
572
00:27:31,692 --> 00:27:33,652
their own crypto token.
573
00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:35,904
ROBERT: We have had
death threats, and
all the good things.
574
00:27:35,904 --> 00:27:37,489
MARIANA: You've
gotten death threats?
575
00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:39,199
ROBERT: Oh absolutely.
Yeah, constant.
576
00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:40,826
MARIANA: And they know
who you are and they
know where you live?
577
00:27:40,826 --> 00:27:42,160
ROBERT: Oh, absolutely.
578
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,705
Yeah, my coordinates were
in a previous article,
579
00:27:44,705 --> 00:27:46,206
my GPS coordinates.
580
00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:47,457
MARIANA: So, how do
you feel about that?
581
00:27:47,457 --> 00:27:49,626
ROBERT: I mean, I keep
my team safe, you know?
582
00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:52,087
I've taken security
precautions at my home.
583
00:27:52,087 --> 00:27:53,589
MARIANA: You have?
ROBERT: Yeah, oh yeah.
584
00:27:53,589 --> 00:27:54,882
MARIANA: Such as?
585
00:27:54,882 --> 00:27:57,009
ROBERT: Such as
private stuff, yeah.
586
00:27:57,009 --> 00:27:58,260
I'm American, we
have firearms.
587
00:27:58,260 --> 00:27:59,887
You know, so.
588
00:27:59,887 --> 00:28:02,639
MARIANA: Does your wife
worry about the security
aspect of this?
589
00:28:02,639 --> 00:28:04,391
ROBERT: You know, it concerns
her, but at the same time, too,
590
00:28:04,391 --> 00:28:07,603
I don't, I don't tell my
wife every time that somebody
591
00:28:07,603 --> 00:28:11,773
named the Buttcorn
Bandit threatens to kill me.
592
00:28:11,773 --> 00:28:13,275
MARIANA: Is that the
name that they use?
593
00:28:13,275 --> 00:28:15,611
ROBERT: That was one of my
first death threats ever, was
594
00:28:15,611 --> 00:28:16,778
the Buttcorn Bandit.
595
00:28:16,778 --> 00:28:18,280
Yeah.
596
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,948
If you want me to be afraid
I'm okay with that, but you
597
00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:22,993
gotta be something a
little stronger than
the Buttcorn Bandit.
598
00:28:22,993 --> 00:28:25,746
MARIANA: So, what would you
say to the rug pullers and the
599
00:28:25,746 --> 00:28:29,750
scammers out there who
claim that what they're
doing is not illegal
600
00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:33,003
and, to some extent, they say
it's not even morally wrong,
because people are investing...
601
00:28:37,674 --> 00:28:39,676
ROBERT: You know you can't
take something that doesn't
belong to you and call that
602
00:28:39,676 --> 00:28:41,219
a bad investment,
that's stealing.
603
00:28:41,219 --> 00:28:42,763
They put people
in jail for that.
604
00:28:42,763 --> 00:28:44,306
In some places they cut your
hands off, but in crypto, they
605
00:28:44,306 --> 00:28:46,642
think they get a free pass.
606
00:28:47,059 --> 00:28:49,686
AGENT: The FBI have seen a
number of crypto currency scams.
607
00:28:49,686 --> 00:28:52,648
We certainly do hear a lot of
tales of how crypto currency
608
00:28:52,648 --> 00:28:55,400
has a lot of gray areas and
undefined areas that this
609
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,778
isn't money, so money
rules shouldn't apply.
610
00:28:57,778 --> 00:29:00,447
When individuals are under the
understanding, or assumption
611
00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:03,283
of a particular promise, and
then that's not delivered,
612
00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:04,868
that is fraud.
613
00:29:04,868 --> 00:29:06,286
Fraud is fraud.
614
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:07,913
MARIANA: Aren't you afraid
that you might get caught?
615
00:29:14,127 --> 00:29:16,088
MARIANA: There's not a lot of
laws out there right now to
616
00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:17,714
sort of regulate
what you guys do.
617
00:29:18,632 --> 00:29:20,634
MARIANA: Are you afraid
that the law will catch up?
618
00:29:27,891 --> 00:29:30,352
AGENT: What we often find
is that new technology is
619
00:29:30,352 --> 00:29:33,855
first adopted by predatory
individuals and in the last
620
00:29:33,855 --> 00:29:35,816
year we've seen an
exponential growth of
621
00:29:35,816 --> 00:29:38,068
crypto currency related fraud.
622
00:29:38,068 --> 00:29:39,695
♪ I be playing with the
money like, whoa ♪
623
00:29:39,695 --> 00:29:41,571
♪ Still got a lot more to go ♪
624
00:29:41,571 --> 00:29:44,616
AGENT: Fraudsters who are
engaged in rug pulls have to
625
00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:46,827
have an internal justification
for the type of actions that
626
00:29:46,827 --> 00:29:48,161
they're taking.
627
00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:50,288
It can be that the victims
should know better and
628
00:29:50,288 --> 00:29:51,790
not be victimized.
629
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:55,002
It should be that, "Well this
technology works this way,
630
00:29:55,002 --> 00:29:56,253
it's their problem.
631
00:29:56,253 --> 00:29:58,046
Their problem, that they
weren't aware of that."
632
00:29:58,046 --> 00:30:00,382
The same argument would say
that, "Well, because I can get
633
00:30:00,382 --> 00:30:02,467
into your house,
I can rob you."
634
00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:05,554
They are a criminal
enterprise, trying to remove
635
00:30:05,554 --> 00:30:08,015
folks from their
hard earned money.
636
00:30:08,015 --> 00:30:09,766
♪ Man with the
money like a toddler ♪
637
00:30:09,766 --> 00:30:12,519
AGENT: We'll make sure
that those actors will
be held to justice.
638
00:30:12,936 --> 00:30:14,896
♪ Yeah
Pull up on the scene ♪
639
00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:16,732
MARIANA: Despite the best
efforts of vigilantes and the
640
00:30:16,732 --> 00:30:20,819
FBI, Mr. X and his crew are
still free to launch scams
641
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:23,613
with very little
effort or risk.
642
00:30:23,613 --> 00:30:27,159
ROBERT: We get about 1,500
tips in a 30-day period.
643
00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:28,410
MARIANA: Wow.
That's a lot.
644
00:30:28,410 --> 00:30:29,953
ROBERT: Yeah, it's a lot.
645
00:30:29,953 --> 00:30:32,122
MARIANA: But there is one thing
that can stop these scammers.
646
00:30:32,122 --> 00:30:34,541
The markets themselves.
647
00:30:34,541 --> 00:30:36,877
COLBERT: It's been a bit
of a bumpy ride recently
for crypto currency.
648
00:30:36,877 --> 00:30:38,837
REPORTER: Major crypto
currencies have seen some
649
00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:40,922
steep losses.
650
00:30:40,922 --> 00:30:43,467
MARIANA: It was
called the crypto winter.
651
00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:48,805
By mid-2022, cryptocurrencies
had lost more than $2 trillion
652
00:30:48,805 --> 00:30:50,974
from their highs
the year before.
653
00:30:50,974 --> 00:30:53,977
REPORTER: The crypto selloff
has left investors scrambling.
654
00:30:53,977 --> 00:30:55,645
MAN: People lost
their shirts in this crash.
655
00:30:55,645 --> 00:30:58,273
MARIANA: Predictably,
investors were spooked, which
656
00:30:58,273 --> 00:31:01,276
meant that rug pulls were
much harder to pull off.
657
00:31:01,693 --> 00:31:06,406
WOMAN: I lost over 450,000 USD,
I cannot pay the bank.
658
00:31:06,406 --> 00:31:07,949
I will lose my home soon.
659
00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:10,911
MARIANA: Seemingly overnight,
our access to Mr. X and his
660
00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:12,621
team had vanished.
661
00:31:12,621 --> 00:31:17,084
And I wasn't sure when or
if we'd ever get it back.
662
00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:33,100
♪ ♪
663
00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:52,327
♪ ♪
664
00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:00,794
MARIANA: Mr. X and his crew
ghosted us for a while after
665
00:32:00,794 --> 00:32:02,712
we met them in Dubai,
666
00:32:02,712 --> 00:32:06,508
but now they've resurfaced
in Houston, Texas.
667
00:32:07,342 --> 00:32:09,928
We're here to meet Mr. X.
668
00:32:09,928 --> 00:32:11,888
He sort of disappeared
on us for a while,
669
00:32:11,888 --> 00:32:14,224
but he finally came through.
670
00:32:14,224 --> 00:32:16,935
We started
talking to him again.
671
00:32:17,853 --> 00:32:23,316
♪ You took my day,
you stole my life ♪
672
00:32:23,733 --> 00:32:27,112
♪ Two million, two million,
two million, two million, uh ♪
673
00:32:27,696 --> 00:32:30,365
MARIANA: It's definitely an
interesting time to be with him,
674
00:32:30,365 --> 00:32:34,578
because crypto has
crashed dramatically since
675
00:32:34,578 --> 00:32:37,080
the last time we were
with him in Dubai.
676
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,582
♪ The way they
think is minimal ♪
677
00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:40,000
♪ We got hot when
the wind is cold ♪
678
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,626
♪ I'm just down for
the inner soul ♪
679
00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:43,170
♪ Dream more water, mineral ♪
680
00:32:43,170 --> 00:32:46,423
MARIANA: My first stop with
Mr. X though, has nothing to
681
00:32:46,423 --> 00:32:49,718
do with how he's making money,
and everything to do with
682
00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:52,304
how he's spending it.
683
00:32:52,304 --> 00:32:55,265
This is him, last
seen in a bull mask.
684
00:32:55,265 --> 00:32:56,641
Good morning.
685
00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:59,811
Now leading me into his
favorite jewelry store.
686
00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:01,563
Bitcoin on top of a rocket.
687
00:33:01,563 --> 00:33:03,982
That's what you were
hoping would be happening
right now, right?
688
00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:07,527
It's curious to me that even
though the crypto market has
689
00:33:07,527 --> 00:33:11,823
crashed, these guys all
still seem to be living large.
690
00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:13,491
What is this one?
691
00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:16,703
ASSISTANT: Um, that's a
crypto coin we're kind
of cultivating into.
692
00:33:16,703 --> 00:33:19,915
So, that should be out
pretty soon, as well.
693
00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:24,544
MARIANA: Even Mr. X's
jeweler has a token
that he's promoting.
694
00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:28,340
JOHNNY: You don't want to
miss this, (bleep) on me,
695
00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:32,594
available October 14
on (bleep) dot com
696
00:33:32,594 --> 00:33:34,346
(bleep)!
697
00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:35,805
What's up?
How you doing, man?
698
00:33:35,805 --> 00:33:38,016
MARIANA: Johnny Dang is
apparently the go to guy for
699
00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:40,894
those who want to turn
crypto, or cash, into
700
00:33:40,894 --> 00:33:42,896
gold and diamonds.
701
00:33:42,896 --> 00:33:46,149
JOHNNY: Got the diamond
around that with engraving.
702
00:33:46,149 --> 00:33:47,734
Perfect gold.
703
00:33:47,734 --> 00:33:50,779
MARIANA: Or if you want to
bedazzle a fully functional
704
00:33:50,779 --> 00:33:52,405
AK-47.
705
00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:57,452
Oh, wow, it's a little heavier
than the common AK, right?
706
00:33:57,452 --> 00:33:58,787
Can I ask you how
much that cost?
707
00:34:02,123 --> 00:34:02,499
MARIANA: It cost some money?
708
00:34:04,584 --> 00:34:06,461
JOHNNY: All right.
709
00:34:06,461 --> 00:34:09,297
MARIANA: I don't think
Johnny Dang knows how
Mr. X makes his money.
710
00:34:09,297 --> 00:34:10,966
Never say no to champagne.
711
00:34:10,966 --> 00:34:14,344
Or that he might be using his
store to launder his profits.
712
00:34:14,344 --> 00:34:15,887
♪ Aye, aye ♪
713
00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:17,514
♪ You jumped in the hooptie,
I hopped in a Benz ♪
714
00:34:17,514 --> 00:34:19,808
MARIANA: But I've been itching
since Dubai to see how these
715
00:34:19,808 --> 00:34:22,602
guys actually
set up a rug pull.
716
00:34:22,602 --> 00:34:26,481
♪ What you gonna do to red,
what you gonna do red, ♪
717
00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:29,192
♪ what you gonna do to red, look
I hopped in the back as you ♪
718
00:34:29,192 --> 00:34:30,360
♪ driving this steer ♪
719
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:31,820
♪ Here go I dropped to the ops ♪
720
00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:35,115
MARIANA: Another member of
X's scam crew has surfaced.
721
00:34:40,287 --> 00:34:42,831
MARIANA: S, The
Shiller, is in town.
722
00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:46,042
So when you do your stuff,
when you do your shilling.
723
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:51,047
MARIANA: You use
Twitter, what else do you use?
724
00:34:51,047 --> 00:34:51,756
MARIANA: With my phone?
725
00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:53,717
MARIANA: Okay.
726
00:34:56,970 --> 00:34:58,972
MARIANA: New tokens.
Okay. Let's try that.
727
00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:02,309
MARIANA: How many of
these things are there? Lists.
728
00:35:03,810 --> 00:35:05,562
MARIANA: Crypto moonshots,
crypto moonshots, a lot of
729
00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:06,771
hype around this one.
730
00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:07,856
Bullish!
731
00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:09,357
S: There's a (bleep) one.
732
00:35:09,357 --> 00:35:10,900
MARIANA: Kermit Inu is the
next generation, Republic Inu
733
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,111
is an upcoming influencer
backed, take the world by storm.
734
00:35:18,825 --> 00:35:20,535
MARIANA: Yeah, there's a
bunch of rugs every day.
735
00:35:20,535 --> 00:35:23,622
Not even these scammers know
which of these tokens are real
736
00:35:23,622 --> 00:35:25,415
and which are fake.
737
00:35:25,415 --> 00:35:27,834
And that's exactly the point.
How does it work?
738
00:35:34,049 --> 00:35:36,593
MARIANA: And people, people
actually believe, believe
these lines?
739
00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:41,222
MARIANA: So make
it seem like it's.
740
00:35:41,806 --> 00:35:42,599
MARIANA: Much
bigger than it is?
741
00:35:43,016 --> 00:35:43,558
MARIANA: All right.
742
00:35:47,312 --> 00:35:48,730
MARIANA: People
that work for you?
743
00:35:49,397 --> 00:35:50,523
MARIANA: So you want
them to promote stuff.
744
00:35:51,524 --> 00:35:53,318
STRAHAN: Kim Kardashian, she
has agreed to pay nearly
745
00:35:53,318 --> 00:35:57,447
$1.3 million for promoting
crypto currency on social media,
746
00:35:57,447 --> 00:36:00,492
without providing
necessary disclosures.
747
00:36:00,492 --> 00:36:02,035
REPORTER: In addition to
paying the fine, Kardashian
748
00:36:02,035 --> 00:36:05,955
also agreed to cooperate with
the SECs ongoing investigation.
749
00:36:06,289 --> 00:36:08,333
MARIANA: The list of
celebrities facing criticism
750
00:36:08,333 --> 00:36:10,377
for pushing crypto is growing.
751
00:36:10,377 --> 00:36:13,338
In most cases, no
legal lines were crossed.
752
00:36:13,338 --> 00:36:16,341
But these influencers are
often getting paid big money
753
00:36:16,341 --> 00:36:19,886
to hock crypto projects they
know very little about,
754
00:36:19,886 --> 00:36:22,806
which is why their fans and
followers who have gotten
755
00:36:22,806 --> 00:36:24,933
burned are so upset.
756
00:36:24,933 --> 00:36:26,935
MAN: To the moon.
MUSK: To the moon.
757
00:36:26,935 --> 00:36:28,812
REPORTER: I think Musk is
manipulating the market, and
758
00:36:28,812 --> 00:36:30,980
I think you're doing
exactly the same thing.
759
00:36:30,980 --> 00:36:33,108
PORTNOY: The
answer is SafeMoon.
760
00:36:33,108 --> 00:36:35,235
It could be a scam,
I don't think it is.
761
00:36:35,235 --> 00:36:41,324
Invest with your own money.
762
00:36:41,324 --> 00:36:42,992
MARIANA: So why do
people still trust them?
763
00:36:54,045 --> 00:36:56,256
MARIANA: So when is
your next rug pull?
764
00:37:01,678 --> 00:37:03,096
MARIANA: So it
could happen tomorrow?
765
00:37:14,441 --> 00:37:15,900
MARIANA: Hmm. Oh, so
you can do it in a day?
766
00:37:18,111 --> 00:37:19,988
MARIANA: Hmm.
767
00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:24,075
In 15 minutes you can get this
all done and you can launch it
768
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:25,535
right from here, right now.
769
00:37:26,411 --> 00:37:28,663
MARIANA: Right now?
770
00:37:38,465 --> 00:37:40,633
MARIANA: I've been waiting
for this moment since we
771
00:37:40,633 --> 00:37:42,802
first met in Dubai.
772
00:37:42,802 --> 00:37:44,095
Finally. Thank you.
773
00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:46,639
Mr. X has agreed to
demonstrate how easy these
774
00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:48,558
rug pulls are to set up.
775
00:37:55,982 --> 00:37:58,902
MARIANA: He takes me to a
tattoo shop with good Wi-Fi.
776
00:38:03,907 --> 00:38:05,408
MARIANA: Sit right here?
777
00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:10,079
MARIANA: Okay. So how is it
done, what do we, what do you?
778
00:38:16,211 --> 00:38:19,172
MARIANA: He just finds a crypto
project that's doing well,
779
00:38:19,172 --> 00:38:23,259
snatches the computer code that
makes it special and renames it.
780
00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:35,522
MARIANA: It's a
simple copy and paste job.
781
00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:38,233
Like stealing the text of
someone else's novel and then
782
00:38:38,233 --> 00:38:41,277
telling everyone to come
and buy your new book.
783
00:38:41,277 --> 00:38:43,780
So, you can be at a coffee
shop, at a tattoo parlor,
784
00:38:43,780 --> 00:38:46,866
wherever it is, in 15 minutes
you can get this all done and
785
00:38:46,866 --> 00:38:48,701
you could launch it
right from here, right now?
786
00:38:52,997 --> 00:38:54,916
MARIANA: Right now?
787
00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:01,005
MARIANA: So why are
you not doing it?
788
00:39:12,308 --> 00:39:14,477
MARIANA: Would it be smart for
you to launch a token right now,
789
00:39:14,477 --> 00:39:16,396
with the markets
down, like they are?
790
00:39:18,940 --> 00:39:21,359
MARIANA: But, if I wanted,
if I was a newbie starting at
791
00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:23,570
this, I could
just go on there.
792
00:39:23,570 --> 00:39:24,153
MARIANA: Find this
and do it myself?
793
00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:27,407
MARIANA: So, that's not illegal?
That's totally.
794
00:39:38,876 --> 00:39:39,085
MARIANA: Right.
795
00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:43,381
MARIANA: But now it's the
first time that you're
saying that it's not,
796
00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:45,967
it's the first time you're
saying it's not right, because.
797
00:39:49,804 --> 00:39:50,722
MARIANA: Did you change
your mind? Did something?
798
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:55,602
MARIANA: Okay, but now you're.
799
00:39:58,438 --> 00:39:59,731
MARIANA: You didn't
go that far last time.
800
00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:03,693
MARIANA: I think you
changed your mind.
801
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:21,252
(chatter)
802
00:40:24,797 --> 00:40:28,134
MARIANA: When trying to
understand scammers of any kind,
803
00:40:28,134 --> 00:40:31,554
you never quite
know which way is up.
804
00:40:33,014 --> 00:40:36,142
On our last day in Houston,
I hoped to meet up with Mr. X
805
00:40:36,142 --> 00:40:39,604
one last time,
but he bails on me.
806
00:40:39,604 --> 00:40:43,066
I mean, it's been
really just difficult to
work with these guys.
807
00:40:43,066 --> 00:40:44,525
Particularly X.
808
00:40:44,525 --> 00:40:47,195
He's been promising all this
access and telling us he's
809
00:40:47,195 --> 00:40:49,948
gonna show us this and that,
and then, last minute,
810
00:40:49,948 --> 00:40:52,992
either doesn't show up, or
nothing of what he promises
811
00:40:52,992 --> 00:40:54,702
actually happens.
812
00:40:54,702 --> 00:40:58,373
The night before, off camera,
Mr. X admitted to our producer
813
00:40:58,373 --> 00:41:02,418
that despite earlier denials,
they've continued scamming.
814
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:05,672
But, of course, he
didn't give us any details.
815
00:41:06,214 --> 00:41:08,257
They've come clean to us, and
they said that they have been
816
00:41:08,257 --> 00:41:10,968
rug pulling this whole time.
817
00:41:10,968 --> 00:41:12,095
Yeah.
818
00:41:12,095 --> 00:41:13,930
They've just been,
basically, lying to us.
819
00:41:13,930 --> 00:41:17,350
These days, you just can't
take professional scammers
820
00:41:17,350 --> 00:41:19,352
at their word.
821
00:41:20,561 --> 00:41:22,438
Do your friends and family
know you're in this business?
822
00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:25,400
MARIANA: Do your
parents know you do this?
823
00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:27,777
MARIANA: What do
they think you do?
824
00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:29,904
MARIANA: Are you?
825
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:32,657
MARIANA: Does your
family know what you do?
826
00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:36,536
MARIANA: Do you think
they're proud of you?
827
00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:44,585
MARIANA: (bleep) no.
828
00:41:44,585 --> 00:41:47,672
AGENT: Have to be
careful what we say.
829
00:41:47,672 --> 00:41:51,426
I would say, for those
interested in crypto currency
830
00:41:51,426 --> 00:41:54,137
scams, there are very few
individuals who have run a
831
00:41:54,137 --> 00:41:57,473
fraudulent empire and are
living comfortably on the
832
00:41:57,473 --> 00:42:00,685
beach in retirement,
with a large bulk of funds.
833
00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:02,186
MARIANA: Hi, P.
Where are you right now?
834
00:42:04,105 --> 00:42:05,398
MARIANA: Oh, you're in Ibiza.
835
00:42:14,282 --> 00:42:15,950
MARIANA: You know, the
market has been crashing,
836
00:42:15,950 --> 00:42:17,785
it's really, crypto is
really low right now.
837
00:42:17,785 --> 00:42:19,036
Has that affected you at all?
838
00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:23,791
MARIANA: Millions of dollars?
Really?
839
00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:26,252
But do you still have enough
to be partying in Ibiza?
840
00:42:47,774 --> 00:42:50,693
MARIANA: We can't confirm any
of this, but clearly this is
841
00:42:50,693 --> 00:42:53,613
how he justifies
his decisions.
842
00:42:55,364 --> 00:42:59,702
♪ It was over before
it even began ♪
843
00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:01,204
AGENT: It's often been
said that the FBI always gets
844
00:43:01,204 --> 00:43:03,206
their man, whether
it's today or tomorrow.
845
00:43:06,918 --> 00:43:09,045
AGENT: Those looking to
victimize U.S. citizens
846
00:43:09,045 --> 00:43:10,922
should always keep an
eye looking over their back.
847
00:43:10,922 --> 00:43:13,466
♪ Eye to eye ♪
848
00:43:13,466 --> 00:43:15,968
MARIANA: I think one thing is
very clear, is that they will
849
00:43:15,968 --> 00:43:18,012
keep doing this.
850
00:43:18,012 --> 00:43:19,764
Are there people still buying
tokens and still investing in
crypto right now?
851
00:43:22,683 --> 00:43:24,602
MARIANA: They will
keep stealing your money.
852
00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:26,020
They'll keep scamming.
853
00:43:26,020 --> 00:43:27,688
XAVIER: People are buying
and buy, buy, buy, buy.
854
00:43:27,688 --> 00:43:30,483
MARIANA: They'll keep spending
your money at Johnny Dang's,
855
00:43:30,483 --> 00:43:31,651
and buying gold and diamonds.
856
00:43:31,651 --> 00:43:33,361
MR. X: Yes, sir.
857
00:43:33,361 --> 00:43:34,862
♪ What should we do? ♪
858
00:43:34,862 --> 00:43:35,863
MARIANA: That is guaranteed.
859
00:43:44,664 --> 00:43:51,003
♪ I'm gonna find all
the words to tell you ♪
860
00:43:51,003 --> 00:43:53,464
XAVIER: You need to do your
research, heavily, before you
861
00:43:53,464 --> 00:43:55,049
get into anything.
862
00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:57,969
♪ You in my life,
I had favored you ♪
863
00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,682
♪ To keep you ♪
864
00:44:02,682 --> 00:44:04,225
♪ To keep you ♪
865
00:44:04,225 --> 00:44:05,893
♪ Oh, yes ♪
866
00:44:05,893 --> 00:44:09,856
♪ You're the only one
who knows why I'm gone ♪
867
00:44:09,856 --> 00:44:11,482
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