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Getting caught

So, you're on probation and you're almost getting caught, you're almost getting caught, and you're doing these really large-scale scams. How does it get to the point where you're on the run? I'm doing multiple scams. So, it's not just that I'm doing the scams with the Reservoir Dog scams. I'm not just doing those guys. I'm also creating other identities because I've got other people that are involved. They want to do a scam. So, this chick I was dating, she wanted to run a scam. So, I set up a scam. It's semi-complicated, but the bottom line is she ends up stealing a real person... We steal a real person's identity. I have a real person's identity. We get a driver's license in her name, open up some bank accounts, go rent a piece of property in her name, and I transfer the deed or the deed from the property out of the real owner's name, I transfer it into her stolen identity. We then refinance the house like three or four times. So, she starts going to these different closings. Her name is Allison, and she's pretending to be a Puerto Rican woman named Rosie de Perez. Allison has brown hair and blue eyes. Rosie De Perez clearly doesn't. So Allison, when we make the ID, she dyes her hair black, curls it a little bit, and gets the pictures taken of herself before she goes to the first closing to get a check for like a hundred thousand dollars. We've got three of these scheduled. She changes her hair color, she dyes it back like a dirty blonde, and she goes to the first closing and she gets a check, a check for 100,000, let's say. I don't know what it was like 95 or 105, whatever, roughly $100,000. She gets a check at the closing, they give it to her. We then go to the next closing. Well, at the next closing, the title person has her sign all the documents, but she's looking at her like something's not right. Looks at her ID, makes a copy of the ID, looks at it and says, "This doesn't look like you." And she's like, "You don't look Hispanic." And she's like, "I'm half Hispanic." But keep in mind the photograph was her. So she's saying, "This doesn't look like you," but it's her. Granted she had the curly hair a little bit, but that's it. So Allison is like, "It's me." And she's like, "Look, I'm not going to give you the check. Let's just sign the documents. You can get the check. I'll let you know."

January 17, 2024Unknown24 chaptersInterviewerMatthew Cox
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So, you're on probation and you're almost getting caught, you're almost getting caught, and you're doing these really large-scale scams. How does it get to the point where you're on the run? I'm doing multiple scams. So, it's not just that I'm doing the scams with the Reservoir Dog scams. I'm not just doing those guys. I'm also creating other identities because I've got other people that are involved. They want to do a scam. So, this chick I was dating, she wanted to run a scam. So, I set up a scam. It's semi-complicated, but the bottom line is she ends up stealing a real person... We steal a real person's identity. I have a real person's identity. We get a driver's license in her name, open up some bank accounts, go rent a piece of property in her name, and I transfer the deed or the deed from the property out of the real owner's name, I transfer it into her stolen identity. We then refinance the house like three or four times. So, she starts going to these different closings. Her name is Allison, and she's pretending to be a Puerto Rican woman named Rosie de Perez. Allison has brown hair and blue eyes. Rosie De Perez clearly doesn't. So Allison, when we make the ID, she dyes her hair black, curls it a little bit, and gets the pictures taken of herself before she goes to the first closing to get a check for like a hundred thousand dollars. We've got three of these scheduled. She changes her hair color, she dyes it back like a dirty blonde, and she goes to the first closing and she gets a check, a check for 100,000, let's say. I don't know what it was like 95 or 105, whatever, roughly $100,000. She gets a check at the closing, they give it to her. We then go to the next closing. Well, at the next closing, the title person has her sign all the documents, but she's looking at her like something's not right. Looks at her ID, makes a copy of the ID, looks at it and says, "This doesn't look like you." And she's like, "You don't look Hispanic." And she's like, "I'm half Hispanic." But keep in mind the photograph was her. So she's saying, "This doesn't look like you," but it's her. Granted she had the curly hair a little bit, but that's it. So Allison is like, "It's me." And she's like, "Look, I'm not going to give you the check. Let's just sign the documents. You can get the check. I'll let you know."

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