I Was Scammed By A NASCAR Impersonator

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by Xander Insurance. Compare rates from top-term life insurance companies in seconds at Xander.com.
0:10.2	I've friended somebody on Facebook who I thought was NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin, and we developed a friendship, and it quickly turned financial.
0:20.3	And I thought it was Denny
0:21.4	Hamlin and it up came all about my money and I ended up doing like six quantity
0:29.1	five hundred dollar gift cards and I was told that he had a briefcase stuck in
0:35.8	customs in his documentation to get it inside the united states expired so i
0:40.7	ended up doing a withdrawal on my 401k and killed my ibn 410k and then it kept being held in
0:49.3	customs and i end up doing more loans on my other global foundries 401k, and I lost like $100,000.
0:57.8	Oh, man. I'm sorry, dude.
1:00.3	That's awful. I'm so sorry, Mark.
1:02.5	I know it didn't make you feel any better, but people are getting scammed right and left all over the world, man. I'm sorry.
1:09.5	And it's smart people, too.
1:11.2	So the easiest thing to fall for is, well, I'm just a big idiot.
1:14.3	It could happen to anyone.
1:16.4	These scams these days are getting so sophisticated that the smartest people out there are still falling for this stuff.
1:22.3	And I'm sorry that you were the next victim.
1:25.1	Yep.
1:25.5	When did you realize that this was a scam?
1:31.1	Yeah. the next victim. When did you realize that this was a scam? It was later on.
1:32.5	This happened like February.
1:34.3	It started February of last year, and it started out with like five or six,
1:39.5	$600 gift cards.
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