Meet the scammer

This Is Uncomfortable

Marketplace

Business, News

4.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How do you bounce back from getting scammed? Become a scammer yourself, obviously. The inside story of a young man’s transformation into an online scammer — and the lengths he goes to for money when no one is looking.

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0:00.0	I've entered the Rick and Morty multiverse so many times at all for
0:04.4	that I don't know whether I'm Rick, Morty.
0:07.3	Oh, myself.
0:08.5	Am I Rick?
0:09.6	Am I Morty?
0:10.7	Am I me?
0:11.9	Am I Rick?
0:12.9	Am I Morty?
0:14.0	Am I me?
0:15.2	I don't know.
0:16.4	Watch now on all four.
0:18.0	The UK's biggest free-streaming service.
0:20.4	Watch and rewatch.
0:21.5	Watch and rewatch.
0:22.2	Watch and rewatch.
0:22.8	Go for me.
0:23.6	Compare Channel4.com slash verify.
0:26.1	Was there a point where you started really identifying with the label scammer?
0:36.4	Yeah, I was a scammer.
0:38.5	I was definitely a scammer.
0:39.6	And I've been a scammer with an exception, like with a with a footnote, let's say.
0:45.2	Okay, what's the footnote?
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