Tracked Down The Bentley Part Scammer
I received a call from someone who I'll refer to as "Rob Freddie" claiming that he owed me money. The caller hung up after two rings, leaving no voicemail and no caller ID. I assumed that Rob Freddie was simply hanging up because he wouldn't answer my call.
I decided to send him an email expressing my disappointment at being scammed out of money by someone who had clearly done their research on me and my channel. I included all the information that I had about Rob Freddie, including his parents' names (Dad's name is Robert and Mom's name is Elizabeth). I made it clear that I wasn't going to threaten him or involve law enforcement, but rather was giving him an ultimatum: send back the money within 48 hours or I would consider this a lost cause.
I must admit that I'm still trying to figure out how Rob Freddie managed to scam me. He seemed to have a good understanding of my content and even reached out to me within an hour of posting the video where we first made contact. It's clear that he was determined to get his money back from me, but I'm not sure what his motivation was. Was he just trying to cause some trouble, or did he genuinely believe that he owed me money?
I have to admit that I feel a bit embarrassed by being scammed out of my own money. As someone who prides themselves on being able to sniff out scams and avoid getting taken advantage of, it's frustrating to be caught off guard by someone as clever as Rob Freddie.
Despite the disappointment of being scammed, I'm still committed to sharing this experience with my audience in the hopes that it might serve as a lesson for others. I'll be doing a video soon where I'll share what happened and hopefully provide some tips on how to avoid falling victim to similar scams.
In the meantime, I've got two exciting trips coming up with Adventure Drives. First, we're heading to Jackson Hole in July and exploring the Canadian Rockies, Banff National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Grand Teton National Park. It's going to be a fantastic adventure, and I'm excited to share it with my audience.
Next, we're off to Scotland in October, where we'll be visiting Scotch distilleries, playing golf at St. Andrews, and exploring the beautiful landscapes of the north coast. The trip is already selling well, with prices starting as low as $2,500 per person for the shorter trip. If you're interested in joining us, be sure to check out the link in the description.
Until next time, I'll leave you with a few thoughts on Rob Freddie's scam attempt and some updates on my upcoming trips.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everybody rob for ready here last video what happens I got ripped off for 200 bucks right not a really big deal but still nobody likes to get ripped off and and that's one of those things that got me going I had a bunch of people reach out like I'm a forensic detective I'm gonna help you find it and I didn't even need those people because one of the first thoughts I had was like you know what let's see if we can find this guy like the whole point of the venmo cash app warning that there's no recourse which I didn't know I thought venmo was sort of a safe platform I get that cash app is like like truck drivers except cash app that's like a no recourse you're screwed you're you're essentially handing somebody cash I didn't think venmo was was the same and now that I know that venmo was like like do not pass go do not collect $200 literally and that you can get burnt like that I now have venmo on my radar as something that if somebody is trying to use it they could be trying to scam me or you but I didn't include the transaction in venmo in my video I then looked at the transaction in venmo and it had the guys handle and a net last name so it was Alex and then the last name which wasn't with the W was with now we then use that to sort of piece things together and grant it like let's just call them no I'll just say Alex Smith for the purpose of the video cuz like I don't need the the Lynch Bob to go after him but the the he's got three friends on venmo so venmo how it works is it lists the transaction and you could look at other transactions that they had with other people and we sent them the money I can look up his name I can google his name and it's gonna turn up whatever a thousand Alex Smith's right but how do you know which Alex Smith is the right Alec Smith you wanna if you're going to accuse somebody of something you're gonna want to really have this guy like it's definitely you now it's his venmo thing is just assume it's Alex s4 Smith it's not and for one four four one four can be anything it could be a birthday it could be March 14th as his birthday it could be actually April 14th I'm sorry it could be his birthday it could be an area code there's a lot of things a 4 1 4 can signify now this specific one we then looked and I dipped into my resources of people and I'm not gonna get into which branch of the government I in and again this is a lot of resources for 200 bucks but people don't like watch it nobody likes a thief nobody likes watching somebody get ripped off so we found him a long story short and how did we find him when we went to the venmo we looked at his name we looked up his name we then found somebody with that area code in that name so that sort of lined up and then the real confirmation was when we found the one of the other guys that sent him money was his cousin which also like you see the web you see the parents who sees 34 years old you see who the guy is where he lives then you could see connections relatives addresses and we were able to lock him down by this is the guy because it's his first name last name the area code lines up and then on top of that we were able to get the cousin tied into it because the cousin sent the money so there's wait it's an abundance of evidence that would point to this being the guy who stiffed me now I I look there is always more to a story right there could be the guy could have gotten hit by a bus on his way to the post office for all I know I don't know all I know is it he said he was gonna send something he never sent it and never responded to an email and he only accepted two forms of payment that have no recourse so everything added up to like you're getting ripped off I've got his number and I'm gonna call him now remember it's only 200 bucks so I'm not really gonna go out of my way to to chase the guy down for $200 but how he could hurt me still is he could give out myself number so I'm I've got an app that has like a burner number and I'm going to call him from my burner number the four one four area code and I'll let you guys figure out the rest now let me give him a ring a ling did not pick up try it one more time just for the sake of giving it the old college try now he may not recognize the number so he doesn't pick up it could be like my Google thing where it says like who the hell are you so I'm calling do you want to see it could be a spam number give it one more shot or my even my burner number has New Jersey listed so yeah and it's ringing twice and then says call ended and no caller ID or no not caller ID but no voicemail or anything like that so let's just assume that whoever it is is hanging up because it won't ring it would bring more than twice if if that was the case so I'm gonna pen him an email when I say pen I'm going to type it and I'm going to include the following and I'm not gonna type it while I'm doing this I'm going to tell you and then I've got him his address his age his parents information I've got previous addresses I've got yeah I've got his parents I could call his parents I'm not going to do that but I'm gonna send him an email letting him know I'm disappointed and he may respond may not it's not gonna say I want anything more I'm not gonna turn him over the local authorities I'm not gonna go try to burn the guy's house down or anything like that but I'm gonna ask him if he'd like to send the money back right they'll say please send the money back within 48 hours if he don't send the money back within 48 hours I will assume you are not planning on ever making good on this and then I could bring it to you guys with finality so there's a good chance when I tell him I know his parents names dad's name is Robert that's cool mom Elizabeth so when I when I share this information with him you would think that he would take it a little but seriously I'm not gonna do empty threats that the the government's gonna chase them down or anything like that no nobody's everything do that he's probably watching this video anyway but I'm gonna give him 72 or 48 or 72 hours to make good on this send the money back and at least we could put this all the bed with a happy ending if not I'll just do it in the beginning of one of my videos coming up in 72 hours I'll be like the guy never sent me my money back or the guy sent me my money back yeah is me and we can at least cap this off but hopefully this serves as a lesson to you guys as to how to avoid getting ripped off I didn't see it coming like first time again in 17 years are pretty good at sniffing things out but this guy was like and it's like I feel like he must have had the computer you way too much knowledge here it was a lot of effort to rip me off and I don't know why somebody would do that especially if he's a viewer of the channel now I say viewer not fan at last time I said a fan I don't think a fan would want to like harm me that's not that defeats the purpose of a fan that's like a fan Amin I made that up but he is a viewer of the channel he was obviously very fluent with the video to then reach out within an hour or two of the video posting to get money out of me to do this so strange there will be find out what he coming up soon stand by it would've been really cool if he answered the phone I was that was like the whole purpose of the video was of my first that was my first call to him to make a call to him and have him picked up and and have that like hey Rob Freddie here and just see what his response is and just watch him just crap himself so Rob Ferretti here signing off luckily I'm gonna stop wearing this hat I'm gonna let my wife have another whack at this because I had the first razor on Amazon tried to try to order a razor off of Amazon good luck the first razor I got which was like beard and haircut thing total train wreck the second one I got got a little bit more height to it and a comb so I'm gonna let my wife take another chop at this and see what it turns out thank you for watching Rob Freddie stay tuned we will I wish I had a final conclusion to you you hear but we will by the end of the week so you guys are familiar with my other company adventure drives right well this year we've got two trips coming up one which is starting in Seattle and ending in Jackson Hole in July that's going up through the Canadian Rockies coming down through Banff Yellowstone Glacier National Park and Grand Teton National Park it's gonna be phenomenal also we're gonna be going to Scotland in October we're gonna be doing Scotch distilleries playing golf with st. Andrews if you want to do that walking around seeing lakes waterfalls driving the north coast it's going to be an amazing trip prices start as low as $2,500 per person for the shorter trip in Scotland about double that for the longer trip in July if you're interested in going check out the link in the descriptionwhat's up everybody rob for ready here last video what happens I got ripped off for 200 bucks right not a really big deal but still nobody likes to get ripped off and and that's one of those things that got me going I had a bunch of people reach out like I'm a forensic detective I'm gonna help you find it and I didn't even need those people because one of the first thoughts I had was like you know what let's see if we can find this guy like the whole point of the venmo cash app warning that there's no recourse which I didn't know I thought venmo was sort of a safe platform I get that cash app is like like truck drivers except cash app that's like a no recourse you're screwed you're you're essentially handing somebody cash I didn't think venmo was was the same and now that I know that venmo was like like do not pass go do not collect $200 literally and that you can get burnt like that I now have venmo on my radar as something that if somebody is trying to use it they could be trying to scam me or you but I didn't include the transaction in venmo in my video I then looked at the transaction in venmo and it had the guys handle and a net last name so it was Alex and then the last name which wasn't with the W was with now we then use that to sort of piece things together and grant it like let's just call them no I'll just say Alex Smith for the purpose of the video cuz like I don't need the the Lynch Bob to go after him but the the he's got three friends on venmo so venmo how it works is it lists the transaction and you could look at other transactions that they had with other people and we sent them the money I can look up his name I can google his name and it's gonna turn up whatever a thousand Alex Smith's right but how do you know which Alex Smith is the right Alec Smith you wanna if you're going to accuse somebody of something you're gonna want to really have this guy like it's definitely you now it's his venmo thing is just assume it's Alex s4 Smith it's not and for one four four one four can be anything it could be a birthday it could be March 14th as his birthday it could be actually April 14th I'm sorry it could be his birthday it could be an area code there's a lot of things a 4 1 4 can signify now this specific one we then looked and I dipped into my resources of people and I'm not gonna get into which branch of the government I in and again this is a lot of resources for 200 bucks but people don't like watch it nobody likes a thief nobody likes watching somebody get ripped off so we found him a long story short and how did we find him when we went to the venmo we looked at his name we looked up his name we then found somebody with that area code in that name so that sort of lined up and then the real confirmation was when we found the one of the other guys that sent him money was his cousin which also like you see the web you see the parents who sees 34 years old you see who the guy is where he lives then you could see connections relatives addresses and we were able to lock him down by this is the guy because it's his first name last name the area code lines up and then on top of that we were able to get the cousin tied into it because the cousin sent the money so there's wait it's an abundance of evidence that would point to this being the guy who stiffed me now I I look there is always more to a story right there could be the guy could have gotten hit by a bus on his way to the post office for all I know I don't know all I know is it he said he was gonna send something he never sent it and never responded to an email and he only accepted two forms of payment that have no recourse so everything added up to like you're getting ripped off I've got his number and I'm gonna call him now remember it's only 200 bucks so I'm not really gonna go out of my way to to chase the guy down for $200 but how he could hurt me still is he could give out myself number so I'm I've got an app that has like a burner number and I'm going to call him from my burner number the four one four area code and I'll let you guys figure out the rest now let me give him a ring a ling did not pick up try it one more time just for the sake of giving it the old college try now he may not recognize the number so he doesn't pick up it could be like my Google thing where it says like who the hell are you so I'm calling do you want to see it could be a spam number give it one more shot or my even my burner number has New Jersey listed so yeah and it's ringing twice and then says call ended and no caller ID or no not caller ID but no voicemail or anything like that so let's just assume that whoever it is is hanging up because it won't ring it would bring more than twice if if that was the case so I'm gonna pen him an email when I say pen I'm going to type it and I'm going to include the following and I'm not gonna type it while I'm doing this I'm going to tell you and then I've got him his address his age his parents information I've got previous addresses I've got yeah I've got his parents I could call his parents I'm not going to do that but I'm gonna send him an email letting him know I'm disappointed and he may respond may not it's not gonna say I want anything more I'm not gonna turn him over the local authorities I'm not gonna go try to burn the guy's house down or anything like that but I'm gonna ask him if he'd like to send the money back right they'll say please send the money back within 48 hours if he don't send the money back within 48 hours I will assume you are not planning on ever making good on this and then I could bring it to you guys with finality so there's a good chance when I tell him I know his parents names dad's name is Robert that's cool mom Elizabeth so when I when I share this information with him you would think that he would take it a little but seriously I'm not gonna do empty threats that the the government's gonna chase them down or anything like that no nobody's everything do that he's probably watching this video anyway but I'm gonna give him 72 or 48 or 72 hours to make good on this send the money back and at least we could put this all the bed with a happy ending if not I'll just do it in the beginning of one of my videos coming up in 72 hours I'll be like the guy never sent me my money back or the guy sent me my money back yeah is me and we can at least cap this off but hopefully this serves as a lesson to you guys as to how to avoid getting ripped off I didn't see it coming like first time again in 17 years are pretty good at sniffing things out but this guy was like and it's like I feel like he must have had the computer you way too much knowledge here it was a lot of effort to rip me off and I don't know why somebody would do that especially if he's a viewer of the channel now I say viewer not fan at last time I said a fan I don't think a fan would want to like harm me that's not that defeats the purpose of a fan that's like a fan Amin I made that up but he is a viewer of the channel he was obviously very fluent with the video to then reach out within an hour or two of the video posting to get money out of me to do this so strange there will be find out what he coming up soon stand by it would've been really cool if he answered the phone I was that was like the whole purpose of the video was of my first that was my first call to him to make a call to him and have him picked up and and have that like hey Rob Freddie here and just see what his response is and just watch him just crap himself so Rob Ferretti here signing off luckily I'm gonna stop wearing this hat I'm gonna let my wife have another whack at this because I had the first razor on Amazon tried to try to order a razor off of Amazon good luck the first razor I got which was like beard and haircut thing total train wreck the second one I got got a little bit more height to it and a comb so I'm gonna let my wife take another chop at this and see what it turns out thank you for watching Rob Freddie stay tuned we will I wish I had a final conclusion to you you hear but we will by the end of the week so you guys are familiar with my other company adventure drives right well this year we've got two trips coming up one which is starting in Seattle and ending in Jackson Hole in July that's going up through the Canadian Rockies coming down through Banff Yellowstone Glacier National Park and Grand Teton National Park it's gonna be phenomenal also we're gonna be going to Scotland in October we're gonna be doing Scotch distilleries playing golf with st. Andrews if you want to do that walking around seeing lakes waterfalls driving the north coast it's going to be an amazing trip prices start as low as $2,500 per person for the shorter trip in Scotland about double that for the longer trip in July if you're interested in going check out the link in the descriptionwhat's up everybody rob for ready here last video what happens I got ripped off for 200 bucks right not a really big deal but still nobody likes to get ripped off and and that's one of those things that got me going I had a bunch of people reach out like I'm a forensic detective I'm gonna help you find it and I didn't even need those people because one of the first thoughts I had was like you know what let's see if we can find this guy like the whole point of the venmo cash app warning that there's no recourse which I didn't know I thought venmo was sort of a safe platform I get that cash app is like like truck drivers except cash app that's like a no recourse you're screwed you're you're essentially handing somebody cash I didn't think venmo was was the same and now that I know that venmo was like like do not pass go do not collect $200 literally and that you can get burnt like that I now have venmo on my radar as something that if somebody is trying to use it they could be trying to scam me or you but I didn't include the transaction in venmo in my video I then looked at the transaction in venmo and it had the guys handle and a net last name so it was Alex and then the last name which wasn't with the W was with now we then use that to sort of piece things together and grant it like let's just call them no I'll just say Alex Smith for the purpose of the video cuz like I don't need the the Lynch Bob to go after him but the the he's got three friends on venmo so venmo how it works is it lists the transaction and you could look at other transactions that they had with other people and we sent them the money I can look up his name I can google his name and it's gonna turn up whatever a thousand Alex Smith's right but how do you know which Alex Smith is the right Alec Smith you wanna if you're going to accuse somebody of something you're gonna want to really have this guy like it's definitely you now it's his venmo thing is just assume it's Alex s4 Smith it's not and for one four four one four can be anything it could be a birthday it could be March 14th as his birthday it could be actually April 14th I'm sorry it could be his birthday it could be an area code there's a lot of things a 4 1 4 can signify now this specific one we then looked and I dipped into my resources of people and I'm not gonna get into which branch of the government I in and again this is a lot of resources for 200 bucks but people don't like watch it nobody likes a thief nobody likes watching somebody get ripped off so we found him a long story short and how did we find him when we went to the venmo we looked at his name we looked up his name we then found somebody with that area code in that name so that sort of lined up and then the real confirmation was when we found the one of the other guys that sent him money was his cousin which also like you see the web you see the parents who sees 34 years old you see who the guy is where he lives then you could see connections relatives addresses and we were able to lock him down by this is the guy because it's his first name last name the area code lines up and then on top of that we were able to get the cousin tied into it because the cousin sent the money so there's wait it's an abundance of evidence that would point to this being the guy who stiffed me now I I look there is always more to a story right there could be the guy could have gotten hit by a bus on his way to the post office for all I know I don't know all I know is it he said he was gonna send something he never sent it and never responded to an email and he only accepted two forms of payment that have no recourse so everything added up to like you're getting ripped off I've got his number and I'm gonna call him now remember it's only 200 bucks so I'm not really gonna go out of my way to to chase the guy down for $200 but how he could hurt me still is he could give out myself number so I'm I've got an app that has like a burner number and I'm going to call him from my burner number the four one four area code and I'll let you guys figure out the rest now let me give him a ring a ling did not pick up try it one more time just for the sake of giving it the old college try now he may not recognize the number so he doesn't pick up it could be like my Google thing where it says like who the hell are you so I'm calling do you want to see it could be a spam number give it one more shot or my even my burner number has New Jersey listed so yeah and it's ringing twice and then says call ended and no caller ID or no not caller ID but no voicemail or anything like that so let's just assume that whoever it is is hanging up because it won't ring it would bring more than twice if if that was the case so I'm gonna pen him an email when I say pen I'm going to type it and I'm going to include the following and I'm not gonna type it while I'm doing this I'm going to tell you and then I've got him his address his age his parents information I've got previous addresses I've got yeah I've got his parents I could call his parents I'm not going to do that but I'm gonna send him an email letting him know I'm disappointed and he may respond may not it's not gonna say I want anything more I'm not gonna turn him over the local authorities I'm not gonna go try to burn the guy's house down or anything like that but I'm gonna ask him if he'd like to send the money back right they'll say please send the money back within 48 hours if he don't send the money back within 48 hours I will assume you are not planning on ever making good on this and then I could bring it to you guys with finality so there's a good chance when I tell him I know his parents names dad's name is Robert that's cool mom Elizabeth so when I when I share this information with him you would think that he would take it a little but seriously I'm not gonna do empty threats that the the government's gonna chase them down or anything like that no nobody's everything do that he's probably watching this video anyway but I'm gonna give him 72 or 48 or 72 hours to make good on this send the money back and at least we could put this all the bed with a happy ending if not I'll just do it in the beginning of one of my videos coming up in 72 hours I'll be like the guy never sent me my money back or the guy sent me my money back yeah is me and we can at least cap this off but hopefully this serves as a lesson to you guys as to how to avoid getting ripped off I didn't see it coming like first time again in 17 years are pretty good at sniffing things out but this guy was like and it's like I feel like he must have had the computer you way too much knowledge here it was a lot of effort to rip me off and I don't know why somebody would do that especially if he's a viewer of the channel now I say viewer not fan at last time I said a fan I don't think a fan would want to like harm me that's not that defeats the purpose of a fan that's like a fan Amin I made that up but he is a viewer of the channel he was obviously very fluent with the video to then reach out within an hour or two of the video posting to get money out of me to do this so strange there will be find out what he coming up soon stand by it would've been really cool if he answered the phone I was that was like the whole purpose of the video was of my first that was my first call to him to make a call to him and have him picked up and and have that like hey Rob Freddie here and just see what his response is and just watch him just crap himself so Rob Ferretti here signing off luckily I'm gonna stop wearing this hat I'm gonna let my wife have another whack at this because I had the first razor on Amazon tried to try to order a razor off of Amazon good luck the first razor I got which was like beard and haircut thing total train wreck the second one I got got a little bit more height to it and a comb so I'm gonna let my wife take another chop at this and see what it turns out thank you for watching Rob Freddie stay tuned we will I wish I had a final conclusion to you you hear but we will by the end of the week so you guys are familiar with my other company adventure drives right well this year we've got two trips coming up one which is starting in Seattle and ending in Jackson Hole in July that's going up through the Canadian Rockies coming down through Banff Yellowstone Glacier National Park and Grand Teton National Park it's gonna be phenomenal also we're gonna be going to Scotland in October we're gonna be doing Scotch distilleries playing golf with st. Andrews if you want to do that walking around seeing lakes waterfalls driving the north coast it's going to be an amazing trip prices start as low as $2,500 per person for the shorter trip in Scotland about double that for the longer trip in July if you're interested in going check out the link in the description\n"