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A random text hits your phone: “I was hired to kill you.” It sounds like a movie plot, but the "hitman death threat" scam is real. It’s been circulating for years, and now it’s resurfacing with heavier intimidation tactics that push people into panic payments.

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

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Welcome And Catching Up

SPEAKER_01 0:17

Hello, Greedy Moffo fans. How are you tonight? And Aston, how are you? Woohoo!

SPEAKER_03 0:25

Hey Peppa, I'm doing well. How are you doing? You're just getting a little work, aren't you? That is correct. Oh, cool, cool, cool. Well, I have some entertaining tidbits about a scam that you will probably enjoy as you continue your drive home. Okay, awesome. You ready to get started? I'm ready. Can I make you laugh first?

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Oh, of course. Please do.

The Webinar Course Funnel Scam

SPEAKER_03 0:54

Okay. So the podcast that your episode last week about the woman who created a course and made a million dollars in 40 minutes?

SPEAKER_01 1:02

Ashley, yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Okay. So I convinced a business friend of mine that they should do a course, and because the woman made a million dollars in 40 minutes. Why aren't you doing a course? Maybe you can make a lot of money in such a short time. It was hilarious. I was I was saying that and I was just laughing as I said it. But they actually was like, you know, I should do a course. But I'm sure her course will be very legitimate. Oh my god. But I was like, just do a course. Make a course. We I we were just discussing the other day how a woman made a million dollars in 40 minutes because of her course.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

But was it was it a course on how to make a course?

SPEAKER_03 1:50

Well, let me get into something else that's gonna make you laugh. So I sat in on this webinar today. And it was called Scale to Success or Scale Something to Success or something.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:07

An hour-long webinar. Okay. And this woman was saying I I had to laugh at the very beginning because she said she's made several million dollars, over 10 million dollars, selling her course, right?

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Oh my gosh. Was it Ashley?

SPEAKER_03 2:28

Nope, it wasn't Ashley. Right. And I'm not saying that her course is a scam because we know that the whole the whole trend now is that you sell you you put it you put yourself on social media, you build your brand, you build your personal brand, you sell products, right? Then you go in YouTube and you put up a YouTube channel, and then from there you create a course and sell a course, and you create memberships and subscriptions and you sell that, right? So everybody is doing the same thing. So people out there, some are scams, some are not, but be careful if you're doing a webinar and somebody tells you, well, I made $10 million, you know, selling a course. And I sit through this webinar to see how she made $10 million. I learned nothing.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

No, she never said, she never said nothing.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

She's selling her course, and her course was way, her course was way more expensive than Ashley's from last week. Because you said her course was $50. Well, how much was it?

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Uh I believe it was $2,000. I couldn't find any concrete evidence on that, but um I found one person that bought it for two grand. So I have to ask you, when you signed up for this webinar, was this for research for scam artists and scam influencers?

SPEAKER_03 4:05

I was no, because I told my friend she should do a course, right? So I was trying to learn how to create a course. Her her promo to sign up for the web car for the webinar is that we'll tell you how to promote a course and scale your course to success. That was her way of selling the getting you sign up for the webinar.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

You didn't pay anything for this. No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 4:35

It's free. No, I don't pay.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

So it was it was it was bait to get you to take the next step and then you pay.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

Yes. And so basically, a lot of times some people are better at some of these webinars than others because they'll kind of give you a taste of what they did to become successful and how they did it, the mistakes they've made, and all this other kind of stuff. And then they try to sell you their course and so or hire them to coach you so that you can become successful like them. This particular lady, she said, I will teach you how to build a course, and even if you already have a course or you want to start a course and how to scale it to success. Not once did she explain how she scaled hers to success. How she started. She did say she started, she wasn't selling a lot. She did say that she learned a lot. She was spending too much time trying to do like a live course online. And this way it's more of an automated system to where you can scale your course to success and not spend as much time doing a live course or live teaching or anything like that, right? A live webinar and things like that. So for one hour, this was a one-hour webinar. I sat and I listened. And at the end, when she showed her price, which was like $3,000, and she talked about the seven modules and all this other kind of stuff. Not once did she say not once did she say how she made $10 million.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Yep. Sounds just like Ashley, and just like that girl in Florida I was talking about. That that's the scam in and of itself.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

Yeah. And so people were signing up. People, because in the chat box, you know, you can't, she was like reading the chats in the it in the chat box. You couldn't really like you couldn't really like chat while she was doing the webinar because it was private, only she would see the chat. And I was like, is this a scam? You know me. I'm just gonna come out and ask. I say, because I've been sitting here listening to you and I haven't gotten anything out of your webinar except that you're trying to sell your course on how to scale to success if you want to do it by selling courses. And so she never replied to my chat. So then I know. So then when she opened up the chat to where she can see people ask questions and see who signed up for her course, I I chatted her again. I was like, is there an itinerary so I can see what the course includes? Because I'm not gonna spend $3,000 and I don't know what I'm paying for.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Let me let me guess, no response.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

No, she actually said if I click on the link to her course design.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

Click on a link.

SPEAKER_03 7:45

I see backwards, backwards, click on a link. I didn't do it, and so she said, you should see the itinerary. So what I did instead was I went to her website, right? So I went to her website in a whole separate tab while the webinar was still on, and I was listening to her, and then I clicked on how to sell her course on the website, and the price was completely different than what she was selling it for in the webinar. Gosh, more or less. Less. And then I was like, why is there a difference in a price? And then I kept digging to see if there was an itinerary that explained exactly what she was gonna teach you to scale to success, and it was just as vague as she was. Yeah, and I'm like, okay, all these people, because I know at least 10 to 15 people clicked like they bought her course or whatever while I was on the webinar. So that right there was thirty thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

30 grand, maybe 45.

SPEAKER_03 8:49

People really, she didn't teach us anything in the webinar. Why would you give a three thousand dollars for her course? So I had to laugh, and that brought me back to your episode last week.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Yeah, alrighty.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

So I just wanted to make you laugh.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

It did. It's it's the course scam. Right. Well, I can't wait to hear what you have for us. What kind of greedy mofo do we get to talk about tonight?

Introducing The Hitman Scam

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Well, the greedy mofo is a scam that's known as the hitman scam. Ooh. Have you heard about it? No. You haven't heard about the hitman scam? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

I mean, other than Ashley last week who tried to hire a hitman.

SPEAKER_03 9:43

Okay. So here's the hitman scam. I'll tell you about the person that got convicted for falling for this scam. But here's the here's the here's the genesis of the hitman scam. Okay. So it's a company somewhere, because they're all over, right?

unknown 10:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

And they use the dark web, right? And and I started laughing when I learned about this because it was an episode of The Rookie. And I want to say I saw it in an episode of something else. But it was an episode of The Rookie, and it was basically people that's on the dark web looking to make extra money, and they're being hired to go kill someone. Okay. Have you heard of that? Okay. So there's websites. So there's these websites that's on the dark web, right? And people go to them looking to hire hitmen. Okay. Right? Like mercenaries. So they pay, yeah. So they pay to have someone killed. And so they put up all the information like, okay, I want my my lovers, um, my lover's wife or husband killed or something like that, you know. So they'll they'll look for a hitmen that will do that, right? So because this is on the dark web, one red flag, you know, it's the dark web, people. People post on the dark web because it can't be traced, you know? So that that just gives you a big red flag saying anything on the dark web could be a scam. I'm sure there's a lot of legitimate sites on the dark web and they just don't want to be traced because they're mostly illegal, right? Killing somebody illegal.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

Yeah. Legitimate criminal enterprises, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

So somebody did a twist on this, right?

Reverse Hitman Extortion Texts

SPEAKER_03 11:58

So they they were getting information and they were sending out phishing and and spam calls and all this other kind of stuff, but they would get information from people, and then what they would do is they would text them and they would say, I was hired to kill you. This is the scam. I was hired to kill you. If you don't pay me five thousand dollars in two days, you will be dead.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

So it's a reverse hitman. A reverse hitman.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

So my gosh. So I was like, I when I was learning about this, I was like, that was very smart. That was a smart scam. But it's a scam. It's phishing. Yes. They're just sending text messages to people. Some of these people are real, some of these people, you know, they like really know they know information about them, but a lot of times it was very vague. So they would send these messages and it'd be like, I was hired to kill you. I don't want to kill you, but I've already been paid to kill you. So if you don't want me to kill you, pay me $5,000. You have 48 hours. If I don't hear from you in 48 hours, then I will follow through and kill you, right? So that's called the hitman death threat scam.

SPEAKER_02 13:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

And it's basically extortion, right? It's basically extortion. And people, these scammers, you know, and we don't know who the scammers are, but it's all these websites that can't be traced because they're on the dark web, and they're scamming people and sending emails and text messages claiming they've been hired to kill you.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

It's like a variation of the romance scam, but just without romance and without violence.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

Right.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

And without them really knowing, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

Right. And so basically, I'm kind of like, who would fall for that? Who would want to pay somebody five thousand dollars just because they sent you an email or text message saying that I was hired to kill you? Would you fall for that?

SPEAKER_01 14:34

My mother. My mother. Because she's afraid of everything. So she's like, I'll pay you, I'll pay you.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

Oh my god. And this is recently. I mean, this is stuff that's like been happening like last year. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

So is there a is there like a real case that you have that made the news or or something?

SPEAKER_03 15:00

Yep. So that's what I'm going to get into. Okay. There's actually two cases. I don't have a lot of information on one, but you may have heard about it. But I was kind of like, when I heard about this, of course, I'm doing my research, and I'm like, are people really stupid to hire hitmen on dark web? You know, I mean, it's it's on TV for God's sake. People know about it. And I go on the dark web. I go and use, you know, Tor and DuckDuckGo, and I use a VPN so nobody can trace my IP address. I do all of that when I'm looking at looking up information and researching things that may be suspect, right?

SPEAKER_01 15:42

I was I was about to ask, why are you on the dark web?

SPEAKER_03 15:47

Girl, I get so many ideas from being on the dark web. I know. I know that's why I'm on the dark web, and that's why I have a VPN, so I can't be traced back. Okay. So here's the actual case. And I'm just like the scammers are the greedy mofos, right? The scammers because they're just calling people, phishing, sending emails, setting up a website, trying to get information, and they're making you know lots of money because people are paying anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000 to hire a hitman. Okay? So they have these websites just like Hitman for Hire. And you can go to the website Hitman for Hire and hire a Hitman. So who's ever behind that are really greedy mofos. Okay? So then somebody decides, well, I'm gonna just start fishing, well, and set up a website, and I'm gonna just start contacting people and tell people that I was hired to kill them, and then have them pay me not to kill them. So that's what they're doing. Maybe they're still doing it for information that they got from someone hiring a hitman, but they're basically just contacting people they don't know or strangers because they can get phone numbers and emails and all this other kind of stuff, you know, by fishing and doing all kinds of stuff,

Nevada Dark Web Murder For Hire

SPEAKER_03 17:18

right? So in 2023, okay, Christy Lynn Falcons, she lived in Fallon, Nevada. Okay, she was sentenced to five years in federal prison for attempting to hire a hitman on the dark web to murder her ex-husband.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

Okay. The only reason she got caught, okay, because the website that she used was a scam. Meaning the murder never took place. Okay. So she paid the website, right, five thousand dollars, which was in basic she did it in Bitcoin, but it was basically worth $5,000 at the time. And the website that she was on was called Besa Mafia. B as in boy, ESA Mafia. Okay, okay. So by contacting them on the website, she gave them all the information about her ex-husband's home address. Well, he's her ex-husband now, at the time he was her husband. Oh, and she wanted to kill him because she. Wait a minute. Let me, I might be getting this confused with someone. No, wait a minute. So, what happened was she wanted to kill her lover's wife. She was having an affair. She wanted to kill her husband, who's now her ex-husband, but at the same time, she wanted to kill her lover's wife.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Okay, got it. Got it. Okay. She wanted to eliminate all competition.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

The only reason she wanted to kill her ex-husband was because he had a large life insurance policy.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

She didn't know how long it was going to take to kill him, so she couldn't wait. So then she decided, well, maybe I should hire these people to kill my boyfriend lover's wife so that he can be free in whatever way. It's it was a convoluted mess. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

And they can live happily ever after with both of the other people gone.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

So she basically provided all the information to the website that she was using to hire the hitman. And so she was giving them her husband's home address, what kind of car he drove, what his work schedule was like, how she wanted the murder to look like an accident or a mugging gone wrong so she could pay the life insurance and the retirement benefits.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

Got it.

SPEAKER_03 20:03

Oh okay. So basically, he was never killed because the website was a fraudulent website. They just took the money from everybody that hired them to, you know, hired a hitman, and they never intended to carry out any of the murders, basically.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

So did they also reach out and exploit him for money saying, We've been hired to kill you, give us five thousand dollars so we don't go through with it.

SPEAKER_03 20:34

So did they get double payment or um that wasn't made clear because in researching the hitman scam, there was a couple of scams, and these were like scams because they went to the dark web and they went to the hitman websites to hire somebody to kill somebody. The other one was more where they were contact people, and they weren't hired to be a hitman or kill somebody, but they would tell everybody I was hired to kill you, so I don't want to kill you. Or if you don't want me to kill you, then pay me $5,000. Sometimes they would say $10,000, sometimes more. On the hitman website, the scam came in where none of these sites were legit. So people are paying you thinking that they're hiring a hitman, but they really didn't because you just take the money and run, and the person they want you to kill was never killed.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

And they're anonymous because it's a dark web and they're protected and layered and layered and layered.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

Right. So there was basically two types of hitman scams. Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

So how did Christy Lynn get caught? How do we know her name?

SPEAKER_03 21:55

She got caught because she complained that she her husband was never killed. Killed and the lover's ex-wife was never killed, and she was trying to get her money back from the fake website, and that's how she got caught.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

She was stupid. Did she go to the police and like say, hey, these people didn't pay me for not killing no reporting the website for taking her money? Oh my. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 22:33

Just like the guy, just like the guy, just like the guy with the um the guy that did the whole scam and he reported the people because he didn't get paid his share. That was the episode, the last episode out there. Oh, yeah, yeah. So she was pissed because she paid the money and nobody murdered her husband, and she was trying to get her money back. Well, first of all, it's the dark web. They can't trace that. You paid $5,000 in Bitcoin that was worth, you know, Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

And you're trying to get your money back, and she got caught.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

So poor Christy Lynn. Um, where is she now? She's in jail. Please tell me she's in jail. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 23:18

So um she was committed to five years in prison because it was a federal crime. It was interstate commerce or whatever, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Oh, because of online.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

And for the commission of the murder for hire. And that was in July 2023, and so it's only 2026. So she has two more years in prison, and then she's gonna get three years of supervised release. I guess they don't want her to try to get another hitman.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Well, she oh my gosh, dear police officer, please arrest this anonymous person for not killing my husband that I paid to have unalived. What an idiot.

SPEAKER_03 24:07

Yep. And it's funny because there's so many stories out there that, and we we all know, you know, people want to get rid of their husband, spouse, whatever somebody, you know. And there's so many stories out there about people hiring hitmen, and most of them find them on the dark web. Well, here's a good one for you.

Ghost Adventures Murder Plot

SPEAKER_03 24:31

This woman didn't go to the dark web to hire him. Okay. Okay. Her husband was the host of Ghost Adventures.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Wait.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

You heard about this?

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Sounds familiar. I think I I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but I think so. Okay, go on, go on.

SPEAKER_03 24:53

So, Aaron Goodwin, who's on the Discovery show Ghost Adventures, well, his wife Victoria conspired with somebody in prison to hire a hitman for a how did she meet someone in prison to do this? 10 pounds? She was gonna pay him eleven thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars. Okay, now that's a pretty specific number. Where she came up with that, I don't know. How did she find somebody in prison? I don't know. Why does she want to kill her husband, Aaron? I don't know. Okay, but money or she had a lover. Yeah, but well, he was he was making money because he was the host of that popular show, Ghost Adventures.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

Yeah, she wanted his money.

SPEAKER_03 25:53

Well, that's that's pretty stupid because when she killed him, he wouldn't be making the show anymore, so the money would disappear.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Well, he may have had a life insurance, maybe he had an estate, maybe he had money in the bank that she who knows.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

Maybe she allegedly, allegedly, the reason she wanted to kill him is because they were having problems in their marriage, and he would not uh give her a divorce.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_03 26:25

How she got to somebody in prison. Now the inmate in prison was a convicted murderer. Okay, his name was Grant. His name was Grant Amato. And you want to know how she got caught?

SPEAKER_01 26:43

He turned around?

SPEAKER_03 26:44

No, she got caught to knock out the sentence. She got caught because they used her phone. Wait a minute, hang on. They because the authorities uncovered text messages where Victoria provided all the information about her husband, um, his his car and a photograph photograph to facilitate the murder. But the phone was discovered as contraband in prison by the prison guards. So once the prison guard found the phone, because you're not supposed to have a phone, right?

SPEAKER_00 27:26

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 27:27

But once the prison guards found the phone and went through the text messages and everything, they saw the text messages between the prisoner and Aaron's wife.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

That's how she got please tell me, please, please, please tell me that she used her own cell phone to communicate and not a burner. I love dumb, dumb, dumb, greedy mofos or just dumb mofos. If you use your own phone, she did use her own cell phone.

SPEAKER_03 27:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

That's so funny.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

She was dumb. So where is she? She was dumb. Yeah, but even if she didn't use her own cell phone, when they looked at the text messages and stuff on the phone that from the prisoner, she had all the information there. Husband's name, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

They would have found her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

They would have found her anyway.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

Probably said, my husband.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

They would have found her. So she's corresponding with the prisoner. And I'm kind of like, out of all the people in prison that committed murder, how did she get this one? And it never said how she got this guy, Aaron Goodwin.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Like how, you know, like I said, it's all who you know. Oh uh, you know.

SPEAKER_03 28:53

Yeah. It's it's it's like people are so stupid. People, I mean, people, well, she's greedy because she wanted a divorce, and so I guess she figured she'd just kill him instead. Um, yeah, but at the same time, I'm just kind of like I'm asking all these questions. Well, how did she pick this guy in prison? How did she know to get in contact with this guy? You know, how did she post something on one of these hitman websites and the guy in prison saw it and contacted her? Or they call it crazy. I don't know how she planned it.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Maybe this hitman who's in prison has an agent, and his agent saw the post and contacted him. Um, I'm joking. I'm joking, but you know, everybody knows how she found everything, you know?

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Yeah, no, I know how she found him. Oh, how? This is interesting because I I I I kind of learned about this too. Okay. So in 2024, right, there was some crime true crime docuseries called Control Alt Desire. Have you heard about that one?

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Uh I have not, but I will look that up.

SPEAKER_03 30:22

I know me too. So it was a docuseries, and it basically was focused on a case about Grant Amato, who was serving life sentence in Florida for the murder of his parents and brother. And he killed them. Yeah. So and he killed them because they his father kicked him out of the family home.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

Oh wow. So she saw this docuseries and reached out to him.

SPEAKER_03 30:56

Reached out to him via Facebook. She contacted him via Facebook, right?

SPEAKER_01 31:04

You can have Facebook when you're in prison.

SPEAKER_03 31:08

Well, they do have computers in prison. Jeez. Yeah. And so then the two of them began talking. And because he had a cell phone in prison, supposedly they bonded and they sent messages about how they were in love. Oh my. And she was telling him about her marriage and the problems in her marriage to Aaron. And she had fantasies of being with him, but Aaron would not agree to the divorce.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Oh, she's whack. Uh doodle.

SPEAKER_03 31:48

Yep, yep. So then her and Amado, the prisoner, started discussing the possibility of hiring a hitman to kill Aaron. And so he was the intermediary with the potential hitman. And she asked him at some point, Am I a bad person for wanting to kill my husband?

SPEAKER_01 32:13

And how did he answer that?

SPEAKER_03 32:16

Oh, it doesn't say. So the plan, yeah, the plan was to kill Aaron, the host of the Ghost Adventures show, while he was away filming in California in October of 2024. So Victoria gave the prisoner all of his information about where he's located and all this other kind of stuff. The prisoner passed it along to someone telling the hit man, he's asleep right now in the hotel room. I need to know what's going on. Can I get an update? Have you killed him? And that basically was the plot.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

So who turned them in? Oh, oh, the um the security guard or the the guard is on the phone. Okay, okay. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

Goodness gracious, these people. There's a lot of people that we're hitting in. Yeah. And some of this may not be greedy for money, they just may want out of the relationship. So that's that's greed in another fashion. That's just pure selfishness. And um I mean, why the guy wouldn't give her the divorce? I mean, that's that's weird too. If if if she wants out and he won't give it to her, I mean, that's kind of weird. It's like your marriage is over anyway, if one of you wants out. So it makes you wonder why he wouldn't give it to her. But um but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:56

It's crazy. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

She could have just smiled and um served him, and I mean, it's not like the 1950s where you can't just get a divorce, you know. It's it's not like that anymore. Yeah. Anybody can just really get a divorce, I think. Maybe some states have contested versus uncontested, but I I don't know. That's yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

Well, what caught my attention was that they said that this scam has been around for a while, but it's making a it's resurfacing again. So it's making so well, they say it's been uh it's been active for over a decade. It comes around regularly with different variations, and in 2025, they just started using increased intimidation tactics to coerce their victims.

What To Do If Targeted

SPEAKER_03 34:52

So what would you do if you're targeted and you get one of these calls? Okay, don't reply because if you reply, you're basically telling the scammers that your account is active and it just makes you a target for continued harassment.

SPEAKER_01 35:11

And that goes with any scam, any unsolicited text message. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:15

Um delete and block the sender. Yeah. You know, delete the message immediately. And they say too, if you do get contacted, report it to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center or your local law enforcement. And they say, never send money, gift card, gift cards, or cryptocurrency to these people. Plain and simple.

SPEAKER_01 35:45

And I bet I know why the resurgence is happening. It's because of crypto, it's more anonymous than you know anything else. Crypto is so anonymous. So that's probably part of the uh resurgence and why it's more successful lately.

SPEAKER_03 36:04

Yeah. And and some of the things that you just gotta be aware of, I mean, because first of all, a hitman's not well, a real hitman. If you're like a hired assassin and you're a high-value target or something, that's different, right? But if you're some Joe Schmo, just living your life, not worried about anything, yeah, you know, if somebody called you and said, Hey, I was hired to kill you, would you really believe them?

SPEAKER_01 36:34

I would be like, Who is it? Um and I would like you want any money from me, you better tell me who it is.

SPEAKER_03 36:44

Yep, yep. So basically, you know, if you if if you do answer the phone, um scammers claim to be monitoring you and demand thousands of dollars, often threatening you, harm, or your family if you contact the police. So maybe one thing they'll, you know, that might make you believe it is if they say outside to kill you, please don't contact the police, or I will have to hurt your family or kill someone, you know, but I won't kill you if you pay me $5,000. Well, the minute they're telling you not to contact the police, I mean, that right there is a scam. Because if somebody's trying to kill me, I want police surveillance and protection. I hire a bodyguard, right?

SPEAKER_01 37:36

Yeah, but they do whatever it takes to get a few books.

SPEAKER_03 37:40

Yeah. Um, and they say another reason that it could be more relevant now and more active now is because these type of calls often surge during times of high public anxiety.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

Oh my goodness. Yeah, we are right with that.

SPEAKER_03 38:05

Then tell me we don't have high public anxiety right now. Oh my goodness, we do.

Listener Stories And How To Reach Us

SPEAKER_03 38:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

Well, so Green Mofo fans, I would love to know if any of you have been scammed by a potential hitman, whether it's you know, either variation of the scam, or if you've hired someone to um take someone out, we'd like to know that too. We promise not to call the police and turn you in. Ah, my fingers are closed. We'll not um turn you in.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

And if someone was hired to kill you, just pay us the five thousand dollars and we'll make sure that we protect you.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Greedy Mofo's investigation. We are launching a new division. We have bodyguard services now. Oh, there we go.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

We're learning so much about these what people will do for money killing. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 39:11

And and what and what society needs. Society needs bodyguards, obviously, from all these hitmen, hitmen, hit women, yeah, uh assassins.

SPEAKER_03 39:25

So, you know, just send us an email, pay us, we'll hire a bodyguard, we'll protect you. I'll be happy to be your bodyguard.

SPEAKER_01 39:35

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:37

That's a nice little side hustle.

SPEAKER_01 39:40

A little side hustle there, yeah. Bodyguard service.

SPEAKER_03 39:43

All right, so if anybody out there gets a phone call like this, pick up the phone and call us. Email us, text us, hit us on our Facebook page. That's the fastest way to get in touch with us. Just send us a message on Facebook. We will come and we will do greedy mofos investigations and make sure that you were protected and from these hitmen. And we will investigate where they're coming from and get them shut down.

SPEAKER_01 40:16

Email us at info at o-ne-o-n-e21.com. Go to our Facebook page, um, our website, it's in the um description. You'll find it, you'll find our information there. We'd love to hear from you.

SPEAKER_03 40:39

That's true, that's true. And I hope you enjoyed this and learned something from this particular hitman death threat scam. Share it with your friends and family to make sure that they don't fall for this. And like I said, if anybody you know get a phone call like this, reach out to us. We got you back. We're on it. We're on it. Alright, did you enjoy that one?

SPEAKER_01 41:07

Oh my gosh, Asin, that was so entertaining. Unfortunately, I'm entertained by this. It's so sad.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

But I'm still gonna do some more research on it. I'm gonna do some more research. Today has been a good day. I think I uncovered another online course scam. Or selling a course scam. I'm not gonna say that. You know, she may be legit. I don't want to think that everybody that has a course isn't legit. But this hitman death threat scam is interesting, and I'm telling you, these two people were just stupid. Totally stupid.

SPEAKER_01 41:41

Dumb, dumb. That is not legit. Alrighty.

Season Finale Tease And Goodbye

SPEAKER_01 41:47

Well, thank you for bringing that to us. And next week, um, I think it's our season finale next week, and I will be bringing you a case, and we are so excited.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

I know. We're we're moving and rocking, and season two is gonna be even better.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

Yeah, absolutely. So we will see you next week, and we'll have details about what to expect with season two. Enjoy and talk to you next week.

SPEAKER_03 42:16

All right, bye, Peppa. Have a good evening.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Okay, bye, Afton.