The Golden Hour - Scammed! | The Golden Hour PATREON #54 EXCERPT w/ Brendan Schaub, Erik Griffin & Chris D'Elia

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

The guys talk Erik's N-word story, Chris' girl's N-word story, sports announcers saying the wildest things, Wheel Of Fortune flubs, all new live call-ins including a guy who's been scammed by online hackers and much more! Get the full episode plus two extra episodes every month at https://patreon.com/thegoldenhourpodcast

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What's up guys? Hey bro. Where you coming from? Hey before you start we need a Venmo of 500 to be on the show Yeah yeah yeah What'd you say? we heard you got scammed you guys we trying to scam you but go on tell us what happened Yeah, he's the guy who was in Florida with his car, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I remember you. Yeah How's the car Hell yeah, hell yeah, you survived. Oh, he survived. That's right. It was the I remember. Fuck yeah.

Well, I can barely hear you guys. Fucking what was it? The hurricane. Huracan or Gallardo? Dude, hurricane and hurricane. Hurricane and the hurricane. Huracan and hurricane. Slow.

All right, so tell us what happened, man. I mean, I'm the king of getting scammed. I guess I'll start with the big one. Oh, so you've been scammed more than once? Oh brother Never been scammed. I have to multiple times. We're just gonna need a release form when we're done send your social your credit card So basically probably about three or four years ago, I bought crypto on Coinbase, probably like 10K worth. And I set up two factor authentication and everything. And then one day I woke up and my phone wasn't working at all.

I had no signal. My service was all gone. My email wouldn't let me log in. It was all gone. My email wouldn't let me log in, it was all hacked. What? So, find out that somehow these hackers figured out that I had a Coinbase account and they're able to call T-Mobile

and tell them they got a new phone. So they switched my phone number to their phone. Wow. Why? So that way they could use my two factor authentication to get the text message to log into my Coinbase. Come on T-Mobile. But that that's forgivable. That's that's different.

Yeah, that's not like it is. It's not like somebody said, hey, do you want to know what you you are? You are forgiven. Yeah, you are not. You are not. That's not your, it's not like you bought fake Russian cats. You're forgivable. Yeah. Yeah. They're, they're pieces of shit. But wait, but how did they get, but first of all, they had to have had his login for Coinbase too though, before that. I don't know. Yeah. No, you can reset the email.

Once they have, once they figure out that my email has a coinbase account They just once they can get my phone number and get the text messages from my phone They can reset all my yeah everything that's my email. They hacked every yeah, I mean that would you but you weren't a sucker You know I'm saying what yeah, it's not like you yeah, it did they definitely you got fucked but that that to me That's like you're not it's not like you yeah, it definitely you got fucked but that that to me that's like you're not it's not like you motorcycles off This was not fun tell us the one we were being an idiot we want to hear that we want to hear the one where you were

a dumb dummy Call me first, bro. I'm an idiot. Can we hear this guy in the internet store? Go ahead. This was my solicitation for the, for people to send these in. Have you been scammed? Zoom, zoom in.

Wow. Tell us about it on the page. Brendan bought fake cats. Brendan bought fake electricians. They're gas-packed, dude. All right, so tell us your other one, dude. Oh, I mean, let's go. So ever since I was like 14 or 15,

I've been trying to make money by buying iPhones off Craigslist and stuff like that. And I told you last time I repair phones. But when I was like 16, this guy hit me up because I used to post ads and I buy phones. He said he worked for AT&T. Here we go. It's already funny. Yeah man. So I meet this guy at AT&T, we're right outside oh he comes out of he was like we can't

go in right now they do some work on the floors I'm a fucking idiot! I'm a fucking idiot! It happens to the best of us. I give him two grand because he says he can get 50% off new iPhones so he comes out of AT&T, I give him the two grand

he goes into AT&T he says he'll be right back and then he never came back That is a great one. Now that's unforgivable. Cause he went through the back door. Now that's unforgivable. There's a back door. You were a dumb dumb in that situation. All right.

He got arrested though. I want to know the, the, and here's okay. So you're how long were you waiting before you went into the AT&T store said hey is John here? You were 16 minutes away yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a million dollars. When you're 16. He's making a real business movie. He's like, man, I'm going to double this money. Fucking dude just left through the back door. I feel like you have more stories like this. Oh, he does. He said, Oh my God, I have so many.

I did another one for like 1500 gift cards. Why? Let me ask you something. Why are you doing that? Why, why do that? It's a hustle. I just wanted to make money so bad when I was like 16. And I was making money doing this, but I just wanted to make money so bad when I was like 16 and I was making money doing this but I just was dumb and just fell for the game. This is people's evil origin story. Yeah but for every this is how you become like a drug dealer. That's why he drives a hurt car. Oh my god. Yeah because for every deal he got scammed on 10 of them he didn't. Yeah, that's just game tax. So what's your business now?

So I buy phones that are broken. I buy them outright, repair them, and then resell them online. And that's obviously lucrative. Because people probably give them away. Wow. I mean, I do, OK. I mean, you got a fucking Lamborghini. He's the scam artist now.

He's the one. You're the one walking out the AT&T store now, huh? So you know the identity of the guy that did it to you? Say that again, sorry. You know the identity of the guy that did it to you? The AT&T person? Yeah. Yeah, so when my dad came, he called the police.

Good. The police had brought me in and they showed me like a line of like six dudes oh wow and I was able to point out who it was and I was in my life trying to scam this guy well if you not if you went to jail for a few years okay yeah yeah I'd still hunt them yeah you're like this is a worst taken movie you get out of prison just like you get like I will scam you three and I. Scammed phone though, right? Click this link.

Yeah, boys. Well, this feels, but I mean like, I don't know. Like, do you, you never, so when you're buying phones from people, you're just trying to get the lowest price possible on the phone you're trying to buy? Yeah, I mean, so I buy them for obviously a discounted price

because they're broken. Right, and you fix it. Fix whatever needs to be fixed. Furniture. You got hustle. Yeah, I mean, so I buy them for obviously a discounted price because they're broken. And you fix it. Fix whatever needs to be fixed. Firmish them. It's a hustle. Yeah, that's cool. Feels a little hustly.

Yeah, but it's honorable. I mean, it's not. The next person that calls is somebody who's like, I sold my broken phone. This guy in a Lamborghini with a cotton top. He should have given me $20 more. I sold 40,000 phones last year. Oh my god.

That's lucrative. Come on, bro. That's hell of more. I sold 40,000 phones last year. That's lucrative. Come on bro. That's helluva lucrative. 40,000? But wait, so you have people work under you? Yeah. I mean I have one full time and then I just outsource a lot of prepares like backlash. I started with a scam, now we're here.

Interesting. Cool. Hey, good for you bro. Gaming the system. We love it. Yeah. OK. Just you got to take your hits and get scammed 16 times, and you'll eventually figure it out. Yeah, it happens to the best of us.

I'm still trying to figure it out. Hey, no more cat scams for Brendan. No, no, no. He'll still get scammed. It's the motorcycles that got me last week. Someone's going to get him with a car. He's going to be like, I almost got a Bugatti for like $1500. Happens. Oh thanks man. Thanks buddy. Hey thanks guys appreciate it. Have a good one. Be good. The biggest scam I've ever had was during COVID. 40,000. I got this letter in the mail but

it wasn't like a real letter. No dude I love when you try to gussy it up but it was like a like okay so the thing about it though is that it looked glossy and dude, I love that. I love your face when you do it because you can see it in your face. So the letter saying that our wall was illegal hide all this stuff. Oh, the city's going to come like, oh man, this is crazy. So then I sent to my biz manager. I can't believe. So then he calls you goes, yeah, it turns out the wall was illegally built then he's Permit small well, we got a business manager said this correct. So it's not this manager. Yeah He's like man. I know this group they deal with it. They're gonna come out

They're gonna take care of everything I have to worry about my right cool. Hmm. They come out. It's like a mom Take a mom and a son and I'm'm like, no uniforms, no official truck. I'm like, oh, this is weird, whatever. And they're like measuring. It's just an old school credit card machine. No, they're like measuring, like act, it's over. They have rulers, just. That's exactly what they're doing.

It's just some bullshit. Get the other ruler, I got this one up here right now. They're like, yeah, we'll get these plans, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, all right. Like pay him a hefty sum, I'm like, here, fix it. Pay him a hefty sum to here fix it pay him a hefty sum of cash. Three months go by I don't hear from him like what the fuck. So I figure there were the city I hit up the city and like can you come out this guy comes out legit LA County outfit. He goes what's the matter. I heard my wall was a little high

and he goes you got a letter from us. I go yeah I got a letter. I show it to him he goes that's not from us. And then I go do you have, you're little I show to me this not from us and I go You have a problem my wall is not at all When is the moment like when you were you're talking to this guy? When is the moment that it registered in your head scam artists or the actually can you're talking to the LA County? As soon as he pulled up in legit LA County Hey, you can actually just go home I think I know what's going on here. But when I knew it was a complete scam, it was like two months into it,

they came on the property and tell me and they're just out there and like swats and something like bullshit. And I came out with my gun because I thought they're like, I got my fucking AR 15. I'm like, what are you doing? They're like, oh my God. I'm like, the fuck you doing? Yeah, we're so sorry. And I was like'm like, what are you doing? They're like, oh my God, I'm like, the fuck you doing? Like, oh, we're so sorry. And I was like, no, what are you doing? Like, oh, we're just checking some stuff out, taking pictures.

What if that's when the scam started, because they were gonna rob you, and you come out with your gun, you're like, no, no, no, we work for the city. You need to pay us 20 grand for your wall. Yeah, that's right, We're gonna make it bigger Oh my god, what is your manager? Yeah. Yeah off there, oh

Yeah conversation off there. Okay. Well, I got me in a world of trouble. Oh no. Oh no. With that type of stuff. Meaning just wasted my money. Oh god. This YouTuber scammer payback, he's like a hacker and he'll like track these people down and he'll he'll be talking to like Indian scammers and like this one, he like says the guy's real name to him and he freaks out. What happens when we call it? Okay, can you pause it? I wanna give Nick credit for saying, hold my gun, let me go get my wallet. That was a great joke.

Thank you. And I feel like not everyone heard it. We didn't. Oh, that's hilarious. Hold my gun, let me go get my wallet. That is great. And it was too funny to bypass. I didn't hear it.

That's hilarious. In the moment? Great joke. Yeah, it is. Okay. Perfect. And I was so pissed, I didn't think of it. Hold my gun, let me go get my wallet. That was great.

All right, hold my gun, let me go Hold my gun. That was great. All right, hold my gun. My wallet is hilarious. All right. Music