The Craziest Ways Millions Were Made!

what are some of the weirdest ways people have made Millions let's get right to it with number four the money in the mattresses Mattress Mack whose real name is Jim mcinvale and not actually Mattress Mack has made millions of dollars by making risky bets and hedging them with customer purchases from his furniture store Mac does this through a simple system he tells customers that if they

buy up to three thousand dollars worth of furniture from his store and if one of his favorite teams win a game like the Super Bowl they'll get their money back this promotion usually attracts fans of the team Mack hopes would win and they purchase thousands or even millions of dollars worth of furniture to the fans it's a win-win situation if their team wins they get thousands

of dollars in furniture for free and if their team loses well at least they got the furniture they paid for anyway but Mac doesn't just make that bet in his shop he also puts millions of dollars into his teams to win do win you can offset the refunds he has to make with winnings from the bat and if they lose then at least he made Millions

from furniture sales it's an ingenious system and has worked for Mattress Mack like a charm one of his bets was on the Super Bowl game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the LA Rams in 2022 we bet about 9 million dollars on the Bengals to win and told fans of the franchise to purchase furniture from his store and that he would refund their payments if they won

the promotion was a huge success as many Cincinnati fans came over to purchase furniture from Mac's store the Bengals Rams bet isn't the only large bet the Mac has made in recent years he also got the largest Sports gambling win of all time when he won 75 million dollars from betting on the Houston Astros during the World Series in 2022 Mack decided to fly over to

the headquarters of the Betting Company to receive 10 million of his winnings in cash he then put that cash in a wheelbarrow and wheeled it into his private jet which is the sort of thing you do after winning 75 million dollars but Mac doesn't always win the Cincinnati Bengals didn't beat the Rams so he lost his huge bet but that also meant he didn't have to

make any refunds so he still didn't lose that much number three the shoplifting grandma Grandma Kim Ferry used to be one of the most prolific shoplifters in the UK but these days she says she has retired from that life this is despite her claim that she'd supposedly stolen over 2 million dollars in merchandise during her days of crime Ferry didn't get into a life of crime

because she wanted to she grew up in a poor family and most times she could only get by through shoplifting she started stealing from shops when she was nine and by the time she was 16 she was an expert at the sacred art of shoplifting ever since then Kim has made a life out of stealing over the next four decades she used her earnings from shoplifting

to fund plastic surgery purchase designer goods and live a luxury lifestyle but it wasn't all Rosy sometimes fairy got in trouble and had to serve time Behind Bars over those 40 years she served about five years in prison these days Kim claims she's given up that life her reason is that she wants to be a better mother to her then 20 year old child which is

a little late in the game if you ask us her child wants a normal life and Kim hopes to provide that she also realized that her crimes have stolen precious time she could have spent with her kid however Kim complains that going cold turkey and not stealing hasn't been easy on her today Kim lives on government benefits and claims that the money she gets from it

isn't enough to maintain a lifestyle she's accustomed to and one can surely empathize it isn't easy going from being a successful Thief to being dependent on government handouts the covet lockdown allowed her to make a hard pivot and do something else with her life these days she has joined adult sites and asked people to subscribe to her channel to see a different side to her Kim

has also changed her diet and now works as an online fitness Guru today you can find Kim posing for sensual calendars that she tries to sell on eBay perhaps if she had saved some of that alleged 2 million pounds she earned during her years as a thief she might not have to live on benefits if they ever made a bio Winona Ryder should be the first

in line for the part number two not a stinky idea Susie batis made her Fortune selling a product dealing with one of life's many embarrassments she sold about 60 million bottles of her product and her company has now earned over a hundred million dollars and her product Poo Pourri a spray specifically made to allow bathrooms to be tolerable again as a child Susie always wanted to

make a lot of money she didn't come from a wealthy family her father was bipolar and an alcoholic while her mother suffered from depression so Susie understood that making money was going to be her one ticket out of her messy family condition at just 15 Susie was already pitching new designs to fashion companies and one of them even invited her to New York but her mother

within a year the business went under and at 20 she was forced to file for bankruptcy but she didn't give up on her dream of owning her own business she divorced gave birth remarried and gave birth again but still had that Vision in her mind she began working at a recruiting firm got the idea for a website that matches employees to employers based on company culture

Susie invested all her savings and maxed out her credit cards to invest in the business but it never quite kicked off some Venture capitalists promised to invest 5 million dollars in the idea but the.com Bubble Burst around the same time and made investors wary of online businesses so Susie was in a position where she was unable to pay back her business loans or Finance her mortgage

she had to file for personal bankruptcy again after her experience with two failed businesses she decided to take a spiritual sabbatical she believed that was the end of her Misadventures with business that was what she thought until one fateful family dinner when someone stunk up her bathroom her brother-in-law who could apparently clear out a bathroom had asked if there was a way for the odor from

the toilet to be trapped there since he was a bit embarrassed that statement somehow lit up a bulb in Susie's head she went to work over the next few months she spent hours researching odors and essential oils she wanted to know if there was a way that she could fight stink in a way that made stunk-up bathrooms impossible she started mixing essential oils and coming up

with a new formula on her own Susie came up with several prototypes and gave them to family and friends to test one day after another round of testing her husband came out of the bathroom with good news product had finally worked perfectly Susie came out of her spiritual sabbatical and managed to get 25 000 bucks to start the business she first ordered a thousand bottles from

a manufacturer to see how it would do in the market and it did extremely well a Dallas Boutique owner asked to stock it sales took off from there she began doing trade show and expanded to other boutiques after the first year she sold over 250 000 bottles and then made a million dollars in Revenue she named the product who Puri for the next seven years the

business grew at a steady Pace but Susie wanted more she knew that Poo-Pourri could achieve real mainstream traction but she wasn't quite sure of how she didn't yet have enough money to afford a TV ad but she had just enough for a digital video she got into contact with Jeffrey Hammond the chief marketing officer of orabrush she'd seen an interesting and funny video for Aura brush

on the internet and won something similar for Poo-Pourri Hammond welcomed Susie's idea and they got to work on a concept for the Poo-Pourri video after two days of brainstorming they eventually came up with a concept the idea was to put on an aristocratic prim and proper type British woman on the toilet seat saying ludicrous things in her fancy British accent it was just the sort of

shocking imagery that Susie believed would help sell her Poo-Pourri the video cost twenty five thousand dollars and Susie paid about 650 000 to have it promoted on YouTube and Facebook the video had 10 million views within two weeks it was an instant and massive success the year after the video sales of Poo-Pourri increased by 80 percent the company was now doing about 27 million dollars in

Revenue the product also got into more markets and expanded its reach more than anyone had anticipated and the success didn't stop the company is now doing over a hundred million dollars in Revenue annually but the question remains what's in Poo-Pourri that makes it so effective only Susie and her team have the answers to that question and have refused to apply for a patent because they didn't

want anyone stealing their secret formula despite no one knowing what's in Poo-Pourri the company has had to Grapple with competition from knockoffs but Susie knows that a lot of Poo-Pourri success is due to its genius marketing so the company only goes after knockoffs that try to steal her trade secrets in 2016 the company that owns Airwick created a product called vipoo that not only did the

same thing as Poo-Pourri but had similar packaging and marking Susie didn't let this slide and filed a lawsuit against the company they eventually had to settle out of court another company this time a Canadian LLC he created a similar product with similar marketing called poopy Chic Susie filed another lawsuit alleging marketing similarities and the company also had to settle out of court these days Susie's getting

a bit tired of Poo-Pourri she plans to create other brands and hopes to have the same success she says that when she stops having fun she'll certainly move on to other business today Susie's worth over 200 million dollars before we get to the last crazy story if you're enjoying this video be sure to stay right here for our past release on what happened to this lawyer

when the cartels caught him scamming them number one squatting millionaire in 2004 real estate tycoons these kendorf brothers decided to purchase the Mayflower Hotel building with the intention of turning it into one of the most prestigious addresses in New York City at the time the building sat on what was probably the most valuable piece of real estate in the world it was in the right place

in New York to build luxury condos that would go for millions of dollars a piece and the notoriously ritzy Central Park West in ordinary circumstances the brothers would just purchase the hotel demolish it then build their condos but this wasn't ordinary circumstances the hotel had tenants and New York laws meant that landlords couldn't just eject tenants neither Willie or nilly let alone both at the same

time to eject a tenant landlords had to begin a lengthy court process that may cost more money than they wanted to spend so some landlords pay off the tenants to get them out and that was what these akendorf brothers did here they offered tenants a hefty sum of 650 thousand dollars to move out of the building and offer most tenants jumped on however four tenants refused

to take the money they understood what game was afoot and knew that they could get even more money by holding out after a while the brothers raised the payout to the tenants to a million dollars three of the four remaining tenants accepted this offer then the zekandorf brothers were left with one man to deal with this man Herbert sukenik refused to part with his one-room apartment

in the building he told the brothers that he would only begin negotiating with them when he was the last man standing Herbert second wasn't just some guy who wanted to maximize his payout from a bunch of real estate developers he was a guy with a PhD in physics and an unpleasant demeanor Herbert had rented his tiny apartment in the building about 30 years before the zakendorf

brothers bought in and had lived in there as a recluse despite being entitled to maid services he didn't allow anyone to enter his room his room was cramped it was filled with a Year's worth of research papers and books you might expect that a man in a smelly one bedroom would be the most amidable to moving out but Herbert was resistant first he agreed to move

but on the condition that they'd get him another apartment with a view of Central Park like his current address the developers agreed to it but Herbert unexpectedly pulled out of the arrangement when asked why he said he had hired a lawyer and was going to get an even better deal the sudden flip-flop irritated the kendorfs so they decided to play hardball they got a court judgment

to begin demolishing and renovating other parts of the building Herbert did not live in they hope the noise of the construct production would drive him insane but it didn't Herbert said he loved to watch construction work after a year into the construction standoff the developers realized they lost the battle of wills they had to sit down with Herbert and reach an agreement and he held all

the cards after rounds of negotiations they eventually settled on a payment Herbert would get 17 million dollars and would be relocated to another apartment where he would pay a dollar per month as rent to mock the developers the new apartment also had to have a view of Central Park the building that was built in the mayflower's place is one of the most expensive addresses in New

York today it's so prestigious that it attracts the richest and the most famous people in the city today it has tenants like Denzel Washington Jeff Gordon sting and Alex Rodriguez a one-bedroom apartment in the building goes for as high as 7 million dollars while a two-bedroom apartment could go for as high as 12 million a three bedroom could be sold for 30 million in a four-bedroom

apartment attracts 60 million dollar bids meanwhile the five-bedroom apartment in the condo is valued at over 65 million dollars Segundo veloda Segura had been attempting to fight an extradition order that would have seen him stand trial in the United States for charges related to trafficking his lawyer Jamie bellagia and private investigator Chuck Morgan hatched a plan that would have accomplished the guru's goal while padding their

own pockets Elijah and his accomplice teamed up to demand millions of dollars from sagura who was behind bars in Bogata in 2015. they promised to use the money as bribes in America with the ultimate goal of getting rid of the U.S charges against the defendant after some negotiation the lawyer and his client agreed on a total of two million dollars in payments however Segura grew suspicious

after paying roughly one and a half million dollars to bellagia and Morgan without seeing any results he arranged for a hidden recording device to be placed in his cell at one point the inmate could be heard asking for the names of the U.S officials who were supposed to be receiving the bribes said that he couldn't reveal too much and insisted that he was trying to keep

Malaysia very very clean throughout the process although this explanation seemed to satisfy Segura at first he later decided to present the FBI with evidence of his lawyer's Financial Shakedown many local attorneys advertise their services by adopting a unique Persona or nickname that's what Bellagio did portraying himself as the DWI dude fans of The Big Lebowski might recognize the name as an homage to the cult Classic's

character the dude with his laid back long-haired Larger than Life appearance Elijah even resembled the attributes of actor Jeff Bridges in that role as for the DWI reference in the lawyer's nickname he frequently took cases involving relatively minor charges of driving Under the Influence or possession of Narcotics before passing the bar and representing clients in the courtroom Elijah had carved out a career in law enforcement

he also mounted an unsuccessful bid to become the Texas Attorney General running in 2014 as a Libertarian candidate he quickly became a recognizable entity across the Lone Star States Hill Country mainly because of his in-your-face advertisements he even procured an RV with bold outside decorations including clear depictions of cannabisly his catchphrate was unmistakable busted call the dude by 2015 however he left those small fry cases

in Texas and set out to represent a cartel associate in Bogata bellagia contacted Bibiana Correa perea an attorney in Bogota who specialized in extradition cases she initially reached out to Morgan who had previously worked with authorities in the United States upon learning the details of the situation Morgan suggested that bellagia might be able to help of course all three individuals never tried to provide effective counsel

but instead wanted to make as much money as possible in total three suspected cartel members agreed to pay Bellagio Morgan Emporia in hopes that they would Escape extradition after two defendants were sent from Columbia to Collin County Texas the only one left in bagata was Bellagio's effort to scam sagura was similar to his tactics against the other suspects including Hermes aliero Casanova ordonas who is commonly

known as Megatron he was still extradited to Texas despite agreeing to pay the lawyers seven hundred thousand dollars but he only coughed up half the amount upon arriving in Collin County Ordonez apparently expected that he would be released and his charges dropped instead he found himself locked up with bellagia insisting that he needed to pay even more money to get out of jail similarly the scammers

told sagura that he needed to come up with 1.2 million dollars before demanding even more his brother aldamar Valletta Segura was also extradited to Texas bellagia and his accomplices told him that he would need to pay another 1.2 million dollars to ensure the case would disappear not satisfied with representing clients in the courtroom but Elijah decided in 2014 that he wanted to represent all Texans as

the state's attorney general like his Persona in the local ads and his namesake in The Big Lebowski the Liberty aryan's campaign took on a unique life of its own much of his platform dealt with reforming the state's marijuana laws the former cop also campaigned on a promise to bring about more accountability among the state's Law Enforcement Officers he courted a voting block that didn't seem to

be represented by either the Republican or Democratic party during that election cycle and traveled the state accompanied by a theme song that was written to the tune of The Ballad of Davy Crockett however the effort wasn't enough to compete against GOP candidate Ken Paxton it's worth noting that the DWI dude wasn't the only one in that race who would later face a criminal scandal after winning

the Attorney General race Paxton was indicted on felony charges related to Securities Exchange fraud by the time 2014 came to a close the FBI was hot on the trail of Bellagio's Colombian cartel scheme special agent Jason Rennie testified that another agent was working undercover as the lawyer's bookkeeper at one point the FBI agent brought up the likelihood that any payments coming from aletamar Segura would be

from the proceeds of transporting illegal substances in response Elijah promised that there would be no issue taking money from the accused cartel members as of September 2014 the FBI had been keeping tabs on Bellagio's bank account including a string of anonymous deposits totaling thousands of dollars at a time investigators determined that perea had passed some of her accomplices with making the transactions according to the indictment

this wasn't the only way Bellagio collected the bride money authorities reported that he met with an individual known only as Coco in a parking lot to collect roughly 120 thousand dollars in cash when confronted with this evidence Bellagio put forward the implausible defense that a random stranger simply decided to give him a six-figure gift outside of a shopping mall in Katy Texas furthermore his attorneys attempted

to pass the buck by insisting that Morgan Had orchestrated the entire scheme the lawyers argue that Morgan had been working undercover with U.S government officials while Morgan had once been a federal and performant prosecutors in the case said there were no plans for him to work with American officials to accept bribes from the accused cartel members so what was Morgan's role in the scam exactly given

his prior experience working covertly with American government officials perea determined that he would be able to convince the Colombian suspects that they could see the charges against them dropped investigators identified Morgan as the private investigator responsible for introducing Bellagio into the equation although he didn't speak Spanish He reportedly spoke directly to the inmates through his wife his conversations helped cement the case being compiled by the

FBI after Segundo Segura produced The Secret recordings in effect Morgan served as the middleman between Segura and bellagia making it clear that he wanted to avoid any direct connection between the Shakedown scheme and the DWI dude along with Pereira Morgan pleaded guilty to his role in the scam he was sentenced to six years behind bars and Pereira received a seven-year sentence when a criminal attempts to

scam someone associated with a dangerous cartel a criminal organization might not be the worst outcome imaginable after all these organizations have a reputation for shutting up their enemies for good it seems clear that sagura or any of the suspects being targeted by Malaysia could have reached out to their Associates to deliver a message to get rid of the Texas lawyer instead the Colombian inmate decided to

take a less violent approach and simply report the scam to authorities in the United States instead of being taken out by Cartel forces Bellagio squared off against the American justice system he was charged with several conspiracy counts related to obstruction of justice wire fraud and money laundering U.S attorney Joe Brown alluded to how lucky Bellagio was to escape such a fate following the disgraced lawyers indictment

Brown said the dude and his group were running a scam on dealers some of the biggest dealers in the world brown added that it was fortunate for Bellagio that these dealers chose to turn him over to the FBI rather than handle it any other way Judge Brown wanted to make it clear the American justice system isn't for sale and he prosecute anyone who felt otherwise in

2019 the ex-police officer stood trial for two weeks in Texas Eastern County the court heard that bellagia made false promises to the accused cartel members that their bribes can make the changes against them disappear he described the payments he received as attorney's fees and attempted to place the Lion's Share of blame on Morgan furthermore he pleaded ignorance about the charges against him specifically his lawyers asserted

that he had no idea that it was illegal to accept bags full of cash and Bank deposits from Anonymous Shady figures he even took the witness stand to testify that he didn't know such Behavior could land him in trouble for money laundering even though his defense maintained that Morgan and perea were the masterminds he was merely a pawn in their scheme the court disagreed and he

was convicted another part of his defense hinged on a plea for Mercy from the court attorney Galen riddles described his client as homeless destitute broken and calling for probation in the case acting U.S attorney Nicholas ganjal laid out the case against Bellagio at the time he said the evidence demonstrated that Bellagio had been shaking down his clients for years by claiming that he was able to

purchase favorable deals from prosecutors and judges alike while Morgan and perea received six and seven years in federal prison respectively a judge handed down a sentence for Bellagio that was longer than both of those terms combined He was ordered to be imprisoned for more than 15 years in connection to the scam that netted roughly one and a half million dollars total Brown portrayed the case as

an important reminder about the rule of law explaining the Colombians and criminals in every country that we deal with need to understand things don't work that way in the United States FBI's special agent Matthew J desarno celebrated the outcome noting that the bureau combats public corruption at all levels and will protect and defend the U.S justice system for those who attempt to diminish its Integrity the

15-year sentence handed down by the court was the clear example of handling officials who misuse their influence for personal financial benefit click to watch one of these next videos let us know in the comments section what you'd rather have fifty thousand dollars a month for life or 15 million in cash right now