They Cant Help But Scam Over and Over!

who are the people who simply can't help themselves from scamming over and over let's dig right in starting with number six a Lamar Whitehead update a Brooklyn church sued Bishop Lamar Whitehead for locking the congregation out of their house of worship this is the latest controversy for the ostentatious Whitehead whom we previously covered for being indicted on federal charges Whitehead bought the glory of God Global

property without the appropriate court order he then illegally changed the locks a few weeks before Christmas preventing hundreds of church members from attending Sunday services the church responded by suing Whitehead for five million dollars for breach of contract Additionally the congregation wanted a judge to Bar him from claiming ownership of the building Whitehead filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy arguing that the Declaration should mean that the

housing court case was put on hold Whitehead made headlines in 2022 when thieves robbed him in the middle of a sermon the incident was live streamed for the world to see and the footage went viral if you couldn't tell by now Whitehead likes wearing expensive jewelry and designer suits he also enjoys driving luxury cars such as a Rolls-Royce so he's no stranger to controversy and attracting

attention in general Whitehead was indicted on federal fraud charges and faced allegations of scamming members of his congregation The Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries he also allegedly made up bank records to secure a loan for his million dollar New Jersey Mansion an article in the New Yorker prompted a federal case against him and Whitehead believed that businessman Brandon belmonte's statement in the piece were to blame

for his legal issues in response he filed a 200 million dollar slander lawsuit against Belmonte it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for Bishop Whitehead to stay out of trouble eh number five only scams california-based Ashley Bemis pretended to have a firefighter husband battling the holy hell wildfire in order to do people into sending her cash Bemis

posted on Facebook that her husband Shane Goodman was working hard to contain the out of control Wildfire which destroyed over 23 000 acres of land in August of 2018. she also mentioned having two other family members and many friends working on both the holy hell fire and others burning across the state posing as a distressed wife Emma's posted on social media that her husband was texting

her about how awful The Blaze was she offered to drive to people's homes or meet them somewhere to pick up any donations they wanted to make to Firefighters and First Responders on the front line Bemis asked for things like sports drinks water socks and camping equipment people that couldn't donate those items offered to give her cash instead so she made over eleven thousand dollars from Good

Samaritans who wanted to support her pretend husband Bemis had a track record of fabricating stories and faked at least three pregnancies to deceive people into giving her money she would wear Prosthetics to create the illusion of a growing belly and fool those around her in 2011 she was a nanny for Emily Strickland's son Strickland discovered photos of her child dressed as a girl on bemis's Facebook

page where Bemis claimed Strickland's son was her daughter Quinn and Starla bork threw her a baby shower and spent hundreds of dollars they couldn't afford to make it special Bemis used the party as an opportunity to receive gifts that she could resell Laurie Chrisman who helped organize the shower received a text from Bemis that she was in the hospital but the child was still born when

Lori contacted the hospital she found out that Bemis wasn't a patient there and the hospital hadn't had a stillborn in several years after Bemis shared more pictures of herself and her supposed husband online a local fire captain took notice the captain reported her to authorities who discovered that Shane Goodman never existed vemis pleaded guilty to multiple charges including Grand Theft second-degree burglary and fraud a judge

sentenced her to six months in jail Shane Goodman never existed but he'll always exist in our hearts like Bing Bong sorry for the unexpected punch in the fields all of you born Circa 2005 number four the greatest romance scammer on Earth Timothy Russell deceived women he met online into buying him luxury Vehicles one of his victims who was also his fiancee confronted him about the situation

after learning the truth Russell fled and she reported him to law enforcement Russell's fiance was one of several women who thought he was Deputy U.S Marshal Austin Gardner she lived with him for nine months before the incident when she found credit cards he took out in her name and Russell's Federal IDs in a different name to Austin Gardner during their relationship Rosso convinced her to buy

a Cadillac Escalade a Ford Mustang Shelby GT and a Can-Am Spyder three-wheeled motorbike he may have also purchased other vehicles in her name without her knowing shortly after she bought each vehicle Russell would tell her they were stolen although in reality he either dispose of them or sold them one night he came home with a Lamborghini he told his fiance that his wealthy aunt and uncle

had bought it for him as a wedding gift Russell also took his future bride to Florida where he claimed he had a training session instead he went out to meet his Fort Myers girlfriend another of his victims Kylie wood realized Russell had conned her when she discovered police warrants issued for Craigslist scams he ran three years before she met him Russell alleged digitally scammed people out

of thousands of dollars when he pretended to buy their used cars over Craigslist he told wood his name was Remington woods and a month into their relationship he offered to help her buy a new truck she sold her current vehicle for fourteen thousand dollars and gave him twenty thousand for the new vehicle when wood confronted Russell about the arrest warrants he ran away with the money

Russell then moved on to a victim in Pennsylvania who like the others he met on an online dating site Russell scammed her out of seven thousand dollars then targeted a Texas woman who lost 9 500 bucks to Russell's fake car sales scam Russell fooled many of his victims into believing he was a Federal Officer by purchasing a commemorative badge on eBay he also bought fake identity

cards and tactical gear that appeared to have been police issued after the confrontation with his fiancee that led to him running away she canceled their credit card which was his only payment method Russell broke down on the side of the road and flashed his fake U.S Marshal badge to persuade his tow truck driver to cover his motel room for a night Russell also reached out to

his Florida girlfriend for money but police intercepted her before she could send him her credit card information authorities arrested and charged him with four counts of identity theft and one count of impersonating a police officer having that many angry exes all at once he's definitely a brave man number three the dental embezzle Robin bernazani embezzled an estimated half million dollars from her former employer over a

six-year period bernazani was a longtime employee of dental associates of the Southwest a dental office where she had a job that had access to the company's Financial accounts she wrote checks to herself or one of her business accounts and would either Forge a dent his signature or use a signature stamp then bernazani entered the amount she took into QuickBooks and claimed it as an expense to

a supply company or dental lab bernazani would also use a dentist's credit card for personal bills or online shopping again she would enter the money she took as bulk payment charges to a dental supply company in QuickBooks employees became suspicious of bernazani when the dental office realized something suspicious was happening with its finances bernazani eventually confessed to her employer that she had been embezzling from the

office for up to six years she followed up the verbal confession with a written one explaining why she did it and taking responsibility for her actions bernazani submitted a second confession letter with even more detail on how she stole the money and added an estimate of how much she took in response Dental Associates of the Southwest hired a third party accounting firm to complete an audit

and confirm the amount stolen it wasn't the first time bernazani faced criminal theft charges 2008 she stole ten thousand dollars from First National Bank of Durango and received a deferred sentence which is a conviction without jail time she completed the terms of her probation erasing the conviction from her record although her defense attorney argued that bernazani used the money from the dental office to support her

family confessed to her actions and promise not to commit a similar crime again the judge wasn't as lenient this time bernazani pleaded guilty to embezzling over five hundred thousand dollars from her former employer and received a four-year prison sentence wow that punishment sure wasn't toothless number two a million dollar smile Robin bernazani wasn't the only dental office in Bessler michigan-based Stephanie K cheslinski stole almost 1

million dollars from her former employer Dr Michael T Smith who employed her for 10 years her husband Kenneth chislinski was her accomplice in the scheme the FBI conducted an investigation into the couple's actions which involved local law enforcement towards the end unaware that they had been found out the couple was arrested Kenneth had been a corrections officer since 1986 and never received disciplinary action the sheriff

his boss at the time arrested him at the end of his shift after talking to the FBI and the local police department he was one month away from retiring Stephanie stole the funds and placed them in a bank account under Kenneth's name during the criminal investigation investigators found photographs of him making at least two deposits Stephanie faced several counts of embezzlement and pleaded guilty to one

count of embezzling between fifty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars a few months before her October 2012 trial the couple took the money to buy nicer things including purchasing brand new cars for their daughters but their spending quickly became out of control while they indulged in lavish expenses off the back of a man who spent years building his practice Dr Smith lost almost a million dollars

from a trusted employee Stephanie's daughters both got their new cars while Dr Smith's got whatever they could afford the couple pleaded guilty to six felonies related to the embezzlement Stephanie received a mandatory three years in prison which would typically be less so she could get out to work on paying Dr Smith back however because of the amount of money involved the judge doesn't see that ever

happening even with early release it's sad but you also have to wonder what Dr Smith was thinking the whole time he was scraping by like man being a dentist sucks I should have been a vet if you're enjoying this video be sure to stay right here for our past release on this serial scammer couple number one jobs for everyone con man Muhammad Maji tricked vulnerable victims

out of thousands of dollars to fund his gambling habit Maji ran several schemes to deceive people into handing over their money one of them involved posting fake job listings when job Seekers responded to the ads he insisted they take out phone contracts at the British cell phone store car phone Warehouse Maji convinced four people to take out the contracts claiming store employees were involved with the

interview process and the contracts would be canceled afterwards Ismail Khan who has autism and other learning disabilities lost 8 690 in the scam Maji claimed he didn't know that Khan had learning disabilities but it's not like that would have stopped them the other three victims lost 5 500 139 dollars in a previous scam he advertised a room in his apartment on the home sharing website spare

room.com offering bedrooms for around thirteen hundred dollars per month he showed potential tenants around the home and asked for an upfront deposit to secure the room once he had the cash he cut off communication with the scam tenants and reposted the house on the website one of his victims Abdul Khalid handed over 6703 dollars in deposits and rent advances to secure the room for him his

wife and their three-month-old daughter they were desperate for a place to live but when Khalid tried to confirm a move-in date Maji ghosted him after viewing the room Zaid farabi gave Maji 370 to secure it when Maji demanded a co-signer farabe's brothers sold thousands of pounds of jewelry to cover the rental costs like Khalid varavi couldn't get in touch with Maji to discuss moving in he

took 2731 dollars from another couple who discovered that Maji had locked the doors when they arrived at the property maji's victims filed a police report which led to his arrest initially he denied four counts of fraud but eventually pleaded guilty Maji received a 14-month prison sentence suspended for two years the judge also ordered him to complete 30 thinking skills sessions and pay his victims monthly installments

of three hundred and ten dollars we know a few people who need those how big can we make these sessions Maji returned to court after making two late payments and failing to pay a third his excuse was that the date of his government benefit payments had changed the judge accepted his reasons but insisted he catch up and continue making payments in 2015 a man named Jonathan

black opened a company called bar works with three men named Sam Aura James Moore and Renwick Robert Hado had a wood named Jonathan black as the company CEO and together these men would commit a 57 million dollar Ponzi scheme through the bar Works company but why would hattau name someone else as CEO rather than himself both were British citizens with extensive financial backgrounds and were interested

in scamming people in fact both of them were also 50 year old bald men who lived in New York Jonathan black and Renwick Robert haddow were the same person do you see where this is going throughout had I was life he had been trying to get plans off the ground in 2001 he struck a deal with Publishers at Cosmopolitan to create a string of venues that

would combine beauty treatments bars and coffee shops he claimed that they'd have at least 20 Outlets within two years in the end they opened one in Manchester England and the location didn't reach their financial Target business closed shortly afterward despite telling investors that business was booming shareholders lost their money and the company left over 2 million dollars in debt hanau then was banned as a director

in 2008. in 2003 hadao owned a business that invested in a glow-in-the-dark Plastics project this also ended up with lawsuits in the UK courts although Hada was banned from being a director that didn't stop him from rebranding himself as a consultant by 2015 haddao had become connected to 30 different investment schemes in 2009 he posted promotional videos showing he had created a large rice production Farm

in Sierra Leone he had at least 1 000 investors but the issue was that they were paying for more land than haddao had actually owned by the time Britain discovered the scheme he had stolen over 8 million dollars while the investigation was taking place for the Sierra Leone's game Hannah was in jail for another scheme in 2015 Renwick Robert haddow under the name Jonathan black started

a company called bar works with Sam Aura and James Moore barworks was a company that used old bars and restaurants and turned them into shared office spaces in New York here victims could enter into a lease-back investment where they spend at least twenty five thousand dollars to buy a workspace and lease it back to Bar works for 10 years if that sounds confusing don't worry it's

because it is let's put it into simpler terms barworks owns a restaurant they sell a portion of the restaurant to an investor for twenty five thousand dollars then they get into a lease back agreement where borrowers pays the investor monthly to use that part of the restaurant as Office Space over 10 years the benefit to this was that borrowerx promised a 14 return on each investment

that means that borrow Works would pay thirty five hundred dollars annually for 10 years and the investor would walk out of the agreement with a ten thousand dollar profit let's compare this to a company called wework wework is a company that owns many buildings across the globe and rents out spaces to people or companies to use as office space they brand themselves as trendy places where

customers can go and network while they work there's no investment involved and the customer is renting the sites are going and using it wework doesn't give an opportunity to be scammed on the other hand barworks was selling leases for more workspaces than they actually owned then when it came time to pay they asked for extensions due to productive restructuring the delays and payments eventually led to

no payments at all investors started getting suspicious of bar works but it was too late by that point in 2016 fireworks announced that it would transform Britain's Old School telephone boxes into tiny workspaces each Booth would have a 25-inch monitor a wireless keyboard a scanner a printer and free coffee for only around 23 a month you could use these pods if you worked on the go

they expected at least 10 000 members by the end of that year this never came Delight because in June of 2017 investors had started claiming that bar Works was a Ponzi scheme now you might be wondering how so many people were able to be scammed indeed they could have seen that the locations they were purchasing were non-existent barworks had been presenting itself to be highly profitable

with each new site even though locations had started closing rapidly on top of that one of Hatter's co-founder Sam Aura made sure to reach investors who couldn't verify the location's existence Sam aura or savraj Gara Aura was another man with an extensive background in scamming Samara was the Alias that savraj used before barworks he had worked for a UK company called Park first an investment company

having to do with airport car parking spaces in 2017 the financial conduct Authority shut down Park first because it was an unauthorized Collective investment scheme when he moved to the US he purchased a parking lot in North Carolina convincing the owners to give him a 1.3 million dollar loan for the property he advertised is a lot as part of his parking investment business promising 12 percent

yearly return He has since shut down the parking lot due to the covet epidemic blaming the decrease in flyers for the decline in the need of for parking he now owes the original owners one million dollars for the loan they gave him in borrow works his primary role was to attract investors from countries outside of the U.S because they wouldn't be able to see the workplace

stations he also contributed to creating and sending out documents stating the false financial situation of the company as well as helping Jonathan black conceal his true identity gotta Aura and had out were aware of the aliases they used while working together now let's talk about the third co-founder Mr James Moore although he was the only one who didn't use an alias he was arguably the biggest

liar out of the three before barworks Moore had worked with had out previously on a hotel investment scheme in 2009. this scheme involved hotels in Prague and Morocco where investors could buy shares and stay in a free room at the hotel throughout the year the company later went into liquidation losing all the money investors had spent in the financial conduct Authority caught them and Hannah was

eventually sued 2015 Moore had approached Hato again looking to partner for the bar work scam here Moore did the same things that Gada Aura did and he helped find investors from other countries created fake financial documents and helped Hato hide the fact that he was Jonathan black in 2016 Moore went on a recorded phone interview at the SEC claiming that Jonathan black was a real person

despite knowing that black was just an alias for a hat out Moore said he had never asked to speak with black even though he represented to multiple agents that he was working closely with him in 2017 in a videotaped interview with the IRS Moore claimed that he had done anything for money since 2010 even though he had received 1.3 million dollars from bar works alone some

people have considered more to be the Mastermind behind the entire barworks Ponzi scheme since he was the one who contacted hat out it wasn't like more had no idea who he was working with he had previously worked with hadout and made the conscious decision to do it again in 2016 at the height of the U.S investigation had out and his wife Zoya kiselova went on their

honeymoon she was also suspected of being a part of the scam by Chinese investors according to the evidence she only had one statement on her Facebook that involved the bar Works company however she did have a post including a picture of Jordan Belfort the self-proclaimed Wolf of Wall Street her post was about an event he was speaking at in 2014. she wrote that their team did

a good job inviting him to London the post also stated that the knight's theme was about the truth behind success together these three men and potentially women scammed over 800 investors and received over 57 million dollars one victim him a 32 year old named Jocelyn Houghton invested fifty thousand dollars after her financial advisor recommended the company he claimed that bar work seemed functional and trustworthy after

hearing from multiple sources including his business partner that the company was thriving Jocelyn said she had received a few months worth of payments before they stopped coming in when she asked where the payments were she would hear many excuses eventually she looked up fireworks and to her horror she saw that it was a scam Jocelyn would have used her earnings to finally buy a house but

now she has nothing many victims lose their retirement money or money they saved for their children's tuition all of them were put into a financial situation that would take many years to fix another victim had lost five hundred thousand dollars due to the Barwick scam due to stress his wife even gave birth to their daughter five weeks early they were also hoping to buy a house

with their earnings only to be left with nothing once investors started getting suspicious of borrow Works they started filing many lawsuits as we saw with the interviews that Moore participated in the government sought evidence to prove that bar Works was illegitimate it wasn't until more was convicted for a separate property investment crime in Florida that they were able to arrest Gata Aura and Hada for this

crime once they tried to arrest haddao they realized he was being kept prisoner in Morocco had out had been arrested for you guessed it another fraud case he had started a new Bitcoin store company an online platform where people could buy store and sell their digital currency here he had planned to use investor money to pay his cold callers this wasn't revealed to the investors while

cold callers claimed that Bitcoin store had a turnover of over five and a half million dollars in reality the bank account only had a little over four hundred dollars gotta Aura had already been arrested had I was extradited for Morocco to the United States in 2018 for his court hearing the years of karma had been building for these men who were about to receive punishment in

June of 2019 James Moore pled guilty to the barworks crime and was sentenced to 11 and a half year years in prison in addition he would have three years of supervised release and have to pay over 57 million dollars in restitution forfeit one and a half million dollars and pay a fine of fifty thousand dollars Savage gotta Aura also pled guilty to the Ponzi scheme in

July of 2020 he was sentenced to four years in prison upon release he'll have three years of supervised release Aura was ordered to pay almost 40 million dollars in restitution and forfeit nearly three million dollars as for Renwick Robert haddow the face of the barworks scheme pled guilty in March of 2019. his sentence date was set for October that year and has been rescheduled several times

in April 2022 it was rescheduled again for October while it's nice to see two of the culprits already put behind bars we can only hope that come October we see hadeau receiving a sentence along with restitution requirements for all the people he's taken advantage of these years click to watch one of these next videos let us know in the comments section what you'd rather do literally

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