insane scams that actually kinda worked

i like that the guy they interviewed in his apartment seems like he just woke up from a nap

So, the first story: Wendy’s almost certainly knew long before the $20k point. Corporations often intentionally wait to press charges in cases like this so they can 1) continue collecting evidence and 2) hit them for felony charges rather than a misdemeanor.

love how they described the ups guy as "Chicago man" and then he's wearing a shirt that just says "Chicago" when they go see him

Hello Mr. Gonzalez, sorry for the loud mowing noises around 15:00 minutes in your video. However, I did finish the mowing job we agreed upon and will await my payment of 120 million dollars. Thank you again for the opportunity. Please consider telling your YouTuber friends about my services.

hey! someone who trained to be an anchor here,😅 most companies force u to say acronyms in full on first reference unless its a big government agency like the fbi or cia

Scamming grandma: bad
Scamming big company: less bad
Scamming big company and kind of getting away with it: objectively funny

I've worked for a corporate office before and I can tell you it's incredibly easy to be paying bills that you wouldn't normally be paying, or that you shouldn't be paying.

I spotted a bill that didn't seem to make sense - for some kind of cloud service. I'd never seen any mention of it in the year (by that point) that I'd worked at the office. I asked about it, and it was some kind of legacy cloud storage software that the company had bought a license (to be renewed yearly) for almost a decade prior. I checked with the IT team and the manager of them said "oh we stopped using that like five years ago..."

So the company had been paying like two grand a year for something that no one knew about. The bill would come in and everyone just ASSUMED that it had been authorised.

15:02 i honestly think it’s so funny when YouTubers apologize for loud background noises, because 9 times out of 10 I can’t hear a thing (or I have to listen really hard after they mention it lol)

hello daniel

I have nothing but respect for anyone that figures out how to scam Google and Facebook out of $122 million dollars.

It's very strange to me that the UPS address change was considered illegal. It's not as if the guy hacked them or something; as far as we know, he just told them to change the address and they did. That's like if I sent someone a message telling them to give me money for no reason, they gave me the money, then they tried to sue me for theft. There's no lies or fraud going on, just a very weird company infrastructure.

I have a friend who owned a restaurant. He had a loyal chef for 15 years who he trusted to do all the kitchen hiring and purchasing because he didn't have any experience with that himself. The chef had hired at least 6 cooks and my friend never questioned it as he cut paychecks for all these people, though he never met them. The chef said that their schedules were just out of sync and he accepted that. And he kept this chef for years while getting more and more complaints that the food was awful.

By the time he figured out that none of these employees ever existed, the chef had embezzled over $130K. My friend sold the business at a massive loss and the chef ended up with a lengthy prison sentence.

The Wendy's manager was definitely not the one doing the extra work, employees likely just had to cover for the "missing" worker

The Wendy’s lady scam probably led to that location being chronically understaffed with 1-2 people doing double the work while she profited off their effort.

“She ate hot chip and lie” holy shit what a callback

I heard about the fake bills before, and it actually happened before.
In one case, the item on the bill was literally the bill itself, and stipulated that paying the bill meant agreeing to this term.
The courts found that this was a valid contract, and the scammers got to keep the money.

I yearn for freedom Daniel.

Let me out of the attic Daniel.

i love you danny please don’t die

Danny's eyes being one of the only blue toned things in the shot really makes him look like a Dune character

as a former bristol local I can confirm as a kid I was told about the car park thief a lot, although in the UK a parking attendant isn't like someone who parks your car for you it's just some guy who vaguely points in the direction of an empty spot that probably has a tiny car in it which is was the car parking thief was like a mystical hero at my school bc of the lack of effort, bristol zoo closed for good a few years ago now but I believe the car park is still there just waiting for the next scammer, cough cough danny