Trilogy Media
Rip-off-Bait Stunt
Takes Down Worldwide Criminals!!!
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TMZ.com
Ashton Bingham and Artwork Kulik — the YouTubers behind the wildly profitable Trilogy Media channel — are patting themselves on the again for the function they performed in taking down a world rip-off ring.
We caught up with the web sensations on “TMZ Live” Friday, the place they detailed how their “scam-baiting” stunt escalated to a full-blown investigation … and the way the IRL sting operation impressed actual change on a federal degree.
Watch the video … Ashton and Artwork beam as they proudly clarify how their back-and-forth communication with some scammers precipitated the culprits in query to by accident make themselves susceptible — basically exposing their identities.
Ashton says they had been deliberately troublesome, as scammers tried to remotely entry their funds … the criminals finally requested AB and AK to ship their cash to an deal with within the U.S.
From there, the YouTubers adopted the cash … finally confronting the recipient, resulting in some huge discoveries, sufficient to testify in entrance of a grand jury.
Nonetheless, because the duo advised us Friday, it took them half a decade to get to this place … and to get a number of federal businesses to get on the identical web page to arrest these scammers in “real time.”
Three cheers for these keyboard detectives!!!
