A professional scam artist who has made more than $100,000 from his victims has revealed how he makes his money.
Andrew, 18, who is originally from Ukraine, was invited onto a video podcast to openly discuss his crimes on camera behind a face-blurring filter.
The teenager has been living in Toronto for a year, and currently works in a restaurant.
In an eye-opening episode of the Unmentionable podcast, run by comedian Jordan Power, the ex-swindler shares how he began putting people out of pocket since he was just 13-years-old.
Andrew – who doesn’t give his surname – explains he ran his first scam on the online game, CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) and made $600 per month which he used as his ‘pocket money’.
He explained that he used to offer to trade people’s skins in the game.
He said: ‘The guns are different colours and they have skins and people buy and sell them.
The scammer, Andrew, from Ukraine and now living in Canada, didn’t show his face on camera as he told his story
‘It was really easy. I was looking for people going to sell their skins.
‘I told them I was going to double their skins. I had fabricated proofs of my work, so they trusted me.
‘And I just asked them to send me their trades, and then I blocked them.’
He added that the skins could easily cost $2,000.
Jordan asked: ‘So someone would transfer you $2,000 and you would just disappear on them?’
To this, Andrew said ‘yes’ – adding that there were never any checks or questions from his bank,…
