I love that when they go five, four, three, two, one, right? Let's wait. We're going to wait a few more seconds, OK? All right, so welcome. Good evening. I'm Deputy Mayor Phil Banks, the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety for New York City. I certainly thank you for joining. For those of you who are watching it for the first time, this is a weekly briefing that we do to inform the public of what's going on from a public safety perspective. We want to share as much information with you as possible. We want you to take this information back to your family and friends. But certainly, we want to learn from you. We want to know what you want to hear. We want to know what you're seeing out there as we look to craft our public safety apparatus to better serve the needs of this particular public. The mayor has said all the times he said it yesterday. He said today. He's going to say it tomorrow that public safety is the prerequisite to prosperity in the city. And we will never, ever take our eye off the prize. Today, so we have actually a pretty interesting briefing today. And with us, I have the Assistant Commissioner, Carlos Ortiz from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Commissioner, good evening. Thank you for coming. We have Captain Sparrow Papalosopoulos. He is the commanding officer of the New York City Police Department's Crown Prevention Division. And Crown Prevention Division is part of the Community Affairs Bureau.  Community Affairs is a bureau under the bureau that had the Crown Prevention Division. And he is going to be sharing a lot of very helpful information. We also have Inspector Robert Lapolo, the commanding officer of the NYPD's Auto Crime Division. And I need you to really take a lot of heed to what he's going to say today, because as we know, last year, it was a challenge with Grand Larsenia Autos and crimes associated with autos. And he's going to give you some information on how you can help yourself and help us help you protect your property. And last, but certainly not least, we're going to have Detective Sergeant Veronica Robles from the Sheriff's Office. And she is going to be sharing some youthful information. So what are we here to talk about today? We're here to talk about scams, a lot of scams that take place throughout this particular city. People are cheated out of their property. People are cheated out of their funds. And a lot of these scams have been around for a long time. And let's think about that for a second. A scam that's been around for a long time is only around because the scammers continue to find victims for their scams. And we have to make sure that we, as government, share this information with you. But you also have a responsibility. You have to learn. You have to practice this information. And what we say here is turn it over to FNF, a family and a friend. Tell at least one family member, tell at least one friend, ask that family member that you spoke to to turn over to one family member and friend and vice versa. And that is the way that we can actually combat so many scams. Because think about who these scams are. I'm going to be very nice. I was told by my counselor that I need to choose my words very carefully about these scammers. But these scammers are people, they pray on our elderly. They pray on our youth. They pray on the generosity of our heart to steal our property and steal our money. So we won't use any descriptive other than, we need to put them out of business. So many scams have been around a long time. We can have an impact on so many scams. So many scams are new. And as soon as we get as much information out as possible, the better chance that we have at negating some of these particular scams. They've been around a long time. And they've been around a long time for a lot of reasons. One of which, that we as a city, as a government, have to continue to do a better job at passing this information along. So when you hear this information today, you're going to have some really good insight from our panel here. Process it, think about it and pass it along. And do not, let's have our goal. Let us not be a victim of these particular scams. Before we start, I just want to give a special shout out to the Department of Aging, who works very closely with us. And they look out for older population. And just think about the older population. When we get older, right, we don't process things like we did when we were younger. We might be more accessible to these type of scams and individuals. And people pray on them. They look to say, I'm going to look at this particular individual to victimize that. And we have to be our brother and our sister's keeper. And this is one of the ways that we can actually start to do it. I don't want anybody being scammed. But when you scams someone who's worked their whole life and is in the twilight of their life, it's just not a good look, also, when we have our youth. So we are, as a society, how we protect our less vulnerable. And this is what we're looking here to do today. Last week, before we get started, Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner, Eddie Caban announced the overall crime statistics for 2023, which showed that crime was down as compared to 2022. And we know that statistics are not the only way to measure public safety in New York City. It is just one of our metrics. And I've often said this for years, the time that I was in law enforcement, that statistics don't mean much if you were a victim of a crime. So we are going to continue to push this year to have less victims, minimize them as much as we possibly can. The goal is to have zero victims. Some people say that that cannot happen. I'm going to say maybe it can, maybe it can't, but it should not stop us from looking to achieve that particular goal. And one of the ways is to make sure we share information. So we all have a responsibility with this. The more information we share, the more we're aware of our surroundings, the more that we become cognizant of what's going on, we increase our chances of continuing to be the safest city in the country. So with that, I'd like to turn it over to our Assistant Commissioner Ortiz to give us a brief overview of what DCWP does. Remember, a lot of people may not know exactly what they do, and I have the benefit. I worked in city government for a very long time. I never knew what they did. And now that I do work with you, I get to understand it in respect for what you and your agency does. So I want to make sure that you explain exactly what you do. But let's really get into the scams and exactly what we want our audience to be able to do. So, Commissioner. Great, thank you. And thank you, Deputy Mayor, for the invitation to be here this evening and talk about our work. At the Department of Consumer Worker Protection, our mission is to protect and enhance the daily economic lives of New Yorkers. That means that we enforce consumer rights. If you've been deceived or been subject to unfair business practices, you can file a complaint with our agency. We enforce worker rights, like your right to pay safe and sick leave. So you can take a day off to take care of yourself or a loved one and you can't be punished. And in many cases, you should actually be paid. And we offer free professional financial empowerment services to help support your financial health as New Yorkers. Since the start of Mayor Adam's administration, we have helped deliver $315 million into the pockets of New Yorkers through restitution, debt relief and financial empowerment programming. Just today, we announced the major resolution of an investigation into a used car dealership known as 26 Motors that secured more than $1.5 million in consumer restitution. This is the critical work of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Today, I would like to talk to folks more about the scams that the Deputy Mayor pointed out are impacting our fellow New Yorkers in the city. There are all sorts of scams where people try and get your money, your personal information from over the phone. You get a robocall, ask somebody offering free medical devices, free medicine, but there's a catch. You have to press through the telephone pad to provide your address, your credit card information, all kinds of very key stuff that can't be released. The sweepstakes scam. You've learned that you want a big prize, but there's a catch. You have to submit money, send money in before you can access that prize. The grandparents scam. You get a call, middle of the night, a loved one needs help. They need money urgently, but only you can help by sending it in. And the law enforcement scam. A call from an officer. So many claiming to be an officer. So many claiming to be from the local precinct that a loved one needs money, needs bail money, or that you have a warrant out for your arrest and that you need to pay this warrant over the phone. These are some of the examples of the scams that we have encountered. And I think the captain also has one telephone here as well that let me throw it over to him quickly. Absolutely. Hi, Deputy Mayor. Thank you for having me here today. I work for the Crime Prevention Division and in the Crime Prevention Division, we are implementing a three prong approach to these scams. The first one is community engagement. The second one is educating the public. And then the third is effective law enforcement. So I'm pretty sure everyone at a certain point has probably received either a text message or an email of someone expressing that you either owe money, but for me to put it a little bit better, I would like to give a quick example of one of the videos that we have of what a typical person might encounter when they receive that phone call. I've been trying to reach you. This automated message should be considered as a final notice from IRS, Internal Revenue Service. The reason of this call is to inform you that IRS is filing lawsuits against you. To get more information about this case file, please call immediately on<PHONE_NUMBER>. I repeat,<PHONE_NUMBER>, thank you. Now, this right here is just a perfect example of just one of the scams or the phone calls that anyone may receive. Again, these type of scams, like the commissioner said, they prey on older adults. We ask the public to one, verify the phone call. Again, the other thing would be to ensure that the person that you're talking to is the actual person, but I'm gonna give it back to the actual commissioner to give you a few tips on what to do in regards to these scams. Thank you, and I think the number one thing that I like to tell people is that if it sounds too good to be true or too outlandish to be true, it's not true. If it's an urgent request, be very wary of those urgent requests. And anything that's where they're asking you for their personal information, let me tell you, a bank won't call you or text you asking for personal information. Officers won't call you or text you asking for personal information. Oftentimes, scammers can manipulate your call or ID, and it might seem like it's reputable, but it's not. And you should never be giving strangers people you don't know access to your banking information. So when you do get these calls, remember, hang up the phone. And let me add this too, if you do need help, there are trusted professional resources paid for by the Adams administration that are run by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. These include our financial empowerment centers that offer one-on-one financial counseling, but also can advocate for you if you've been a victim of a scam or can't connect you with legal services. Now let's talk about some scams related to taxes because it's really that time of the year. Let's stop there for a minute. Oh, sure. With the IRS scams, so think about this, right? One, the IRS is calling you for money. You know whether you owe the IRS money or not, right? You know that, right? They're mailing you literature, right? So do not, you know, I want to be very strong about that. Do not deal with this over the telephone. If you've gotten literature from them, then make an independent phone call on the literature that you receive, go to a local IRS office. This is something that we can put the bet right away. We have had people who've scammed on this who've paid their taxes and they're getting an urgent letter and because they're preying on the fear. So we need you to relax, calm down and realize the IRS is not calling you up on the phone demanding that you pay money right then and there. If you get this, this will be a scam. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. And I will add as well too that, you know, finances can be very scary in and of itself. And so those moments we really do encourage people to bring any documentation you have. Meet with a financial counselor. They're free and they're professional. So again, I encourage folks to meet with our, to go to our financial empowerment centers. I'm moving on to the taxes piece. My advice to folks is to remember that you have rights when you're filing your taxes. You have rights when you're using a pay tax repair. And the big thing I wanna point out to folks is avoid those tax repairs that are trying to get you into a refund anticipation loan, a refund anticipation check. The way that these work is they essentially are asking you to pay upfront for a refund that's already yours, that's already owed to you. And ultimately, it leads to you losing out on vital money that's important for you and for your family. And so let me just plug one more program that we do run at the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. That is New York City Free Tax Prep. A program where you can get your taxes done for free in New York City. You can avoid fees. You can avoid shady refund anticipation loans. And you can keep the entirety of your hard-earned tax refund. The next item I'd like to discuss are card skimmer device scams. These are devices that are literally installed at point of sale terminals that capture data like your credit, the data from your credit card, your debit card, your EBT card. And with this information, people can create clone cards, fake cards that take real money from your accounts. So what I advise is when you're using your card, take a good hard look at the terminal you're using. Has it been damaged? Has it been altered? Are there scratches? Are things loose? If things look unusual, be very wary about that. And to a point that the deputy mayor mentioned earlier too, make sure you're following your bank account information. Are there withdrawals that don't make sense? These are important things that we can use for ourselves, tools that we can use for ourselves to ensure that we don't become a victim of a scam. And the last thing I'd like to mention right now today is scams related to immigration, related to immigration status. There are businesses out there that can help you organize and translate your documents. But it's important to remember that they're not attorneys and they can't offer you legal advice and they should not be offering you legal advice about your immigration status. We often encounter illegal businesses, sometimes called notarios, that prey on immigrants through false promises and through unsound from frankly dangerous legal advice. For example, there's something that's well known in our community is called the 10 year visa scam where people can tell you, where these people will tell you we can get you documented status. But what they don't tell you is that to do that, they have to end up putting you in deportation proceedings. These things cost people tens of thousands of dollars, put them in very scary legal situations. So be very wary of that. In my experience, I've also seen situations where businesses offer folks IDs for ICE. These are obviously fake cards that they're offering in the public right now. They're not real government cards. And in our case, the Department of Consumer Worker Protection, we have brought real cases against businesses that have tried to defraud immigrants in these ways. So my tips on these situations, especially when it comes to immigration related work, be very wary of places where you don't have a physical brick and mortar location.  Be very wary of that if there's not going to a physical brick and mortar location where there's accountability at the end of the day for the business. Avoid anybody who claims special influence with immigration authorities because they don't have it. And avoid any business that's not going to give you a written contract and that's going to ask you to leave your original documentation with them. And if you do have a complaint related to immigration scams, please bring them to our agency. We're happy to help you. And with that, I thank you for your time and I'll pass it over to the captain. Okay, so let's recap that for a second, all right? And think about it to the public here. This is New York, right?   So you have somebody on the phone calling you, asking you for money. You have an IRS demanding money. You have somebody who says, I can help you with your immigration status. We are too sophisticated. So here's how I would suggest we look at it. If you got scammed once on this, it wouldn't happen again. This is the one time you're being scammed with this education now. Let this be the education, but do not, and I have to repeat, do not let it stay with yourself. You have to call your parents tonight, your children today, your cousin, one person, family and friend, and pass this information on. Because New York is just too sophisticated to allow these scams. They're supposed to hopefully go out of business, but certainly if not, leave New York City and the New York State. So education is the key here, because it's very difficult to apprehend these individuals. We do need a big effort and we do have some success, but ultimately the biggest success in doing this is this. If somebody's calling you over the phone for money, the answer is gonna be no, do not do it. If you're going into the bank, it takes a second. Check, just check and look at it. You'll look to see whether you give it a good look and a good shake before you put your card on there. You'll know enough about it to be able to determine if something doesn't look right. And here's the rule. If it doesn't look right, if it doesn't sound right, if it doesn't smell right, none of the 10 times, it's not right. So we just need to be able to make sure. So we are now going through. Captain? Yes, sir. So our next type of scams that we typically see now that's been flooring up a little bit are jewelry scams. Now, when it comes to jewelry scams, again, you have to remember, a lot of these are geared to older adults. And typically the scam works like this. They preferably look for someone that's waiting at a bus stop and there's a vehicle that actually approaches. As soon as they approach the victim in that vehicle, the vehicle might be a little bit deceptive because they might even have kids in the back, which we've seen, typically in Manhattan a little bit, but not the other boroughs. At that point, the actual perpetrator will tell that older adult, that chain that you're wearing reminds me of a loved one that passed away, right away triggering an emotion for that victim. And then the subject will then show them another jewelry and state, this is what my mother gave me, is there any way we could, you know, at that point they'll try to give up my hug. And during that hug and during that exchange is when the actual swap happens. Again, these are professionals, they do this for a living, 99.9% of the time, the victim does not even realize there's a swap that actually took place until later on. With these type of scams, three simple steps that we advise. Step number one, keep your jewelry hidden, shouldn't be exposed. Tip number two, since we've been seeing this through some crime data, do not approach any vehicle at any point, even if there's kids in the back and it might look like they might need any help. And tip number three, never allow the subjects to see your jewelry. With that being said, I would like to go to a typical video that the NYPD was encountering with these scams. And now we have exclusive video of the scammers in action. So you don't think it could happen to you? Well, neither did a Queens couple who shared their story with our own Mark Santilla. This is exclusive video obtained by News 4 and narrated by Sonny's wife, Emma.  And she said, oh, you remind me of my dad. He just passed away last week. In an emotional moment, the stranger gave Sonny this locket and an exchange asked for a hug in that quick embrace, a crime. At that moment, without him realizing anything at all, she took his chain and put another heavy chain. A switch, a scam. Sonny did not realize what happened until the thieves were long gone. It's called the jewelry swap scam. And Sonny is not alone. Now, this is the scam that we've been seeing. Again, this is broad daylight. The approach to victim. It's not even at night. So the actual victim feels in a sense that they're safe. Let's go into the next slide, which is our new scam that we're seeing. And this one really hits home because it involves teenagers. And this is the, we call it the Venmo Zell donation scam. And what we've been seeing here is a group of teenagers ranging from 13 to 20 years old that approach the actual victim and state, can you please make a donation to our basketball team? At that point, the goal of the actual criminals is to ensure that at some point they can get a hold of that phone. So as that victim is trying to donate $5 to their local basketball team, the perpetrators wind up taking the victim's phone and adding a few more zeros. We've seen a couple of cases where some of these finances have been 2,500. Some of them have been $5,000. And again, just a simple, few simple tips with this. Do not give your phone to anyone. And I'm pretty sure sometimes we even, as New Yorkers get approached by people on the streets saying, hey, listen, I forgot my cell phone. Is there any way, or my battery just died? Can I use your cell phone or call a loved one? Cause I need someone to pick me up and I have no money to pick me up. At that point, they have full access to your phone. When they have full access to your phone, that's when they try to go into your phone. So we recommend tip number one, add a two prong security measure on your actual phone. And what that is either using a PIN code or possibly with new technology now, facial recognition. The other thing is reporting the issue. What we've seen with our older adults, sometimes they feel embarrassed that this actual crime has happened. They feel very vulnerable and cannot believe that something like this could even happen. And sometimes these crimes go unreported. Now, when they go unreported, it just makes our investigations a lot more difficult. Again, prong number one, community engagement. Prong number two, educating the public. And then prong number three, effective law enforcement. And what I mean by effective law enforcement is reporting the issue in a timely manner. That allows the detectives to go back out there to get video. And you know what? That allows the next person not to be victimized. The second slide that I'd like to go to and talk about the gift card scams that we've been seeing. The gift card scams have a few variations to these scams. But typically what the perpetrators like to do with this scam is they like to go to establishments that have gift cards out in the open that are open to the public. And what these perpetrators do is they'll print their own security bar on it and they'll place their own sticker in the back of the actual gift card. So now when that victim takes that card off the rack and goes to the cashier to actually put money in that, when the cashier uses the scan gun, it actually transfers that money to the perpetrator's account. Now what we advise most of our people to do is one, if you're buying a gift card, we preferably advise you to purchase a gift card that is not available to anyone just walking into the store. That is behind the counter. And then two, check the back, see if it's a sticker, see if you could scratch it off. The actual numbers in the back have two different types of barcodes. The barcode on the actual card should match the barcode on the actual barcode itself. Now, with that being said, we've been conducting quite trainings with a lot of our retail stores and our major retail store thefts and educating the staff members towards identifying some key indicators on fraud. So a lot of the major retail stores know that if anyone is trying to step out of the office or step out of the establishment and purchasing a lot of gift cards, that should be an indicator for them to say, wait a minute, what are you trying to do? If anyone requests you to pay with a gift card, it's a scam in that total. So hold on, let me actually, hold on. These scammers are getting really sophisticated, huh? They're going into places where you can buy a gift card off the rack and they're actually putting their barcode on an existing card. You take it up, you want to reload it and now you're actually reloading. As soon as they scan the actual code, it's scanning to their account. And then you think about that, right? That's a very sophisticated, it's one that I haven't heard of up until very recently. They're getting good at this. So the bad guys and the bad girls here, right? Is that a, my general account is here. Is that a good word I can use? Bad guys and bad girls? I can't use the word that I wanted to use to describe them. So I'm using bad guys and bad girls. They're actually, they are, they're getting good at this. They're training. And for us to be able to combat that training is to pass the information along. So I'm going to keep saying this throughout the duration of this. We have to take this information and we have to pass this information on. Other than that, then we're going to continue to have our families and our friends victimized. So I just, that's a very interesting one. And it seems like, you know, every month there's a new sophisticated scam that comes out and we will never ever be able to completely turn the corner on this unless we keep this information in this intel and pass it out. So we're trying to distribute it. I promise you that from a government perspective, we will continue and we'll try to do a better job in getting that information out to you. And once we pass that ball onto you, you have to take it, process it and continue to pass it on. And I thank you for that. So I would like to go to the next slide and I would like to talk about ATM scams a little bit. And there's different variations to these ATM scams that we've been seeing in the city. Now, one of the type of ATM scams that we've been seeing is the actual subjects or perpetrators are coming in teams of two, possibly three, possibly four. So what they do is they wait for the actual victim to enter the vestibule where the ATM is at a local bank. At that point, when the victim is using the ATM machine, the perpetrators will drop some type of currency on the floor, engage the actual victim and say, excuse me, but I believe you actually dropped some money on the floor. At that point, the other person who's involved with the scam is looking over the shoulder and trying to get that pin code information or even possibly swiping out the actual debit card. So with this type of scam, what we've seen is we've seen people up to four to five people involved in one scam where as the victim is using the actual ATM machine, their perpetrators are online waiting or acting like they're next in line to use the ATM machine. And what they're doing is they're just distracting the actual victims. With that, we have a few tips with that. One, be aware of your surroundings. I mean, before you put your ATM card in and put that pin code in, you should look around to see if anyone's there or anything is suspicious. Touching back with the commissioner with these Skimmer devices and ATMs, we've been seeing. So a lot of our work is correlated and overlaps in some senses. And we've been seeing that some of these ATM scams, they're actually getting very creative now. As far as we've seen certain MCU branches where the actual perpetrators are installing interior scanners where as soon as you put your debit card in, you won't even see it. There's no machine. It's actually reads it internally when you put in the actual card. That's the card into the machine or is that the card into the door to get into the? So they're skimming devices. But the skimming devices that we're seeing, I mean, the old skimming devices that we are familiar with are the ones that are either attached outside, but the new Skimmer devices, they're actually attached inside. They're able to put in some type of mechanism where it's unnoticeable to the eye. And as you're trying to withdraw that money, all your information is being stolen right there. Now, leading into the next slide where our next slide is the flat tire theft. Yeah, we'll wait for that. We'll pass it on to the commission and then we'll touch back on that as well. So we're coming back to the flat tire? Yeah. Okay, so we're gonna talk about the key fob. Okay, this is a really interesting one. So please, this is very interesting. So Inspector, right? You're going to tell us about what these criminals are doing for this key fob or a commotor? Yes, thank you, Deputy Mayor. Thanks for the opportunity to inform the members of the public about this new scam that we've come across or a method of theft where key fobs are being duplicated by savvy car thieves. Car thieves are able to carry sophisticated equipment that allow them, once they break into your vehicle, to program a new key fob to the vehicle. What that does is essentially make your key fob, the one that came with the car, absolutely useless. It will not work on the car. What it does is give the actual keys to your car to the thieves now at this point. And the way that they're doing this is they're tampering with a diagnostic port that all cars have, which is located on the interior of the car, just underneath the steering wheel towards the left usually. And they'll carry blank key fobs with them. They use a sophisticated scan tool and they program keys once they have access. So it behooves members of the public to make sure that they are locking their vehicles so that the thieves that actually just pull on car doors to see if they have easy access, that they don't gain access to perform this act. The car thieves would generally have to use some sort of force to get in. They'll either break a door lock or break a window to get in. And that's how they're gaining access. In the past, we've seen many cars being stolen by our neighbors leaving keys in the vehicle and key fobs. And I'm happy to report that last year we saw a 40% decrease in that type of theft. So we're not leaving our keys in the car. So the car thieves rather are getting more creative and this is the newest way that they're getting access to the vehicles. So we think about this, right? So when the inspector says that there's a 40% decrease and people leaving their keys in a car, it's good, but we're not at all there. Until we get to it, there's 0%. And I know that it's just convenience and comfortability. You don't have to stick the key in anymore. We put it on our dashboard, we put it on our cup holder. End of the day, we get out, we forget. We're saying, don't forget. And how do you not forget? I don't know. Don't forget. We represent, as I'm gonna say, don't forget, don't forget, don't forget. So we're down 40%. We wanna be down 100%. We wanna be down 1,000%. But even when we moved our porn, the bad guys and the bad girls, the criminals, they're now caught up with something else. And now they're coming up with these devices that if they break into your car, they can actually. So this is going to be a continuously effort. We have to stay ahead of it. And once we figure out a way to combat that, they're gonna come back with something else. And then that's fine. We're gonna always have to stay above the belcher. Is there any particular car that they're targeting or is it just a wide variety of cars? It initially started with most Honda vehicles, but it's now expanding out to many of the newer model vehicles. So it's not one particular vehicle now that they're targeting. There are a couple of tips that I can give you to prevent this from happening. Like I said, make sure you secure your vehicle. They also, if you look online, you can find a, it's called an onboard diagnostic port lock which you can place over this electronic connection and keep the thieves from accessing it. And also we've been recommending steering wheel locks on most cars to prevent the thieves from actually trying to break into your car. It makes it more difficult for them to steal and they move on to the next car. And that's what we, you know, years ago when we were like young officers in the police department, there was a lot of steering wheel locks. And then they seem to have gone away because it became a little more difficult to steal vehicles. But the criminals didn't go away, right? They just regrouped there, right? So this OBD port lock mechanisms, we're suggesting that you look into this, look and see whether you can purchase one to be able to protect yourself. We don't want you to leave the key far in the car. We know you don't do it intentionally, but we need you to be more cognizant of it. We need you to pass this information. And I know I have done that oftentimes, just forget to lock the door. So we need to make sure that we lock the door as well. So we can put up a bigger embedded shield to this that we have been doing and we can do it together, all right? So that information, please take the heat and once again, pass it on. Kath, are we going back to you or are we going to, Sergeant? Are we going to? To add to the inspector's key fob, just so you know, the community affairs bureau is actually also giving out free steering wheel locks throughout the city. Any car that fits certain criteria is based on our crime data. So we review our crime data. I think everyone knows our Honda and Kia initiatives that have been going on citywide. We've been giving out Apple Air Tags and steering wheel locks. So how does someone who's listening now and believe that they're in need of the steering wheel lock or this key file? How should they go about? So we've taken the show to the road. We actually conduct bi-weekly per borough depending on our crime data. We have a recent one that was just yesterday in the confines of the 101 and the 100 precinct, but for anyone that is looking for more information on key fobs, steering wheel locks, and even scam material, our NYPD crime prevention site offers the public freed downloadable material that anyone could use to educate their loved ones. And that site is what? NYPD ad crime prevention. NYPD ad crime prevention. Okay, so now we are going to be talking about deed for it. So Sergeant, and you think about this, like somebody's stealing the deed to your home. I don't know how much worse you can get than this from a this scam perspective. So Sergeant, let us know what we're dealing with and then certainly let the audience know exactly what they could do to put themselves in a better position to minimize this. Of course, thank you, Deputy Mayor Banks, for having us. My name is Detective Sergeant Robles and I work with our Bureau of Criminal Investigations that handles investigations in Deed Fraud since 2014 for the New York City Sheriff's Office. What is Deed Fraud? We asked that, right? And how does it occur? Deed Fraud occurs when someone takes the title to another person's home without the owner's knowledge or approval. Two of the most common ways this occurs is forgery, where the scammer fakes the signature of the deed, or fraud, where the homeowner signs the deed over to the scammer without realizing it. An increasing concern is the error at law scheme or partition of heirs, where investors acquire a fractional interest in the property then force a sale or buy out the other living heirs. The Sheriff's Office began investigating Deed Fraud in 2014 with referrals from the city register's office. Since we've been involved, we've now expanded efforts for more coordinated approach and we now work with the Attorney General's Office, all of the district attorneys to combat the deed for our trends, such as the heirs of law, identity theft, foreclosure and foreclosure schemes. In 2019, the Attorney General's Office solidified a deed for our task force to address these complaints in collaboration with our agency and the district attorney's office. Who is at risk? Risk factors include properties that are not covered in a will, have not been probated, rightful owner is deceased, property and financial crisis and the elderly. To minimize some of the risks for Deed Fraud, we encourage the public to sign up for notifications through the ACRES website, which notifies the deed holder of the property, of any new documents filed on their property. Third parties to receive ACRES notifications as well. Make sure that your property is covered in a will and that your property is kept in good financial standing. In 2014, there were over 450 Deed Fraud complaints city-wide and since then, we've implemented safeguards. Because of these safeguards, in 2023, the complaints have now gone down to 51 Deed Fraud complaints city-wide. In November of 2023, Governor Hockle signed a new law that will give government agencies more tools to combat Deed Fraud and to help reinstate the properties to their rightful owners. Deed Fraud is something all homeowners should be aware of and we will continue to educate the New Yorkers so they can protect themselves of this type of fraud. Thank you. So you said, so the areas that they target, that the house is not in a will, right? You said probate or no probate? It have not been probated. It have not been probated, financial difficulty, the owner's deceased, I think you also said? Yes. Okay, so those are the common areas that has taken place? Correct. What is the corrective method? Like right now, and I just want everybody to think about, just for the audience now, your parents or your aunt and your uncle or older cousin who's living in a home and may have owned that home for 30, 40, 50, 60 years, they may be up there in the age in there, the 80s, et cetera, et cetera. Those are the people that they're targeting. We need to get this information to them. So we're suggesting that that if your house is left in a will, you minimize the chance of it happening. Is that correct? Correct. If you can stay out of financial difficulty, you minimize the chance of it happening. Correct. We like to be able to say if the owner's wasn't deceased, but we can't do a lot about that. And you also mentioned probate, right? The house is not in probate. Not in probate. Not in probate, okay. So we went down from, what was the number that we started in 2014 to 51 complaints? 450 in 2014. To 51 now. Yes. So this is just an example, a prime example of how some real good projects was made. We need to get this, like I love to be, well, at some point during this January of next year, it is zero complaints. Like this is something that we can like almost completely eradicate this particular process here. And part of it is us getting that information out. And once we get funded to you, you need to take the ball and you need to run with it. So if you even suspect that it's happening, please call it in because we want to make sure we get an accurate count. And then we want to make sure we aggressively, we will aggressively go after the criminals who are looking to prey on our less fortunate, but you have to help us get to share this particular information out. You think about it, you've owned that home for 30, 40, 50 years. Oftentimes it's paid off or close being paid off and somebody comes in because they want to be a thief and forgery and they just steal the house from the family. That's something that we cannot tolerate. So while we're happy, the number went from 450 to 51, we'd be ecstatic when we get that number down to zero. And this is something that we absolutely can't get down to zero if we work together on that one here. So, okay. Thank you for having me, I'm Yatrin for the Epoch Times, Chinese language education. So speaking of public safety, it's on topic. Just, okay. Yeah, so it's public safety. So how do you think about retail theft number of 2023? Because it is still more than 100,000 cases according to NYPD's report. How do I feel about retail theft? Yes. I'm not sure I understand your question. So just repeat it so I can try to understand. So according to NYPD's report, particularly the curses is more than 100,000. And you are leading a retail theft tax force. So how do you think about the number and do you have any new strategy to address retail theft? So the first thing is that I feel about it, I feel bad, but I'll feel bad if there was one, right? So I've been in this business for a very long time. I don't rely on statistics to just read the perception. I want the particular numbers to go down and I want to make sure it's going down. So we have a retail theft task force. We've made a lot of progress in this. We have the owners that's talking. We have a portal that's coming together. Some of the numbers could be because we're just doing better report taking at it. So I don't use the numbers as I said earlier when we first started as the sole indicator of whether or not we're moving in that particular progress. But I actually think that we're making a lot of progress in there. Actually the person who's spearheaded from our office is actually sitting right behind you. We have store owners talking about this. There's a lot of communications about that. Hopefully that I think the governor addressed this in her state of the state. I think you'll be here coming back from the city. So until we get down to zero, right? I'm going to feel the same way. Bad. But I also feel confident that we as a city are going to make a lot of improvements in this particular area. Thank you. So regarding immigrant related scams, what's the trend since 2020 to summer until now? What's the trend of immigrant related scam? Well, I think a priority for us is making sure that people know that they can come to our agency when they do have complaints. And I think, especially when we're considering the many new New Yorkers in our city, not really recognizing the different levels of government that can help them. So for us, our number one priority is make sure that people know they can come to us. They can, of course they can call 301, but they can also call us directly at<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also email us at communityaffairs at dcbp.myc.gov. We really want to work with our newest New Yorkers to ensure that if they are victims of scams, that they have already resourced the system.


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Today, I make up for a massive mistake that I made by opening Legendary Collection Kaiba. What's up guys? We're back with another video and if you guys remember recently, we opened every Legendary Collection Game Board ever made. Or so I thought when I made the video. I somehow forgot a very crucial Legendary Collection, which you may have just seen in the intro, the Legendary Collection Kaiba. Somehow, I completely forgot this existed. I opened every other Legendary Collection. I said it was all the Legendary Collections. I didn't realize it until I think I had edited the video or something. I was like, oh wait, what about Kaiba? Actually, I think it was when I posted and you guys started calming. Then I realized, oh yeah, I didn't remember to do Kaiba. So today we make up for that. We're opening Legendary Collection Kaiba, but this isn't it. This is the first edition, by the way. We're doing this and we're doing a little versus battle because we have a Legendary Collection Game Board as well. We will be doing Kaiba versus Legendary Collection 1 Game Board. This should be pretty fun and hopefully a little redemption for the time when we opened all of them except Kaiba. So the guy I got these from actually sent a giveaway, which is a bunch of stuff. So first of all, we have a deck box. Then we have a sealed Stardust from Shadow Specters, I believe. And a ton of newer Ultras that a lot of these are actually worth a few dollars. So like, that's like $50. So yeah, we're talking a big giveaway today. We got Dynomorphia stuff.  He said these will be for the giveaway, I think. So I decided to do a massive giveaway rather than split these all up. You guys can win probably around $100 in cards plus a deck box. So make sure to just like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, let me know. Do you forgive me for forgetting about Legendary Collection Kaiba? Do we need to redo that video at some point? Do we need to open all of them and actually include Kaiba? Let me know in the comments. I feel like that would be a fun video either way, even if you don't want to see it. Alright, the time has come. Let's start with Legendary Collection Game Board because Kaiba's got to be the second one. And I think Kaiba is probably the better in terms of value. So we're doing a little battle here. We're going to see which one can pull more value. With these Legendary Collection Ones, it's pretty tough because you actually have to pull a really good card in like the hollow slot. Kaiba has like 10 hollows per pack. There's only three packs, but it has 10 of them. So it's a lot easier to actually get something good. So let's see if Legendary Collection Game Board can give us a nice start and potentially a decent lead going into the Kaiba. We have six packs here, I believe? No, five. What am I thinking? No, it is six. Normally it's five and the other ones it's six in this one. So we have a $10 value with the Obelisk, the Tormenter. Very cool. And then we have our six packs that are normally from Legendary Collection One. We will start off with Dark Crysis as always because it's not a crazy amount of value in terms of the foils, but there is some pretty big value when it comes to the rares and the commons, potentially with the skill drain, the final countdown, stuff like that. So let's see if... Oh, Tsukiyomi, that's another nice rare. Chinato's Ark, let's go. We get the Archfiend's Oath. Shooting Star Bow Seal, I know you guys know. I have the Prismatic and Dual Inks. Really, Eternal Rest. So Eternal Rest, but really. Arsenal Robber. Blindly Loyal Goblin, he's loyal blindly. Very nice. Sasuke Samurai Numero Dose, very cool. Ooh, the Infernal Queen Archfiend, not one of the rares we're looking for, but still a cool card. And finally we have... Ooh, a Falling Down. Alright, Falling Down kind of looks like a foil for a second. This is actually a pretty decent card. I think it's a snatch steal for Archfiend. Yeah, so you take control of one opponent's monster that is equipped with this card if you have an Archfiend on the field, which is pretty insane. Alright, not great. Start there. Let's see if we can pull something better out of here. I think by the time you guys see this, probably the weekend of Pasadena, so I will be recording... I'm planning on recording with a few different people, so next week you're probably going to be seeing some content from Pasadena. Of course, our vlog we're going to have... Delinquent Duo. That's actually a really good one. Alright, Delinquent Duo, one of the Trinity from Goat Format, and one of the Trinity is...   Wait, is this one of the... Yeah, it is one of the Trinity, because it's Grateful Charity, of course. All for the play against. Pot of Greed, all for the play against. And then this. Delinquent Duo. I always forget if Confiscation is legal. It's not legal in Goat, but this card is the worst, because you start off with your opening hand, they play this, you lose two cards immediately, you never get to play them. Kind of sucks, but it's an amazing card. Like, really, really good. I just messed up the pack trick, so, you know, let's just appreciate these cards. I don't know what I did, but somehow I messed up the pack trick. We're going to have to be more careful next time, because... Yeah, Cyber Jar. Cool. Wait. I really messed that up somehow. Cyber Jar, a nice rare. We'll take that. It's unbanned, so I wonder if Cyber Jar was a dollar now. Probably is. Alright, huge mistake on the pack trick. Got to be careful with the pack trick when you do it, but I do enjoy doing it. I know some of you guys are like, why do you do the pack trick? I like putting the best card in the back. I think it's really fun. So I think what I'm going to do to be safe this time is I'm just going to do three. I like putting in the back, because, one, we can see all the cards. Especially in these old ones, we have a lot of funny ones. You know, we get to see our clats like Missouri, Zame, Yame. You know, you want to embrace those kind of things as you can, and then get to the exciting card, or potentially expensive card at the end. Driving Snow, we got the Bombardment Beetle. That's why I do it. Hershaker had somebody ask in my community post when I was asking about Ruxen Live stuff. So Ruxen Live, my other channel, if you haven't, go check it out. I'm going to do more discussions over there, because mostly I do openings over here, and then we have the, of course, Guess Your Price series. But besides that, it's mostly openings, PSA grading, stuff like that. But with discussions, I kind of want to put some on live, and I was asking for ideas from you guys. So you can go give me an idea there as well if you want drill bug. Monster Recovery. Let's see if this will be a foil. No, so we still don't know where the foils are. They're either before or after. Usually it's after, but I don't know.  It grew by assimilating the souls of its enemies. Assimilating the souls. That's pretty cool. Okay, Invasion of Chaos time. So far we have pulled one. I mean, to link with duo is actually not bad. So paired with the promo pack, then Cyber Jar potentially being worth something. Could be a decent showing for Legendary Collection 1, because you can go like over on this sometimes. Stumbling, very nice. Isn't that an Archfiend card as well? No, it's not. It's just, it just changed them to defense. Interesting. Stealth Bird. Very annoying burn card, but it's a card. Ryukoki won for the classic zombie deck. So I want to make an Edison zombie deck as well. It needs hand mirror. DNA Transplant. We got a Chaos Greed. Torpedo Fish. Dark Dry Saratops. Is it the same stats as Ryukoki? Wait, what are Ryukoki's defense? No, this is worse than Ryukoki. Ryukoki is a common. That's very funny. And then, Blasting the Ruins. All right. So we are now, what, one for four? Actually not that bad for old school packs. So we'll take it. I always like to do Metal Raiders last, but well, and L.O.B. But why did these feel like, I don't know, these feel different for some reason. Are these 2013 packs? I don't know. There's a 2013 and a 2017 Legendary Collection Game Board. 2013 obviously came out first. And then they've printed it again in 2017. Then 2010 had the whole Bider Edition thing. Kagamusha. Let's go. We got a hard armor. Kimipu with the blue eyes. Armail. Very cool. Drooling Lazard. A blood-sucking snake in human form that attacks any living being that passes nearby. Drooling Lizard. They say a blood-sucking snake, but he's a lizard. He has arms. How is he a snake? I feel like that's a translation error, like from Lizard and Snake. That doesn't make any sense. That's really weird. All right, King Fogg. We have an electro whip. And we have, I don't know, this could be it, because I don't know what the foil is. Frenzy Panda Reaper of the Cards is the one we got in every pack opening. And we have... Petite Angel. All right, there we go for the Teya fans. And finally, in Legendary Collection 1, we have Metal Raiders. Final pack of Legendary Collection 1 before we hop over and do, of course, Legendary Collection Kaiba, which is going to be insane. We have Ring of Magnetism. Ground Attacker Bug Wrath. Very nice. A Surface Battle... Surface? A Surface Battle Robot that was once used for Sea Warfare. Surface Battle Robot that is once used for Sea Warfare. Interesting. So like Surface of the Ocean. Jewelry Gumo. Nice card. Guilty of the D9. Can we get something big out of here? Pecaneal Moth. Steel Scorpion. Like also, like Patrick. Gotta find the Pecaneal Moth. Tainted Wisdom. And... Oh! And that's why you do it. The Pecaneal Moth. A small but deadly creature. This small but deadly creature, not a small but, this small but deadly creature is better off avoided. Very nice. I need to memorize this text. Very good. Bladefly. And is there a foil back here? Reukishan Powered. All right. So no, there is not. Delinquent Duo. The only foil we messed up the pack trick. Awesome. All right. Legendary Collection... What number is this? Four? Five? No, Joey's four. Is this have a number? Or is this... I don't think this has a number. I think they quit using numbers. That's why I forgot. I was thinking Joey was the last one. This is number four. This was just Legendary Collection Kyba Collection. So it's a little different. But this has three packs inside. This is a very solid Legendary Collection. A lot of nice reprints. I think this promo pack is probably not worth as much as the other one. Let's just put five bucks for that one. Then we have our three packs, of course. All right. Let's do this. Three packs. Mega Pack. Legendary Collection Kyba. I think there's four secrets out of the ten cards. And then like two, I think, are at the front. Two at the back. So we're going to do this. Yeah, perfect. Okay. Parrot Dragon. Very nice. We got the Parrot. We got a Kyba, man. Very nice. Virus Cannon. The Just Desserts. Another burn card. This goes with our stealth bird. Okay. Heavy Mech Support Armor. Ring of Destruction. Destruction Dragon. Lots of destruction in here. Okay. What does this guy do again? Just to sum up the Fang of Critias. Oh, interesting. Is this in season four? Like when they're like tagged or what is it called? Not tag dueling. Duo dueling. I don't know. Him and Yugi together are dueling against whatever that dude's name is. Cost down. Very cool. That's definitely a Kyba card. Fiend Sanctuary. This is in Legendary Collection Kyba. It's a super rare and a secret rare version. Then we have... There's a Ash Blossom here. So it could be cool. Silver's Cry. Okay. This is pretty nice. Woo. Look at that. This guy's beautiful. Bring back the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Probably worth a couple bucks on that one. Adding to our tally. So I feel like Legendary Collection one still ahead after one pack. Two packs to go. Pack Numero Dose for Kyba. First edition pack. There's some pretty good stuff. Can we get the Ash Blossom? That'd be pretty cool. We have... Wait. Oh, wait. I did that wrong. I put all the secrets to the front. We're going to go like this. There we go. Paradragon again. What in the world? Okay. Kyba Man again. Is this the same pack? That would be weird. Oh. The destruction. It's literally the same cards. Tyrant Burst Dragon. Do we have that last time? That might be different. This might be our first secret. Next one. Okay. Protector with the Eyes of Blue. Very nice. Ooh. White Stone of Ancients. There's a good one. This is a really nice secret rare print of this card. That's probably four, five bucks. For some reason, all the Blue Eyes stuff that like, if it was any other archetype, it would be like a dollar or like 50 cents. It's like five dollars. So the White Stone of Ancients is one of those. Dragon Shrine. Also another decent card. It's a dump A, what is it? Normal Monster or one Dragon Monster. Very nice. So that works out for the Blue Eyes. Ancient Rules. Another great card for Blue Eyes. I mean, they're just all perfect for the Blue Eyes deck. A normal summon. Or special summon your Blue Eyes from your hand. And White Stone of Legend. Those were all great Blue Eyes cards. So the White Stone of Legend, all of those, that was probably like a $20 pack from those. So honestly, could have taken it later right there. I don't know how much Delinquent Duo goes for. You always have a playable Blue Eyes core at this point. You know, it's like how I get like a couple White Stone of Legends or whatever instead of having just one. You basically have everything you need. Alright, Soul Exchange. Very nice. Doom Virus Dragon. VORCE RAIDER IN ATTACK MODE. Fusion Sage. Very cool. You can search out Polymerization. Pretty nice. The Justice Arts. We will be burning after this opening. Lots of burn cards. Very nice. We've got Heavy Mech Support Armor. Another cool card for the XCs and like Union stuff. We have... Ooh, Dragon Spirit of White. Such a beautiful print out of here. The Secret Ray looks so good compared to the original which is like, I think an Ultra maybe? The Secret Ray just looks way better. And like, it hits really nice in the light on these. So, the Legendary Collections always just have really, really nice printing. Very good card. Return of the Dragon Lord. It's another one. Last time I pulled this, I thought it was like 10. It used to be 10. Now I think it's around 5. But still, pretty nice. We were pulling a lot of like 5. There's a ton of like $5 cards in this set. Which is really cool. We have two more cards. Azure Eye Silver. We're literally pulling all the good Blue Eyes cards. This is insane. This is a nice extra deck card. Really good in Duelings for a while in the Blue Eyes deck. And then the final card of the opening. I think we probably won at this point for Kaiba. And Majesty with Eyes of Blue. Just a beautiful looking artwork of a Blue Eyes. Roaring, I guess? I guess he's roaring. Ah, you know. Okay, I didn't need to do that. But, okay. Alright, that was a pretty sick opening. I always love opening Legendary Collections, especially Kaiba.  And they all look really good. And you get like four secrets a pack, which is really cool. If you enjoyed it, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this. 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Fox Chico my statistics are from Euro stats. Oh God the official body raising trade related data Within the EU total export from EU to Switzerland was 158 billion export to Africa total was 155 billion in clinical. Okay. Here's the thing. Here's the thing ready Fox There's a lot of stats that the Western world brings out One of the stats that I looked at before It's insane, right? They say oh in what was it? I can't remember where it was somewhere sub-Saharan Africa in a certain African part people live on their income is less than a Dollar a week or something Dollar a week something like this, right? While in Canada their income is this much All right or dollar a day they make less than a dollar a day In Africa this part of Africa there people make less than a dollar a day, right? Meanwhile in Canada people make I don't know hundred dollars a day two hundred dollars a day So you would think that the standard of living and happiness factor in Canada would be a hundred times more than what it is wherever they were measuring it less than a dollar a day But that's their statistic Right, they're doing their measurements based on US dollars, right? if you live in a village of Let's say farmers you have water source. You have your family. You have your food.  Have you ever watched the movie gang watch this movie? It's called the gods must be crazy It's an Australian Australian movie or New Zealand. I think it's an Australian Australian movie The gods must be crazy. I've seen it multiple times, right? And it's about the indigenous people in Australia Where a bottle of Coca-Cola of all things love that movie Falls from a plane into the desert and the indigenous population pick it up and they go, whoa, what is this is a piece of Glass and everyone's using it now that community there Thank you very much for the follow mega mega Trump save Save America 2024 right up. I got Trump. What do you call the rookie cards? Look it up It falls down and That village didn't use any dollars like that. If you if you went to that village and Gave them a thousand dollar bill.  It's insane. It's insane


I'm Darren Marlar and this is a Weird Darkness Bonus Bite. From Audity Central, doctor who studied 5,000 near-death experience cases claims there is life after death. A Kentucky oncologist who studied nearly 5,000 near-death experience cases over the last 37 years claims that he has come to believe that there is certainly an afterlife. Jeffrey Long was an oncology resident when he first came across an article describing a near-death experience. He was studying how to best treat cancer using radiation at a library when he came across this fascinating case that ended up changing his life. Up to that point, he'd been taught that people were either alive or dead. But here was this cardiologist describing the incredible experience of a patient who had died and then came back to life. Long was eager to learn more about near-death experiences or NDE's and he became so obsessed with them that after his residency he founded the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation and he has since collected and studied thousands of NDE's. His conclusion, there is definitely life after death. I'm a medical doctor, he said. I've read brain research and considered every possible explanation for NDE's. The bottom line is that none of them hold water. There isn't even a remotely plausible physical explanation for this phenomenon. These experiences may sound cliche, he continues. The bright light, the tunnel, the loved ones, but over 25 years of studying NDE's I've come to believe that these descriptions have become cultural tropes because they're true, the oncologist said. I even worked with a group of children under five who had NDE's. They reported the same experiences that adults did and at that age you're unlikely to have heard about bright lights or tunnels after you die. Although every one of the over 4,800 near-death experiences he has studied over the last three and a half decades is different, many of them share certain patterns. For example, about 45% of people who have a near-death experience also have an out-of-body experience which can be described as their consciousness separating from their physical body, usually hovering above. Apparently during one such experience one woman lost consciousness while riding her horse and while her body remained on the trail, her consciousness traveled with her horse back to the farm they had left. She was later able to accurately describe what had transpired at the farm, even though her body had not been there and those present confirmed her account. In the face of overwhelming evidence I've come to believe there is certainly an afterlife, Jeffrey Long said, adding that his work with NDE's has made him a more compassionate and loving doctor. Find the link to the original story in the show notes and find more Weird News in the Weird News & Blog at WeirdDarkness.com


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