FBI, 유튜버 마퀴스 브라운리 스튜디오 방문

### 에스코바 전화 사기 사건으로 FBI가 마키스 브라운리의 스튜디오를 방문했을 때
* 📱 2020년 6월, 에스코바 전화 사기를 폭로한 동영상에 대해 문의하기 위해 **FBI와 국세청 요원 세 명**이 마키스 브라운리의 스튜디오를 방문했습니다.
* 🕵 요원들은 마키스의 동영상에 나온 **에스코바 폴드와 긁힌 금색 아이폰**을 사건의 증거물로 가져가 "증거물"이라고 적힌 비닐봉지에 밀봉했습니다.
* 🔇 떠날 때 요원들은 마키스에게 **방문에 대해 공개적으로 이야기하지 말 것**을 요청했고, 언제 이야기를 나눌 수 있을지 구체적인 일정은 알려주지 않았습니다.
* ⏳ 마르케스는 **페이팔과 클라나가 사기 회사와의 협력을 중단**하고 스페인에서 **올라프 구스타프손이 사기 및 자금 세탁 혐의로 체포**되는 등 상황이 정리되기를 기다렸습니다.
* 🏢 결국 FBI 요원들은 **마키스가 이제 이야기를 공유할 수 있음을 확인**했고, 수집한 증거의 증거로 서류를 제공했습니다.
* 💼 마퀴스는 이러한 유형의 기술 사기는 드물지만 발생하면 매우 흥미롭기 때문에 **앞으로 더 많은 탐사 콘텐츠**를 제작하고 싶다는 의사를 밝혔습니다.
* 🎥 전체 사건은 촬영되지 않았지만, 마퀴스는 이 이야기를 동영상으로 공유하며 **FBI 방문 중에 일어난 사건**을 자세히 설명했습니다.
* 🎙 Marques는 스튜디오의 비하인드 스토리를 더 많이 공유할 수 있는 **Waveform 팟캐스트 보너스 에피소드**에 대해서도 언급했습니다.

FBI는 에스코바의 휴대폰 동영상과 관련하여 마키스의 스튜디오를 방문하여 증거를 수집하고 이후 이야기를 공유할 수 있도록 허가했습니다.

(upbeat music) - So I've made a few references
over the past couple years to that time that the
FBI visited the studio, and I was asked not to talk about that for what I feel like are
pretty obvious reasons. So for years, I haven't, but it turns out I am now
finally able to tell that story. So here we are. So for those of you who don't
know, we have a studio here, and it's in a larger building with more tenants in it, obviously. It's like an office building. It's not exactly like an office building, but you know, there's a front desk, and security and all that. And I've been in this building long enough that we have a pretty good
relationship with them. So we have this one rule, basically. So there's the guy at
security at the front desk. We'll call him Bob, just for this. But Bob and I have this one rule.

which is that if anyone ever
shows up at the front desk and asks for me, that
he doesn't let them in. I have to come out and meet them to confirm that I was expecting them, and then I bring them back to our studio. So if someone just randomly shows up, which you shouldn't, but if they do, and I don't show up at
the front to meet them, then I wasn't supposed to meet them. But if I have someone
coming and I expect them, I meet 'em outside. That's our one rule, and we stick to it. So in June 2020, it was pretty early in this
new space that we have, and it's also right
around like peak COVID. So I had sent everybody home, and it was just me and
Andrew coming into the studio to work on basically building furniture, and making videos, and recording
the podcast every week. So I got here pretty early on
one of those summer mornings,

and I'm starting to get
all my stuff settled, and then there's a knock on the door. (door knocks). So I open the door, and it's
our front desk guy, Bob. And Bob basically says, Hey,
Marques, there's some people with badges at the front desk to see you. I, of course, didn't let them in, but if you would like
to, they're up there. And then he just walked away. And my first thought is confusion. I'm like, what? What did I do on the way here that someone with badges
would show up asking for me? I'm a little concerned. I'm not sure what to think. So there was a solid
minute where I just like stood there in the doorway,
like, okay, do I go up there, or do I just stay here in the studio without asking who the
people with badges are? Eh. And then I just went up to the front.

I went up. I went up to the front desk, and sure enough, there's three people with badges there, and they walk right up to me, and they all like flash their badges. FBI, just like the movies. Like FBI agent this, IRS agent this. And they're like, Marques, good to see you. We've got some questions for you about the Escobar phone. So immediately I'm relieved, but I'm like, oh, oh, oh, the Escobar phone. Oh. Because see, a few months earlier I had published a video about the Escobar Fold. If you guys haven't seen that video, basically the story goes, there's this company parading around and selling this $400 gold folding phone, which they're gonna use to destroy Apple and Samsung. And they had these insane marketing campaigns and all this. But really what they were doing, as I uncovered in my video, was covering Samsung Galaxy folds.

cheaply with like gold stickers, and then shipping them to YouTubers and people who they believed
would talk about it positively. And then not shipping
any of the other orders from regular people or the audiences that watched those videos. Those people were getting
scammed out of their money. And honestly, in hindsight,
I don't know how they thought they were gonna get away with this. Like it felt pretty obvious to me. But, you know, eventually
their whole plan backfired when I made a video
about the entire thing. So now fast forward a couple months, and it actually makes sense that the FBI and the IRS are interested. I just didn't, I didn't realize they were just gonna show
up one day, but here we are. But, you know, shout out
to Bob at the front desk for sticking to our rule. Even though he probably
had a bunch of people like Flash FBI badges at
him, he stuck to our rule.

and that was great. So I appreciate that. But yeah, so I came out, I
brought them back to our spot, and they basically then
had a bunch of questions about that video and the process of dealing
with that company in any way. Like any and all communications
that I had with them, any email I'd ever sent or
received from them ever, they wanted everything. And actually it was
funny, another tidbit is, Andrew at the time had
just started running the business email account here. And when they were asking like, has anybody else on your
team possibly ever been in email communication with this company? And I was like, I think Andrew might've. And Andrew just had arrived at the studio and walked up to the
front door of our spot. And so I like, I go, Hey, hey, come in. And you know, first thing he sees is like me in an empty studio with
a bunch of people in suits.

like waving him over. So he has a pretty funny
alternate perspective on this story. So the FBI actually took
the half-peeled Escobar Fold and the scratched gold
iPhone from my videos as evidence in the case. They literally asked for
them and took them away. They put 'em in sealed plastic bags that said evidence on them, which is why I said at the
end of the smartphone awards that year. Also honorable mention
to the Escobar Fold 2, which I also don't have on this desk because it is in the
possession of the FBI. Someday I'll be able to tell that story. So as they're leaving, you know, they've asked me all the questions. As the FBI and IRS people are leaving, they're like, Hey, don't talk about this at all publicly, please. And I'm like, Of course, yeah. No, obviously you're the FBI, of course I'm not gonna talk about it.

I don't want to interfere with
the investigation in any way. But also like, when could I talk about it? Like, how long do you think
before I am allowed to? And they said, We'll let you know. So I've been biting my tongue for years, not talking about it,
hinting at it a little bit, but not anything too serious. But since then, a lot of the
dominoes have started to fall. You know, at first when
the scam was happening, PayPal stopped working with them. So they'd switched to
this only non-refundable direct transfer thing with Klarna. And then they stopped
working with them too. And then eventually the whole
operation starts falling down, and the guy at the head of
it named Olaf Gustafsson, this guy finally ends up getting arrested and going to prison in Spain for fraud, and money laundering, and
a bunch of other things, basically for everything
that I talked about.

in those videos. So I've been holding onto
this, not really knowing like, okay, is it cool now that he's
behind bars to talk about it? So we actually reached back
out to those same FBI agents because they left their cards, and they're like, Oh yeah, no, it's cool
now to talk about it. You're totally fine. So there unfortunately is no footage of any of this incident, but there is these papers,
which they provided as proof that they received property to be used as evidence in the case. So one Pablo Escobar
Fold 2 mobile flip phone, AKA Samsung, and one Pablo Escobar
Gold 11 Pro mobile phone, AKA iPhone 11 Pro. But hey, now you basically know the story. Yeah, pretty serious business out here, making videos about phones
sometimes, you know? Apparently also, if this guy
Olaf ever does get charged in the United States, then it's very likely my
videos would show up somewhere.

in those court documents, which is crazy. And also the phones that they
took may show up as evidence. But yeah, I do wanna get back
into a little more of the more investigative deep
dive type of videos. Obviously, the giant scams
don't happen very often, thankfully, in the tech world, but still they are fascinating
stories when they do. And by the way, that's not the
only encounter that we've had with the FBI in running
this YouTube channel, but that's another story for another day. But hey, if you want more
fun stories like this one, let me know with the comments. But also the latest episode, the bonus episode of the Waveform podcast is just stories like this one
(upbeat music) from the past couple years at the studio, whole story time episode. It's fun. So go over there and
subscribe and watch that. But yeah, that's basically it. Thanks for watching.

Catch you guys on the next one. Peace. (upbeat music) It's a story of how I became a villain. For at least 24 hours, I was hated. - A couple weeks, I would say. - Yeah, oh really? A couple weeks. Well, oh, 'cause the video had to come out. Hang on here for a second, I'm gonna go get him. I literally wait there with all my bags and stuff, and like this guy disappears into this booth, comes back out with another guy. He goes, Hi. Oh, good to meet you. And he's filming me now. Okay. - Oh no. - So now he's filming me. A couple weeks later I log into YouTube, and everyone on Twitter's like, Why is Marques such a jerk?

My FBI Declassified Story

Marques Brownlee

이 유튜버는 건물 보안팀과 사전 확인 없이는 아무도 들여보내지 않는다는 엄격한 규칙을 가지고 있었습니다.

코로나19가 한창이던 2020년 6월, 그는 배지를 소지한 사람들의 방문에 깜짝 놀라 혼란과 우려를 느꼈습니다.

이례적인 상황이었지만 그는 프런트 데스크에서 방문객을 맞닥뜨리기로 결심했습니다.

FBI와 국세청 배지를 소지한 세 사람이 화자에게 접근해 에스코바 휴대폰에 대해 질문합니다.

에스코바 휴대폰은 내레이터가 몇 달 전에 공개한 동영상에서 금색 스티커가 부착된 삼성 갤럭시 폴드를 사칭한 사기로 폭로한 바 있습니다.

FBI와 국세청이 갑자기 에스코바 휴대폰에 관심을 보인 것은 내레이터의 동영상과 관련하여 이해가 됩니다.

비즈니스 거래 중 예상치 못한 FBI와의 상호작용

FBI는 한 기업과의 모든 통신을 요청하고 사건 중 증거로 소품을 압수했습니다.

앤드류는 스튜디오에 들어와 이 특이한 장면을 지켜보며 상황을 재미있게 바라보았습니다.

심문이 끝난 후 당국은 비밀을 지켜달라고 요청했고, 기억에 남는 뜻밖의 경험을 하게 되었습니다.

연사는 수년 동안 사기 작전에 대해 언급하지 않고 적절한 시기를 기다렸습니다.

작전의 리더인 올라프 구스타프손이 사기 및 돈세탁 혐의로 체포되면서 마침내 입을 열 수 있는 계기가 마련되었습니다.

FBI 요원들은 이제 관련 재산에 대한 증거를 제공하는 등 이야기를 공유해도 된다는 것을 확인했습니다.

이 유튜버는 법원 문서와 잠재적 증거를 발견한 기이한 경험을 들려줍니다.

FBI와 관련된 여러 가지 이야기를 암시하고 더 많은 수사 동영상을 만들고 싶다는 바람을 표현합니다.

또한 이 유튜버는 더 많은 이야기를 위해 Waveform 팟캐스트를 홍보하고 시청자의 피드백을 요청합니다.