"Where's My Money Motherf#cker?” - TraxNYC Goes NUCLEAR Over NYC Jewelery Scam
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Summary
The most viral video of the last week is about a guy who thought he was selling 14 carats of gold but it was actually 10 carat gold. The cops went after him and he got away with it.
Transcript
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So, gold. Folks, you ever bought gold? You ever been ripped off by somebody telling you it's 14 carat but it's 10 carat?
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You ever bought gold and on it they type in the 14 carat and then somebody else said this is actually not 14 carat gold.
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This is 10 carat gold. Well, in New York, a guy by the name of Trax, he's got a different name, but they call him Trax,
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who is a very, very well-known guy, I think it's on the 57th or whatever that main street is with all the gold diamond district.
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He goes out there and one of the guys that used his name, this is the most viral video of the last week.
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If Nick Shirley was two weeks ago, this was the most viral video last week.
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It got 70 million views, 617,000 shares on Instagram.
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Where's my f***ing money? What are you going to do?
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You say VVS, I3, 14 carat, and you're using my name, you f***er?
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Now, Rob, go to his Instagram account because in another...
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I'm going to wait until you see what happens next, by the way.
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But in another video, this one's tough to watch, so I'm going to tell you in advance
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Go to his Instagram account, Rob, because he explains what happened here.
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This is the whole thing with the issue on this.
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Okay, if you go to the account, go to the third video right there.
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A receipt from this disgusting company that pretends to be me, says they're tracks in
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my seat, sells my customer, a bracelet, rips them off, and rips them off on the gold.
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Well, we're going to test this bracelet right now.
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He said that he ran out one of your rings that you purchased.
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And then he said he ran out, even though he has nothing to fucking do with me, other
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than to steal my fucking customers all day long.
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These rats have done this over and over and over again, and I tolerated it.
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And now they fucked him over on the carrot as well.
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Guys, I'm telling you right now, brace for impact, because this one's tough to watch.
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You have to be ready because, yeah, if you type that the guy's getting arrested, go to the video of them handcuffed.
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Because when you think about, you know, I'm Middle Eastern.
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So, jewelry over the years, you buy stuff in L.A.
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There's that one district in downtown that you go buy all the gold.
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And it's not at a lower level, but they sell it to you.
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And the average person doesn't have the equipment to go take a look at it to see if it's real or not.
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Well, I bought an engagement ring and a wedding band in L.A.
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You had to know somebody or know somebody's father who was legitimate that you would go in and you would take care of it.
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The scamming that goes on in jewelry is horrible.
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If you don't know somebody and you can't validate it, you know, you're probably not getting the fair price and you're probably not getting the fair quality.
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They've gotten to the point where diamonds now have laser serial numbers that are very, very, very, very, very tiny, but they're actually on the stone so that you can get validation now.
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I knew people that got ripped off in L.A. and things like this.
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Remember, on the back of a Rolex, there's no serial number.
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So you have to know somebody that can remove the bezel, can look at the serial number underneath.
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Pat, in three weeks, all of a sudden there's this, it's turning his wrist green.
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It's actually because it's like copper substrate or something.
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And if you're buying VT merch, this is not a commercial, this is a caution.
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We spend hours each week doing audits, and we find our stuff with cheap material, cheap clothing.
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And not only is it our trademarked, you know, logos and slogans and stuff, but then it's really junk stuff.
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And people think it's us, because a lot of times you sell through distribution.
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So just like jewelry, you better know somebody.
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And if you want the future to look bright for your dollars, for the hats and stuff that you bought, that you're supporting,
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faith over fear and all the stuff that we do, only go to our website.
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I was actually with Trax recently, and I was with Moshe Haimov, who's the watch king of New York.
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He's there on the left with my friend Rabbi Benny.
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If you've ever seen the movie Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler, right there, if you show that picture right there,
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All your competitors are in the same freaking place.
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By the way, I think 90% of the diamonds in the entire United States that are sold come from this one block in New York.
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So talk about money on money on gold on diamonds.
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So the story goes, from what I understand, because Moshe Haimov, the watch king, I said, dude, what's going on here?
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So the guy that spit in Trax's face, by the way, pussy move, spitting in someone's face.
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Apparently, he's the landlord, and he's been in business since the 70s, and he's been around forever.
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You're telling me, you know, they say that, you know, you can work on your reputation for 40 years, and in one day, you ruin it.
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Apparently, he's been in business since the 70s.
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Here in the Diamond District on 47th Street, and one viral video of Trax saying, where's my money?
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That guy's now arrested, in jail, legacy ruined.
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Grimy business, stealing each other's customers, ripping people off, and you're going to ruin your entire reputation over $22,000?
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I mean, dude, I just Googled, because I saw a video where he's saying he's half Jewish.
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Apparently, and I asked Google, the AI overview, he's Azerbaijani-American.
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He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, moved to Queens, and his parents in 1993 at the age of seven.
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But yeah, Adam, every time I see him, he walks around on the streets of New York asking questions and giving gold, giving silver.
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He loves giving away stuff, and I think, I mean, dude, that's what you get.
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You find success when you're good at something, and then you can promote it.
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His product is watches, diamonds, jewelry, but he's also a marketer.
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You talked about being a talent and being an operator.
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So it's not easy to do, and it's a rough and ugly business, and this is sort of why people appreciate authentic people, because this is who he is.
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If you've ever met this guy, he's in your face like this.
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And for somebody that's watching this, say you don't know him.
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Like, holy shit, I had no idea what happened here.
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