I-Team: How to Stop A Prison Phone Scam
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มี.ค. 2016
- by Randy Travis
Aired March 10, 2016
CAMILLA, Ga. - One of the most successful phone scams these days operated out of a small, south Georgia town where the crooks get their food and shelter for free and have nothing but time on their hands.
If you received a call from someone threatening you with arrest if you don't pay up for missing jury duty or IRS tax deadlines, chances are you were talking to an inmate at Jimmy Autry State Prison near Camilla.
Prison authorities admitted they tried everything: raiding the medium security prison on a regular basis, transferring the ringleaders to other facilities, arresting civilians who help with the scam on the outside.
So this time they tried hitting Autry in the dead of night, and the FOX 5 I-Team watched the raid unfold.
Nearly 200 Georgia Department of Corrections tactical squad members fanned out through all 19 housing units at Autry, assigned to search by hand all 1676 inmates.
Inside the first housing unit the FOX 5 I-Team visited, we found the very reason investigators have come here: a pile of torn scraps of paper left on the common room floor.
"So this is the script they use to scam people?" asked FOX 5 I-Team reporter Randy Travis.
"Yes," replied Georgia Department of Corrections Special Investigations chief Ricky Myrick, holding up a piece of the script. "And when they saw us coming in they tried to shred it on us. But you can see they talk about having a warrant issued today."
A warrant for your arrest unless you pay up now because you either missed jury duty or owe back taxes. Investigators said inmates at Autry have been making those fake calls for years.
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How is it a surprise when they are yelling out loud as they march in giving the inmates plenty of warning they are coming.
Greg Horn I thought that too, but then I think it's just to cause panic and reckless behavior in destroying evidence. But they should have suprised them yea.
@@ColHogan-le5yk They can't just make the phones disappear
@@Esko_Vasya yes they can 😂
"We want to surprise them so we stand outside screaming before we come in"
😂😂😂😂😂
The guards are the main source of them getting phones
Thee same guards confiscating the phones brought them in to the inmates.
"A very small percentage of the guards" I highly doubt that.
"we decide to do this one at night to maintain the element of suprise"
While they march and chant loudly and obnoxiously.
😂
i always send money to the irs in the form of paypal gift cards...
gatewaysolo104 right, like who would pay the IRS that way....dumb USA.
gatewaysolo104 I pay in IOU
Everyone knows the IRS never requests payment like that. And would most likely only contact you by mail.And most likely never have you arrested. As they work with people that owe money but cant pay
It's super easy to stop cellphone signals though and it's quite obvious they don't want the inmates to stop.
You can't stop cellphone signals in the prison without impacting the public
The ELEMENT of Surprise while they basically scream and yell the whole way there, "Hey, guess who is coming?""
the reason inmates have phones is because the c.o's..the police bring them in
yup that’s the only reason they get them it’s hard af to sneak them in to
That's because they paid the guards minimum wage
and drones have been used lately
Maybe if the officers stop bringing the phones in; this would stop.
If the staff got decent pay, Im sure they would. I bet its hard to pass up 1000$ to bring someone a 30$ phone.
The Ace TroubleShooter nobody's paying $1,000 for a $30 phone at best you might be able to get like a $200 for a $30 phone at best now iPhone 8s you probably can get a thousand maybe a couple hundred more for that. FYI in Georgia with one of the highest highest unemployment rates in the country co's are getting paid $15, $16 and up while minimum wage is only the $7 and some change so I think they're doing pretty good for
There was a documentary where prisoners were paying around $1500 for a phone delivered by a drone dropping it in the yard. Didn't matter what type and then they were using it to harass the victims or organized crime while they were in prison.
The Ace TroubleShooter That depends on were you are from. Pay is not an excuse in a lot of big cities where they can pull over 1k a week with unlimited overtime.
Add great benefits and almost no chance of getting fired and it turns into a job that most people would love to have.
Why don't they jam all cell phone signals around the prison?
It's illegal.
They do jam the cell signals. When the guards come the inmates jam the cell phones up their butts.
Lmao.....these people who are falling for these scams should be put in jail too
The best way to spot a scammer is ask something personal you would think the government or credit card company would know. Most of the time all they have is your name,number. I get these calls about my credit cards (India voice) and lets use as a example they call about my visa CC and I tell them I don't have visa then they make up another one like I mean chase. (Red Flag)
This is very simple to solve and fix, you put a cell phone jammer inside the prison where the inmates are problem fixed
It's not constitutional
There are plenty of cell phones jammers. Thats how the inmates hide the phones, they jam them up their anuses.
I think they loose the element of surprise when they screaming loud asf
Doesn't really matter.the water is turned off before raids so inmates can't flush phones down the toilet.
This has to violate their civil rights
They're trying to get a signal jammer but the problem is if someone near by the prison has an emergency and for some odd reason the hammer won't let them call for help will be a major lawsuit
It’s the CO that’s sneaking in the phones!
Prisoners shouldn't ever have contact with eachother.
When you have guards allowing other inmates in dorms thats hard. The employees are worse than the inmates.
Sent a mass call and saw who was walkin funny. 😆
My cousin is in Autry for killing his mother! I had to cut him off because he asked me to send him drugs soaked in paper! He had an inmate friend that had a family member that was gonna give it to me! He NEVER called from a prison phone... he ALWAYS called through Facebook video messenger so they definitely still have cellphones!
I was wondering how a prisoner could scam, then I saw it was fox, now it makes sense.
I’ve gotten calls like this before also, but from an automated voicemail scam
What they should do is get cellphone blockers installed in these buildings as an extra precaution. The guards use Walkie talkies and/or land lines anyways.
Active Cell Phone jammers are illegal by the FCC. Best they can do is passively interfere with the signal via dense concrete walls, but that would be extremely expensive and not perfectly effective.
Skill Graal interesting thanks for the info
Simple metal screen Faraday mesh around the tall outer fence would knock most of the signal down. Also cell phone jamming isn't illegal if you get the ok with FCC. I been in many buildings that they legally block cell signals for security reasons mostly government but the prison is a part of the government so I'm sure it would be cheaper then spending millions for transfers and a 200+ people raid.
When you have nothing but time on your hands indeed
I would love that call. Been in and out of the system for years. I'd be good, come arrest me.
Imagine if they put that much effort in the real world on a job
They need to build modern prisons like a faraday cage
All these scam artists when they call me I tell him they're coming for you when they call
🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 can’t flash it they shut down the plumbing before the rad 🤣🤣🤣
All the times the guards bring in the phones.
Dirty ones.
No cell jammers?
Ferguson101 Unfortunately, since most prisons in this country are privately owned, these companies arent going to shell out the money to make that happen. No way in hell.
A wallpaper would end up getting destroyed by prisoners. If you were going to make something like work, it would have to be done while the prison was being built, being put behind the walls, whatever material it is. Also, every state pays the prisons a flat rate per day for each prisoner. Here in Tennessee each prison/jail gets paid 125$/day for state inmates, that is why you will see a lot of county jails trying to hold onto their state prisoners instead of sending them to prison. County inmates here are only worth 22.50$/day. This info is also several years old so Im sure the dollar amounts have risen.
Yes they do jam the phones up their anuses.
They need to pass a law allowing cell jammers in prisons.
Man, there really is a sucker born everyday. It actually annoys me more how stupid these people are than the scammers scamming them annoys me lol
I was in jail once in Georgia and the amount of stuff inside blackshear jail was enormous. Every drug you can think of ready available after burning a hole in a window and a person who would come In under the fence with a long taped up snake of phones, drugs, and tobacco...
Not very surprising when they're running around screaming in the yard so they know they're coming LMAO so much for the element of surprise
'Suprise' as they march screaming
Have they tried the guards? If you are convinced civilians are bringing all of that in, YOU are being scammed
LOL...ITS CALLED A CELL PHONE JAMMER. IT PREVENTS CELL PHONE SIGNALS FROM COMING AND GOING. $1200
kevin cvalciuc you can’t shut down the C o’s hustle like that man
Simple cell phone jammer..
No more Hustle!
Lock the body up. Not the mind. Irony
Cali Bonez Tropic Thunder reference. 🐼 Rotfl
Who got the phones? 🌟 👮 cant blame prisoners for being criminals... Thats the job. But crooked cops... Well thats just appalling
Ya start flushing when you hear them coming!
next time they should use toilet paper as in the event of a sting a small bit of water will destroy the script and the ink will run in the mush in turn making it useless. also if you need to dispose of it than it is as easy as flush as the way the water tosses it round it will be a pulp
That's awesome
Cell phone jammers in jails. Problem solved
Good lord. I’m for the Free World after lookin at all these videos.
BUT YET NO INVESTAGATING BOUT DA CELL PHONES GETTING IN PRISON
Cell phone jammers would work
This happens in all prisons
Why am I working?
I been to autry i no who brings it all in
Be quiet ok
Did 6 years there,such a nice place.
What about phone jammers?
Can't stop the Hustle
Here's a thought, rehabilitate those that you can instead of punish and keep them busy with programs and/or work and not those slave camps that make pennies per day.
use cell jammers?
Seems to me the prison could just block all cell phones- using up to date electronics ease
Yes it would stop all cell phones but then its a prison -
why not install cell phone jammers into the prison? like they have at the higher sec facilities? i dunno maybe im missing something...
Horridius I hear cell phone Jammers are illegal evening government facilities
Cell phone jamming works
I was in prison. Lived all this over over
but the guards are corrupt so its a fail safe.
Not exactly a surprise, yelling ur head off on the way to cell blocks. Why not just call the prisoners and say ur Comin.
Still in charge that's funny
Why don't they just block cell service at the prison?
Arushad Ahmed I think it's illegal
You may need to unblock when you come in
😂
The skumbag guards brought them in.
Well if they can’t stop phones from getting into the prison how about buying a couple of sheepdog and some canary birds then?
Easy solution...put cell phone jammers around the prison!
Add another 10 yrs per scam and another 10 per cell phone that'll make em quit
Highly doubt it. They took the chance of committing the crime that got them there, why stop now?
Would be very easy to solve this problem but no lets spend millions to transfer people and bring more people in for a raid. Get with the FCC and a company the specializes in cell jammers and jam the signal in the prison only. The FCC would make sure the jamming stops right outside the prison. Jammers can be made very cheap and I'm guess the prison has a no cell phone policy around inmates so have landlines inside for the guards if they need to be contacted. They could even put a cheap screen mesh around the prison to act as a Faraday cage even on the outside fence would knock the signal down pretty bad but have radio tower for guards radios inside.
turn the cells and common areas into Faraday cages. no radio waves in or out.
biggreenblob too expensive
You can simply stop this by making the prison zero contact visits...how do you think these guys are getting their cellphones?
The correction officers bring them in. Inmates are stripped searched before leaving visits at visits you have officers walking around the whole time .
Just to set up jammers and the trend quickly stops
ELEMENT OF SURPRISE ARE YOU MAD I HEARD THAT FROM ENGLAND!
She's very pretty
why not install signal jammers inside those wall, so they can no longer use a cellphone.
Ya men. The C.Os sale those cellphone!
Why is it wrong for the inmates to do it but it's okay for the cops to do it
Or even mistresses or so called mistress rights
Lol.....these news guys'
there will be 28 more in 2 days
200 x how much thats alot of money. Cost about taxpayers at least 40000. For 28 phones
Hahahah a phone scam that thear problem jajajaj
Make faraday cells. Next
cell phone jammers works in jail to. so jam the signal
2:19 *hey it’s avxry*
Wowwwwwwww
Im sure there are devices out there to detect if there are cell phones being used in the vicinity thats all they need some authority's are so stupid
AINT NOTHING FREE IN JAILS 🤡
I knew a guy in Prison who made who made himself millions trading stocks on the phone with his broker.
Paid a good lawyer and got himself out with a limo waiting for him.
ZImpresive lmao i bet
ZImpresive no waaayyy
ZImpresive that would be a great movie!!!
To be fair he did have a history of investing, sold his home when he got convicted to pay for lawyer fees, the reaming he bought treasury bonds.
5 years into his sentence he decided to risk it. Got copies of the wall street journal and phoned his broker for advice. Took a gamble on bio stocks, one of them skyrocketed due to positive phase 3 data and used to to pay for a private investigator. Eventually appealed his case and got a second trial, he was given a plea deal and got out, I wasn't working at the time he got out but my co-workers told me a limo picked him up.