FAKE VIOLINIST CONFRONTED!!! 

"I don't speak English" is the universal phrase for "Oh crap. I'm busted."

Even as a guitar player, I can see he's just blindly moving his fingers, lol.

What really pisses me off with these jerks, is how they use the kids as pawns.

The way he was just moving his fingers randomly 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Give them monopoly money. It’s just as real

How confidently they play is hilarious!!! Even closing the eyes and feeling the music~ the audacity!! Do they forget there are hundreds/thousands of ppl who can play/read music? 😂

He identifies as a musician 🎤⚰️

I've seen a couple of scammers doing this. Honestly it's pathetic

Can't speak English but he writes it well

Rumor has it this dude was on Maury Povich and the results came back...Gypsie youuuuu are not the violinist!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for putting these fools on check....👊

*He understood every letter and word you said and pretended to be DUMB “Gypsy”*

Thank you for your service my man. Takes nuts to call these thieves out now a days. Need to see more of this. Gives the real ones a bad rep

They always pretend not to speak English when someone calls them out on their bs.

whats crazy are the people that actually give these scammers money. up north there was a guy pretending he was disabled and would wear a knee brace and people would watch him take it off when he was done working. Needless to say the town ran his ass off

As a violinist, he has the most impressive vibrato. He does it with zero arm/wrist movement. Not even Paganini could master that technique.

Taking the whole, “My car ran out of gas” lie to another level.

Sick of these scammers lock them up.

The sign is in English, and the performer spoke 0% English 🤔 pretty obvious 😂

Ohhhh wow we’re doing this with a fake translator now? I wonder where this was. I agree it take a lot of courage. I would’ve given him my violin and asked him to play. I HATE fakes and phony’s. Good for you and I applaud your effort. You shut him down pretty quickly.

Best thing is just ignore them! … and , most of all do not,DO NOT give them money !!

Gypsies

They've been doing this crap here in Charlotte North Carolina and it's a guy that stands in the parking lot where there is an Ulta and a shoe carnival and a PetSmart and a Marshalls and he stands in the corner and he is a foreign descent and he's playing that violin and people are thinking that it's real and I had refused to give them a dime. Just like they've got the ones on the side of the road asking for money for a funeral and every other day is a different kid they're asking for money for a funeral and if you want to scan the QR code they move away from you and they ask you for cash and the other day her bucket was full of cash and $20 bills $100 bills and so on people need to wake the hell up and stopped supporting these people

Wow. He didn't need your 40$, must have just met his goal. How unlucky

I always enjoy how every one of these violinists play the exact same songs

They are doing this every were even here in Philadelphia, I'm assuming they think there's no talented violinists in America 😂

Lol the scammer stopped strumming when the guy walked up. He has to be thebworst violen scammed I've seen. Most will keep the bit going and blame, "no speak english". Then hit their foot petal to switch the music off and claim he's crazy

Isn't that their kid? That's sad, teaching him to lie and chest honest people out of their hard earned money.

Thanks for doing this I hate this ppl doing this shit

Man it's crazy the amount of scams that go on!!! It makes it hard for regular people to help especially when they have been scammed by a fake homeless person

Mask up n grab the violen when they’re playing it 😂 n watch the sound still come out .

Serial Killer? no Carjacker? nope Mass Shooter? nah Drug Dealers? heck no Shoplifters? um no Rapist? just no IT WAS AN EVIL VIOLINIST!!!!! 😂

Such an asset to our country!

make em play the most basic song and see if he can do it 😝

I have seen quite a few electric violinists playing with a backing track in shopping center parking lots lately. At first, I was naive and thought they were real musicians. Then, I got a closer look and noticed the playing wasn't in sync with the melody and no vibrato motion on the finger board. Then that's when I got suspicious they were faking it. Does anyone know what country or culture they are from? I'm guessing East European Romany???

Sorry my friend I only know the John legend 😂😂

This should really be against the law. They are clearly cheating people. You get in more trouble for loitering than you do scamming people....

As a violinist I can say that his bowing is short to short for how long the notes and the fingering so😂 and is now isn’t tight enough 😂 he’s holding the bow wrong to his pinky is under the end instead of above and bent over the end he’s not even using the whole bow

This is comedy gold. The obvious fake playing, the pretending to not speak english, the random old lady offering up some grapes 😂 😂

Its like stolen valor but stolen violin 😂😂😂

LMAO!!!! In Every one of these fake videos, the person playing the instrument clams up and acts ignorant to what you are asking him to do. Or they pack up and leave. I also bet 100 dollars he understands English very well. His signs are in English, so he understands something in English. Very sad that non musician people that pass by this Turd thinks he is playing that one song. Glad you confronted this CON person for what he is trying to do to get easy money. Thanks for the video. Take care.

I can actually understand what he's saying the child knew perfectly what you were saying in English

The kid's face said it all.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 he stopped the second you got close but the music kept going 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Now the people just standing on the corner with a sign 🪧 are like: Dam!!!! Now I gotta 🕺 dance or do something entertaining 🤦🏽‍♂️

Not speaking English is how they “get away” with it. 🤦‍♂️ wake up

Other people have exposed these musical frauds. They always claim no English.

🎶 he's such a great violinist 🎶😂

if he played that good with that tone...........FOR REAL he would not be on the side of the road.......

They can't speak English when they are confronted. Lmao

"No speak English" is the trump card they always save in their back pocket.

They pretend not to speak English so that will impede people from communicating with them and it will also allow them not to answer. That gives them the reason to not answer

1:05 when he says "sucala" i think he cursed you out 😂

It's amazing how many scammers can keep getting more and more different ways to scam people out of there hard earned money, these scum bags need to get a real job.

Look people, it’s still much easier than working hard for a living. Or studying to get a degree. Or doing anything that requires honest effort.

I will never believe another violinist in the NYC subway again

They stop after getting confronted every time. I wanna see them try to play something. Lol. 💯💯

No money, no job, no assets, no savings. How the hell do they end up in our countries? Nothing but a burden. I have those things but I doubt Barbados would take me.

I would’ve just started playing the violin singing things in my native language and say it’s a hit where I’m from 😂😂😂😂😂😂 now give me my 40 dollars

Absolutely unbelievable, I’ve seen a lot of these fake players, but this was one of the worst!!!!

Thank you brother for confronting that fraud

They FOOLED you!!😂😂

I just can't believe they actually spend the money on the violin and the speakers. That stuff's not cheap. This must be a pretty profitable scam.

I like how he stops playing then the backing track also stops .. 😂 0:35

That fake violin playing started in Seattle. Give them fake bills or Chinese money😂😂😂

Wow...I'm a violin player at an intermediate level and this guy is not even a beginner... so many red flags...

Where was this?

The look on her face when she realized they were caught....

You should have told him to turn the music on and just stand at attention, doing nothing else. It would have achieved the exact same effect. How unfortunate that there are innocent children dragged into the scam, one wonders what they would grow up to do 😂

Good catch! You can tell by the fake model 😂

ask them to play happy birthday, or Mary had a Little Lamb… they can’t🤬

I'm disgusted with these people.

$20 says the violin isn't even tuned.

I really don’t understand their culture on why they do this

I guess fortune telling and crystal balls are too old school for these folks.

Good job on video 👍😎

How many years did he train?

😂😂😂 part 2 pls

It seems like all these scammers work for one entity, channeling funds to a higher authority, possibly a gang. I'd imagine the arrangement involves a pitch of "free entry to America in exchange for performing a task for the sponsors." Upon arrival in the U.S., the group informs them of their role, which entails staging counterfeit performances, with a substantial portion of the earnings directed back to the "sponsor." There's a striking consistency among these scammers: they typically share the same Roma ethnicity, utilize electric violins, speakers, perform identical-themed music, display similar signs, and even their sign-writing appears uniform. The uniformity extends to their equipment, implying a bulk procurement and the creation of a standardized "package" for newcomers to the United States. There's no way these are independently-operating scammers.

The Red Violin!!!😂😂😂

Looked like he half gave you the bird when you first came up. 👍🏻

Notice they always needs a Bluetooth speaker 😂

I can remember back when you saw a violinist on tv, 99% of the time they were real. I'm that old.

Dam i think these same scammers are in spokane wa outside a safeway

They can't speak English but they can write it on the sign lol

Saw this same guy in front of Kroger in North Little Rock Arkansas today.

I look at it like this. They must have needed it worse than I. I’m always financially abundant.

lol u forgot to do the duck walk

The no speakie English ploy when caught

These are terrible parents. They should be ashamed!!!

concerts using voice modulator 😂

As a musician, I can spot if someone is playing or not. Look at his fingers and which notes he’s hitting

These violin players are everywhere 😂😂😂

I like the hammer one and pull-offs during steady notes. lol

If he can play, he needs the money, if he cant he doesnt need the money? He needs the money for lessons.

Oh, he was playing beautifully until Mr.$20 interrupted, damn brah 😮

Where I live people who play music on the boardwalk actually are playing music and never have signs posted just an open guitar case or container for donations. Shame on those who aren’t being genuine.

Fake movie money for fake scammers seems fair

Madison WI here. Yeah i have seen similar guys playing this exact song

This is embarrassing to any musician

I always love how these people never know English I've seen this family in so many other videos that's crazy