The Supermodel Scam: How a Prof who Looked for Love Ended up in Prison 

Let he who has not done so cast the first stone. Come on, who hasn't had a wild time now, and then?

Yep, it’s happened to several people I know.

​@@inxiti I was about to cast a stone, then I remembered last summer.

Totally remebers me of this song, what was it just?! Ah, there I have it: Avril Lavigne: Skaterboy! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@inxiti 🤣🤣🤣🤣

But what if you buy an old house for a young woman? Maybe they'll cancel each other out.

@@StylishHobo interference pattern?

😅

Constructive interference is the issue.

Habe den Spruch noch nie gehört, tbh.

Or, wise in some ways, not in others, e.g., not worldly.

@@1voluntaryist No, just not wise. That's like nitpicking someone isn't stupid for shooting themselves in the foot. Okay, they maybe technically aren't always that stupid. Who gives a crap, we aren't talking about their test score in 8th grade.

If he was wise, he would not chase the particles.

He was vulnerable. People fall for all kinds of scams and get taken in by sects and generally make really dumb choices when they're vulnerable that they otherwise wouldn't think of doing.

All it proves is that brilliant scientists are just as stupid as anyone else.

Nice. Good zinger, that.

Incredible comment, deserves to be way higher up.

What do you know about his work?

@@yeslinsequeira4612 I knew this comment was coming XD I don't know a single thing about his work. I just made a joke because Sabine has criticised particle physicists before for coming up with new exotic particles and thinking they'd find evidence for it eventually.

Hmm, he was a 'particle' physicist not 'string' theoretician - he had small particles in his hands not string bikinis elsewhere.

Maybe he thought he was Leonard Hofstaedter hooking up with Penny.

Less. Far far less.

it's not falling in love. It's what some people call the oldest profession in the world. The old guy pays a little money to a 20 year old model and then they are both happy. This type of a transaction may be far more common than most people think.

@@DominikPlaylists absolutely!

@@DominikPlaylists Yes, many incels do that.

Yours is one of the most compassionate comments on this gentleman. I felt that some of the others were being unnecessarily judgemental of him. Loneliness can be really really hard to cope with. Thank you for sharing your kind perspective. 🙏

Loneliness ≠ sexual desire (lonely people are looking for social interaction while the laters are looking for boobs)

​@@ytrew9717either one can alter your mind to make dumb decisions

For more this topic, I recommend Useful Delusions by Shankar Vedantam.

Let's be honest, it wasn't loneliness. You don't need a foreign 20-something bikini model to overcome 'loneliness'. If he was lonely he'd have spent all that time and effort befriending his neighbours or joining a club or something. Even talking to women of around his own age or a bit younger may have yielded better results. This was something else entirely

Lmao we weak

He probably had a bit more free time on his hands than you do.

And fewer distractions ​@@stargazer7644

You would have far less distractions in prison :P

You lack the dedication to lock yourself in your room and only leave for an hour a day.

They generally tell you not to take any bag through you haven't packed yourself - nothing to do with strangers. I guess we could argue that they gave him an "empty" bag and that he therefore packed it, but there were still plenty of red flags. Not the least, remember this guy is pretending to be an intelligent physicist - the weight of the "empty" bag given it had kilos of cocaine in it should have been a giveaway even if he's so on the spectrum that all the red flags for the interactions he was having with the people he met and the "woman" he thought he was going to meet didn't trigger a red flag. i.e he was dumb - a high school physics teacher should have noticed that the bag was heavier than an empty bag had any reason to be let alone a guy who imagines he's going to win a nobel prize for physics. In fact you have to question whether he really could have been that naive and dumb because, you know, pretty much everyone who thinks they can make a quick score going through customs and figures (exactly as he says in his defence) "why would a physics guy smuggle cocaine?" is going to say they were scammed or duped if they're stopped and caught - and everything else about him suggests he's intelligent then occam's razor would suggest it's a really smart guy who figured he was smart enough to get a retirement package with a one-off taking drugs through customs rather than this guy is the smartest person in the room but fell for things that a meth addled hillbilly with a lobotomy wouldn't have fallen for. It's asking a lot to believe the story in his book. Not the least the dating app thing makes no sense. If I'm nearly 70 and I wanted to date someone because I'm a bit lonely in my old age, I would pick someone who lives within driving distance. Not someone who the only way I can meet them is if they send me a ticket to fly there - no matter how hot she is. The supposed relationship makes no sense. You can't meet her, she won't speak to you and the only way you can get to see her is if she sends you a free plane ticket? That suggests he doesn't have much money doesn't it? Because if we're believing this woman is so hot he can't possibly resist her charms why is she paying for the date? When I was 25 I'd have sold a kidney to get on a flight to see a bikini model, but we're supposed to believe that Frampton never questions the idea that he's attracting women that Brad Pitt would pause to think "Will she like me?" but Framton's so confident of his sex appeal he's "Come to see you? Well I'm not sure..." "Well I send you a ticket" "Hmm, well I suppose, if you insist" like, come on. This did not happen how its presented here.

Yes, also thoroughly check your luggage before you leave the hotel to the airport in developing countries, and specially in South East Asia. These days I just stay away from those countries altogether, it's less fuss.

...and "model" gets a totally new meaning here.

There is no requirement for a movie script to adhere rigidly to real world events.

@@andrewguthrie2 but they're better when they do, if they claim to be based on them.

There's an all-too-human tendency to cling to a mistake rather than admit it, and follow it up with more mistakes. And scammers rely on that.

Yes and no. But it one decision. Usually it's when you're emotionally vulnerable.

Yes, it all starts with being born.

This supports Sabine's position that free will doesn't exist. And more specifically, most men have no will against a supermodel.

​@@ytechnology If a supermodel is involved, he has no agency. The little guy is calling the shots :)

Dude 😂😂😂😂

AYOOOOOOOO

That happens.

Gravity is a bastard...

Which brain?

True. I myself fell prey to a stupid crypto scam (a small one), because I felt that with so many things f*d up in my life at that moment, what are the odds that this is also f*d up. There were clues but I ignored them, I was not thinking straight. I found my limits. (After that I got a therapist and it helped a lot, I'm much better off now. I was lucky I could afford that.)

Wrong. This scam was so freaking obvious that a two year old should recognize it. Anyone who has done any traveling would know that one of the most important things to avoid when traveling, is to carry anything for someone else. It's just like when a friend of mine, who was quite the opposite of wealthy, sent a large chunk of his savings to a scammer, supposedly a hot looking woman, with the belief she was going to come live with him. I tried to tell him, but he wouldn't listen. Then he had a young woman living with him, who dug through his house and found where he'd hidden some cash...he tried killing himself. Yeah, I'm used to people who fall for stupid shit. They tend to do so in spite of being warned, not because no one told them what a fool they are.

@@TheEudaemonicPlague All it takes is sickness, a moment of panic, temporary compromised state of mind and any piece of wisdom you are sure you would always follow can be forgotten or excused away. No person is perfectly rational and wise all of the time. What you're like on your best or on an average day doesn't matter. What are you like on the worst days of your life?

The prisoners are driving the guards mad, arguing about self-determinism and free will, all day.

I wonder what he did to survive.

I bet when he opened his mouth and started spouting about quantum physics, even psychopathic murderers stayed away from him and left him alone.

@@eudaenomic I bet he tried to teach them physics. I hope some of it stuck with those who were interested.

It is very likely that he soon earned the respect of his fellow prisoners. I can imagine that they would have protected him.

Interesting.

I have represented many young women who “unsuspectingly” became involved in the drug industry because of a new boyfriend. “Love leads another innocent heart astray.”

But also, what is the whole point with the romanic interest? Isn't it just so much easier to slip the drugs into the luggage of the guy and then steal the luggage when he arrives?

@@DominikPlaylists but how would you get the opportunity?

@@DWinegarden2 No doubt. I have also done dumb things in the hopes of finding love-at least what I thought was love at the time😁.

😂😂😂

I dunno--I think he's heading into "daft" territory.

@@johnbrobston1334 At that age? Worth it, I'd say.

Either a criminal or dangerously vulnerable, shouldn't be in a position of trust

Yeah... This is sort of eccentric as in "divulged state secrets". Mind you we had a lot of those in England: Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt...

There is book smart and then there is street smart. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

When it comes to particle physics common sense is a very poofr guide to anything.

I think "common sense" can actually make someone NOT to be good at physics ... Imagining the working of particles and balckholes requires a different kind of sense.

He was thinking with the wrong head.

@@wayando Absolutely right.

Lqtm :) Hopefully just really great irony or sarcasm. Well played :) Regards from a Tom :)

🤣😂🤣

You think looking for ever smaller particles is less stupid ?

Some of the dumbest people I know have PhDs. Smart in one tiny area of knowledge doesn't carryover to anything else. But PhDs tend to think it does.

😂​@@Berend-ov8of

everyone is stupid mate, trust me. or maybe not.

stupidity is a spectrum. People often have this fallacious belief that if someone is an expert in one thing that they're necessarily clever in general, which is how we get chiropractors writing raw fruitarian diet books.

Even in Bolivia, he had a chance to realize he's been scammed. Don't pick up the bag and go home.

Bolivia?😮

I don´t! An old man, who looks for love in that way among supermodels, is the same type who looks for new particles in new supercolliders.

​@@Thomas-gk42consenting adults should be able to live however they want

I don't. For a supposedly smart man he made a long string of dumb decisions. It's good he got only two years after actually hauling 2kgs of coke across the border. And it's good his life didn't collapse but it's also good he didn't go unscathed.

both of them are consenting adults, you have no right to judge them ​@@Thomas-gk42

​@@OmateYayami this is a boomer we're talking about. it's unfair him to be tech/street savvy. a certain intelligence don't apply to all area of life; just because you are good at numbers, doesn't mean you can detect scam right away.

Own worst enemy...

And risky at that.

actually I think it is a routine method. The bait may have been sold to the drug dealers.

I'm glad I heard the story, for all I know I would get catfished by drug maniacs 😅 please no

​@@Berend-ov8of risky how? The real identity of the chat partner remains unknown. Seems to have worked out alright. The material itself costs nothing, the only cost is in transporting it. A calculated expense from mule and material lost. Easy to try again. Using a reputable old man was probably how enough of these transactions succeed.

Honeytraps happen all the time for money scams, so equally 2kg is a very good pay day when it comes.

"It has a strong coupling to the Higgs field"

"Correct to within an order of magnitude..."

OR his underwear was very heavy

Millennial cringe

Did you do all that in the Metaverse?

_right?!_

Sponsorblock cut that off for me, so I had the opposite experience.

Sabine’s best seque ever

That is actually the reason for these short, witty and entertaining videos.

The very best ever! A bit like our Queen!

Sooo. Big question. Will Brilliant stop you from responding to messages from highly photogenic prospective sexual partners on the basis that they are actually fraudulent? Or NordWeb?

"Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery... ...Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. ... Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness." Max Ehrmann- Desiderata.

But it helps....

Funny... Did you live on Rivermeade with your mom and grandmother in the 80's? Small world.

Of course, everyone is "scammable".

To be fair, most of the time the catfished only end up losing some money, not spending two years in a notorious South American prison so this one certainly does have a unique spin on what you rightfully describe as a routine story

I remember the chief engineer at a huge aerospace company getting cleaned out in a real estate scam. Personally that made me happy, the guy was a jerk.

Even more astonishing is that it’s not always a pretty young girl doing the scamming either; often as not it’s a smooth-talking suit in a sports car selling iffy investments door to door. Plenty of doctors, judges and scientists falling for these scams.

That's usually their downfall. What woman could resist all this? Makes them easy pickings.

Surviving the two years in an Argentinian prison as a 68 year old physicist while witnessing someone being shanked to death right next to him, to me, proved he got street smart as well.

That wouldn't help in this case since the scammer was claiming to be the real person shown in the photos

I just assume anyone contacting me is trying to sell me something or scam me.

@@kapsi Assume nothing.

@@dr.jamesolack8504 men just aren't contacted by women they don't know for non-"gimme money" reasons, at least in my experience

@@dr.jamesolack8504 It's a perfectly fine thing to assume, that's what voicemail is for. Anything you don't care enough about to leave traces of is something I don't need to bother listening to.

Being sceptic would have been enough in this case.

"So, this entanglement you feel with your twin, how does that make you feel?" "Like they know exactly what I'm going to do, and when I do it, they always do the opposite 😭"

Was it the truth quark, or the beauty quark?

@@freesk8 it was the elusive dank quark

One moment I'm up and the next I'm down. Is that bipolar?

Even when strange, she's still beautiful.

Ouch ⛳

Yes. If only they had more self control. Why can't they be disciplined, like the scientific model they embody?

✅

Mitosis is the only way for particle physicists!

I'm glad they show their humanity from time to time. We should not burden scientists with expectations beyond the work they do. Of course they must suffer consequences like anyone else

Desire's one thing, but how one acts on it or not, adds a wide range of freedom of movement.

peter would have played his guitar 9-5 while testing different string gauges.

I met an Irish lass who bought a pint of Quark Ale.. After drinking it - I saw all manner of - Strange & Charmed - particles.

Totally, Sabina Tesoro is teaching us every day that very lesson

@@Pax.Alotin three quarks for Muster Mark, as the legend goes eh?

@@Quroxify Things are becoming 'Curiouser & curiouser' - with each passing looking glass.

seems he just didn't have any

@@vaakdemandante8772 Or maybe it was a process of "Justice is being observed! We have listened to the evidence!" etc, etc. It can take decades to get unjust sentences overturned. Even with the best of friends.

Academic megalonania I guess.

I remember reading the biography of a Middle Eastern man who'd become British. He said that in his old country, the police were so corrupt and lazy that they would arrest the people who reported a murder instead of finding the murderer. He mentioned this in the context of finding the body of a young girl and having his father tell him to forget about it. Justice in the world is never guaranteed.

Justice is blind. Sometimes also deaf and very very stupid.

@@EndingSimple Every system in the world (judicial, economical, religious) is still a fiction. Conjured up by human brains. Money only works because everybody believes in it. Same goes for human rights in most countries, etc. Bottom line, don't trust justice...

hearing this, i was outraged. firstable about the argentinan justice system, then about the victim shaming going on here in the comments. i did some googling and here's a thing, the prosecution showed communication between the two: "According to Argentinian newspaper Clarin, they included ‘I’m worried about the sniffer dogs’, ‘I’m looking after your special little suitcase’ and ‘In Bolivia this is worth nothing, in Europe it’s worth millions’." if this is true, he knew exactly what was going on. i wonder if he addressed this in his book. from what i gather, he never claimed the messages where not from him. but that they where taken out of context. but he failed to explain what reasonable other context there could be. the prosecutions case was based on these messages obviousely. the guy is guilty of knowingly carrying drugs in my opinion. he was after the money and the woman.

@@CodepageNet Oh dear! If that is really the case he was quite obviously guilty. The question is how reliable the sources you found are. But of course, a professor is no more a morally better or worse person than any of the rest of us. My comment was based on Sabine's report on what had happened. In the face of today's amount of fake stuff ricocheting around on the Internet it is becoming increasingly difficult to find the time to perform thorough fact checks. More and more you start falling back on your own plausibility estimate. Not always good council.

The world awaits the particle physics romance "Hadron Collider: Antiparticles who should never meet!" Or the XXX take "Hardon Collider: multiparticle interaction at its most colorful".

Awesome! 😂😂😂

he was 68

@@Kamal-ju6qx *"he was 68"* ... He's 80 now.

@@0-by-1_Publishing_LLC yes but the incident happened when he was 68.your comment say 80 years

@@Kamal-ju6qx *"yes but the incident happened when he was 68.your comment say 80 years"* ... Is that a major issue for you?

He's not wrong.

Do you know Slavoj Zizek?

@siddhartacrowley8759 a Yugoslavian philosopher with a net worth of $1 - 5 million.

This is a part of our inner narcissism, that all of us have. I too. I am so great , I am soooo special , such a wonderful, gifted woman can recognize my very special, unique soul. 😅 Should stay on every gravestone. 😁

Don't worry, you'll get there some day.

THOSE ARE THE WORDS EVERY LOVER SAYS

caps

UTTERLY ! You would think your average 10 year old kid, would have seen though this one ?

yeah, this guy went to school in 1950 so he is probably about Joe Biden's age.

They have a committee for this in Germany; it;s the Auslandrichtigscheisssprechenbuero.

To natural English speakers, mispronunciation is more of an inherited F-U-ness rather than a willingness so follow the absurdities of a 500 year old orthography to asinine conclusion. Although I would protest that German dictionaries tend not to make it obvious when the French pronunciations of 'J' and soft 'G' are employed. Viva l;inconsistencé!

"Age is just a number" - after a certain age, for men usually somewhere around the "mid-life" crisis (40s?), women not so sure but if I have to bet, I'm sure that there are some babushkas to show me what's what and who's who.

Especially if that number is under 18.

I assumed it was a old granny looking for a bit of fun.. how wrong I was.

Good for you. It's amazing, and a bit sad, how many men can convince themselves that in old age a young woman could still be interested in them. It indicates a rather deep hole and need in their life.

Hey! I meant it! 🤣🤣🤣

I worked 30 years with Ph.D's. They tended to be dumb in common sense.😎

It's the new model of a theoretical particle, 'the supermodel'. "Star Trek" makes use of the supermodel in its biggest successes, like Kirstey Alley in "Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan" and Seven of Nine in "Star Trek: Voyager".

Ver physical, this supermodel.

I am told that one can get quite a reasonable income from being a handsome male and being prepared to date older women in Monaco.

1 decade down should be ok.

@@simontmn depends what age you're starting from lol

@@LabGoats 40+

@@simontmn good man

I'd watch it. I'm sure the Hollywood producers would also insist on dramatic embellishment and surely come up with some fillers to provide a more viewer approved version of reality. As they do.

Yes get Rowan Atkinson to play the prof. Or maybe Donald Trump ? Trump can act, he was in a movie already.

I totally see Stephen Fry in that role.

@@EyMannMachHin I didn't know who Stephen Fry was but I checked and he already went to prison and he is an actor who looks the part.

Started too late...

They say ❤ is the greatest magic for obvious reasons. ❤ can make and unmake.

I'm suspecting this was a bit more than a dating app. More like an app with pictures and pricing of services maybe.

This is how abusers keep their victims in the abusive relationship (minus the drug smuggling part).