In this true-crime documentary, three guys exploit the freewheeling cryptocurrency market to scam millions from investor | dG1fVURxUnZNbXVVY1U
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:01 - Ever since I was a kid,
00:03 I've always wanted to be a criminal.
00:05 If I could have put it in my yearbook,
00:06 I would have put, "I want to be a criminal."
00:08 (laughs)
00:10 Things have changed.
00:10 Nowadays, you got to figure out
00:12 some sort of way to finesse the system.
00:14 - My name is Raymond Trapani,
00:15 Chief Operating Officer of Centratech.
00:17 - Our pitch to the world was that
00:20 we were going to create a debit card
00:21 where you'd be able to spend your cryptocurrency
00:23 in real time.
00:24 - It's an electronic money.
00:25 - Something about Bitcoins or something.
00:27 - I was all about Centratech.
00:29 I was like, "Look at this, this makes sense."
00:31 - Just watching something become extremely valuable,
00:33 it's like a drug.
00:34 - Tons of money just starts flooding in.
00:36 100,000, another 100,000.
00:38 - It was probably the most exciting thing
00:39 I've ever experienced in my life.
00:41 - We didn't know anything about this business,
00:43 but it didn't matter at all.
00:45 It was too easy.
00:45 (phone rings)
00:48 - Ray?
00:50 Visa's just saying this company, Centra,
00:52 is not allowed to issue a card with Visa on it.
00:54 - I know details about that.
00:57 I can't give you direct answers on that.
01:00 - It just didn't make sense.
01:03 Things looked funny.
01:05 - They have nothing.
01:06 So the whole thing is to now make themselves
01:09 as legitimate as possible.
01:10 - It was very suspicious.
01:12 I started noticing that things were changing
01:14 on their website.
01:15 The pictures didn't even look like real people.
01:19 I researched the founders.
01:21 Wow, the CEO is actually Raymond's grandfather.
01:25 There was an aspect of Centra that was really brazen.
01:27 - We are 100% not a scam.
01:30 - No one ever says that unless it's actually a scam.
01:33 (laughing)
01:35 - This shady company just graduated to the next level.
01:39 They started taking actions to try and hide things.
01:42 Money started going out of accounts.
01:44 - Somebody needs to figure out
01:45 what the hell is going on here.
01:47 - It took a considerable loss.
01:48 - Obviously, you know, something was not right.
01:51 - It's like giving a middle finger to the FBI.
01:53 - He's a real criminal.
01:55 - He's raised, he's (beep)
01:56 - Absolutely wanted to take them down.
01:58 - This guy's a fraudster.
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