so a couple of weeks ago when i announced that i was going to be making videos on fridays
the plan was to make all of those videos fun and interesting and nothing too serious but over the
last week something happened and it came to my knowledge and i feel as though i have a
responsibility to discuss it to make a video about it to hopefully warn some companies and
hopefully limit damage because it could reflect poorly on me now i don't know how widespread this
is i don't know if multiple companies have been contacted but last week i received an
email from a company that i have spoken to in the past they forwarded me an email and
said hey i'm assuming this is not you this isn't you correct the email is from podcastagetv which
is podcastagegeeksrising at gmail.com with two s's the subject is podcastage review on
not gonna tell you the microphone company or what they're trying to get and the body goes as follows
hey blink my name is brandon from podcastage i'm very interested in your products i reviewed
one of your microphones the blank after receiving great reviews i'm ready to review blank i've heard
really great things about it and want to give it a try i'm reaching out to see if you will be willing
to send me a used one for review or a new one will be great ps from your friend brandon youtube.com
c podcastage and that's why i feel like i needed to make this video because there's someone out
there who was impersonating me and emailing companies trying to get free audio equipment
and not only will these audio companies or just tech companies in general i'm assuming
be ripped off by this individual but it's also going to have a direct negative impact on me my
reputation and my future as a youtuber the reason i'm saying that is if one of these audio companies
got this email and decided to send this individual a piece of equipment what wouldn't happen
there wouldn't be a review of that product on my channel because i don't have this
item that they requested so after that interaction where this audio company
thinks that they spoke to me directly and sent me something to review they did not see a review
of that they will view me as an unreliable individual an unreliable youtuber who they
do not want to deal with so i just have a very simple request for every single company out there
if you receive an email from someone claiming to be me and they are requesting free equipment just
verify the email it's very simple to do so you can go to the about page of this youtube channel
you can find my business contact email there or you can go to podcastage.com there are business
contact forms there you can submit requests and email me there as well and that's an easy way to
know that you're actually speaking to me because that's the official channel of communication for
me and now if i can direct my attention to this little jerk who's trying to rip people off and
ruin my reputation first thing i want to say is you are making me look like the biggest idiot with
your run-on sentences please for the love of the few things good in this world if you're going to
impersonate me make me look good and write proper emails you sound like an idiot secondly
brandon brandon come on if you're going to impersonate somebody do a little bit of due
diligence my name is clearly not brandon you can look at my social medias my name is plastered
everywhere you dumb piece of sh and third and probably most important please pay attention here
it is a very good thing that this company did not send you what you were trying to steal from them
because that item was of a value that would have made it felony theft i went ahead and
looked up thresholds of what makes felony theft in this country and here is what i found from
criminaldefenselawyer.com in order to be felony theft the value of the property must exceed a
minimum amount established by state law typically between one thousand and two thousand five hundred
dollars often referred to as the felony theft threshold some states have been slow to keep
up with inflation so stealing a 500 item can be a felony and this individual was actually so stupid
that they actually provided a shipping address and for their state yes the felony threshold is one
thousand dollars so this individual was attempting to commit felony theft so you may have thought you
were being cute and funny oh i'm gonna impersonate podcastage and try to get a microphone unbeknownst
to you you are becoming a felon you idiot and i think the only proper way to end this video is
to share a quote from one of my all-time favorite characters which is incredibly pertinent to this
topic pertinent pertinent to this topic identity theft is not a joke jim millions of families
suffer every single year bears beats battlestar galactica go [ __ ] yourself brandon you thief