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There was a former employee for MrBeast (Donaldson) who posted 2 very long videos about his time working for him:

Allegations from DogPack404 On July 24, 2024, former employee DogPack404 posted a YouTube video accusing Donaldson of staging contests, running illegal lotteries, falsifying signatures, and misleading viewers.[172][173][174] He followed with an interview of former staffer Jake Weddle, who described being denied sleep during productions, said the team employed Jake Franklin’s brother-in-law despite his status as a registered sex offender, and alleged that a cameraman tried to intoxicate female participants with paint fumes.[174] Weddle identified the cameraman as “Delaware”, claiming Donaldson knew about his conviction, which stemmed from an incident when Delaware was 16 and the victim was 11.[175]

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DogPack404#cite_ref-173

The videos he posted are long (~51 and 54 min), but he does comment a lot on MrBeast’s character while making his case against him. His second video focuses a lot more on this and he brings in another former employee while showing off some screenshots of others who wanted to remain more anonymous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHFvR0ArXPs

He mentioned a part 3 video, but never posted it.

On the other side, Legal Eagle offers a shorter video, focused only on the legal aspects of the DogPack’s allegations in the first video. Basically, MrBeast is likely protected by whatever waivers he has his employees/contestants sign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CePWWN1Xs

Video posted here:
https://lemmy.world/post/42277358

It looks like someone with a backpack was trying to get away from them in the very first second of the video.

From the article, this doesn’t sound like a scam specific to Uber/Ride shares.

What we know:

• “an Uber driver who he wrongly thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both”
• “wrongly assuming she was in on a plot to get $12,000 in supposed bond money for a relative, authorities said.”
• “The driver fell victim to the same scammer, driving to Brock’s home between Dayton and Columbus to pick up a package for delivery, according to investigators.”

There are a lot of ways to scam people over the phone: tech-support/refund scams, Scams where legal action is threatened unless you pay (ex: IRS scams), emergency money requests from friends in trouble (ransom scams, bond scams, etc), pig butchering scams (a.k.a romance scams or when you get that random text from someone pretending to reach out to the wrong number), employment scams.

Since we know that the man fell for a bond scam, it’s likely that the Uber driver was scammed into working as a money laundering mule for the real scammers. It’s very likely that the Uber driver had fallen for one of the other scams and then she was told to pick up packages where she could earn some of “her” money back. She would get more as long as she only took a certain amount and forwarded on the rest. Either that, or she was scammed into working for a “company” where “clients” send in packages of money, and she transfers it to different accounts as well as a little to her own.

Edit: formatting