The Man Who Faked Winning the Lottery

[@xlukas93]

Telling everyone that you won the lottery and then genuinely trying to win the lottery is "fake it till you make it" on another level 😂

[@jaykid6595]

Well said 😅

[@christinehorniman8673]

​@interrogationfilesshe died in 2017 of a heartattack

[@gridlo]

Step 1: Pretend you hit the lottery Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit

[@donnamariedavidson5065]

Makes sense lol

[@fishrenfroeboyd7954]

Worked for the underwear knomes

[@jasonjamrs7413]

South Park covered this scenario with the underpants gnomes

[@lainwired3946]

I think you mean Step 3: crippling debt and bankruptcy Lol

[@kneel1]

yeah "SOMEHOW. he was able to obtain a bank loan". Huh say what now? I love that. you dont make a video or documentary and just say "SOMEHOW"

[@dankmemes8619]

Damn all homie had to do was pretend he won like a 50 dollar scratch ticket or some shit in the beginning

[@user-lq9es6wm9s]

Right 😂 he took that to a whole other level

[@cherrelleg8276]

😂😂😂

[@joewills7582]

I'm sure he thought about that in bed every night haha. Crazy dude.

[@marcse7en]

Pounds. He's British, like I am! 🇬🇧

[@Nick_80599]

He got the money from a mistress £30,000. He's a con man and he conned 3 further women in 2014 and now police are looking for him and he's probably gone abroad because they can't find him.

[@maximiliandort3489]

"I believe i've been driving something of yours, and you've been shagging something of mine." That is just gold

[@EyeCue23]

GOLD!!

[@M.Montgomery]

@11:26

[@crossbearer6453]

@@M.MontgomeryYou’ve got guts with that profile pic 😂😂 I’m surprised they are not coming after you yet

[@sunnystormy4973]

@CROSS BEARER -you mean avatar- -this is yt not fb-

[@M.Montgomery]

@@crossbearer6453 when "Alphabet" gets their "Ai" up and running they will ban us. I don't think "they" like your name either 🙏

[@vermin1970]

anyone who wasn't your friend before they thought you had money, isn't your friend after..

[@marcolamotta]

So true.👍

[@SeeHim-vz7mp]

Duh...

[@dollinterrupted]

It’s really sad that Kathy took his betrayal and lies as a sign of his love rather than what it really was

[@CraigStCyrPlus]

She found him appealing in the first place, which proves shes a moron.

[@DanTheArtisan91]

Yea woman's love can be so dedicated

[@petergriffiinbirdistheword]

I said the same thing. She is scary gullible.

[@petergriffiinbirdistheword]

​@@DanTheArtisan91 True, which is sad and leads to people taking advantage.

[@pentu7738]

That hoe had only money in her mind :D She doesnt know love ;P

[@jamescrawford1534]

How is this channel not more popular? He has the perfect voice, great content and brilliantly researched!

[@truartist5379]

The name of the channel maybe

[@7Lace77]

It's still a new channel, I'm sure it'll take off. I only just had a video recommended and am now on my second. 😺

[@blujaebird]

@@raymondcaylor6292 I mean, I haven't heard about it...but I'm also not from the UK.

[@Heckinwhatonearth]

Probably focused on his I did a thing channel 😂

[@kzeetha]

@@7Lace77 I'm on th 3rd video😂

[@HavaWM]

I’m trying to imagine shoe shopping and finding out then, ever so casually, that my husband has won the lottery. And then he refuses to tell me how MUCH he won. And then has no documentation of that win or even a solid date for the win. I am a trusting soul, but dear god. How did this not set off FIRE ALARMS in her head?!?! This is just bizarre.

[@Nocturnalux]

When I was a child, I picked up a winning lottery ticket. This was back in the early 90’s and a Portuguese lottery, which meant it was enough money to make a massive difference in my family’s life but not even remotely enough to turn anyone into a millionaire or anything even remotely like that. But even then, my father, who bought the actual ticket, showed my mother the ticket. They checked, together, several times, as they couldn’t believe it. They cashed the money together and got me to keep it secret, which was very wise. So it’s stunning to me how she was this weirdly blind, over an insanely larger amount of money.

[@jeremyhall7495]

​@Nocturnalux Excellent family morals👍, well done Dad, Mum and you.

[@Nocturnalux]

@@jeremyhall7495 I get she trusted her husband…but by all accounts, he was so nonchalant when telling her they had won enough money never to worry about having to work again… My father’s first reaction was, “No way. I am seeing it wrong.” Even after having doublechecked, he approached my mother right away, still too floored to really believe it. The odds are so staggeringly against it that I think anyone would think they’d made a mistake, at first. In fact, it only fully hit them when the lottery people confirmed it- they obviously went together- and it was only when they really had the money that they relaxed. And the amount was vanishingly small compared to what, millions?

[@jonny5777]

@@Nocturnaluxthat’s a great story. I have happy memories going on holiday to Portugal as a kid

[@Nocturnalux]

@@jonny5777 My father actually tried to dissuade me from picking that particular combination. The seller told him to let me pick, so we owe him the win, too. He knew he had sold the winning ticket, my family overheard him talking about it at the restaurant, but could not remember who to.

[@janelbbuck]

I feel bad for Cathy. I wish she didn’t decide to stand by him back in 2001. Glad she moved on eventually. it was clear he was never going to stop lying and conning.

[@njerhtby76]

I don’t feel bad,she was about to leave him and being Freddy and a gold digger she got what she deserve

[@WobblesandBean]

@@njerhtby76 LOL! Oh, go back to sucking Andrew Tate's ¢o¢k. She's the victim in all this. But you wouldn't know what that's like.

[@dollinterrupted]

@@njerhtby76 he was using a very common manipulation tactic called ‘love bombing’

[@donnamariedavidson5065]

@@dollinterrupted very true.

[@DirtyMikeandTheBoyz]

It's her fault for being materialistic.

[@LostSoulsmusic22]

This dude was forsure a compulsive liar. Like 5 minutes before the lottery lie I bet he was talking to a stranger at the mall about how he's a black belt.

[@pure-blood17]

...either that or a military sniper....those are always the go-too's for deuche bags.

[@SeeHim-vz7mp]

​@@pure-blood17😂

[@HigherSelfTarot]

During the first 1/2 of the video I felt bad for him and thought he was an insecure, but good guy deep down… who accidentally got caught up in a lie and just didn’t know what to do! Then the affairs and the later part of his life is revealed and WOWZA did I shift my opinion. 😐

[@Come7yNatura7]

For real though! I was like, WTF???

[@blinkth3dog]

Funny how that happens. People rarely tell you who they are upfront.

[@JM-vp8zc]

Not sure how one accidentally gets caught up in a lie. Telling a lie is a choice, no matter how reflexive a choice it has become for a habitual liar. Telling lie after lie to bolster the first lie doesn’t seem too accidental either. Not sure how deep down you’d have to dig to find the “good person” beneath all those deceptive thoughts, words, and actions.

[@donnamariedavidson5065]

Me too, the old lady at the end made me feel so sad for her. The guy is just something else.

[@wireframe01]

I know I couldn’t believe the wife took him back 😮

[@AbdelOhjawel]

All of this started because of £8,- shoes? 😟

[@Mike--Oxmall]

£8 is considered a lot of money in the north of England, especially back then, it was just a decade since they closed the mines.

[@Officialmartymars]

​@@Mike--Oxmall£8 may have been a lot then, idk because I wasn't alive, but no where in england is £8 considered a lot now, that's less than an hours work on minimum wage and shoes typically cost a lot more than £8, so £8 for shoes is cheap everywhere in the UK now

[@Mike--Oxmall]

@@Officialmartymars Yes man about 20 years ago £3 something was the going rate for factory labour and my mum's rent on a 3 bedroom council house was £400 a month, Id say the normal rent on a house was close to £750, Big mac meals were 3.31, or you could get a medium one for 2 pound something. Back then you could just about get by supportin a family of 3 kids and a wife on £250 a week, I know because my dad did this. You could buy a house on less than 100k, life has changed so much, I was born in 91, you're probably born after me, we were born in the shit generation.

[@cliffsofmoher4220]

​@@Officialmartymarsback then £8 was like 4 hours of work

[@cliffsofmoher4220]

​@Mike--Oxmall but then again earing £250 poumd would take weeks

[@HansDester]

I was about to give this guy a break because I thought he did it for love until he scammed those old ladies.

[@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24]

Take that old woman!! Haha

[@FirstThief]

I don’t know what’s more embarrassing; The fact that his wife stood beside him, or the fact that she’s okay with him basically telling everyone that she’s a gold digger.

[@bringthepayne7561]

As BOTH are TRUE.She only came back once he started splashing out money.They both got out only what they deserved in each other....

[@whyccan9063]

She was being manipulated just like the others that came after her. Howard's entire situation was pathological and everybody around him were pretty much victims and unable to see themselves as such, that includes Cathy

[@CraigStCyrPlus]

They're both as dumb as posts and deserve each other. I swear theres more idiots in England.

[@mjanny6330]

@• Whyccan • its always been strange to me how women seem so effortlessly manipulated.

[@FirstThief]

@@whyccan9063 be that as it may, there’s a point where you have to look within and realize that this man, who is now universally recognized as a Pathological liar, is tarnishing your very image.

[@AmandaRogersarock1988]

I heard about his lottery scam but not his post-lottery scams. I feel so bad for those elderly women :( .

[@petergriffiinbirdistheword]

*Kathy is very gullible to believe he did all of that for her. No lady, you were just the excuse, the scapegoat and an easy out for him to avoid actual accountability.*

[@S.Trades]

She just wanted to believe it was true.

[@921cottoncandy]

Omg I was getting anxious every time he went the extra mile to prove a LIE instead of stopping while he was ahead!

[@Cleme21]

No he was shopping while ahead.

[@SeeHim-vz7mp]

I knooow!!! Hate lying! Especially for no reason. He could of stopped.

[@halfasleepvampire7545]

The worst part is, a lot of the lying was possible because of general good will. People are generally pretty trusting and are willing to wait a long time with the expectation they will get what they’re owed. But then someone like him abuses that goodwill. And now the next time someone wants to legitimately purchase something but needs a little leeway to pay for it, there won’t be any trust.

[@markengle2199]

Amazed the bouncing a check for almost 9 million dollars over and over again worked

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Cheque for 8 million pounds

[@f.o.n.1244]

Idk how people can scam others. I get anxious just accepting a gift from someone.

[@germanshepherd6638]

I don’t get how you can send thousands of dollars to someone your not married too!

[@KompetenteEnte]

1:23 that he lost that haircut is actually like hitting the jackpot

[@TeamCGS2005]

I don't understand how they had 'hurt a lot of people in the community' when they were just parasites waiting for a free gift they were expecting. If anything, those people deserved everything they got!

[@dingus2218]

you've got yourself a fine youtube voice, my friend. Here's to 100 million subs!

[@amglimpse]

Thanks!!

[@samson_BNR32]

@@amglimpse i was here! just commenting so i can say i was an early fan once you have a sea of them

[@jekw23]

Saw a documentary on this years ago. All of us were laughing at these “idiots” but strangely by the end I felt really sorry. He brought this fully on himself and paid everything for it. I felt it was a short lived fantasy he wanted to live. At the end he had nothing.

[@beno1129]

They say he has a bar and a partner in Vietnam, so not exactly nothing. Sometimes bad people get away with their scams

[@maifantasia3650]

@@beno1129 - ask any foreigner that has opened a bar in Vietnam how it works out. He is in waaay over his head.

[@owusui]

Just found this channel and I'm loving it. Awesome work. Keep it going

[@amglimpse]

Thanks, will do!

[@donnamariedavidson5065]

It really is a great channel. New subscriber here. Thank you for the awesome content!

[@Risesandy]

There is an extra level of scum, to go beyond stealing someone's savings, but to then leave them homeless.

[@CashKingMarcus]

The funniest part is explaining how a check works

[@hensonlaura]

I know! Do we have a generation that can only print, not write, & doesn't know the workings of a chequebook? And a thousand other common knowledge principles, no doubt. It explains a lot.

[@CraigStCyrPlus]

Cheque*

[@CashKingMarcus]

@@CraigStCyrPlus Foreigners 😂

[@CraigStCyrPlus]

@@CashKingMarcus Americans 🤢

[@pa3041]

@@hensonlaura cheques are dinosaur era get with the times granny 🤣 we like our money moved instantly these days

[@dingytv538]

I was going to fool all my friends and family that I was a multimillionaire by buying everything in sight... But it didn't work out cuz I didn't have any money

[@OmarJano]

The thought of him buying a bunch of lottery tickets trying to win quick makes me crack up 😂 That’s like me every day… still no dice

[@marccleary8592]

He was one number off once 😂😂😂 that would be that extra kick in the nuts

[@Lara-xu3yc]

Don't waste your money..

[@neurodivergentpixi6736]

Translating for the Americans. Council housing in the U.K. is equivalent to Section 8 housing in America.

[@user-ei6ff1ti1n]

section 8 isn’t housing in america, it’s a voucher, you’re thinking about housing authority.

[@neurodivergentpixi6736]

@@user-ei6ff1ti1n Both Section 8 housing and housing authority are in America. Google is your friend buddy.

[@legobatman4eva]

these kinds of scandals are my favorite thing on youtube, instantly subscribed !!

[@scormz624]

Great video. You got both the editing skills and voice to make the channel grow I believe. Good luck with your future content!

[@amglimpse]

Thanks!

[@CameronSpanos]

Bro should've been put in jail for that haircut, nevermind the lies and fraud

[@kevinfletcher1999]

Council house, council haircut. 😂😂

[@janky14x]

The original Tinder Swindler

[@jgirlinluv55]

Right!!!

[@mjanny6330]

That guy just broke gender norms by acting like many women do on tinder lol. He was really a progressive trail blazer.

[@harrycooper5231]

@@mjanny6330 Actually he was maintaining Trump's scamming, and was really a MAGA leader.

[@Bor-Time]

I saw the documentary years ago however they left out him cheating on his wife at the same time he was lying to her about winning the lottery. A solid update, well done! I subscribed

[@Amber93012]

I would expect this channel to have atleast 500k subscribers. I don’t think it will take long for your channel to sky rise. The visuals you put in this video made me picture the scenario like while reading a book

[@luceerobertson5904]

This ^

[@beno1129]

Only a few minutes into watching my first amglimpse video, I subscribed. It was clear even at that early stage that it had quality and was worth following. I'm pretty sure the subscriber count will increase greatly in the coming months

[@alyssafaden9443]

"8 kids" let me stop you there

[@hiekkaninja4225]

Great video! I thought this was big channel and then noticed that you have only 19 subscribers. Now you got 1 more. Keep up with these videos and I promise you that your channel will be huge! Also nice voice you got there.

[@amglimpse]

Thanks so much! we're going to try and get weekly videos out!

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Howard rocked one hell of a mullet back in the day from those photos....

[@sunil68194]

woah honestly this story is so ironic to the story by Mark Twain, "The Million Pound Bank Note" yet the man, with a dark history/past and later on doing scamming by false romances, started the whole lie in the first place. so sad how he decieved his wife so poorly and kept on lying even when things could have gotten better. anyway i found this channel just today, and omg the documentary editing, the cool storytelling like voice and to the point vids youre making, absolutely amazing. just subscribed, hope you bring more amazing uploads in future :)

[@davidducat2437]

Great video and timeline of this serial conman. The first documentary portrayed him as a rouge but affectionate towards his wife. This really shows he is not to be trusted and a good warning for any future victims

[@jamesstuart3346]

Where I live, lotteries must publish names and faces of winners to prove that the money has been paid out

[@shanet5604]

Pre access to google…

[@Prolific_Troll]

Yo, somehow this drifted into my playlist and I stopped midway to take a look at who the channel belonged to, and was amazed at the lack of subs. Very good pace, topic & presentation, friend. You earned a sub in me.

[@Amber93012]

Wow when you feel relieved to go to PRISON LMAOO

[@jameshorner2045]

It's like a documentary. I can't believe this is your first vid!

[@7Lace77]

I just had teh Boston marathon cheat recommended, which was interesting and mind boggling lol, and now moved on to this one. 😺

[@julieoluna8887]

It is a documentary, this guy is just narrating a summary of it.

[@garrett2604]

Did they not run credit checks back then? How did he get so far with nothing?

[@holdencommodorehsv]

Its crazy u could take a check book out of a mail box and go crazy, different times. Everyone used to leave money out for milk when i was a kid, u wouldn't touch it .

[@cyberhype5495]

it was a "High trust Society" back then in the West

[@Daz-my2qs]

@@cyberhype5495not really, there were no computers in those days where you could verify at the click of a button.

[@AidenRKrone]

This guy is the very definition of _fake it 'til you make it._ I love it how it all started over a simple £8 pair of shoes. I also like how he tried to legitimately win the lottery by spending insane amounts of money on lottery tickets. That's tragicomedy at its finest.

[@somedots]

Well boys, will this be the start of a big new channel or will this all be forgotten. Let's see next year, October 23

[@blinkth3dog]

Love your voice. Look forward to more obscure stories

[@j3dwin]

If I won the lottery, I would lie and say I didn't.

[@mswrestlinggirl18]

You’re a great narrator and this video is fantastic keep up the great work 🎊 😊

[@madmadhatter]

Hey there! Just watched your two videos. Loved them - well done! Especially the Rosie Ruiz one. I had read about her long ago and your video brought it all back - but with video! (I had only read about it). Subscribed and looking forward to more!

[@amglimpse]

Thanks so much for this! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch both videos.

[@candacegolden9904]

Oxymoronically, He had two affairs and lied to her to keep her.

[@lonestar313]

Amazing content such a blessing to have found your channel!

[@RebuttalRecords]

Obviously more than one loan officer failed to do their due dilligence.

[@iseeeverything]

"She wasn't attracted by his wealth" Uh huh

[@JasonVoorheesFriday13th]

Imagine if he lied and said "the police are just jealous, but I've paid them off, lets go on a private jet to the Caribbean to take our mind off it.

[@twiggyeison]

All this going on and still Howard found time to moonlight as a professional world famous goalkeeper under the name Peter Schmichael .

[@cvspvr]

8 fucking children?! why??

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

Wasn't all the footage from the TV documentary about this?

[@jakeabale]

great vid! keep it up!

[@alexduran2476]

This really reinforces the belief that people don't change

[@Zekrom569]

Well not sure, the issue is that prison does not reform, in a lot of cases it produces worse offenders, but its the only form of punishment we have available. Indeed he has some deep fantasies that keep him in denial and repeat the same offences again and again. People can change but they change when the right criteria have been met, and prison doesnt do that

[@lornafarrelly7797]

Absolutely brilliant channel!!! Hope you get more subs!

[@tapsars7911]

This man should have been jailed for 35 years in the first instance itself . Three years is simply pitiable . He did not lie and claim to have won the lottery because he wanted to make his wife Cathy happy but because he is a born liar , swindler and conman . His type only care for their own happiness and not for that of others .

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

White collar crime doesn't come with long sentences usually. There is nothing odd about his short sentence.

[@divinejusticefeelsgood]

I dont know if your professional but your voice and the way you narrate is perfect

[@Amber93012]

How did police know Kathy wasn’t in on it? I feel like both would be convicted even if she didn’t know it was fake.

[@fishrenfroeboyd7954]

No evidence to say that. Only suspicion

[@Amber93012]

@@fishrenfroeboyd7954 but they didn’t even look into her as a person of interest?

[@beno1129]

@@Amber93012 I'm sure they did

[@mrbransformer4184]

What sucks is you know he never enjoyed any of it. It must have been such a relief when everyone finally found out.

[@MikeDoesRandomThings]

I think he did enjoy it. He just feigned remorse, all con-artist are highly anti-social and manipulative. He only feared the consequences, not the damage it would bring to others. I am not convinced he ever really loved his wife.

[@papadopp3870]

He is evidently a sociopath. Really no remorse.

[@dr2stroke611]

@@papadopp3870 true that

[@stephenmoran5855]

Great videos man! Saw a few randomly and really enjoy them. Time to start at the start!

[@amglimpse]

Welcome aboard!

[@CamJames]

lying about winning the lottery is not a little lie by any stretch lmao

[@ramama987]

8?! Children? Those alone could’ve paid for the parents

[@Stuck_in_the_70s]

Absolutely shocking. And that’s just Howard’s flat-top mullet!!

[@uncleted470]

Oh man this was absolutely amazing! I subscribed!!!

[@sirtinley-knot2944]

I used to work with this guy in the early 2000s after all this had happened! won't surprise you to know he was just a normal guy and actually a really nice guy... I say it won't surprise you because that's what everyone says on these sorts of comments "he was a nice normal guy" but this is the first time I've ever seen something like this about someone I actually know so it feels a bit weird and a cliché but it's true!

[@marcse7en]

He sounds like the salt of the Earth! 🤣

[@dr2stroke611]

funny that as i know somebody who knew him at school and said he was a knobhead

[@ctradio4416]

8:19 shows how little checks are used now by the fact you had to explain what they are…

[@nigelmurphy6761]

A classic example of that old saying money is the route of all evil.

[@palomino11]

Great video. Subscribed!

[@amglimpse]

Thanks so much!

[@nomos_lol]

Better Sub now. This is gonna be big.

[@copee2960]

I heard his nick-name in prison was BONUS BALL...you just have to inmates.

[@MrTibbs12]

I remember watching the full length documentary of this years ago and that bit made me pmsl

[@SchnippSchnappShnappi]

Incredible how people find each other

[@itinajones5977]

Definitely my new favorite channel

[@DanFontaine]

Did Cathy ask for her spoons back lol

[@rosyvision]

A man pretending to everyone he won the lotto and going out of his way to try fool everyone is probably the best story I ever heard. xD

[@velouris76]

Moral of the story: never trust a man who had a horrendous mullet 😂😂😂😂

[@marcse7en]

His haircut was indeed vomit-inducing! 🤮 ... I mean, when was he supposed to have won? ... 1983? 🤣

[@velouris76]

@@marcse7en Yep! In the 1983 Kentucky red-neck state lottery 😂😂😂😂

[@FatFrogChonk]

I wholeheartedly agree. I'm open to most-if not all old styles of fashion making come backs, except for of course the mullet. My worst fears came true yesterday when I glanced in my rearview mirror and witnessed the worst mullet worn by a skinny dude smoking a massive cigar, wearing a sleeveless shirt and aviator glasses. I'm going to have to get the Drain-o ready if this style starts making waves again. 💀 I can't be subjected to such a sight again.

[@dianajames4717]

He is living the life of a lottery winner now since he bilked two older women out of all of their money which comes to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[@JohnVuong-rr7yk]

I felt horrible for Cathy until she took him back.. that was stupid lol

[@talitaliberato331]

Amazing work, keep going!

[@caprious454]

She was like he was lying and imma need my sofa back i gave u last week

[@Datadog-1]

Interesting approach. First spend the money, then attempt to win the lottery….

[@laundrysauce354]

Really good channel, I've been binging the vids

[@Cleme21]

A distrusting person blinds you to ones you can trust. But most of the trust lies with you. When you trust someone you can't control what they'll do, so up your trust skills and beware of the dog that never barks.

[@Nocturnalux]

Trying to win the lottery for real shows a level of desperation that is truly stunning. No way that’d work.

[@xamtra]

He successfully made a fool out of his wife.

[@T-Bag13]

Lottery winner, no. From Doncaster, yes. Loser all round.

[@rya7642]

Karma will be waiting Howard

[@peachymushroom2609]

Very good documentary! I love this kind of thing 😂

[@smoothmicra]

Take out a massive loan and pretend you have won the lottery? Cant see any problems with that brilliant plan.🤔

[@gib123ons]

If what he did before wasn’t bad enough, was a contemptible man

[@marcse7en]

He's a wrong 'un and no mistake!

[@omgwtflmaololrotfl2368]

thank you for the great content.

[@FigaroHey]

Now you don't even have to win the lottery to ruin your life and lose everything by winning the lottery.

[@mpazinambao2938]

Pathological liars are so interesting.