Tech YouTuber Marques ‘MKBHD’ Brownlee has revealed what occurred the day that the FBI contacted him because of the Escobar folding cellphone.
Again in March 2020, Marques Brownlee uploaded a video exhibiting off the $399 Escobar Fold 2 – a gold Android cellphone that seemed similar to the Samsung Galaxy Fold.
It seems that it was a Galaxy Fold however with a gold sticker over the again and hinge of the cellphone. After eradicating the sticker over the hinge, MKBHD found a Samsung emblem.
Within the years since, Brownlee has hinted fairly just a few occasions that he had an interplay with the FBI – however many brushed his feedback off as jokes.
On July 26, 2024, he lastly revealed the story behind his interplay with the FBI after they contacted him to speak concerning the Escobar cellphone. They requested to see the entire conversations that his crew had with the corporate, and took each the gadgets for proof in a then-ongoing fraud case.
“They principally then had a bunch of questions on that video and the method of coping with that firm in any means,” he stated. “Any and all communications I had with them, any e-mail… they wished every part.”
Brownlee claimed that the corporate was transport telephones to YouTubers and folks they hoped to get constructive feedback from, after which allegedly not transport gadgets to others.
“These folks had been getting scammed out of their cash,” he stated. “Actually, in hindsight, I don’t understand how they thought they had been going to get away with this… finally their entire plan backfired after I made a video about the entire thing.”
In February 2024, the CEO of Escobar was arrested for fraud after allegedly failing to ship virtually 600 of the telephones to prospects. On prime of that, he was charged with smuggling, cash laundering, and unlawful artwork buying and selling.
This FBI story comes simply days after MKBHD recieved backlash over his Samsung Galaxy Watch Extremely video, inflicting him to reply to a few of the feedback.
