thisworldcanbeaccessible

[Flibbertigibbet]

Same I’ve heard of stranger things happening and disabled people being bullied isn’t unusual.


Yeah, I can believe that - I was once driving round the burren in the west of Ireland and mist descended and we were unable to see even a metre in front of us. Scary.

So she is well known to be a scammer?

That’s sad, I hoped there was some truth to it because making something up to that level seemed so odd and sad. I started this thread to support her (naive, I know.) because it seemed so awful, I had no idea how quickly it was going to take a turn.

This woman knows that most people would want to help a disabled person being bullied, so she is pushing all the right buttons and she got fairly far with it. But people like me will immediately google for more information, and wonder why the local papers haven't mentioned it, or why there's absolutely no evidence in her video, just a story that makes no sense because no one would make it to a solicitor's office, never mind a court, with a claim that they are owed compensation because they had to interact with a disabled person. What is very clever of her is to rile people up enough to get them to shout down people looking for evidence, as happened on Irish social media.

Sorry if I was sharp, but Jesus this woman caused a row over here!

 

[Mrskane29]

In this day and age its SO easy to set the story straight. If she does in fact have a sister (i say this is a lie) all she has to do is screen record a facetime/video chat to put the story to bed. We all have at least birth certificates and most, passports... again easy to prove your identity. With allegations like she has against her, statements like 'i shouldn't have to prove who I am to anyone' shouldn't be accepted... 'disabled' or not! I'm 1000% convinced she is the girl in the articles! Just another conwoman who's been found out!

 

[Sp20191]

What’s with all these tiktokers acting as if her statement is 100% proof she isn’t lying?!

its literally just a few lines written in a word document….anyone could say it was their sister, there’s literally no proof!

 

[femmegirly]

I think it seems as impulsive as it does compulsive. Like she was annoyed at the review (because she knew she was in the wrong) and instead of being able to admit she’d made a mistake, she threw herself all in, and then the calculated stuff began.

There was also a very careful not disclosing of anything that identifiable. Vague about her job, vague about her husband. Didn’t want the press involved even though it was the kind of thing where press would have helped.

Re: husband
That ‘Olivia’ TikTok account posted a recording of her giving a talk at the St John’s theatre, and she keeps repeating ‘I will never post my husband on social media’ because she’s protecting his next wife. On her Instagram in 2021 she made reference to ‘wanting to find a farmer to marry’ implying she was single, so if she is married or has a partner. She must have met him/got married very recently.

Re job:
She’s not a software engineer. Her apps don’t exist. The tech that she talked about either already exists elsewhere or doesn’t exist anywhere on the internet. If she had invented something new, there would be patent information (either granted or pending) online. It’s 2022, if she worked in tech, there would be SOME mention of her work online.

 

[WhatABore]

What’s with all these tiktokers acting as if her statement is 100% proof she isn’t lying?!

its literally just a few lines written in a word document….anyone could say it was their sister, there’s literally no proof!

I thought this too.

Saw a video where a woman just read out the statement. Didn't say anything else and some of the comments were,
"See, bet all these people saying she was lying are embarrassed now"
"She needs a proper apology from everyone"
"I knew she wasn't lying. This just proves it"


It doesn't prove anything?

 

[Seeing_the_light]

of course they would im so sick of this narrative of oh shes got a disabillity so we cant call her out incase she goes and kills herself

i am sorry i am part of the disabled community myself and you know what disabillity or not if you do somthing shitty you should be called out for it it does not make you abelist to call someone out because they have a disabillity its called accountability

my students say often 'it's my body that's disabled, not my morals' when this issue of accountability arises.

We fight the constant head patting attitude of does-he-take-sugar asked over the head of a wheelchair-using software engineer/website designer/artist/student out with an ambulant friend.

One of my students regularly 'stole' items from shops, knowing she was seen, but a blind eye was turned. She would storm back in and confront staff and was often told 'you're disabled so I thought you wouldn't understand its wrong'.

 

[Ashila]

I’ve just seen the most demented video in support of her that’s recently been uploaded in TikTok. They are saying she CAN’T be lying because Netflix have bought her story and are doing a documentary on her and that it’s on Google so it can’t be wrong not mentioning the fact that the only person whose mouth that’s come out of is Carrie/Sam. I despair.

I’ve made several posts today looking at the information that comes up when you google her. They all seem a little unusual. The most interesting one is where she says she learned braille and then “with a voice controlled program I was able to code my own electronic braille reader than ran through the vibrations on my iphone” (She coded something that allowed her iphone to pick up vibrations?) AFTER losing 70% of her temporal lobe. In the very kindest interpretation of this entire situation this is a woman who should have profound difficulties in speech perception. It is possible that she misunderstood the air b&b family due to (in her own words) losing 70% of the brain area that deals with this task. Screenshots and links are all in my earlier posts.

 

[IAlreadyDespiseYou]

Police welfare checks are pretty basic. They won’t do much, they’ll check the person is alive, do a very basic assessment on them ie they’ll ask them if they need help or need support. They’ll toddle off if the person says no and says they are fine and the police can’t see anything to be concerned about. They also can’t share any info without that persons consent to anyone even the caller of the welfare check. So the most she’ll be told is “we’ve checked on the person concerned, we have no concerns, they are ok”.
Honestly, when can Tiktok go back to silly dances and cooking and kitten videos and all of the self righteousness and vigilantism die a death. It’s all over my FYP with people duetting and calling out people and the Maz women who claimed she needed to tell her followers out of obligation or something clearly needs to get a job and have her phone taken away.

bring back the kittens I say!!

 

[polarbearninja]

I think that people are correct that this woman went by Samantha Cookes in 2013 and is the same woman who went missing then. That photo definitely looks like her and it does mention Ireland.

What I'm not sure about is the surrogate scam. I can't tell if the photo is of her and the article says she was 23 in 2011, but then the Shrewsbury article says she was 24 in 2013. One of the journalists could just be wrong about the age, but I just think it's possible that there is another Samantha Cookes who committed the fraud.

She also could have a legitimate reason for wanting to change her name when she moved to Ireland that isn't related to scams (running from an abusive home etc).

I saw her videos about her AirBnB guests at the time she was posting them (a couple months back). I did think some of what she was saying was off at the time but I didn't think much of it beyond that. Her videos have popped up on my TikTok FYP a lot ever since, discussing the AirBnB thing but also just general videos about disability and her business. Most of the videos didn't have very high views at the time I saw them.

I don't think it's all been a "scam" in the typical way we see scams. She has been making videos a lot for months and not asked for money (other than her online shop but I doubt that got much sales). I do think she has probably lied about the AirBnB thing for attention. I don't want to assume she's also lying about having Huntingtons. She may have Huntingtons and made up this lie about AirBnB because of the depression that comes with a terminal diagnoses. Or, if she doesn't have Huntingtons I think she may have a mental disorder that's contributing to her behaviour.

I don't personally think someone trying to scam people would be stupid enough to lie about an AirBnB lawsuit that doesn't exist when they know AirBnB can just show the proof. I also don't think a scammer would play this much of a long game before asking for any money. I think she is probably mentally unwell and thrived on the attention of it all. I could be totally wrong, but either way the whole thing is very sad.

 

[Squittel]

Sorry I should have clarified - I live in a county that borders Northern Ireland so it's not uncommon to have people scamming both sides of the border for money or housing - even car tax! So our social offices seem to be extra thorough compared to elsewhere? But then again my case worker was notorious for being so tough. If you mention her by name locally people instantly know and will joke that it's like the money coming out of her own pocket
I only had a brief experience when I suddenly lost my job but I was only out of work for about 2 - 2.5 months. A lot of that time was spent going through the application process.
I second that the system is very generous but it can be tricky to get the support you need in the county where I lived. I can't speak for other areas!

I read your first sentence as “a country” rather than county and I thought you were trying to be mysterious about what country you live in that borders NI

 

[WhatABore]

Also curious that I've never seen 2 sisters, who look so alike, who also have the same moles/marks in the same place

 

[femmegirly]

I hope it’s all lies. Not so I can be proven right, but so there is one less woman with a terminal illness. She may be unwell in other ways, but huntingtons is such a terrible illness that I really fucking HOPE she’s lying. Nobody deserves that, regardless of their past.

All these hollier than thou, virtue signalling ‘believer’ tiktokers who actually WANT her to be telling the truth and WANT her to be terminally ill so they can prove all of us evil tattlers wrong really need to take a long hard look at themselves.

 

[Squittel]

I don’t know how interested people still are in this woman, but just a small update: there’s very likely going to be a documentary made about this lady and her scams! I really hope it happens mainly because I think her face and name should be out there to ensure it’s much harder for her to repeat her actions.

 

[Seeing_the_light]

You know what, if it all proves to be this mysterious sibling that not even the sleuthiest of sleuths can seem to find, then I'll hold my hands up and accept it but I think we have the

I hope it’s all lies. Not so I can be proven right, but so there is one less woman with a terminal illness. She may be unwell in other ways, but huntingtons is such a terrible illness that I really fucking HOPE she’s lying. Nobody deserves that, regardless of their past.

All these hollier than thou, virtue signalling ‘believer’ tiktokers who actually WANT her to be telling the truth and WANT her to be terminally ill so they can prove all of us evil tattlers wrong really need to take a long hard look at themselves.

I've been trying to work out the words to say THIS!

And also - disabled people don't want sympathy, patronising or infantilising. It fetishises disability and removes the person. Carrantha is cognitively sound - she should be held accountable.

A dying man robbing a bank is still a bank robber

 

[IAlreadyDespiseYou]

I don’t know what’s worse, the account in question or all the people riding the # “investigating” or simply posting because it’ll get them views. There’s one account that literally believes she’s doing Tiktok a favour by talking about it all…

I hope it’s a con because the idea that people would think they can sue someone for simply being disabled and being exposed to them is horrifying. If it is a con she needs serious mental health help.

I’m inclined to think it is, it doesn’t all add up but I guess if she’s deleted and AirBnB haven’t said anything we may never know?

 

[Justacatindisguise]

Sara can still do one lmao. "I won't apologise for believing disabled people" - uhhh disabled people were telling you she was lying in order to exploit us. Fuck right off and stop pretending you give a shit about us

 

[welshy101]

Hi thought I’d leave my thoughts here :

1. she maintained that the review had not been left yet as it was being argued with Airbnb but clearly that was a lie as it has indeed been published since august.

2. she stated that in the review they made discriminatory references and she was arguing for their names to be left off as she feared for them having abuse as a result of people reading how discriminatory they were - the review is in no way discriminatory to disabled people.

3. in the review they talk about not being able to smoke at the property, she never mentioned this on any video which I’d have thought she would as it seems to be a real issue to them.

4. she also never mentioned that the husband arrived on his own and in fact said that they arrived as a couple. In both the review and her reply it clearly states that he did arrive alone.

5. she often references that she has no mobility in her hands/fingers however a few days ago posted a TikTok video showing how to use some sensory equipment and the video showed her plugging in and unplugging a small piece of equipment which I found odd.

She did refuse any money etc from people however I wonder if she accepted any privately maybe or if this was a long game and she would eventually ask for help with legal fees?

Ive followed this lady from the beginning and was heartbroken for what she was going through.

I do believe that she is also Samatha Cooke’s and also on her YouTube someone said she was also known as Rebecca

 

[Squittel]

she’s deleted her account so it must be true. If it wasn’t she’d make a tiktok laughing about the huge misunderstanding.

Yep, I think so too.

Wish this had all come out earlier yesterday, I wouldn’t have bothered taking the time to do the write ups

As I was writing I did think the name Jade didn’t suit her. I thought she looked more like a Victoria, and my brain groups Samantha and Victoria as being similar names, so there is that

 

[She-Ra2000]

Ancestry stuff

Sorry if this is a bit jumbled, had to work backwards.

- Samantha Jade Cookes, mother's maiden name Williams, birth registered in Gloucester December 1988, could mean November birthday to match her company records. A cousin and someone who apparently knew her growing up (will call him Tiktok John) say this is her, birthday November 1988.
- Samantha Cookes is in Gloucester until 2008, when she shows up in York University halls. The Samantha Cookes who pulled the surrogacy scam dropped out of York Uni in her first year, 2008. I do believe the part about her losing her baby as evidence must have been submitted in her court case. There is, unsurprisingly, no public record of her after 2008.
- Cousin says she's the one that went missing 2013 and ended up in Ireland.
- The only other Cookes with mother's maiden Williams in Gloucester is indeed a younger brother. I'll not name him for privacy reasons, he's nothing to do with this. No sisters. This is what her cousin and Tiktok John say.
- Tiktok John says her dad's name was Les and he died a few years ago. There is indeed a record for a Leslie Cookes in Gloucester, about the right age, died 2016. His middle name is the same as the possible little brother but it is a very common one. I found his brother's name and an obituary names all the people I came across on my Facebook travels.
- Leslie Cookes married a Williams in 1987. As above, had Samantha in 1988 and a younger brother.
- Leslie Cookes married a Smith in 1970. They had two sons and I've found them both via the cousin's Facebook. These would be the two older half brothers people are giving the cousin shit about in tiktok comments - she originally said Samantha only had a younger brother as the half brothers are older and never lived with her. Ancestry puts them as teenagers when Samantha was born so this seems legit to me.
- There is no Carrie Cookes at all. Anywhere. There were a few Carolines born in the 1800s.
- The only Carrie Williams in Gloucester had a different mother, was born August 1983 and death registered the same quarter.
- There's one Carrie Williams with mother's maiden name Williams born in Shropshire but she's too young and I can't link her to any of the rest of them. It's quite a common name in Wales and along the English side of the border.

It's 100% all the same person and hopefully her family can be left out of it now.

Amazing research
All those on TikTok still refusing to believe she is Samantha need to see this

 

[Squittel]

If she actually selling the tiles, they're definitely not 3D printed and probably bought from somewhere else. When I googled light up tiles there were varying prices though and Carries tiles are suspiciously cheap compared to most of them.

The lights clearly aren't 3D printed (even though she references printing in the description) as you wouldn't be able to print that material for lights. I haven't been able to find a product that looks similar to it online, but that's probably because I've googled voice activated light and what's pictured isn't actually voice activated at all.

I was kind of giving her the benefit of the doubt on the money scamming front. I did believe even after all this came out that she had the intention of fulfilling the orders (whether through 3D printing or other means) but the time and cost element of 3D printing is making me doubt that now. Along with the fact that she has no real examples on her website (other than shitty grainy photos that may or may not be hers) and the fact that some of the things she promised can’t even be created with a 3D printer.

This leads me to believe the thing I least wanted to believe: that she purposely set out to financially scam disabled people.

I could accept some kind of munchausens. I could accept the previous scams when she was younger. I could even accept that the mental illness may have led to her faking a physical illness. I could accept that trauma might have caused her to act this way. I still felt some empathy. I thought the pressure with the orders might have become too much after the backlash and she was in full avoidance mode.

But I now believe she genuinely, calculatedly planned to scam disabled people and their carers which is disgusting.