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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.
If you’re 23 in 2011 then you can be 24 in 2013 due to birthdays and the time of year. For example if your birthday is December and your turning 23 in 2011 then you will be 24 for a majority of 2013.
 
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What I'm really curious about now is how she bought the airbnb house and what name it's under. Can you get a mortgage when you're terminally ill? Do we reckon she saved up enough to buy outright? Aren't house prices in Ireland even worse than the UK?
ETA maybe some inheritance from her dad but dude had four kids and the family don't seem to be millionaires or anything. Would be interesting to see what names are beneficiaries on his Will but I'm not paying for a copy 😅
Maybe it's not actually her house and she rents.. or possibly even somehow got herself social housing?
 
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Two things occurred to me- firstly she never gave her name. But when I believed her, I showed her vids to someone who knows the legal world.
She claimed not to have any/much money.
And claims she was being sued for €450,000. That’s a high court case. A private solicitor would probably look for €10,000 to take instructions and to defend the case would take anywhere from 10,000 up to 30/40/50,000z
Th ey would need to hire junior and senior counsel
So how could she pay them? And she implied she was talking to her solr daily- and the things he told her Appara are not things solicitors usually advise on . Just my take on ir
 
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Maybe it's not actually her house and she rents.. or possibly even somehow got herself social housing?
Anyone know much about renting in Ireland? I've had to take over dealing with a couple of rental properties in England for a family member that died and the landlord insurance said no subletting. Wouldn't imagine social housing would be too pleased about it either.
 
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I will say this she dose not have HD there is no way she could have it with the amount of lies she has said I know all about testing and what she said is not the truth
 
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Maybe it's not actually her house and she rents.. or possibly even somehow got herself social housing?
It'd be very rare to find somewhere that would let you run an air bnb in a house that isn't yours. I don't even know if air bnb allow it themselves
 
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If she lives in the backside of nowhere she could easily have bought a house for under 150,000 if she did get an inheritance.

if she really was ina mental health facility she would’ve got a key worker and her application for social housing would’ve be prioritised especially if she was happy to live anywhere.

was the air b&b even true or was it all a fantasy and she left good/bad reviews from false accounts herself 😂 nothing would surprise me
 
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I stayed in an Airbnb recently and on getting the keys and settling in we got a text from the person asking us to say we are her friends if any neighbours asked 😂 pretty sure she was renting the place and occasionally putting it on Airbnb. Later found her again with a uni halls room on there so anything is possible if you are bold enough to do it 😂
 
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I stayed in an Airbnb recently and on getting the keys and settling in we got a text from the person asking us to say we are her friends if any neighbours asked 😂 pretty sure she was renting the place and occasionally putting it on Airbnb. Later found her again with a uni halls room on there so anything is possible if you are bold enough to do it 😂
Same thing happened to me when I went to Toronto - the owner told me not to tell anyone it was Airbnb 😭 so cheeky
 
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It'd be very rare to find somewhere that would let you run an air bnb in a house that isn't yours. I don't even know if air bnb allow it themselves
It's happening in a place near me - lady told the owner she was going to live in it as she was moving to the area for work, moved in for 2 weeks to set it up as an Airbnb and then went back to her own place a couple of hundred miles away. Landlord has been trying to get her out for a couple of years now, but there's such a backlog in the courts because of the covid eviction ban that he hasn't managed it yet.
 
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Anyone know much about renting in Ireland? I've had to take over dealing with a couple of rental properties in England for a family member that died and the landlord insurance said no subletting. Wouldn't imagine social housing would be too pleased about it either.
I'm in Ireland and know multiple people that rent but sublet a room in their house on Air BnB. It's definitely illegal but they still do it.

One person I know did it and made so much from it she didn't actually have to pay any rent herself. Her landlord found out and didn't care, as long as he was getting his money.

It'd be very rare to find somewhere that would let you run an air bnb in a house that isn't yours. I don't even know if air bnb allow it themselves
They either don't tell their landlords or their landlords don't care.
 
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There was no photo of the exterior of her house on Airbnb so it’s possible she was subletting I guess.

Still waiting on that journalist. Have a feeling it’s not going to come to anything.
 
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Just my two cents on the housing as I lived in a county a little further north. Where I was, house prices to buy/rent are higher than normal because of the mica crisis (worth a Google and signing your support if you want a genuine cause to get behind as it's awful). Also, since the end of spring people with spare rooms/empty properties are being offered large sums of money to house Ukrainian refugees. This, and the increase of extortionate airb&bs has made it very difficult to find housing.

If she had the means to buy somewhere that's relatively built up and in a tourist location, it would be costly. But raises the question how - did she use her real name? Or have forged documents? Ireland became quite strict with mortgages following the last recession but loosened a little with Covid but they aren't very receptive to applicants without a steady income or good income projections (I'd bother as a self employed person and had to submit all sorts of "evidence").

If she was leasing, they wouldn't allow airb&b or else turn a blind eye if the rent is being paid.

Social housing is hard to come by. It's based on needs so they wouldn't put a single person in a three bed family home when a family may need it, for example. If she was housed due to illness, they may look to have her in a bungalow (as it's easier to move around in) with a routine nurse/case worker visiting or if her health is declining look to house her in a home or community where she can receive around the clock care. I have friends in social housing and the routine property checks (so she can be allocated funds for new furniture or have maintenance work done) are frequent enough so it could be hard to "hide" the fact it's an airb&b?

Also, if she's in receipt of financial aid, this will be routinely assessed where she has to declare income and her bank accounts are monitored. Personally, I experienced a period of unemployment and received job seekers allowance for a few months while looking for work about 8 years ago. I would have home visits to check I wasn't subletting the empty room in my (privately rented) home. My case worker also had printed documents from my (then public) social media accounts like Instagram and LinkedIn, quizzing me on my activities and if any income was received (like helping out at a friend's birthday party). Im sure if this person was running an Airbnb while claiming income support she would be caught. Cash in hand can be hidden handy enough but PayPal receipts and bank transfers? Not so much!

I just thought the perspective could be helpful but mods please remove if needed.
 
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Something that bothered me from the very outset with this… the prices in her shop make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

We have a 3D printer and she isn’t even coming close to covering her material costs, nowhere near close. I don’t think people appreciate just how expensive filament is!

Take the fibre optic carpet… up to 1x2m for €40?!?! I’m sorry what??? It would be more than 10x this cost.

And even if she could afford to substitute 90%+ of the material cost, where is that money coming from?!

I’ve repeatedly seen people say there’s no scam, but I genuinely cannot comprehend how she can ever have intended to deliver any of the orders.

Have we ever even seen the 3D printer?
 
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Does anyone follow the Olivia page on TikTok? Im so lost by her posts🥴 only following this a few days so haven’t a clue
 
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Something that bothered me from the very outset with this… the prices in her shop make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

We have a 3D printer and she isn’t even coming close to covering her material costs, nowhere near close. I don’t think people appreciate just how expensive filament is!

Take the fibre optic carpet… up to 1x2m for €40?!?! I’m sorry what??? It would be more than 10x this cost.

And even if she could afford to substitute 90%+ of the material cost, where is that money coming from?!

I’ve repeatedly seen people say there’s no scam, but I genuinely cannot comprehend how she can ever have intended to deliver any of the orders.

Have we ever even seen the 3D printer?
Before the Samantha Cooke's story blew up, Carrie/Samantha must have had a plan for the shop. If she never sent any items people would eventually have called her out on Tiktok.

As people have said before, I think that she probably got all the items super cheap on AliExpress or elsewhere and just marked it up and pretends she prints it herself. The Zoom calls people have to do to customize their orders probably meant nothing.

That or it was a short con where she would have disappeared like she has now as soon as word was getting around that no orders were coming.

Or she just did it and had no plan what would happen next.
 
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Before the Samantha Cooke's story blew up, Carrie/Samantha must have had a plan for the shop. If she never sent any items people would eventually have called her out on Tiktok.

As people have said before, I think that she probably got all the items super cheap on AliExpress or elsewhere and just marked it up and pretends she prints it herself. The Zoom calls people have to do to customize their orders probably meant nothing.

That or it was a short con where she would have disappeared like she has now as soon as word was getting around that no orders were coming.

Or she just did it and had no plan what would happen next.
it’s all so confusing 😂😂 will we ever know what her plan was long term. I’m only an hour drive from her I’d near drive down and ask her myself 😂
 
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Reflecting on watching her very first tiktoks, I never doubted her by the way but I was confused about how the guests reacted to the accessible doorbell. Carrie showed a photo and i remember thinking it looked fairly normal, ie you wouldn't even know it was a special doorbell. And i thought accessible doorbells affected the inside more, ie the lights would flash for a deaf person etc. Adding this with the actual review on airbnb by Charlotte... I go between thinking that it:
A) happened the way she said, the guest was rude about disability
B) it's completely false
C) with Carrie's mental health, that she went from 0 to 100 about a fairly innocent comment about the doorbell, fabricated (but genuinely believed) she was a threat to these people and they were a threat to her. The guest review seemed kind of bewildered that Carrie had reacted the way she did.

I feel that some people with Munchausens genuinely believe they are sick and others are fully aware they are faking...
 
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Can’t believe I’m back here commenting. Someone chuck my phone in the sea!!!! 😅

She had an early tiktok of all these little 3D printed brains that she’d made - one brain represented one person who had signed a petition or sent a letter or something like that - and she had them all lined up on the floor. They looked 3D printed - she could have printed them or she could have bought them I suppose.
 
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