FBI INVESTIGATION OPENS Edaan Brook WhatsApp Scam of Jewish Community

One religious organization warns a Jewish impostor. They are praying on the generosity of the valley's Jewish community. He is asking for hundreds of dollars for rent. Fox 5 Investigates Andrea Shepard spoke to Jewish Nevada about what you need to look out for to protect yourself and wallet from this scam. Jewish Nevada told me this scam has been making its rounds for decades. Yet, several of its members lost hundreds of dollars. He does not appear to live in or around Nevada, but is seeking money and support. Please do not engage with him. Do not send him money. Stephanie Tusman emailed that warning to all Jewish Nevada members Saturday night. It came after several wondered if that organization knew of an Adon Brookke in need. He leverages Jewish WhatsApp groups to request money from individuals by posing to be a member of the Jewish community. One of the horrible things that we've had to see in the last couple of years is how wicked people can be in taking advantage of the good hearts of Jewish people and people that support Torah. There is a evil disgusting filth of a human being by the name of Edan Brooks. At least that's the name that he goes by. I've told you about him some time ago. For the last couple of years, this filthy creature infiltrates Jewish WhatsApp groups, goes in there and starts contacting people in the groups saying that he's a Jew and he's poor and he needs $300 for rent and he needs $400 so he doesn't get kicked out. And this is what he's turned into his day job. He gets people's phone numbers. He starts calling them. And he starts inventing all types of lies. He's getting kicked out of his house. He needs money to uh rescue his dog. The rabbi told him to call this person. And he does it literally all day, every day. The truth is he is not a follower of a Torah. He's a Russ. I believe he's a Christian by birth. He is someone that is part of a cult. He even makes videos, makes videos about how he lies to Jews. Like the audacity of this monster is has no limits. He talks about how he lies to Jews to get money out of them. And he's part of a cult. I have a recurring problem with um setting up for myself and lying to Jews is a part, you know, I have an addictive personality. I don't feel like I am so addicted and you know but it's like there's an there's like a certain level of like getting something done and getting a hit that is still present for me and lying in a way or misrepresenting myself or like you know doing that behavior still in some ways kind of scratches the itch And one of the things that this guy has that's unbelievable is that he has no sense of shame whatsoever. Even after we exposed him and publicized this picture, he continues because he assumes that some people don't know that this is the same person. So he continues going into different groups whether it's our groups or other rabbis groups or other Jewish groups and just contacts different people that apparently there's a dem that maybe they didn't give enough to the right places so they get a wicked person to get the money out of them. Unfortunately they have to do also the people that lost money to him that why are they not giving enough that Hashem is sending them a wicked monster to to to steal their money. But nonetheless, this person doesn't care that his picture is all over the place in the media, online, in WhatsApp groups that stay away from this person. He continues. He even makes videos about how he lies about it. And I took a few minutes to see this disgusting creature. What is what is driving this person? I mean, is it just money? Is it that much hunger for money? and he talks about his life like he's not doing anything with his life. He doesn't know how to get out of his own way. And he has this excuse and that excuse. And the truth of it all is that the root cause of all of his wickedness is the next character trait. Laziness. Laziness could literally lead a person to commit every crime under the sun. It'll justify a person to steal, to cheat, to lie, to kill, to do anything. Just like this Edan that literally there is simply no way possible for this guy to fix his sins because he has to literally remember all the money that he stole and give it all back to all the people that he stole it from under the pretense that he's a poor Jew under the pretense that he's almost homeless and the pretense that the rabbi sent them. All types of fake stories that he made. There's literally this person is is is going to have such a horrible life in this world. He's going to suffer so much in this world when Hashem finally turns on the button for suffering for this person that he will regret the day he was born. But unfortunately, there are many people like him that are not quite there where they're not quite stealing from people yet. They're not quite lying to people to that extent yet, but they're lying to themselves. They're lying to themselves to justify their stationary lifestyle. We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices. Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless.