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Meet 90′s gangster rapper Timothy “Tim Dog” Blair.
I’m not too familiar with his work but but apparently he’s quite well known for dissing Compton back in the day.
Besides that… he’s reportedly quite the ladies man and has been found guilty of scamming several women he met online out of THOUSANDS of dollars.
Blair was so good at scamming, that he was recently featured on a FULL episode of Dateline’s “The Perfect Catch. What caught my eye though is that a well known blog was noted as being one of the essential elements of Blair’s capture.
Details + watch full video below…
I’ve never personally met Jacky Jasper and like many bloggers, we’ve had our online run ins a time or two but I give props where props is due and Jacky did the dayum thang on this “Tim Dog” case.
Jacky ran a post a few years back about “Tim Dog” scamming women he met through online dating sites out of thousands of dollars.
Jaspers posts and follow ups on “Tim Dog” aided law enforcement officials in the capture of the rapper, who now happens to be spending time on probation while he pays many of the women back.
Check out the full story in the following Dateline NBC: The Perfect Catch episode where “Tim Dog” is featured:
Tim Dog was arrested in Atlanta back in December 2012 for fraud charges stemming from several charges filed by his victims. and it was Jacky’s site that brought the scammer’s deeds to light when comments used his posts as forums to discuss their encounters with “Tim Dog”.
Blair apparently convinced many of the women he met to invest in “music projects” and then used the dough to create the impression that he was a baller in order to convince the next chick that he was a rich rapper. That started a snowball effect, where others would trust in him and give him even more money to “invest”.
One of his victims, Esther Pilgrim was a 47-year-old single mother from Memphis, Tennessee. Pilgrim loaned “Tim Dog” $10,000, which somehow turned into $30,000.
Needless to say, she spent three years trying to get local authorities to take on the case, but eventually Tim Dog pleaded guilty to grand larceny in 2010, resulting in a deal were he’s doing five years of unsupervised probation and paying restitution of $19,000 in $100 monthly payments.
So Timothy Blair has been brought to justice and is paying at least some of the women back I can’t help but ask y’all who’s REALLY at fault here… the rapper known as “Tim Dog” or the gullible women he scammed out of their cash?
Again… major props to Jacky for proving that blogging & social media can be used for more than fun & games!
Unsupervised probation? Where they do that at?
Might as well drop all charges and let him about his business since they aren’t checking up on hm in any kind of way.
That white lady stupid. You are a single mother of 3 kids and you give that dude $10,000? That could go towards her kid’s college tuition.
SMH
The name rings a bell but none of his songs stand out in my head….dating scam huh? LOL….maybe just stupid women who got played……a man can’t really scam you out your money unless you just gullible as heck…I mean a couple dollars is one thing BUT thousands…I dont know about that. Sounds like some woman just got played and are angry…..I don’t condone scamming at all BUT they gave him the money soooooooo……..
I saw this on Dateline last Friday. He is a low life piece of trash. How can he really believe that he did nothing wrong.
Still Amazed The Ladies Fell For The Scam Also,,,Some Borrowed Money They Did Not Have To Have A Chance At A Get Money Quick Scheme…
Never heard of him until that “Dateline” show last week. SMDH!
This happens all the time. I remember "loaning" a guy friend who I had known since 7th grade $100 for a plane ticket. He gave the whole "I don’t have a credit card to pay for the ticket online, can you get it for me and I’ll pay you back when I get there" spiel. I knew it was all bad when he asked and I told him no, then later on paid for it anyway since "we’ve been friends since 7th grade" and decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Sure enough once he got here it was one excuse after another as to why he couldn’t pay me my $100. I was able to force $40 out of him then I gave up. I literally heard a voice inside me say, "Let the $60 go". I got him back by leaving him to fend for himself the rest of his "vacation". I didn’t hang out with him and didn’t give him a ride back to the airport when it was time for him to leave. A few weeks later I wound up getting $600 cash as a Christmas gift. A one hundred fold return! I guess that was God’s voice that said, "Let the $60 go". The Lord seen what happened and saw I was just trying to be a friend and help the guy out. I got my money back, and then some. After that, I learned once and for all to NEVER give a man money, EVER, for no reason. No matter if it’s a friend, boyfriend, husband, not even male family members. Men are to provide for women, not women provide for men. It’s been about 6 years since that happened to me and I see very clearly that any man willing to fix his lips to ask a woman for money is a bag of scum you need to run from. AND YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY WOMAN HE IS ASKING. No man worth anything would ask a woman for anything, and a woman should never offer a man money. A real man has too much pride to receive money from a woman.
that’s what happens when you are a one hit wonder…..he was a wack rapper anyway. Oh well…..
I saw the show last week. It’s interesting how gullible these women are. I can see giving the jerk a couple of hundreds but thousands! putting him as a user on your card! ***RED FLAG*** for women in love: do the math. Are u spending more than he is. Are you the one always doing the buying. Does he always have an excuse for everything?
Women protect yourself: IF IT’S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, THEN IT’S A ***FRAUD***! The only smart one was the young cheek w/ the daughter. She got the heck outta there, right , quick & in a hurry!
*chick* lol
I saw the show too and an avid blogg reader of Diary of a Hollywood Street King.
How he sat there and mugged her from behind in court says all I need to know about him. I went on one meeting on a dating website and when the fool said to me if I was your boyfriend if I needed money would you help me out I got up and walked away at the moment. Then he wanted to insult me, these types of dudes kill me. They have no self worth and want to make everyone around them as miserable as they are. Thinking they are so smart. The idiot I had the unfortunate dealing with saw me months later trying to "talk" to me I was like bitch please, I don’t talk to losers or people who call me out of my name because they don’t get their way. Ladies, keep your guards up. This "game" has too many male bitches, scum, losers and con artist in it. Keep your eyes open. Like the poster above said a "REAL" man won’t ask you for money. He will do what he has to do to provide.