[Music] [Music] my best friend is an influencer not big time rather big enough following to get free [ __ ] and has gotten to sponsor trips she still works a full-time job but does the Instagram thing on the side mostly because of the perks she's not big enough to live off of this yet anyways this was her first trip a little boutique hotel from Miami contacted her via Instagram DM and offered her an all-expenses-paid trip to Miami for Memorial weekend 2018 in exchange for her to be in the hotel and take pictures and do a couple of stories she was told she could bring a female friend with her if she wanted to and that everything would be covered for that friend as well this was her first time doing this so at the time she wasn't really sure of how it worked they sent her a bogus contract for her to sign and it said should be responsible for paying for her plane ticket to Miami and that should be reimbursed for it later this was to prevent the no-show meaning the influencer will get a ticket purchased by the hotel and the influencer will never show it seemed reasonable my friend chose to invite me we figured it shouldn't be a big deal in worst case scenario they don't want to pay for my plane ticket and she'd just cover it for me and that's that we were supposed to be picked up by the hotel at the airport so the day comes and we arrived to Miami there's a guy holding a sign with her name and the paper has the hotel logo we are greeted and were escorted to a black SUV here is where he gets weird as soon as we are getting on the car the driver is visibly upset we thought he was talking to the guy who walked us over to the car but he was talking to my friend he had a very thick accent and was wearing dark shades he was telling my friend that she's not allowed to bring her boyfriend me and that she said it was two girls two girls the hotel told me two girls not one girl and one guy two girls he was demanding to see where the other girl was we were speechless and confused the guy who walked us to the car looked annoyed and started to fight with a driver in Portuguese then he turns to us and asks us where the other girl is my friend which is visibly upset right now tells them that there's no other girl and that she is the person they were supposed to pick up for the Instagram deal and that I'm just a friend who's coming along with her on this trip the big guy who sat in the passenger seat the guy who walked us in the car gets out of the car tosses our luggage out of it and says something along the lines of this is emphatic [ __ ] gets in the car and they take off and that was it we were in shock are in complete shock my friend immediately emails Melissa the PR person who we had been in contact through email with to tell her what happened no response we decided to take a cab and show up to the hotel as soon as we showed up everything made sense the hotel had been rebranded and had a completely different name owner and staff we walked in and showed her stuff the Instagram page which they agreed was indeed the Instagram page of the hotel he used to be but not the new one this Instagram account had more than 10,000 followers and seemed quite real however upon further inspection we realized the pictures and uploads were quite old my friend felt like an idiot and would not stop crying we called the police met up with a detective nothing ever came out of it they investigated who was running the account before or who had access to it none of the people who used to run the account and anything to do with it nothing ever came out of this it's upsetting and scary to know that whoever wanted to abduct my friend or any other girls by using this old Hotel Instagram account knows who my friend is the hotel's Instagram page has since been deleted and we never heard anything from anyone ever again but to think my friend would have been kidnapped had she gone with another girl instead of me since chills down my spine [Music] [Music]