No, the story didn’t quite add up. That should have been obvious from the beginning. (Being sued for 250,000 quid for reiki and aroma therapy?) However, some people from her previous life began showing up and calling her her real name on TikTok. She disabled comments and shortly after deleted all of her social media.
Turns out, her real name is Samantha Cookes. And she’s been arrested for pulling cons like this before.
[https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/10/26/telford-surrogate-mother-con-woman-spared-jail/](https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/10/26/telford-surrogate-mother-con-woman-spared-jail/)
[https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/10/26/telford-surrogate-mother-con-woman-spared-jail/](https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/10/26/telford-surrogate-mother-con-woman-spared-jail/)
In Ireland, she goes by the name Carrie Jade Williams and claims to be terminally ill. This seems to be part of a scam she’s been running on the Irish arts and disability community. She’s milked them for all they’re worth.
EDIT:
Here is another article on from the BBC in 2015 with Samantha Cookes/Carrie Jade Williams claiming to suffer from symptoms (a phobia of hospital equipment) quite similar to what she ascribed to her AirBnB guests: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/videonation/2005/11/gloucestershire\_takingmymindoffthings.shtml](https://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/videonation/2005/11/gloucestershire_takingmymindoffthings.shtml)
On that note, a lot more has come to light since this post. Several verified family members have come forward elsewhere verifying that Carrie Jade Williams is Samantha Cookes, and she does not have Huntington’s Disease (nor was she adopted). The information is out there.
Moreover, I’ve been contacted by people who have been scammed by her using equally (and sometimes even more outrageous) life stories. She’s hurt a lot of people in the country and, as mentioned, has pocketed a good deal of money from Irish charitable organisations. Be warned.
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Bloody hell.
Is she even disabled?
There was something strange there but the idea it may have been entirely a fabrication – spanning weeks and weeks – from top to bottom is something else.
Always gotta be suspicious when there’s no mainstream news coverage!
Sorry for another post.
So Samantha moves to Ireland and becomes Jade.
Jade then opens an air b and b.
Judging by the reviews it’s only open a couple of months.
“Charlotte ” and 2 others stay with Jade , posted a review (its not awful really).
Jade replies with a post saying that “Charlotte ” only gave her a bad review because she is disabled. Then Jade made videos about “Charlotte ” and they went viral.
So a few questions:
When did Samantha/Jade start winning awards from the Arts Council? Before or after this went viral?
Is “Charlotte ” a real person?
That she claimed she was being sued was the most outlandish part of the story. Can you imagine a barrister in an Irish court arguing in front of a judge that their client should get a couple hundred grand because they don’t like disabled people? Ireland’s not America, there’s absolutely no way an Irish legal professional would even entertain taking on such a case – they’d be laughed out of the profession.
I was suspicious of this, from an Airbnb point of view. I worked their customer service for a while. They wouldn’t ignore the host over such a shitshow as was claimed here. They don’t always side with the guest.
I dealt with a case where someone wanted a full refund and the host punished for having a filthy let. Requested evidence. The filth? An eyelash on a pillow. A single eyelash. Took the hosts side.
Another case, the guest wanted a refund because the place was filthy and crawling with bugs. Requested evidence. Photos showed cockroaches in the fridge, and insects innthe kettle, and frogs in the house. Host co firmed this was the case and SAID IT WAS NORMAL. Sided with the guests.
This should give an idea of how things work for cases. Chances are, if a host complains about being treated unfairly.. they were in the fucking wrong.
Looks like her Instagram account has been deleted now.
Conning ain’t as long term as it used to be with the internet, saw a tiktok last night from someone with the same receipts because she recognised her from years ago… fucking wild altogether.
Hope she has fun fighting the government departments she owes money back to, because they will go after her, Leo hates fraud like
E: Took me finding a different tiktok to get a first name for this account to be able to find the tiktok I saw last night…
https://www.tiktok.com/@mazmcclelland/video/7151493831400131846?_t=8WIhjRFTanl&_r=1
Also, apparently all the social medias have been scrubbed but in this day and age, people love to screen record and cap everything
Interesting – the review from the people she claims are involved in all this says they were made to whisper after 9:30pm. Another review states that you couldn’t shower after 9:30pm. In her review of them, however, she claims she’s extremely hard of hearing…
Several guests state that she was very inflexible and quite aggressive/hostile when it came to negotiating check in time, with more than this couple being told essentially “if you don’t like it, go to a hotel with 24 hour check in”. I feel like they found her very argumentative from the start, and she went straight to Airbnb with they “they’re discriminating against me” story to try and cover her bases
This is very destroying and disappointing
Here is the Airbnb and that she had up, Charlotte was the lady in question (only one to have a public review replied) who was in fact French.
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/662916756941972835?adults=1&s=42&unique_share_id=DEDDB8E8-F820-4701-87B2-97DEF2C7B2D5&_branch_match_id=1106832383174095819&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXT0zKS9LLTdW3NDJK9C9NiQwtSQIAFspTHhsAAAA%3D&source_impression_id=p3_1665127632_mLBvrPBNeJ8r4aTt
Also all social media channels have been deleted
Fuck sake.
As some one with an actual disability this is horrific, fuck the money and all that the lies ahead clearly sick.
But the suspicion it casts on the rest of us. I’m glad I don’t have an invisible disability those folks get it much worse.
This has really shaken my faith in taking insane internet stories at face value
The main thing I’ve learned here is that it’s pretty fucking easy to be a “superhost” on Airbnb.
All of the people in the original post asking for a shred of evidence or a legitimate source were downvoted to oblivion. The original post is still on the front page.
Jesus lads. Not a good look.
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Is this the one who said she had huntingtons?
From 9 years ago when she went missing, another better picture of “Samantha Cookes”
“it is now thought that Samantha may have made her way to Ireland” yeah, she’s been found
https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2013/10/10/police-appeal-to-find-missing-shrewsbury-woman/
Its downvotes so it means F-All but people calling others out for asking for a proper source other that Tiktok or a twitter post. Naivety at best…..
I was showing my wife her videos last night and her bullshit radar went off straight away. The legal advice she was getting didn’t make sense.
She has been acting as an Uber religious au pair in Ireland for a few years. Pedalling a story that she was adopted and part of the millennium church. She used this story to con people out of money at Xmas last year.
I hope to hell if she has been scamming the Arts Council, she’s forced to pay it all back and black listed. This really grinds my gears when so many other causes etc are crying out for money and funding.
Has this person been receiving grants/services?
We had to jump through hoops, forms, medical reports, occupational therapy home visits to apply.
Those funds/services/helps are there for people who actually NEED them.
I very recently listened to a fascinating podcast on something like this but in the States. A girl going around pretending to be disabled, had people bathing her and everything, but she was completely able-bodied. Her family would find out where she was and come and get her (imagine the shock of her carer to see her get out of her wheelchair and walk to the family car), but then she’d start the scam again in a new area. Claimed to have stalkers following her, would just take over people’s lives with her problems until they copped on. Over and over again. Lots of false identities. Really crazy stuff and now I can’t remember the damn name of the podcast…..
Sympathy Pains! Finally remembered the name of the podcast. Highly recommended.
This whole thing’s still really sad even if it is a hoax. Firstly because it is painting genuinely disabled people in a negative light when they already face enough discrimination. Secondly, she strikes me a being really mentally unwell if she is making this up – either she believes it herself, or she has a sad life if she needs to do this for attention.
Also note that one of the guest’s responses on Airbnb implies that they themselves are disabled so if it’s a hoax, it’s either a really unfortunate or really deliberate choice of victim.
The amount of people on this sub who took the story at face value and had pitch forks out decrying imaginary “yanks” is shocking. Like no wonder shit like the Salem witch trials happened, mob mentality at it’s finest.
Well that’s a kick in the nuts… I’m disabled and was so unbelievably shocked, frightened and disgusted by her story, I fully believed her, boosted her petition… Why would someone do this? Taking advantage of people’s good nature and the disabled community for a grift, I was wondering why everything suddenly got deleted today and the independent article taken down.
She claimed on a tiktok live recently that she was treated by the fraudulent psychiatrist Zholia Alemi in the UK. (Zholia Alemi was from New Zealand and got a job with the NHS using fake documents and was sent to prison for this)
The ultimate scammer piggyback 🤔
So apparently she’s also lived in Cork under the name Rebecca and was pulling scams there too, based on some of the replies she got last night before she took stuff down.
[https://tattle.life/attachments/screenshot_2022-10-06-23-57-12-854_com-google-android-youtube-jpg.1632791/](https://tattle.life/attachments/screenshot_2022-10-06-23-57-12-854_com-google-android-youtube-jpg.1632791/)
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(I’m goin’ down a rabbit hole on this now lads, there’ll be no work done today!!!!)
Now I’m being harassed by someone reporting me to Reddit for wanting to unalive myself. So many sick people in here.
So I’m fully down the rabbit hole now, don’t come at me. I have SO much to say about this and I don’t even know how or where to get it out.
And this is not even including her apparently being Samantha Cookes, I’m laying that to the side.
But judging off her activity as Carrie Jade Williams there is so much to poke holes in.
Her narrative about her disease doesn’t line up with people who actually have knowledge of this disease. Her story on how/when she was diagnosed is different in different articles. For instance in one she said she was at a typical neurology appointment, got told and was given a pen and paper and told to write a bucket list and walked out the appointment. In another she says it was a seizure she had in Dublin that caused her to get diagnosed and she was laid up in ICU unable to walk, talk, read, eat etc and could only communicate using an eye gaze board.
In another article she claims that for a good few weeks after her diagnosis she didn’t care for assistive tech and didn’t believe she needed it or didn’t want to believe it, but that she started writing immediately after her diagnosis.
But in another article she said she didn’t have the ability to hold a pen so she programmed all her own assistive tech and was able to write. She learnt braille, coded voice to braille tech on her phone (which I just can’t wrap my head around). But I mean… How would she be able to just… Create all this software and technology that takes creators years and it just works first time, as someone with no experience in it other than “I already knew coding”. I feel like this raises a lot of questions.
Her story just sounds so farfetched but who’s going to question her?
I’ve heard her speak on Kerry Today about how she’s sold a manuscript to Netflix, and then carried on to say “and Netflix will be filming me as part of a biopic about my story and how I use my assistive tech”
So… 2 things on Netflix? 👀 Seems a bit sus.
And I hate to sound like a bitch but I’ve read her work and I can’t imagine it getting her to a position where she even has the opportunity to pitch to Netflix. Then again she’s won some awards so I guess it’s not outside the realm of possibility. I’m just questioning everything.
But like i say, things don’t add up. If her Huntington’s had led her to lose her ability to walk and talk, that’s not something she would be able to recover from. So if that did happen, it’s a sign of something else (she said she had a seizure and 2 strokes which neither are typically linked to Huntington’s).
Update to this situation as someone who purchased a sensory package through her website: a group of customers have found each other on TikTok. Tonight a customer was found who brought new info to the table. Carrie Jade Williams also ran an Etsy account, which, in line with her other social media accounts being deleted or wiped clean, has vanished. This customer’s order was supposedly dispatched 7 weeks ago. The Etsy apparently had a number of reviews, good and bad, with the good reviews remarking on how quick she was to arrange the zoom meeting for planning, and the bad reviews all saying they hadn’t received their items. An interesting development that raises a lot of concerns about the scale of the situation. Previously it was thought that in the region of 10 people were financially involved, however the revelation of the Etsy account means nobody has any way to identify just how widespread this is.
Hello!
This story has intrigued me no end since this woman popped up for me on TT back in Julyish time. Her TT always struck me as slightly odd due to various things and I wondered if it was all a load of cobblers. I believe it is, and now, I believe it certainly is. Records never lie!!
To me, the photos, ALL of them look exactly like the same person give or take 40lbs.
The first I can find of Samantha Cookes is a BBC Gloucestershire video short from 2005. Says she needs to attend hospital regularly but has a phobia. Unfortunately we can’t watch it but it looks like a young her. It says she is a film maker but she would have only been 15-16. She looks that old. She has the thin eyebrows tho like each photo!
Then she’s in Shrewsbury as the con artist, then there’s the missing persons report that mentions ireland(another confirmation) then from 2020 and 2020 only this Carrie Jade Williams appears who is a writer with Huntingtons. No mention of partner tho. All her stories slightly vary. Yes she wins one short story contest. Not hard. Perhaps Carrie Jade Williams was a pen name. That seems to kick off a new fake life for her. 2020 was a hard year for us all let’s just say that 🫣 wow. She really goes for it. The whole time all the photos keep the same theme of blonde hair and tiny eyebrows(one she is brunette) and Carrie Jade and Jade are obviously same person as photos prove it BUT this is what confirms it for me. There’s a new assisted tech business account registered somewhere in Belfast to a Carrie Jade Williams with DOB Nov 1988.
There’s no birth record for a Carrie Jade Williams in 1988, or ever I don’t think. Ironically a Carrie Jade J Evans in 1991 born in Shrewsbury. Did she steal the name from someone she knew whilst living in Shrewsbury? Not quite…because, and this is where I hit the jackpot and get my confirmation. There is a Samantha Jade Cookes born to a mother with maiden name Williams in Gloucestershire in 1988. Bingo. That’s her. Samantha and Jade/Carrie Jade. Same person….originally from Gloucestershire. Using her mothers maiden name and her middle name. Perhaps she adds the Carrie for a pen name. She’s just Jade on Airbnb and tiktok tho.
I believe she has a mental illness where she seeks attention. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s been having treatment for a mental or mental and physical illness since early on as that 2005 video blurb states.
This solves it for me personally. Hope it helps y’all!
There’s still so many people defending her right now, and with her statement about her sister, they are asking those who doubted the story to apologize. I am flabbergasted. Are people really this gullible? I feel like I’m being gaslit when I read some of the comments on tiktok. They’re accusing anyone questioning it of belonging to some shadow lobby group, and even when family members and friends are coming out to say they know her and she’s lying, they refuse to back down.
The investigative journalist writing about this has [updated the thread on Twitter](https://twitter.com/KDenkWrites/status/1579515917859713024) saying she has a lot of interest in the story from many people, but currently no news on when it will be published.