@kaia >He likely wouldn't have gotten caught if he had stopped after the first 6 million or so, but of course not.
@Hyolobrika @kaia I If he covered his tracks with a legitimate business that did actually legitimately bill, it could just be accounting error I hope he covered his tracks
@kaia He could have been reasonable, invest in something tangible and never have been discovered, but no.
@thatbrickster @kaia So what ? do something good with it.
@kaia i do wonder if there's a technically legal way to do this. like billing them for the service of being sent a letter, or something like that. but i guess without some prior agreement they can just sue you anyways
@zonk one difficulty with the contract is that it must be signed by an authorized representative, in large companies the manager of a (sub)division. that manager probably does not know what he/she signs most of the time, but the person who presents it to them, the lower-level project management, does. maybe that could be circumvented somehow.
@kaia This sounds way, way too dumb to actually work o.O
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A Lithuanian man pleaded guilty last week to bilking Google and Facebook out of more than $100 million in an elaborate scheme involving a fake company, fake emails and fake invoices.He's lithuania....
@mangeurdenuage I don't think you get it. The money leaves a trail, doesn't matter if you live off the ill-gotten speculative gains. Fraud is fraud, irrespective of what you do with it.
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@thatbrickster @kaia Well in this case it was obvious due to those amounts, like I said he could have been reasonable, made like 36k a year for a fake service and still would have lived extremely decently since he didn't have to move his ass. But no, he probably bough several houses, boats, expensive cars etc...
@mangeurdenuage Last post I'm making on this. Their account auditors would find out about the outflows of money. They would pursue legal action to recover the funds. Same result.
Literally doesn't matter what he does with it, the fact it can be traced back is the issue. Spending it, knowing it was fraudulently attained, only makes the felony list longer.
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Literally doesn't matter what he does with it, the fact it can be traced back is the issue. Spending it, knowing it was fraudulently attained, only makes the felony list longer.
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>Their account auditors would find out about the outflows of money
Yes I agree. Obviously, but it wouldn't be such a redflag, they would see some small amounts every month justified for X service, and not tens of thousands. It would have passed under the radar. Of course it can also be discovered if they look more precisely into it but their main goal is to find the big stuff first.
>Their account auditors would find out about the outflows of money
Yes I agree. Obviously, but it wouldn't be such a redflag, they would see some small amounts every month justified for X service, and not tens of thousands. It would have passed under the radar. Of course it can also be discovered if they look more precisely into it but their main goal is to find the big stuff first.