A scammer this good should be able to make legit cash
 

Here is an interesting story. With many online stock trading companies when you link your bank account to your stock account they send a small deposit (from .01 - $1.00) to verify that it works. This guy wrote a script and used it to open up 58,000 accounts then he got the micro deposits from each and pocketed around $50,000.

You would think someone that can come up with something like that could put that knowledge and creativity to use and make some real legit money pretty easily.

Here is the story
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...legedly-b.html

A scammer who spends hours to steal pennies, well, has a really fucked up priority. Sometimes it's just easier to work for it. :1orglaugh.

I bet he thought he could get away with it because it was only pennies

Dude, if I ever decide to commit a federal offense, I'll take my hints from Superman IV. :thumbsup

Or Officespace.
WG

I have to admit that's pretty clever. He probably automated creating the accounts and would just transfer all the funds over to a single account. Pretty neat little idea.
WG

Its amazing how smart and stupid people can be at the same time.

1987 vs 1999. Of course, we know that AlienQ invented embezzlement.

I thought these sites all have checks to stop you from linking the same bank account to multiple accounts. Thus, you would need 58,000 bank accounts to do this.

That may be problematic. They want your money. Plus, it's at least one extra SQL call.

The article did say that he used many different bank accounts, but it didn't say how many. It would be hard to open up 58,000 bank accounts...at least I think it would be.

i heard a similar story years ago but it was a bank teller skimming pennies off each account. she made a few hundred thousand before she got busted. some 80 year old lady kept track of each penny in her account and when she noticed a few pennies missing she reported it to the bank manager.

It's not about the money, Scammers do it because they love to scam. They love it like the sports fan that loves to watch sports all day. Now talking about sports fans, thats some guys with really fucked up priority.


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Well I like being left the fuck alone, but that never fucking happens!

Sounds like a compagny I'd want to trust my financial information too. The guy wasn't even protecting himself ?

isnt that an urban legend?

Everybody knows somebody in this industry.

Three posts from now, someone's 'cousin' will have the spider egg sac in a wound.

Yea that's what I was thinking..

I grew up in a little town. The local telephone company had one of the women that worked there skimming from people that paid their bills. When someone would come in and pay cash she would go into the system and adjust their bill so it was a few dollars less than it should have been then she would pocket the difference. So if you came in and your bill was $56 she would take your $56, but in the system she would change the bill so it showed that you owed $54 and she would pocket the other $2.

She did this for years and years and eventually got caught when someone saw her adjusting a bill and asked her why she was doing it. She made up some excuse. They went back into the system and saw that she had made adjustments to a ton of accounts over time. They eventually set up security camera and recorded her doing it. She said she didn't know how much she had skimmed over the years but it was probably around 25K or more because she had been doing this for about 10 years.

The irony of this whole thing is that it was a co-op so every 3-4 years they would pay out a profit share to all the people that had a phone with them. They were getting ready to make a big payout and one of the managers who had access to that bank account did a transfer and stole the money. He wired it to a couple other accounts of his then withdrew it all. He quit and left town. They went to issue the profit share checks and the money was gone. He got about 150K. Funny thing is he was the guy that setup the sting on the skimming woman and was all over the paper about how upset her was and how betrayed by her he felt.