…then proceeded to lose it all on GME options - can’t make this stuff up
or so he alleges
‘Office Space’ movie gave Zulily engineer a blueprint for financial fraud
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#13This Superman III erasure will not stand.
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#15>Evidence against Valdez includes notes in which he referred to the plan as the “OfficeSpace project" Never take notes when planning crimes...
He could have at least called it the Michael Bolton project
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#16>Evidence against Valdez includes notes in which he referred to the plan as the “OfficeSpace project" Never take notes when planning crimes...
>Never take notes when planning crimes...
The guy was clearly not very bright. This isn't some criminal mastermind big brain stuff. Any random dev with prod access could trivially execute something similar. But anyone with a brain knows that you'll be caught immediately. There's simply too many checks in the financial system to pull it off.
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#17>Evidence against Valdez includes notes in which he referred to the plan as the “OfficeSpace project" Never take notes when planning crimes...
> Never take notes when planning crimes...
Relevant 'The Wire' clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
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#18Unlike in the Office Space movie it was more than just moving a few cents around. He employee ordered over 1000 items in a month (to resell?). That should ring any alarm bell already.
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#19Unlike in the Office Space movie it was more than just moving a few cents around. He employee ordered over 1000 items in a month (to resell?). That should ring any alarm bell already.
It didn't ring alarm bells because people were aware that he was placing "test orders". They just weren't aware that he was not in fact cancelling said orders.
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#20He should have just done one of those Elon Musk crypto livestream things. Would have made more or equal $ with no risk. I dunno why people try to rip off big companies like this. The Risk vs. reward is terrible. All audited and everything traced closely.
My guess is that it's the small to mid-sized businesses that end up being the easiest targets. Many don't have all the same record keeping or auditing practices. I've read about scammers just sending random invoices to small businesses and getting paid. Someone did this to the tube of millions to the likes of Facebook and Google, but I guess were eventually found out.