#Roommates, I don’t know about you but I love a good scammer story, and this one was so simple, but yet so effective! A man by the name of #EvaldasRimasauskas recently pled guilty to U.S. wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering charges and last but not least, he admitted to stealing $99M from Facebook and $23M from Google between 2013 and 2015.
According to @Boingboing, all the scammer did was send #Google & #Facebook invoices for items they never purchase to begin with! The invoices also had “forged invoices, contracts, and letters that falsely appeared to have been executed and signed by executives and agents of the Victim Companies, and which bore false corporate stamps embossed with the Victim Companies’ names, to be submitted to banks in support of the large volume of funds that were fraudulently transmitted via wire transfer.”
The real gag is no one checked first to see if the invoices were real! Apparently, Evaldas’ tactic was to pretend he was a huge Taiwanese hardware manufacturer and billed from everything to parts, services, and even tech support!
Obviously, he’s getting locked UP, but in addition to that, he’s also agreed to forfeit about $50M. It’s not clear what he will do with the other money or why he’s only been asked to give back less than half of the money he stole. He’s facing up to 30 years if convicted.
Google says that they have since recouped the stolen money, saying: “We detected this fraud and promptly alerted the authorities. We recouped the funds and we’re pleased this matter is resolved.”
Source: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/24/evaldas-rimasauskas.html
