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'Office Space’ Movie Inspired Man to Steal $300k

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0:00 thank you [Music] uh so are you guys familiar with the film office space Oh yeah the red stapler one have you seen my stapler so that movie gave a guy working at a company in Washington state a pretty sick idea he's like Burn It Down close steal a penny enough every transaction yes oh he's like what if I you know install this software that siphons a very small amount of money into my personal bank account this one a little bit as they make transactions yeah that's not too bad and he did exactly that so uh can it go through its personal bank account what an idiot he he stole um about 260 thousand dollars in electric in electric payments and more than forty thousand dollars in merchandise from the business he did it

0:50 through the utilities how long did it take he he did he did a um so in the movie they call it a series of malicious software edits um and that's that's what he did he installed this kind of software on his company laptop and was just using it to siphon money into his personal things yeah wow what was the duration of time it took for him to get that money um it doesn't say is there a picture of the guy in the rain yeah ████ you um yeah he's being arraigned um and um exterior shot of the building according to court documents he stole 110 000 by diverting shipping fees from some customers to an account that he controlled on the payment processing site stripe and and after there was an investigation about it he wrote a

1:41 replacement code that double charged some customers for shipping and routed an additional 151 000 in fees to his stripe account where people not ████ calling out the fact that they were paying double shipping on stuff eventually eventually that's how they found out about it but he was also manipulating the prices of merchandise sold on oh so it looked like it wasn't double shipping it was like a discount on the product or something like that yes so he would per he would purchase those remember I said how much money he stole in merchandise yeah he was purchasing those items for pennies on the dollar paying like 250 dollars for like something that's worth a lot more money um and he was getting away with it for a certain amount of time sometimes I wish I was that smart but then I'm glad I'm not because I'd be in jail probably yeah yeah these people got crazy like even like the black box right you know when

2:31 we grew up for cable yeah it's like a theme that like a dream you could just you know just just just so happy to get all the channels and then you just gotta pay a random guy that has nothing to do with any of the networks or the direct or DirecTV dish just a contractor but somehow they know how to do it and it just and then you can watch everything yeah it's already like all those Pro all the shows are already going to your house it's just that way you don't pay to unlock it and someone knew how to make something to unlock all the shows dude there's people in crypto game who um do this thing called Arbitrage where it's like you find price disparities between two exchanges say and then you write code and have Bots constantly buy and sell between those two things and you can just rack up like on the margins yeah thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars and some people just do that all day for a ████ living whoa yes yeah that's definitely a goal that I

3:21 would like to have was figure out how to do that you have to be sick but you just need to like be dedicated to it constantly um okay so this guy when he got caught right he's like well this is kind of part of like a testing process um I was just kind of seeing what would happen oh he's trying to I think he's a white hat yeah yeah yeah yeah funny and he told the police that the money is gone and then he invested in GameStop no way yeah that's my favorite part about this no way that's what he said but it was gme but it was still a test he was just testing it yeah but he had to test the money too so does that mean he he made money and was able to return what he had stolen the merchandise he didn't sell GameStop he was a big time holder he's a diamond

4:13 hands yeah he's like he's on Wall Street bets talking about he's the biggest diamond Handler alive yeah he's like I'm white knuckling this thing like you you take that money out right now he's like how how do I do that yeah I'm not gonna sell my stuff that is the trick that's the what's the procedure for that yeah Robin Hood would have let me take it out FTX said no yeah they just said no he said no in a funny scenario they would be like interrogating this guy and he tells him that he put it in GameStop and then these interrogators leave the room having bought game stuff that's funny as ████ in the office space in there like yeah I should be checking out this Jimmy honestly interested in Diamond handing um so they discovered a pattern of steep price adjustments that he ordered and had shipped to his home as well as to a female friend who he later identified as someone he met on Tinder this guy is so

5:06 sick that it's insane right like he's like I'll ship all this ████ to my house he's like oh ship it to this ████ I'm out it'll be sick and then it's all so personal and obvious yeah like he's such a smarty but then he's so ████ dumb at the same time his resources are so stupid I could trust this girl on Tinder and then he goes where is it at it's all gone at least the McDonald's scammers were like Doom like uh yeah yeah they were using family but like kind of like uncles and aunts and ████ that's a little less direct but this Captain into his own home address yeah yeah and he's like I don't know oh I'll buy gme on Robinhood my personal Robin Hood account have you guys ever been like shortchanged before where like you were kind of like scammed a little bit like this I gotta well not like this but I've been uh dealing with Chegg you

5:56 hear about that what's that Chegg it was this old website that people would use to like rent um textbooks from college and I've been finding out they've been ████ charging my account 20 bucks every ████ month every month since College I don't know since for the past like two like for the past like year and a half whoa how did that start fraud someone ████ and I called check I was like yo I didn't I haven't used this ████ no for years and then this guy was like he was like from Brooklyn he was like the coolest dude ever and he was like trying to figure it out he's like yup it's fraud he's like have you ever lived at this address he said some address I've never heard of in my life and I was like I've never lived there and he goes all right I'm a marketer's fraud you gotta talk to your bank and then they're hopefully a refund we'll figure it out blah blah blah so now I gotta call the bank so that company that Textbook Company are

6:46 they the fraudulent company I don't think so no maybe someone in-house some some guy just made probably a fake account or something weird I got got um when I I bought like I had to buy apartment Insurance when I first moved to LA like I was living in like the Westwood Apartments remember that's like oh the Oakwood the Hollywood all the actors are always there and ████ so I I stayed there but then they made me get this insurance and then I found out like five years later that it's like Auto building my account like 25 a month and then I called this insurance company I was like yo you guys would rip me off I haven't been I haven't lived there for like ████ five years and the guy's like what are you gonna do about it no way yeah it's because it's part of their business model it's different than that cat where they probably take money legitimately this guy's like what are you gonna do I was like I think he has a small claim score bluffing and then he's like yeah okay I guess I'll see you there

7:37 is he probably everyone's probably did it yeah he can give a ████ he's like I know how to fight it check your subscription why are you doing that that's crazy hearing that yeah but if the law doesn't work sometimes you got to use fists not recommending but just I don't know like it's something that people say right I don't know where this guy was though because it was like one of those ████ weird things where he registered it as something else you know what ████ gets me those goddamn Instagram plugins and ████ you know sometimes like you get like Oh I wanna I wanna repost or I want to like you know have like some pictures like a like a collage but the ones on Instagram suck ass so you're like oh like apps yeah apps you're like oh I gotta go get an app and then you go okay I'll just use it for one time it's 4.99 not a bad thing and you just click it and then you forget about it and then ████ eight months later they're like damn I've been

8:27 paying 4.99 for eight months ████ yeah for real and then he canceled it and you cancel it okay good and then you're like oh ████ I need that remember it now you're like oh dude that app was pretty good but then you get enough of those things it can add up you're like you oh get the collage one I'll get the reposter one I'll get this one this one now you have you're paying like 50 bucks a month ████ stupid ass apps damn dude I get ████ on NFL Sunday Ticket I get ████ every day it's crazy NFL Sunday Ticket to charged me like 80 a month I bend over and I ████ take it and you know and I only want to watch my s█████ ass team lose games right I don't want to watch every single game necessarily is there only one price yeah there's one price you can't like buy your team but that's what everybody out there wants we all want to just buy our s█████ ass teams we can watch our team lose every ████ Sunday that's all I want nope can't do it you guys are the

9:18 subscription like business model dream yeah we are because you don't ever clean house on your subscriptions oh dude you know I saw my Spectrum when I first signed up for spectrum it was like 50 bucks a month right and I was like all right whatever I'll pay 50 bucks now I looked at my statements that ████ is 95 a month it changes uh after a couple years three months is 50 bucks oh and then and then I told this to my buddies and they're like oh sometimes you just gotta call and like threaten to cancel they'll give you a little price okay so a couple weeks a couple weeks in the NFL season my Sunday Ticket spits me out constantly and the stream goes down and I call their asses up and I'm like I'm trying to watch my team ████ throw picks and ████ fumble the boy what is going on right now it gave me my my month back best time that's cool that's cool

10:08 but like oh you're a Colts fan uh sorry man I'm trying to watch my team throw the ball to the other team what the ████ is going on with my streaming we throw the best picks is there an incentive at barbell if someone threatens to leave no we just let him we try to like have like the almost non-commercial gym so like uh if they say okay cool sometimes you'll hear them go oh it's because I'm moving out of state like oh it's totally cool yourself yeah you sure leaving my gym was like ████ it was like a divorce it's ████ hard dude commercial gyms leaving the commercial gym is ████ hard crazy they're they'll throw everything oh well you're going somewhere I was looking for something because like when I was when I first moved Vegas I didn't have a home gym yet so you have to sign up for a 24 hour and then I was like I'm only going to be here for literally a month and I know it I'm like can I just buy like I'll just pay everything right now

10:58 through cash and I don't want to have my credit card because I know the minute they put that in it's going to be recurring payment yeah yeah it'll be half the charge credit card I'm like dude I'll pay like three months cashes right now I don't want anything with my credit card but no you got to do it I'm like ████ they don't even have a system for that huh no and then they go okay just come in just the week before and you can cancel the week before I go oh it was what what are you missing you're missing dead can give you this price now I'm like no I just really want to get the ████ out of here their trainings are so good it's so good you can't get out and they have to do the script yeah they have they got to do the script and they know it works you know what happened that ████ wasn't happening as I was like so ████ tired of that ████ I think I just paid for 24 Hour Fitness for another year on a year I was like fine that's how they win oh yeah yeah you convince yourself that you're gonna use it and you never thought all right all right [Music]

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