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> ...software engineer who is accused of a theft scheme that swiped approximately $300,000 That's 1-2 years' salary for a software engineer in Seattle. It isn'
by threadweaver34 4y ago
> ...software engineer who is accused of a theft scheme that swiped approximately $300,000
That's 1-2 years' salary for a software engineer in Seattle. It isn't a lifestyle step function, and when you factor in the consequences of getting caught, the EV is very, very bad.
> In total, Zulily’s team said Castro had sent over 1,000 items sent to his house.
This makes the EV even worse. The single address makes it more likely you get caught, reselling 1000 items will be a part-time job on its own, and it'll take the $300,000 to $150,000.
- walrus01 4y agoIt seems like this could be discovered through even the most cursory of antifraud team efforts by doing something like a simple database search for ship-to address and then ranking the output sorted by number of orders per US Postal-unique address. Then you review the customer name/payment entity and discard any well known large wholesale customers who might be legitimately ordering a large number of separate transactions to the same delivery location.
- version_five 4y agoIf I understood, the 1000 items were worth about $40k, and he got $260k from diverting shipping fees to his account. Still not very clever. I can see a cooler version of this, for example with Amazon where they try and steal shipping fees from you at checkout by defaulting to paid shipping when free shipping is available. A malfeasor could, whenever a customer is successfully scammed by amazon, just divert the money to themselves and make is seem like the customer actually clicked on the free shipping option.
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