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How does it work? He was buying actual products using his personal credit card but he was modifying the actual price? So that he would pay almost nothing but st
by thdespou 4y ago
How does it work? He was buying actual products using his personal credit card but he was modifying the actual price? So that he would pay almost nothing but still get the products? And then he supposedly threw away the products but instead could sell them for a profit?
- virgulino 4y agoFrom the charging documents, at https://www.geekwire.com/2022/office-space-movie-plot-gave-zulily-engineer-a-blueprint-for-financial-fraud-prosecutors-allege/ https://www.geekwire.com/2022/office-space-movie-plot-gave-z... Specifically, and at different times, he inserted three types of malicious code in the checkout process at Zulily: (1) an original code that diverted some customer shipping costs from Zulily’s account to Castro’s personal account beginning on February 28, 2022, through which Castro unlawfully obtained $110,240.71 from Zulily; (2) after Zulily began investigating that first issue, a replacement code that double-charged a small percentage of Zulily customers for shipping, allowing Castro to route a ‘full’ shipping cost to both Zulily’s accounts and his own account, through which Castro unlawfully obtained $151,645.50 from customers; and (3) unrelated to the first two issues, by reducing the cost of expensive items that he was purchasing on Zulily.com to pennies per unit, a method by which he unlawfully obtained $40,842.31 from Zulily. Through these three methods, Castro stole a combined $302,278.52 before he was terminated in June 2022.