In a move reminiscent of schemes seen inOffice Spaceand Superman III , a drudge has exploit a loophole to weasel himself over $ 50,000 from services such as Google Checkout and Paypal by taking pennies at a time . alas , he was caught , and is in all likelihood heading to pound - me - in - the - fundament prison house .
The loophole involved the tiny payment that on-line payment services and brokerage house post to new user accounts to swear that they ’re veridical . While getting four cents from PayPal might not seem like a big deal to you , Michael Largent decided to create a playscript to automatically open 58,000 of these score . Unfortunately for him , the fellowship caught on to his scheme and he ’s currently out on bond on burster of wire , bank and post pseudo .
The funny matter is , he ’s not in trouble for take the money . It was being given out freely , after all . He ’s in trouble for using fake names and social security department numbers to launch the accounts .
If only Milton would go burn down the Googleplex in retaliation for Sergey Brin taking his stapling machine , destroying the evidence of your offence , you could escape these charges ! [ PC ProviaSlashdot ]
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