Peak American innovation.
Peak American innovation.
Matthew Bergwall was a gifted coder who could have gotten a job at any tech company. He decided to go in another direction.
Dudes definitely a grindset mindset crypto type, but I can’t help but respect this grift a little bit.
Bergwall’s alleged refunding operation was fairly sophisticated. When his indictment was unsealed on November 9, it revealed he’d allegedly facilitated nearly 10,000 fraudulent returns between December 2021 and April 2022, which “resulted in more than $3.5 million in lost product and sales revenue to victim-retailers.�? (More recent court filings list the total value at $5 million.) The indictment also alleged that Bergwall got high on his own supply, so to speak: He refunded a number of products for himself, including a “$41,000 Rolex President Day-Date watch, a $600 TeamGee H20 Electric Skateboard, a $350 Samsung 43-inch Smart UHD TV, and an $80 pair of Reebok shoes.�? His alleged operation, called UPSNow, was run, like most refunding operations, on Telegram, where he went by the pseudonym MXB and worked alongside a number of unindicted co-conspirators. He specialized in FTID with a powerful edge: The government claims that Bergwall hacked into five employees’ back-end accounts at “a multinational shipping, receiving, and supply chain management company�? confirmed by sources to be UPS.
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I skimmed like the first line of the first eight paragraphs but it didn't specify what crimes he does for a living and i'm not reading all that so just throw him out of the pool and stamp his file "bourgeise other/not specified"
Why people go to Dubai, a repressive slave state where you're not allowed to have fun, to have fun I absolutely will not ever understand.
Scamming refunds from online retailers
I think I wouldn't mind if it didn't also involve fucking with the delivery folks
scamming how?
Finding ways to not-actually-return things but still get the purchase refunded as if you had returned it
Big oof.
Key finance crimes protip; Do not buy tons of expensive shit such that people being to legitimately question where the money is coming from.
Yeah I was listening to TrueAnon and the author of this specific article was talking about the situation, so I decided to use that person article.
The gist of it is:
Bergwall’s alleged refunding operation was fairly sophisticated. When his indictment was unsealed on November 9, it revealed he’d allegedly facilitated nearly 10,000 fraudulent returns between December 2021 and April 2022, which “resulted in more than $3.5 million in lost product and sales revenue to victim-retailers.�? (More recent court filings list the total value at $5 million.) The indictment also alleged that Bergwall got high on his own supply, so to speak: He refunded a number of products for himself, including a “$41,000 Rolex President Day-Date watch, a $600 TeamGee H20 Electric Skateboard, a $350 Samsung 43-inch Smart UHD TV, and an $80 pair of Reebok shoes.�? His alleged operation, called UPSNow, was run, like most refunding operations, on Telegram, where he went by the pseudonym MXB and worked alongside a number of unindicted co-conspirators. He specialized in FTID with a powerful edge: The government claims that Bergwall hacked into five employees’ back-end accounts at “a multinational shipping, receiving, and supply chain management company�? confirmed by sources to be UPS.
I was having trouble skimming through this too. But from what I could gather it seems he set up some sort of returns processing thing for people who think that returning online purchases is too much of a hassle. There was some fraud involved that seemed to affect online retailers and yeah... that's about all I had the energy for. Too much of this article was trying to tell a clever background story about this guy.