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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Love the system that shunts our bright youth into being leeches for a living
Seriously tho, I can’t help but think this kid saw how dogshit it is to work in this society and decided to scam billion dollar companies instead.
On the other hand tho, he was definitely a bougie shitlord from Connecticut(IYKYK) even before the money started rolling in via the scam.
Seriously tho, I can’t help but think this kid saw how dogshit it is to work in this society and decided to scam billion dollar companies instead.
They build this guy up to be someone who could have landed any number of comfortable jobs, or done above-table entrepreneur shit if he wanted a shot at more.
Reads to me as a person who just wants fat stacks and isn't particularly concerned about how he gets them.
Yeah, I contradicted myself a little bit with my second statement which seems way more realistic.
His father was a successful real-estate executive and his mother a VP of training and development at Chase. He was a quiet, smart child who was constantly on his computer.
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