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InfamousBrad t1_iur61p1 wrote

> For one scheme, prosecutors said Prasad arranged to have Apple components shipped to an outside vendor's warehouse, where they were repackaged and eventually sold back to Apple.

Are you kidding me? That scam was in my textbook on computer-related crime in 1979, after somebody pulled it on AT&T. It's the kind of thing that even rudimentary accounting controls should catch, these days.

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nortob t1_iur97e4 wrote

Which… perhaps they did, belatedly. No one here asking how the mofo got caught.

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citizenjones t1_iurob3y wrote

Lots of bad behavior can go on for long time....but when it finally gets to accounting things can change exponentially faster.

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Cyathem t1_iuruiwh wrote

20 years of crime laid out to seem obvious when you have it all in a spreadsheet and start filtering out noise.

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SpaceTabs t1_iurgw7i wrote

It's like payment card fraud. There's more fraud than ever, chip cards did nothing, and the credit card companies just pass on the losses to the consumer. So did Apple, given the amount of profits.

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The_professor053 t1_iusl9wq wrote

How does the scam work exactly? I can't work it out from this...

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InfamousBrad t1_iussq4h wrote

You get a job managing inventory. As stuff comes in, you steal it, and ship it to a warehouse you rented. Once it gets there, you sell it back to the company at a bargain rate, cheaper than any of their other providers.

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yoshek3333 t1_iurhmju wrote

Prasad a scammer? Jim Browning is letting some of these scum slip through lol

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bkconn t1_iurmaqy wrote

Not the same type of scam, dude.

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[deleted] t1_iurmz5a wrote

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bkconn t1_iurodff wrote

Does it? I don't even understand what you're saying unless you're just being racist... ?

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