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Office Space Redux - Thief wrangles micropayments into $50,000

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/201252/hacker-takes-50000-a-few-cents-at-a-time.html

by harry • 18 years ago

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xlnt• 18 years ago

he's not a thief. he committed fraud by giving fake names when opening bank accounts, or something like that. then these companies voluntarily deposited money into his accounts; that part isn't stealing, even if it's based on fraud.

also the article calls him a hacker not because he did something impressive with computers but because he did something illegal with them. sigh...

zach• 18 years ago

And a guy on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's Movie Week made a cool $250,000 just by knowing about that plot device from Office Space:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5monB4fIzy8

It looks like he was excited to get that question.

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