Inspired by Office Space film, software engineer steals over $300K

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by virgulino • 4 years ago

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virgulino2• 4 years ago

A OneNote document on Castro's work laptop called "OfficeSpace Project" was found through the investigation, and in it, a "scheme to steal shipping fees," was outlined, according to the report.

Castro was contacted by police and arrested on June 21. On that date he spoke with detectives after being read his rights. During that interview he "confirmed that he named his scheme to steal from Zulily after the movie," police said.

Castro also told authorities he placed orders for over 1,000 items that were shipped to his house, and that they were part of a "testing process that Zulily was aware about, but he claimed that there was a script that was to be run shortly thereafter that would essentially cancel the order and ensure the orders did not process," the report said.

"When asked why he never returned the items to Zulily, he said that once they fired him, his opinion was, 'F__k 'em,'" the report said.

That was great! 8-)

thdespou• 4 years ago

How does it work? He was buying actual products using his personal credit card but he was modifying the actual price? So that he would pay almost nothing but still get the products? And then he supposedly threw away the products but instead could sell them for a profit?

virgulino2• 4 years ago

From the charging documents, at https://www.geekwire.com/2022/office-space-movie-plot-gave-z...

Specifically, and at different times, he inserted three types of malicious code in the checkout process at Zulily: (1) an original code that diverted some customer shipping costs from Zulily’s account to Castro’s personal account beginning on February 28, 2022, through which Castro unlawfully obtained $110,240.71 from Zulily; (2) after Zulily began investigating that first issue, a replacement code that double-charged a small percentage of Zulily customers for shipping, allowing Castro to route a ‘full’ shipping cost to both Zulily’s accounts and his own account, through which Castro unlawfully obtained $151,645.50 from customers; and (3) unrelated to the first two issues, by reducing the cost of expensive items that he was purchasing on Zulily.com to pennies per unit, a method by which he unlawfully obtained $40,842.31 from Zulily. Through these three methods, Castro stole a combined $302,278.52 before he was terminated in June 2022.

lapcat• 4 years ago

He forgot the most important part, which was to set the building on fire.

Ekaros• 4 years ago

And in modern time, what ever datacentres you are using.

imranq• 4 years ago

They'll probably find a beat up printer somewhere around the office grounds

hulitu• 4 years ago

Inspired by Office Space film, software engineer steals over $300K

"Damn, it feels good to be a gangster."

Maybe if his name would have been Michael Bolton, he would have had a chance.

Inspired by Office Space film, software engineer steals over $300K

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