This is a wild read. I’d recommend reading the article, but the tl;dr is…
He charged customers up to 20 times the ransom amount ($150K vs $8K in the example), paid the ransom to get their data back, and pocketed the difference as easy profit.
He refused to reveal his “trade secret” method, but it was all A-OK when they thought it was “magic”, and now everybody’s mad at being deceived. 😄
Thats such a dumb idea, i cant believe he made it work so many times.
I really need to start conning people, god damn
Between this, someone stealing 2.5 billion from Binance, and the whole running America gig, I’m rethinking my life of not-crime.
So he provided a service and charged a high markup. This is just capitalism. Those idiots could have paid the ransoms themselves but chose to outsource.
Florida Man is really stepping it up from the usual shenanigans…
America really is the land of the scams.
