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Chapter 11. Anonymity and Naivety (2000)

Only after meeting QQ I realized how naïve we’ve been and how easy it was to catch us. The first, basic rule is to never use your real data in such business, which was something we’d done repeatedly…

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Chapter 16. Buy it now (2001)

We didn’t have a serious source of stable income, and it was driving QQ mad. A couple of months prior he had bought an apartment, borrowing $25,000 from Nick, which meant that he was to zero. I felt perfectly calm, lived…

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Chapter 15.Back to the roots (2001-2004)

Anty, a guy from our course who dealt with online orders, called: ‘Guys, the situation is getting really bad! You have to come up with something new, because I keep typing in card numbers and the shops…

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Chapter 9. Place your bets (2000)

If I recall correctly, our first introduction to online casinos can be credit to Nick, who accidentally spotted a banner while browsing the porn. Frankly, I don’t even know how he spotted it in the sea of tits and…

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Chapter 13. Shareware(2001)

Three months later we stopped selling ‘real objects’ and moved on to selling software. The scheme was the same, but the processing companies were different. The only small difficulty, which we resolved easily in 99% of the…

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Chapter 14. The Sweetest (2001)

By then we received all our winnings to the same Baltic accounts. One night, hanging out at QQ’s rented place, we decided to remember the good old days when we played ourselves and moved big sums of money. Selecting one…

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Chapter 17. Escrow (2002)

I started studying the auction looking for other possible fraud schemes, and in a couple of hours I found something. Everyone probably knows what ESCROW SERVICE is. At the time they were as naïve and inexperienced as eBay. So…

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Chapter 12. Selling the air (2001)

‘Guys, let me explain.’

‘Nick, just keep it to the point, without examples and roundabout explanations for half an hour.’

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Chapter 10. QQ (2000)

I kept spending lots of time on the forums, and was lucky to meet a friendly colleague who explained to me in detail what it was that we did wrong with our first wins.