He is not a hacker and yet he managed to scam the two web giants Google and Facebook with mere mails, as revealed by a Fortune magazine survey. The Lithuanian has raised $ 100 million between 2013 and 2015.
A scam of a disconcerting simplicity. Evaldas Rimasauskas is a 48-year-old Lithuanian, did not even need to resort to a sophisticated algorithm or an untraceable virus, he simply sent simple scam emails. In Latvia, he founded a company called Quanta, the same name as that of an important Taiwanese financial partner of the two American companies.
He then sent false contracts, false vouchers and signed letters, allegedly from the hands of the Taiwanese officials, on behalf of the same company. The funds were paid into bank accounts opened by the scammer.
Let it serve as a lesson. A version confirmed by Google and Facebook that said they had recovered the $ 100 million they had lost. Evaldas Rimasauskas was arrested last month and faces up to 20 years in prison. A misadventure that should serve as an example, according to the indictment of the US Department of Justice against him. "This case should serve as a wake-up call: all companies, even the most sophisticated, can all be victims of this kind of electronic scam."
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