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> It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity himself

I don't find that ironic at all. Having worked in the security space for a long time, it seems like the best people in the business are the ones who would be great at committing the crimes if not for their own morality.

Someone with a weak sense of morals could easily turn to evil.

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One of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels features a thief being deliberately put in charge of the Royal Mint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Money

A few years ago, it was discovered that the head of the Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden, a museum with one of the world's largest coin collections worth almost $3 billion USD, had been stealing and selling historical coins worth a fortune. Kind of the opposite, really.

There's a three part documentary series here (Swedish): https://www.svtplay.se/guldfeber-stolderna-pa-kungliga-myntk...

Frank Abagnale has worked for the FBI for 40 years now. He still has an Ego, but he has turned down several offers of pardons for his past crimes and is now very much on the light side of the force.

https://youtu.be/vsMydMDi3rI

"Having worked in the security space for a long time, it seems like the best people in the business are the ones who would be great at committing the crimes if not for their own morality." Well and truth be told none would know so maybe they are doing it ?

Agreed.

It reminds me of all those bogus security/antivirus apps on the Google Play store that harvest more user data than any virus ever could.

Well, it is a cyber fraud startup. They didn't lie about that.

Reminiscent of Jesse's advice to Walt about a "criminal lawyer".

Also reminiscent of the aptly named company "Fraud Guarantee":

https://www.law360.com/articles/1311477/giuliani-allies-char...

Yeah I first read the article wondering if cyber fraud was their business model.

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