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Re:Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game fa... by hilux on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:47PM (#41855125)
It was a Ponzi scheme. Interesting story, but Google turns up much better coverage than this article.
Re:Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game fa... by Yiin on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:29PM (#41855331)
google gives different results to different people based on tracking and their metrics, if you found a better source, please share the article itself
Re:Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game fa... by hilux on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:45PM (#41855405)
I'm never sure how HN feels about links, but this is better, and includes a conversation with the programmer: https://restofworld.org/2021/farmbank-turkey-scam-jail-time/
Re:Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game fa... by mkl on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:51PM (#41855436)
Yes, and this site seems really scummy. Wikipedia is pretty good on the guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Ayd%C4%B1n_(born_1991). BBC from 2018 has almost as much about the rest: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-43430363
Re:Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game fa... by metabolian on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:05AM (#41856345)
Can we say "search" instead of google, quit supporting a bloated incompetent monopoly.
Re:Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game fa... by ajdude on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @07:09AM (#41857747)
Despite using Kagi as my search engine, I still use the term "Google" to refer to seeing generally. I think everyone else does too, and the result should really be Google becoming a genericized word.
Re:Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game fa... by hilux on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @11:40AM (#41860375)
Well, I used Google, so that's what I wrote.

Coincidentally, I recently tested other search engines, from Bing to Yandex, and my results were not better.