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Re:Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent... by miltonlost on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:45PM (#45427841)
From the complaint: > In particular, CC-1 and JAVICE asked Engineer-1 to supplement a list of Frank’s website visitors with additional data fields containing synthetic data. > Engineer-1 was uncomfortable with the request and stated, in sum and substance, “I don’t want to do anything illegal.” JAVICE and CC-1 claimed to Engineer-1 that it was legal. JAVICE stated to Engineer-1, in sum and substance, “We don’t want to end up in orange jumpsuits.” Engineer-1 declined the request from JAVICE and CC-1.

She's not naive. She was told this was illegal and then did it still. She knew this was fraud.

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Re:Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent... by 1123581321 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @03:54PM (#45430428)
Yes, read the same. Naive in thinking she could get past that and they wouldn’t do anything particularly revealing with the data. A smarter fraudster would’ve backed out earlier with less damage.
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