fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoRussia fines EA, others so little it feels like a weird jokewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up177
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minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·19 hours agoYa know what? Maybe I should just find some reason to nitpick EA’s business practices. Then send them a bill for $10,000. Maybe they’ll just pay to not have to even think about it. Now if only I could find SOMETHING wrong with EA’s business practices…anything…
minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·17 hours agoA guy did this to Google for years until he was caught. He just sent fraudulent invoices to Google’s billing department for small amounts and they just paid them on sight without thinking about it. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-to-phishing-scheme-that-fleeced-facebook-google-of-100-million
minus-squareJailbrick3d@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 hours agothat guy had to have had some kind of addiction he was constantly paying for… every opportunity to quit while he was ahead and he just kept going until he got caught
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoThat reminds me of the premise of the movie office space. But somehow it’s funnier that it’s less sneaky, more overt.
Ya know what? Maybe I should just find some reason to nitpick EA’s business practices. Then send them a bill for $10,000.
Maybe they’ll just pay to not have to even think about it.
Now if only I could find SOMETHING wrong with EA’s business practices…anything…
A guy did this to Google for years until he was caught.
He just sent fraudulent invoices to Google’s billing department for small amounts and they just paid them on sight without thinking about it.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-to-phishing-scheme-that-fleeced-facebook-google-of-100-million
that guy had to have had some kind of addiction he was constantly paying for… every opportunity to quit while he was ahead and he just kept going until he got caught
That reminds me of the premise of the movie office space. But somehow it’s funnier that it’s less sneaky, more overt.