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On 2/21/2025 at 11:45 AM, Frank Drebin said:

Mack kind of oversteered in correction due to that group.  Believe that group made him avoid anyone who he thought was a character risk.  And character risk to Mack included guys who might want to wait until signing day to commit.  So we got a lot of suburban maxed out 3 star types who would commit in March.  Some would get a courtesy 4 star because of the Texas offer.  Mack bragging about only making 27 offers and getting 25 commits drove me absolutely nuts.  It meant the bottom half of the class was weak.

Mack was lucky the 2005 class, which was small, hit at such a high rate and that McCoy panned out.

That was how thin skinned Mack was.  Didn’t like to get turned down.  

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7 minutes ago, South Austin said:

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And thanks again for ratting me out. They've taken away my office and put me in a desk in the hallway while they complete the audit. Plus, I no longer have access to the payroll server. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

In all seriousness, my old ad agency had a little problem. Seems scammers got into the server, found out who the clients were, and what their monthly retainer was. They then contacted the dumbasses at the client who handled the money and told them to wire the monthly fee, which then wired and lost forever. SportsClip sued the agency and they settled out of court. The head of IT at the ad agency decided it was time for him to 'retire.' Un huh.      

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Classic "computer crime" from the Olden Daze...

Guy used his Apple II to print invoices, which he sent to pretty much every big oil company, engineering, and construction company in the south. He read all the business news and journals, found big multi-million dollar projects and sent invoices for random amounts  between $500 and $1,000 with that project and a senior VPs name as the reference. He figured Accounts Payable wouldn't fuck with a VP Project leader of a $75,000,000 project over a few hundred bucks. He was right. It worked for a couple of years, until he got lazy (or too busy laundering krugerrands) and sent the same amount invoices a few months in a row; the AP people at Conoco thought $683.19 had already been paid twice, tried to contact him and discovered the invoice's main office street address was an empty lot in Houston, and ... busted.

Apparently he paid back some of the money, but nowhere close to all, did a couple in the slammer, got out and disappeared. Most of the victims were pretty embarrassed and wouldn't work with IRS, and the bank accounts that the money went through were regularly emptied by cashier's checks, payable to jewelers and coin dealers.

 

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Honestly, the dude probably did more work on those projects than some of the folks legit employed.  

1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

Classic "computer crime" from the Olden Daze...

Guy used his Apple II to print invoices, which he sent to pretty much every big oil company, engineering, and construction company in the south. He read all the business news and journals, found big multi-million dollar projects and sent invoices for random amounts  between $500 and $1,000 with that project and a senior VPs name as the reference. He figured Accounts Payable wouldn't fuck with a VP Project leader of a $75,000,000 project over a few hundred bucks. He was right. It worked for a couple of years, until he got lazy (or too busy laundering krugerrands) and sent the same amount invoices a few months in a row; the AP people at Conoco thought $683.19 had already been paid twice, tried to contact him and discovered the invoice's main office street address was an empty lot in Houston, and ... busted.

Apparently he paid back some of the money, but nowhere close to all, did a couple in the slammer, got out and disappeared. Most of the victims were pretty embarrassed and wouldn't work with IRS, and the bank accounts that the money went through were regularly emptied by cashier's checks, payable to jewelers and coin dealers.

 

 

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1 hour ago, CycleTex87 said:

Honestly, the dude probably did more work on those projects than some of the folks legit employed.  

 

 I believe the fuzz was thinking from around $25K to 50K a month for a couple of years, so hourly rate was pretty good.

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3 hours ago, Tex Long said:

It worked for a couple of years, until he got lazy (or too busy laundering krugerrands) and sent the same amount invoices a few months in a row; the AP people at Conoco thought $683.19 had already been paid twice, tried to contact him and discovered the invoice's main office street address was an empty lot in Houston, and ... busted.

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