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Volodymyr Kvashuk, a Microsoft Junior Engineer, devised an inventive plan to generate illicit money by selling Xbox Gift Cards. He was convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison, as Bloomberg reports. The course also demanded $8.3 million in restitution and will very certainly be deported to its native country, Ukraine.
Soon after starting a full-time job at Microsoft, Kvashuk got fired. His team’s main goal was to mimic Microsoft online purchases in order to uncover any payment problems. All these purchases had to be fake.
In a nutshell, these mimicked accounts are nearly always identified as such by the system, and if you attempt to purchase something from their website, such as a new gamepad, you will not receive anything. On the other hand, if you attempt to purchase Xbox Gift Cards, you will obtain a 25-digit code that is completely valid.
Even though he…
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